Bye-Bye Wal-Mart
I tend to be a rather loyal customer, especially when it comes to doing business with a company that shares my limited-government/free-market/anti-union philosophy. So I’ve been a steadfast Wal-Mart shopper for many, many years now, venturing into Target only if I couldn’t find what I was looking for at Wal-Mart – which was rare.
Old Wound Remains Open
“Joe Heck used some questionable tactics to win the Republican primary against state Sen. Ann O’Connell in 2004,” writes James Dan, a longtime Nevada News & Views reader and former state assembly candidate. “O’Connell partisans like me still remember that and will never vote for gubernatorial candidate and former state Sen. Joe Heck for anything. […]
Checking in on the 2010 GOP Primaries
The conventional wisdom is that Republican primary voters are more conservative than the general public and, therefore, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is likely to win renomination for a second term due to his veto of all those tax hikes at the end of this year’s legislative session.
A Potpourri of Drive-by Muthings
Last April, Somer Hollingsworth, president of the Nevada Development Authority, told the audience at the Perspective 2008 conference in Las Vegas that “Government has one business; that’s to beat the crap out of you.” Is there a businessman anywhere in the state, especially after this last legislative session, who doesn’t agree with that statement?
Fall-Out from Sen. In-Sin’s Fall from Grace
A number of folks have suggested that Sen. John Ensign’s infidelity problem would sideline him and, thereby, hurt the Nevada Republican Party. Which would be true….if John ever really did anything to help the Nevada Republican Party in the first place.
Some Start of Summer Drive-by Muthings
I’m waiting for the World Health Organization to declare infidelity a pandemic in the Republican Party and then maybe they’d get some help.
Ax the Tax
Get this: In Delaware (not exactly a hotbed of right-wing extremism) last week, Republicans in the House of Representatives “voted as a bloc to stop proposed tax and fee increases on alcohol, tobacco, and alcohol licenses.” Similar to Nevada, Republicans are in the minority in the Legislature there, but a 3/5 supermajority is needed to […]
And the Apology Tour Begins
“Sen. John Ensign apologized to fellow Republican senators today, delivering a speech colleagues said was ‘contrite’ and ‘respectful,’” reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal this afternoon.
Who’d a Thunk It?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that “Existing-home sales rose a second month in a row during May, but prices again fell sharply.”
All About John
Sun reporter Michael Mishak notes that few Republicans are openly coming to John Ensign’s defense now that he’s in deep doo-doo over sleeping with another man’s wife who also happened to work for him. He also suggested that this was a blow to the Nevada Republican Party, as Ensign had threatened to ride in on […]
Help Wanted: Peter Pan Delivery Drivers
Conservatives continue to find themselves split in the fight between FedEx and UPS over a bill to place FedEx Express drivers under the same law as every other package delivery driver. And many who are on the FedEx side are there simply because FedEx is non-union and, hey, conservatives don’t like unions, right?
When it Pays to be White
Now this was funny. I took the girls to a Daddy-Daughter Dance last weekend at the East Las Vegas Community Center. As it turns out we were the only white family in the building and had a terrific time – even though I don’t speak Spanish and didn’t understand 90 percent of what the DJ’s […]
All the President’s Perks
Recall the University Chancellor Jim Rogers and his minions at the Nevada System of Higher Education have been claiming for a year and a half now that there’s just nowhere to cut in the university budget. Nowhere. And yet now we hear that the president of UNLV is doing a lousy job and is married […]
The Hardy Boys
Republican state Sen. Warren Hardy (R-Las Vegas) has decided not to risk running for re-election after voting for the Billion Dollar Tax Hike this legislative session. This is not exactly surprising, as the odds of Sen. Hardy surviving any credible GOP primary challenge after his votes this session to sock it to Nevada’s tourists, residents […]
John Ensign: Promise Breaker
What is it with Republican elected officials in Nevada and their marriages these days?
Wet-Nursing FedEx
In a recent editorial (“Kneecapping FedEx” – June 9, 2009) the Washington Times maintains that an amendment being proposed by Rep. James Oberstar to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill would “hobble” FedEx Express by “completely changing the labor laws under which the company operates.” Which is true. However, what the Times failed to mention […]
Rush to Defend FedEx is Wrong
Folks claiming that talk-show host Rush Limbaugh speaks for conservatives are off the mark. Rush speaks to conservatives, not for them. And he speaks to them in their own language, which is why he has such a gigantic listening audience. And because he has such a gigantic listening audience of conservatives, it is especially important […]