Speaking of affordability …
Opinion
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.
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.”
In March 1993, under President Bill Clinton, the Army imposed regulations forbidding military personnel from carrying their personal firearms.
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.
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.”
Editor’s note: On Memorial Day seven years ago, a 27-year-old Las Vegas man sent his grandfather, Walter Clutts, a note. We produce it here, in honor of Veterans Day.
It’s been a brutal two years in Southern Nevada. As the job losses, home foreclosures, bankruptcies and cutbacks mounted, it seemed like we might never hit bottom.
When a reporter for CNSNews.com last Thursday asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., where the Constitution delegates Congress the specific power to order Americans to buy health insurance — a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of Obamacare — Ms. Pelosi responded: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
State and local governments are notorious copycats. As soon as one jurisdiction comes up with a meddlesome, money-grabbing plan, the idea spreads like a virus through elected bodies everywhere. Think of new taxes on soft drinks and bottled water or traffic enforcement cameras.
The Democrats’ 2009 version of Hillarycare now approaches 2,000 pages. Why did the collectivists want it enacted so quickly, before anyone really had time to climb in there with a flashlight and look around?
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Las Vegas is now part of an unfortunate club. It’s one of many cities where a viral video has been shot revealing the ruinous results of soft-on-crime policies embraced by Democrats.
CRT adherents don’t see two individuals, they see two representatives of their class. Deobra Redden is Black, so he’s oppressed. Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who’s white, is the oppressor.
As many as 26 percent of American adults — more than 1 in 4 — have some type of disability.
A new Review-Journal feature called “What Are They Hiding?” will spotlight all the bad-faith ways Nevada governments hide public records from taxpayers.
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