The Mind-Blowing Arrogance of Government School Bureaucrats
The Final Battle approaches as the 2017 Nevada Legislature mercifully draws to an inglorious conclusion. It’s a battle over a half-loaf of bread that never should have been necessary in the first place. But when your state is led by “America’s Worst Governor,” stuff happens. I’m talking, of course, about funding for Nevada’s landmark parental […]
U.S. Commerce Secretary Needs to Stay Tough on Mexican Sugar Cheaters
Earlier this month, a coalition of free-market organizations sent a letter to the White House urging President Trump to “protect American jobs through tough trade enforcement,” especially as it relates to Mexico cheating on NAFTA by unlawfully dumping government-subsidized, artificially cheap, duty-free sugar on the U.S. market back in 2013. The subsequent collapse of sugar […]
Democrats’ Witch Hunt of Laxalt Exposed as Klingon Show Trial
In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy were falsely accused of assassinating Klingon Chancellor Gorkon and subjected to a staged show trial orchestrated by the dastardly Klingon General Chang. Kirk and McCoy were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. That plot was more believable than the Democrat’s recently staged […]
Conservative Leaders Urge White House to Get Tough on Mexican Sugar Trade Cheating
Last week a coalition of conservative, free-market organizations, including Citizen Outreach, sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging the White House to “prove it will protect American jobs through tough trade enforcement,” especially as it relates to Mexico’s subsidized sugar industry. “The U.S. has given Mexico plenty of chances to trade sugar fairly under […]
Democrat Assembly-Waitress Sets Up Legislative Circus Tent over Secret “Laxalt Tapes”
OK, let me get this straight… A government bureaucrat who chairs the Gaming Control Board secretly taped a conversation with Republican Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt over a year ago without Laxalt’s knowledge or permission, turned the secret recording over to the FBI, which then investigated what was said in the conversation, and determined that […]
Brazil, Hawaii, Mother Nature and U.S. Sugar Policy
Critics of the U.S. sugar program – a very successful, balanced system of targeted tariffs and import quotas designed to combat artificially cheap, government-subsidized foreign sugar – are unconcerned that massive “dumping” of such sugar could destroy our domestic sugar industry. Their argument is that U.S. consumers would benefit from lower costs thanks to cheaper […]
How Sly Nevada Legislators are Trying to Sneak around the Gibbons Tax Restraint Law
The tax-hikers among us are as unscrupulous as they are relentless. At issue this time in Nevada are a pair of cunningly wily bills: Senate Bill 149 and Assembly Bill 375. But before talking about these scams, everyone needs to understand something about how Nevada’s government is set up. The various counties and cities do […]
Google “Stuck on Stupid” and Here’s What You Might Soon Find…
When I read the title “Is It Time to Break Up Google?” on a column by Jonathan Taplin that was published recently by the New York Times, my immediate reaction was, “Uh-oh, here comes the government!” Which reminded me of something former President Ronald Reagan once said about government and the economy, but I couldn’t […]
Why I Won’t Let Go of the Las Vegas Trash Contract Fiasco
Someone once described me as “a dog on a bone” when it comes to certain issues; I just won’t let them go. And that’s certainly true when it comes to this issue of the Las Vegas City Council earlier this month handing Republic Services a billion-dollar NO BID contract extension for picking up the city’s […]
Trump’s New FTC Embracing that Old-Time Free Market Religion
The average American has absolutely no idea what the FTC is, what it’s supposed to do or even what the letters “FTC” stand for. But almost every business owner in American knows exactly what the Federal Trade Commission is. In short, the FTC is supposed to protect consumers from unfair trade practices and foster competition […]
Beers’ “Yell Like Hell” Table-Pounding Doesn’t Excuse Inexcusable Trash Vote
I think the worst part of Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers’ vote on April 5 to bequeath Republic Services that billion-dollar NO BID monopoly trash collection contract is the intellectual dishonesty of his excuses for doing so as outlined in a pair of emails to a constituent this week. In attempting to defend the […]
Bombshell Discovery: SoS Goes on Vote Fraud “Witch Hunt,” Actually Catches Witches!
Here’s another Nevada story with big national implications… But before delving into yesterday’s revelation that Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske has uncovered PROOF that illegal aliens voted illegally in the 2016 elections, let’s set the stage properly… Back in 2011, Wade Wagner defeated incumbent North Las Vegas City Councilman Richard Cherchio 1,831 to 1,830. […]
Forget “Harry Reid International,” Airport User Fee Change is What’s Really Needed
While lame-o Democrats in Carson City have wasted time talking about a silly bill to rename McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas after former Sen. Harry Reid, a far more serious discussion on airport infrastructure projects is going on in Washington, DC. And any discussion of infrastructure spending necessarily demands a discussion on how to […]
Position on Sugar Trade Boils Down to Who Ya Gonna Trust
A complete rethinking of U.S. trade policies/strategies continues to be a high-priority for the new White House, though some still apparently haven’t gotten the memo. “President Donald Trump’s administration is drafting an executive order to investigate the extent to which the unfair dumping and subsidization of certain imports adds to the U.S. trade deficit,” CNN […]
Republican Congress Opens New Assault on States’ Rights
Yeah, yeah, I know. People have rights, not states. But in case there’s any confusion about what we’re talking about here, I’ll let Ronald Reagan, from a 1980 speech, explain it… “I still believe the answer to any problem lies with the people. I believe in states’ rights. I believe in people doing as much […]
Indian Sugar Policies Justify U.S. Sugar Policy
This week’s look at the global sugar market focuses on India. An article last week in The Financial Express out of New Delhi notes that… “For several months now, with back-to-back droughts hitting output, traders have been predicting a sugar shortage, but the government refused to lower the import duty from 40%. … Suddenly, as […]
Beers Misled Public on No-Bid Trash Contract Vote, Law
At its regular meeting on April 5, 2017, the Las Vegas City Council voted 5-2 to hand Republic Services a new 14-year, billion dollar, NO BID contract to pick up the city’s trash after a bold and, it appears, remarkably untrue statement by Republican Councilman Bob Beers. In a video clip aired on Sunday by […]