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Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. The agencies in charge of federal public land have developed a penchant for “sue and settle” — some friendly environmental group files […]
Holding the line on taxation will take only 15 Assembly members
At this point, perhaps the best we can hope for is gridlock. The 2015 session of the Nevada Legislature is only a month away — 120 days during which our […]
State should not interfere with life and death decisions of terminal patients
The founders of this nation were adherents to the concept of natural law, especially as outlined by philosopher John Locke, who stated that all individuals have the right to self-determination […]
State Corporate Welfare Clearly Unconstitutional and Courts Should Stop it
The attorney for the legal arm of a libertarian-leaning Nevada think tank this past week asked the state district court in Carson City to issue a summary judgment that would […]
Time to Take Off the Gloves When Dealing Federal Land Bureaucrats
Let’s just say our favorite red-headed Nevada congressman doesn’t turn the other cheek when he gets slapped by a miffed Washington bureaucrat. After Nevada Republican Congressman Mark Amodei added a […]
Give the Gift that Warms the Heart and Feeds the Brain — A Good Book
In case you are approaching wit’s end as Christmas Day looms around the bend, and you’ve still not come up with that unique gift for that unique Nevada friend or […]
The Mere Threat of Sage Grouse Being Listed as Threatened is Stifling Development
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell came to Nevada earlier this month and told a meeting of Western governors in Las Vegas that her department’s goal is to find ways to protect […]
Tax Revenue is Ample, but Here are Cuts if More Needed for Education
You could hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth radiating out of Carson City all across the sagebrush-dotted terrain this past week when the Economic Forum forecast that the state […]
Author of Book on Presidential Power Grabs Should Have Enough Material for a Sequel or Two
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced […]
Nevada’s Problem is its Spending Priorities, Not its Rate of Taxation
Cowboy humorist, philosopher and rope-twirling raconteur Will Rogers once said, “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” Well, everybody knows […]