I have a sincere and earnest question for a large plurality of Nevada Republicans who say they will participate in the state’s among-the-first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses in February: What the hell are you thinking? According to the most recent CNN/ORC poll, Donald Trump is the presidential choice of 38 percent of those aforementioned Republicans. Trump is not … [Read more...]
Reid keeps Nevadans rolling in the aisles with his antics
Are you sure there isn’t some way to talk Harry into running for re-election? Nevada will be a barren, mirthless desert without Harry Reid’s unpredictable and always outrageous pronouncements, provocations, proposals and pontifications. He should come with a warning label: Past performance is no predictor of future results. Harry provides a perpetual game of rhetorical … [Read more...]
Real world confronts good intention of protecting ‘transgender’ students
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking/ Was looked on as something shocking./ But now, God knows,/ Anything goes./ Good authors too who once knew better words/ Now only use four-letter words/ Writing prose./ Anything goes. — Cole Porter, 1934 Liberals used to preach that the welfare of society must take precedent over the desires, inclinations and even rights of any given … [Read more...]
Nevada wins grouse listing battle, but still faces land use restrictions
This past week Interior Secretary Sally Jewell declared that the greater sage grouse will not be listed under the Endangered Species Act, but instead created a federal land use plan so restrictive that the lack of listing became a distinction without a difference. “Our review of the best available scientific and commercial information indicates that the sage grouse is not in … [Read more...]
Whether you get to vote on tax hike will be up to the courts
One of these days, perhaps, you will be able to go online and download and sign a petition calling for the repeal of the $1.4 billion in tax hikes — a nearly 17 percent increase in state spending — approved by your Republican-majority Nevada Legislature and signed by your Republican governor just months after the voters rejected two tax hikes at the ballot box — one of them by … [Read more...]
Education savings account lawsuit must be expedited
Whatever the eventual outcome of the ACLU’s lawsuit trying to block the implementation of a state law creating education savings accounts (ESAs) as unconstitutional, it should be resolved quickly in order to minimize the turmoil, uncertainty and expense for thousands of Nevada parents and their children’s education. Gov. Brian Sandoval urged Nevada Attorney General Adam … [Read more...]
ACLU lawsuit is an attack on parental choice for educating their children
Many of the news stories about the ACLU suing to block implementation of Nevada’s education savings accounts (ESAs), approved by this past Legislature as Senate Bill 302, mention that such accounts were declared unconstitutional in Colorado recently. Like Nevada, Colorado’s state constitution includes a Blaine Amendment prohibiting the use of tax money for sectarian … [Read more...]
Reid and Obama playing fast and loose with the facts about ‘green’ energy
When President Obama took the stage to close out Harry Reid’s traveling planet salvation show this past week in Las Vegas, he accused opponents of his sweeping clean energy plans of spreading misinformation. “We refuse to surrender the hope of a clean energy future to those who fear it and fight it, and sometimes provide misinformation about it,” he charged at the National … [Read more...]