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Early voting starts Saturday. Election Day is Nov. 4. It is time to start cramming for the test — a test of the American democratic republic. Normally this time of […]
Opinion
Hutchison Makes Most Sense for Lieutenant Governor
Oddly enough, the marquee race on the November ballot is the one for lieutenant governor, usually an afterthought. But, with Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval facing a Democratic opponent who came […]
Bureaucrats Playing a Befuddled, Futile Game of Species Preservation with Our Money
“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.” — Proverbs 26:12 Economist F.A. Hayek called the efforts of central […]
Arguments Against Voter Approval of Margin Tax Just Keep Piling Up
Every time someone kicks over another margin tax rock, another monster comes crawling out. We’ve already learned from previous studies and analyses that The Education Initiative, or margin tax, on […]
Voters Should Approve Appeals Court to Speed Delivery of Justice
Between now and the November election you likely will hear this phrase repeated frequently: “Justice delayed is justice denied.” This pithy little aphorism is usually attributed to 19th century British […]
17th Amendment has left states powerless against popularly elected Congress
We managed to repeal the 18th Amendment, which created Prohibition. It is time to repeal the 17th. What? You have no idea what the 17th Amendment is? Well, it is […]
Two avenues being pursued to wrest control of some federal lands
Regulation without representation is tyranny,” said Nevada’s poet lariat Waddie Mitchell in a recent column published in the Elko Daily Free Press. He was referring to the absolute dictatorial powers […]
Tesla Motors tax deal fails on principle and economic viability
The deal the governor and the state Legislature cut with Tesla Motors to lure its proposed $5 billion lithium-ion battery plant to Nevada trammels the fundamental principles on which this […]
Nevada Lawmakers Need to Finally Tackle Public Employee Pension Costs
When the Nevada Legislature meets in the spring it’s going to have to sharpen a lot of pencils to figure out how to balance the coming biennial budget. Lawmakers must […]
Minute by Minute
As my left eye creaked open this morning all I saw was the laminated red number 9 on my bedside clock. It was the last number of the time because […]