Beware the Big Candy Bailout
Even though U.S. Census data say otherwise, U.S. candy manufacturers claim they have been shipping jobs overseas for years. And according to their extremely well-compensated lobbyists, the fault is the high price of domestic sugar. As such, Big Candy is once again seeking a congressional bailout of sorts this week in the Senate Agriculture Appropriations […]
Shots Fired! Sandoval launches effort to kill Tax Repeal Referendum
You can smell the fear. Any citizen effort to repeal all or part of the recently-passed largest tax hike in Nevada history – including a brand new business gross receipts tax (that you and I will ultimately pay for) just like the one rejected by some 80 percent of Nevada voters last November – can’t […]
“Rejoice Republicans!” and “A Drought of Intelligence”
REJOICE, REPUBLICANS! For the life of me, I don’t understand that angst among some Republicans about the large and growing field of presidential candidates. Republicans should be celebrating this extraordinary and unique field that will, as always, winnow itself down as time goes on. Consider this roster… The son of one U.S. president and brother […]
Name that Terrorist…
The woman seated next to me in this picture is an accused radical Islamic infiltrator and Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer. Can you name her? Her name is Samah Norquist.
Tax Hike Mike lusts for DC
For the record, Washington is now under new management. Republicans won control of both house of Congress last November and are firmly in control. So isn’t it odd that Sen. Tax Hike Mike Roberson would choose as his slogan for his congressional campaign… “WILL YOU KEEP NEVADA STRONG BY CHANGING WASHINGTON?” Why would a Republican […]
Will nine times be the charm for Big Candy?
Big Candy didn’t get to be Big Candy by taking no for an answer. Since 2012, lobbyists for candy-makers and cookie bakers have used their considerable political clout and a small fortune from chocolate bar sales to pressure Congress to gut the U.S. sugar program and the protections it provides for American farmers against heavily-subsidized […]
It’s time to end the Oil Export Ban
The United States imports foreign cars from other countries while simultaneously exporting American-made cars to other countries. Ditto a wide variety of consumer products. One does not preclude the other. Except when it comes to oil. Back in the 1970s, after two gas crises triggered by the Mideast oil cartel, Congress passed a ban on […]
The right choice in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race is as clear as Heck
Allow me to be one of the first to officially welcome Congressman Joe Heck into the race to replace Sen. Harry Reid in the United States Senate. His anointed Democrat opponent, Catherine Cortez-Masto, is a partisan left-winger who would essentially be Sen. Reid’s sixth term – but without the clout. Cortez-Masto has served as a […]
Disruptive ESA’s could hasten failure factory exodus
They’re called “disruptive innovations.” A disruptive innovation is something unexpected that disrupts an existing product or service market and creates a new one, complete with an entire new batch of customers and usually lower prices. “Ride-sharing,” which has totally disrupted the moribund taxicab industry, is a perfect example. But Nevada’s Republican-led 2015 Legislature could be […]
Cross-examination of Woodbury’s defense
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! Yes, July 2nd is our nation’s actual Independence Day…which is officially celebrated on the Fourth of July. Let the “illegal” fireworks begin! CROSS-EXAMINATION OF WOODBURY’S DEFENSE I’ve known former Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury since 1995, back in the days when I served as Clark County Republican Party (CCRP) chairman and Nevada […]
Conservatives pursuing two-pronged, scorched-Earth war on Tax Hike
Nevadans all across the state are “fioreous” over the recently passed largest tax hike in Nevada’s history – including the creation of a new gross receipts tax very similar to the one Nevada voters overwhelmingly rejected last November by almost 80 percent! And there are two distinct camps preparing to counter-attack in the 2016 campaign […]
Federal Land Grab Far Bigger Problem than No-Cost Sugar Program
When the opening line of a column inked by a former congressman reads, “The EPA just finalized one of the biggest land grabs in American history,” it’s a column that demands to be read. In an op-ed published Monday by The Hill, former Rep. Larry Combest (R-Texas) warns that a new rule enacted by the […]
“Hammond Vouchers” will end government’s monopoly over education
About the only thing Republicans did right in the 2015 legislative session was to place a stake squarely over the heart of Nevada’s failure factories and took the first big whack at the public school monopoly that has been killing the futures of so many of our children for so many years. Officially, they’re called […]
Politicians lie, but when it comes to the Tax Pledge the numbers don’t
Liberals and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) hate the Taxpayer Protection Pledge with, as Diane Chambers once put it on Cheers, “the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.” And there’s a very good reason for that… It works. In signing the Tax Pledge, a candidate promises the voters of his or her district that he […]
Nevada Legislature: Do as we say, not as we do!
Here’s what’s holding up everybody who wants to repeal the largest tax hike in Nevada history through a ballot referendum… According to the Nevada Constitution… “Each law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, and matter, properly connected therewith, which subject shall be briefly expressed in the title.” Now here’s how your Legislature […]
It’s not a free market if the market isn’t free of government intervention
How in the world does a country “hampered by inadequate moisture and poor (sugar) cane quality, small farm size, lack of mechanization, and underutilization of cane mills” nevertheless find itself the world’s second largest sugar exporter? Through the world of government intervention, that’s how. In a recent study conducted for the American Sugar Alliance (ASA), […]
Jason Day, Thomas Edison & Jon Ralston walk into a bar…
FATHER’S DAY MINUS ONE This is the first time in 15 years that I will be celebrating Father’s Day without my first born. She’s in Switzerland as we speak. Kristen (R) and her friend Mindy (L) successfully raised over $17,000 in sponsorships in less than three months this spring to pay the tuition for a […]