Just Like B.O.

Our good friend and former Nevada GOP executive director Dan Burdish noticed an absolutely priceless item in today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal. The first paragraph reads: “A voter registration drive last year illegally required canvassers to meet quotas to keep their jobs and resulted in thousands of ‘garbage’ registrations gumming up Clark County voter rolls, officials […]

The Responsible Budget Alternative

The Economic Forum said Friday that the state can expect enough revenue over the next two years to afford about $5.1 billion worth of government, which is about a billion dollars less than Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed in his budget last January.

The Moose is Loose

Democrat Ways & Means Committee Chairman Morse “Moose” Arberry is pushing a bill that would force his bank to extend him more time before they foreclose on two of his properties. In the lawsuit, Arberry says he’s suing his bank because, get this, it expects him to actually pay the full amount he owes them.

The American Way is Not American Idol

Assembly Bill 413 would change the way the President of the United States is elected without going through the messy process of, you know, actually amending the Constitution. If passed, Nevada’s electoral votes would go to whichever candidate won the national popular vote, not necessarily who won Nevada.

Sebelius Makes Outrageous Accusation!

On Mitch Fox’s most excellent “Nevada Week in Review” television show on Friday, our good buddy, Bob Beers look-alike and CityLife editor Steve Sebelius had the nerve to say that many of us conservatives were “secretly happy” that the revenue projections laid down by the Economic Forum on Friday were about a billion dollars less […]

Still Need to Clear the Dead Wood

Gov. Jim Gibbons called the idea of raising taxes in the middle of this recession “foolish” – he’s right – and said he was going to propose cutting government employee pay by more than 6 percent to cover additional revenue shortfalls. But the governor also said he was going to avoid laying off any government […]

People Will Die!!!

In response to the governor’s announcement about government employee pay reductions, Democrat Speaker Barbara Buckley, true to form, squawked about the cuts without offering any alternative. She also defended adding about $72 million of spending back into Gov. Gibbon’s proposed budget – digging the budget hole deeper, as the governor put it – claiming apocalyptically […]

Where’s the Democrat Alternative?

Democrats yesterday whined and complained and bitched and kvetched about the governor’s new proposal for higher government employee pay cuts, with Speaker Buckley blasting Gibbons for “taking a slash and burn approach to budgeting.”

Gansert Must Go

Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert is the GOP’s Minority Leader. She’s already voted for, even advocated for, passage of the second largest tax hike in state history this month. And she’s been actively participating “at the table” in secret Democrat plotting to pass yet another ginormous tax hike before the session is over.

Tax Talk

The Economic Forum will meet tomorrow and tell legislators how much money they’ll have to work with in passing a budget for the next two years. It’s expected that projected revenue will be lower, meaning the government will need to do a little more tightening of the belt. Unless, of course, they insanely decide to […]

Gibbons Getting His Groove Back?

After famously breaking his Taxpayer Protection Pledge by including a $292 million room tax hike in his budget last January – and then failing to veto it after it was passed by the Legislature – Gov. Jim Gibbons is showing signs that he’s rediscovered his “inner conservative.”

The Nevada Freedom Budget

Back in January, Gov. Jim Gibbons introduced a balanced budget of around $6.2 billion, with a $292 million room tax hike included. And Democrats, not to mention several “Specter” Republicans, have been squealing like stuck pigs (with and without the flu) ever since.

Specter Republicans Strike Again

Assembly Bill 229 would require cigarette manufacturers to sell only “fire-safe” cigarettes – an oxymoron if there ever was one – in Nevada beginning next year.

Weighing In on the Raggio Tax Hike

Make no mistake, state Sen. Bill Raggio (R-Reno) is still the Senate Majority Leader – it’s just a bi-partisan majority that he’s leading in this final month of this legislative session. Let me explain.

All About Arlen

A compendium of responses to Sen. Arlen Specter switching parties…

Adios and Good Riddance to Snarlin’ Arlen

“Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right,” declared U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (RINO-PA) today. “I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.” As such, Specter announced that he was switching parties and will run for re-election […]