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Budget realities

What’s this? Finally some evidence of fiscal sanity in the Obama White House?

What stops mass murderers? A gun

Early in the morning of Dec. 5, 1999, off-duty Las Vegas police officer Dennis Devitte was one of the customers at Mr. D’s Sportsbar & Grill, at Rainbow and Oakey boulevards, where he and some pals had gone to hear the band Pigs in a Blanket.

I believe in free speech, but …

Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, is one of two panelists scheduled to appear at a Thursday forum sponsored by Flipside Productions, an enterprise of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada, Reno.

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They took our jobs!

Unemployment sits at 10.2 percent, a 26-year high. New jobless claims dipped slightly last week, but most employers still aren’t in any rush to hire.

Wrong recipe

Here we go again. Another month, another left-leaning think tank condemning Nevada as a bottom-feeding badland in desperate need of more and higher taxes.

Candidate laments curbs on revolution

In the summer of 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote, gave gun rights advocates a notable victory. The majority opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, said the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” applies to individual Americans, not simply to members of what the amendment vaguely calls a “well-regulated militia.”

Soldiers disarmed

In March 1993, under President Bill Clinton, the Army imposed regulations forbidding military personnel from carrying their personal firearms.

Seized — for what?

Pfizer announced this week that the company would close its former research and development headquarters in Connecticut — the project for which the city of New London infamously used its power of eminent domain to seize the properties of Susette Kelo and her neighbors, after that seizure was OK’d by the U.S. Supreme Court in a highly controversial ruling.

Comrade Joe

For something approaching 20 years, it’s been standard practice to refer to Russia as “the former Soviet Union — a formerly communist country.” The country’s leaders are referred to as “former communists.”

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