When the Trump administration announced that it is going to start enforcing a Clinton-era law that denies legal immigration status and work cards for non-naturalized immigrants who have come to rely on government welfare programs, Nevada Democrats recoiled in horror. How dare the administration insist that immigrants earn their own way and not be a burden on the taxpayers. … [Read more...]
New Endangered Species Rules Beneficial
When the Interior Department released new rules for enforcing the 45-year-old Endangered Species Act (ESA) this past week, self-styled environmentalists and many in the news media falsely maligned the changes, saying they would require the Fish and Wildlife Service to consider economic impact in deciding whether to list a species as endangered or threatened. In fact, the … [Read more...]
Costs of Illegal Immigration Can’t be Ignored
Illegal immigration is one of the most controversial topics of this overheated election season. Suggestions to curb illegal immigration by building a wall or increasing enforcement of existing laws are met with passionate accusations of racism and white supremacy. The Census can’t even ask about citizenship. What is the bottomline cost to the United States and Nevada? That … [Read more...]
Trump Call for Unity Met with Derision, Slurs
The campaign rhetoric is being brandished like a flame thrower, scorching the stump with recriminations, incriminations, insinuations and denunciations. In the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton that left 32 dead and dozens more seriously wounded, Democratic presidential candidates unsheathed accusations that President Trump is the prime mover of such lunatic … [Read more...]
Advocate for West Appointed Acting Head of BLM
The self-styled cactus hugging collectivists are aghast. This past week Interior Secretary David Bernhardt named William Perry Pendley of Wyoming acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, which controls 63 percent of the land in Nevada, the largest portion of the 87 percent of the state land controlled by various federal agencies. Pendley, who worked in the Interior … [Read more...]
Costly Legal Fight Over Taxes was Unnecessary
It was a senseless and futile gesture, but our Democratic lawmakers and governor were just the ones to do it. Despite the fact Nevada voters in 1994 and 1996 amended the state Constitution to declare “an affirmative vote of not fewer than two-thirds of the members elected to each House is necessary to pass a bill or joint resolution which creates, generates, or increases any … [Read more...]
Moving BLM HQ Out West is a Welcome Change
The Interior Department this past week announced that it is moving the headquarters of its Bureau of Land Management (BLM) division out of Washington, D.C., and west to Grand Junction, Colo., as well as moving a number of senior management staffers into 11 Western states, including 50 to Nevada, according to The Associated Press. While the agency estimates the move could … [Read more...]
House $15 Minimum Wage Bill Would Kill Jobs
The House this past week passed a bill that would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 and phase out the sub-minimum wage currently allowed for tip earners. The vote was 231-199, largely along party lines. While all three of Nevada’s Democratic representatives put out statements bragging about voting for the Raise the Wage Act and citing how many people … [Read more...]