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 […]
Did Gov. Sandoval Order the “Code Red” on Adam Laxalt?
The Democrats’ Grand Inquisition of Nevada Attorney General, and likely GOP gubernatorial candidate, Adam Laxalt over “The Burnett Tape” nevertheless revealed some interesting information – at least as it pertains to how the existence of the recordings got leaked in the first place. As you’ll recall, Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett secretly recorded a […]
Burnette’s “Laxalt Tapes” Story Smells Fishier than Shamu’s Tank
Do you believe in coincidences? Especially in politics? Neither does Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks over the effort by Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett to “set up” unannounced Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt, Nevada’s sitting attorney general, by secretly recording a conversation in a private meeting the pair had over a year ago. You […]
The Trump Effect: How to “Fail” Our Way to Greatness Again
A recent editorial cartoon by Mike Smith in the Las Vegas Sun depicts a little elementary school boy showing his mom and dad his report card with a big “F” on it. “I’m doing great,” the boy declares. To which the father says to his wife, “It’s the Trump effect.” Now, this was supposed to […]
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 […]
Why I Support Judge Almase’s Re-Election
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I met with incumbent Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Heidi Almase and am personally supporting her in the District 3 general election on June 13th. Among the reasons… 1.) As my own attorney put it, we shouldn’t kick good judges off the bench simply because somebody else wants […]
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 […]
New Book by Unlikely Author is Making Liberal Heads Explode
I just finished reading a new book, and liberal race-hustlers and cop-haters are having a cow over it. Get a load of some of the “outrageous!” things this author wrote… “Prison isn’t a country club, a university, or a spa. It’s a place where people are sent to be disciplined. . . . (Prisoners should) […]