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All the world’s a stage

Some parents of students at Green Valley High School in Henderson are seeking a preliminary injunction in District Court that would cancel scheduled performances of the plays “Rent” and “The Laramie Project” — two plays with homosexual characters and the theme of tolerance.

Railroaded, again

Amtrak pulled out of Las Vegas back in 2001 due to budget constraints. But the government-run rail line obviously has no qualms about losing money elsewhere.

Smoke signals

Public smoking bans — very common now, even in live and let live Nevada — are usually justified on health grounds.

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Easy money? Fore!

As part of the huge $878 trillion (Or was it $787 billion? Can anyone remember, anymore?) “economic stimulus” created in Washington last winter, Congress OK’d a tax credit of between $4,200 and $5,500 for Americans who purchase an electric vehicle.

Sign here

Mobile billboards will have to steer clear of residential Las Vegas neighborhoods — at least unless or until someone gets a citation and takes the matter to court — under a new ordinance adopted by the Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday.

A fresh approach to term limits

In 2001, I was riding high. I had spent seven years in the U.S. House of Representatives, and had won my most recent re-election with 65.7 percent of the vote. Thoughts of becoming speaker of the House were dancing in my head. Speaker of the House — third in line for the presidency, private jets, limousines, motorcades — and all paid for by the U.S. taxpayer. The ultimate high.

Barack Obama is no Nixon

It might be ill-advised for the Obama White House to declare open warfare on three or four critics and opponents.

In 1942, it came down to one Marine

It’s hard to envision — or, for the dwindling few, to remember — what the world looked like on Oct. 26, 1942, when a few thousand U.S. Marines stood essentially stranded on the God-forsaken jungle island of Guadalcanal, placed like a speed bump at the end of the long blue-water slot between New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, the most likely route for the Japanese Navy to take if they hoped to reach Australia.

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