It’s like in the movie “Miracle on 34th Street,” if the court says Edmund Gwenn is Santa Claus, then, by golly, he must be Santa Claus. Now that the Nevada Supreme Court has said a libel case can go forward, it must have concluded that a Republican who supported Harry Reid’s re-election committed a disreputable act. How else to interpret it? During the 2014 Republican … [Read more...]
Give a gift that warms the heart and fills the head — books
Christmas is coming and you’re still scratching your head over just what to get for that special Nevada friend or family member. May I be so bold as to suggest a gift that will keep giving long after the wrapping paper and ribbons are moldering in the landfill — a book, more specifically a book about Nevada or written by a Nevadan. The first suggestion is an absolutely … [Read more...]
Minimum wage hike proposal would have opposite effect of its intention
Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it — good and hard. A group of altruistic, benevolent and well-meaning Nevadans calling themselves the Committee to Raise the Minimum Wage in Nevada has filed a petition with the Nevada Secretary of State’s office that — if it garners enough signatures to be placed on the 2016 ballot and then enough votes at the polls — … [Read more...]
In their own words, Nevada delegation addresses refugee issue
It is truly a disgusting state of affairs when the leaders of one political party toss aside legitimate concerns about national security and public safety in order to engage in political pandering, mockery and name-calling. Within days of the bloodbath on the streets of Paris by a band of Islamofascists, President Obama was in the Philippines telling the press that … [Read more...]
Health and safety of Nevada community in limbo, awaiting BLM approval
The residents of the tiny community of Baker at the entrance to Great Basin National Park are concerned that their health and safety may be jeopardized for the sake of some vague concerns about perturbing sage grouse. This past spring the Baker Water and Sewer General Improvement District board decided it had to replace its decades-old, 250,000-gallon leaking water storage … [Read more...]
Obama’s 21st century policy directive: Manifest Inertia
During the 19th century Americans fulfilled our Manifest Destiny, settling the land, tilling the soil, building businesses and industries from coast to coast. But in this 21st century President Obama and his legions of paperwork pushing, regulation writing, intransigent bureaucrats have instead given Americans a doctrine of Manifest Inertia — build nothing, grow nowhere, do … [Read more...]
Federal bureaucrats ignored state and local input on land use plans
You have the right to remain silent. No, you have the obligation to remain silent, because if you don’t you’ll be slapped with the very thing you’ve worked against for four years at the cost of millions of dollars and countless man-hours — listing of the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) — and then be sent to bed without your supper. Talk about … [Read more...]
To ‘negotiate’ with the feds, you have to speak their language
Will the real Brian Sandoval please stand up? This past week the Nevada governor stood virtually alone in rebuking Attorney General Adam Laxalt for joining in a lawsuit seeking to block Interior Department plans to enforce draconian land use restrictions to protect the vast habitat of the greater sage grouse across 11 Western states. “Prematurely embroiling the state in … [Read more...]