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Can ‘peace’ laureate block Iranian nukes?

Much has been written about the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama. Yet the most ironic aspect of this grant has been overlooked: The person who will be singularly responsible for allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, and thus by extension responsible for all of its prospective consequences, is being heralded as the most important current contributor to world peace.

Report card

The nation’s academic report card provided some good news for Nevada on Wednesday. But all the sugar coating in the world can’t sweeten this country’s increasingly dismal record of teaching kids math.

‘Government has never created a job’

Appearing as the lone representative of the private sector on the morning talk show “Fox News Sunday,” Steve Wynn, chairman and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts, sparred with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Democratic economist Mark Zandi on the proper role of government in forging a stable recovery.

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Smoke, mirrors and dropouts

If you’re failing a class, do you stand a better chance of passing a test if you take the exam seven times instead of two?

Measuring achievement

Make no mistake: The taxes spent on so-called federal stimulus funds would be better left in private hands. The marketplace is a far better forum for economic decision-making than the bowels of some beltway bureaucracy.

Tax plans this soon? Not a chance

Brian Sandoval says the specifics on his spending priorities are coming. Rory Reid, who’s almost ready to formalize his run for Nevada’s top office, promises to present his vision for state government soon.

Indecipherable gibberish

The details of health care legislation hardly matter anymore; it’s the vast expansion of federal bureaucratic control over medicine that counts to proponents.

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