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GOP has facts, fails to deliver in oversight hearings

At a certain point, you have to realize you can’t hit a fastball. House Republicans don’t quite get that they are hopeless at oversight hearings. They keep losing — and now the chairman of the House Oversight Committee has just introduced articles of impeachment against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.

ESA applications reveal wealth gap

Nevada’s education savings accounts were sold to the 2015 Legislature, in part, as a way to level the playing field between students from rich and poor backgrounds.

Rand Paul’s consistency key to his political life

A foolish consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but it’s also the animating principle behind Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s political life.

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Putin barges in, Obama walks away

Guess who just popped up in the Kremlin? Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator and destroyer, now Vladimir Putin’s newest pet. After four years holed up in Damascus, Assad was summoned to Russia to bend a knee to Putin, show the world that today Middle East questions get settled not in Washington but in Moscow, and officially bless the Russian-led four-nation takeover of Syria now underway.

It’s Laxalt versus Sandoval on sage grouse lawsuit!

Isn’t it ironic how some of the greatest arguments in favor of tort reform are modeled by the people in the party that most advocates for tort reform?

Nevada fires back in Education Savings Account lawsuit

Nevada is sparing no expense in fighting an American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada lawsuit that seeks to unravel the Education Savings Account program.

Sanders quickly concedes race to Clinton

I repeat: Unless she’s indicted, Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination. I wrote that six weeks ago, amid fevered dreams of a Clinton collapse and a Joe Biden rescue.

Bad! That’s a bad Macau!

Turns out, Steve Wynn should have been more scared of the Chinese all along.

Hillary Clinton’s quiet revolution

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says we need a revolution. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says we all want to change the world.

Is the single-subject rule legal? It’s still an open question

Back in 2012, attorney Kermitt Waters mounted his most audacious legal attack on a law that restricts the ability of citizens to propose laws by initiative. That law, known as the “single-subject rule,” says initiatives can only address a single issue. It was put in place in 2005 to prevent crafty special interests from trying to enact unpopular laws by wrapping them inside popular ones.

Another massacre, another political charade

There’s the cycle of poverty. There’s the cycle of violence. And then there’s the cycle of gun talk. It starts with a mass shooting. Gun-control advocates blame the deaths on gun-control opponents, who argue, in turn, that none of the proposed restrictions would have had any effect on the incident in question. The debate goes nowhere. The media move on.

Bombast aside, Trump’s not wrong on everything

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came to town Thursday, insulted most of his rivals, bashed the media, called the current crop of American leaders incompetent and promised to make America great again. Again.