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 […]
You Only Get Out of It What You Put Into It
“The Electoral College seems useless today simply because no one has bothered to use it,” writes Las Vegas Review-Journal editor Vin Suprynowicz in opposition to AB 413 which would require that Nevada’s five electoral votes go to whomever wins the popular vote in future presidential elections.
UNLV’s Top Speech Cop
Christine Clark, UNLV’s Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, has been secretly working on a document titled, “Policy on Bias Incidents/Hate Crimes” deep in the bowels of the Maryland Parkway campus, mad-scientist-like, and students and faculty of the taxpayer-funded school of “higher” education have been scared sh…um, witless over what might be in the document.
Rahm and Swine
Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief-of-stuff, says to never let a crisis go to waste. So it should scare us to death that the Obama administration today declared a “public health emergency” over the outbreak of swine flu. Five’ll get you ten the administration will now use this “crisis” to promote some new socialist scheme, probably […]
Yet Another Tax Hike Flim-Flam
“A bill (SB 201) Washoe County officials are depending on to fund critical road projects this summer is stuck in the state Senate, being held by Democratic leaders as possible leverage over Northern Nevada Republicans in final budget negotiations,” reports Anjeanette Damon of the Reno Gazette-Journal. “Although it has held two extensive hearings on Senate […]