National (In)Security
One of the reasons the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor costs some $140 million per plane to build is the United States and the United States alone has this most sophisticated fighter jet in the world. We are not building the Raptor in conjunction with any other nations or foreign-owned companies – and we do not […]
Late Busty Babe Using BK to Bilk Late Billionaire
It’s known to lawyers and legal experts as the case of Marshall vs. Marshall. To the rest of us it’s the long-running legal soap opera of Anna Nicole Smith, the 26-year-old stripper and Playboy model who married 89-year-old Texas oilman J. Howard Marshall. Then, after the billionaire passed away 14 months later, Smith and her […]
Yet Another Colossal TSA Embarrassment
The Boston Globe reported yesterday that only because of an inadvertent mistake by baggage handlers in Boston that it was discovered that the following items in a checked suitcase got past cracker-jack TSA (Thousands Standing Around) agents in Las Vegas earlier in the morning:
The Right to Shut the Hell Up
Thanks to the Tea Parties and other assorted events, I missed commenting on a bill (AB 1) by Assemblyman Lynn Stewart (RINO-Las Vegas) which survived the first elimination round of bill-killing and now moves forward to Round #2.
Good Republicans/Bad Republicans
When Republican Sen. John Ensign voted for the first bailout bill, many conservative Republicans criticized that vote. And when they did, they themselves were criticized for criticizing a Republican by many less-than-conservative Republicans. Republicans who criticize fellow Republicans are considered “bad” Republicans whether the elected Republican voted badly or not.
The Gibbons Truth Squad Rides Again
“After the legislative session Gov. Gibbons will come out very strong because he’s held to his promises,” campaign adviser Robert Olmer said in an Associated Press story yesterday about Gibbons’ big plans to run for re-election. Except. . . . .
Target-Rich, GOP-Free Environment
If only Republican leaders in the Legislature knew how to hit a big, fat, juicy softball over the fence. Or even back to the pitcher’s mound, for that matter. I mean, it doesn’t get handed to you on a silver platter any better than this – and yet what passes for GOP leadership in the […]
Waking the Sleeping Conservative Giant
In the 1970s war classic Tora! Tora! Tora!, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is quoted as saying after the Pearl Harbor attack, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” That same quote might well be used today to describe what the election of Barack […]
Scene and Herd at Nevada Tea Parties
Some quotes and media accounts of yesterday’s wildly successful Tax Day Tea Parties held in Las Vegas and Carson City…
Las Vegas Tea for Two…Thousand
More than 2,000 people showed up for the Las Vegas Tax Day Tea Party which Citizen Outreach participated in today – and that doesn’t include the hundreds of people who continued to walk up and down the sidewalks outside the park during the event.
What to Do with Empty School Buildings
“Six new public schools are supposed to open in the fall,” reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal today, “but Clark County School Board member Sheila Moulton wonders whether it might be better to ‘mothball’ some of them because of the dire financial circumstances.”
Setting the Stage for a Royal Screwing
Legislators in Carson City are clandestinely preparing to nail Nevada citizens with a huge tax hike right smack dab in the middle of this recession – and the way they’re going about it is an outrage. Problem is, Republicans are complicit, if not active partners, in the Royal Screwing we’re all about to get. Here’s […]
Let’s Have the Same Standard for All
Proponents of making mandatory seat belt use a primary offense, along with opponents of repealing Nevada’s mandatory helmet law for motorcyclists, keep saying the main reason is to protect the taxpayers from picking up the tab for others’ irresponsible behavior. Indeed, in speaking about the seat belt bill yesterday Sen. Mike Schneider (D-Las Vegas) used […]
This is a Priority?
Taxes, spending, education, health care. Pretty important issues. And yet the Assembly yesterday took time out to pass a bill (AB 257) which “Prohibits the taking of an excessive number of certain free publications under certain circumstances.” Persons found guilty of taking too many “free” newspapers – now to be referred to legislatively as “periodicals” […]
Annual Trouble-Making
Let’s face it, as the state goes to hell in a hand-basket economically this year, legislators have wasted almost the entire session so far on the trivial, the mundane, the useless, the ridiculous…and of course, a huge tax increase. It’s clear that these people are wasting a boatload of time which clearly could have been […]
The End Run
Blocked by the people and the Constitution from meeting more than 120 days every other year, the Legislature is trying to do an end run.
Oh, the Humanities!
Faced with the fact that elected officials over the years have built up a government it can no longer afford, public schools are cutting back on “essential” programs such as theater, choir and Chinese classes.