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Of fired bureaucrats and cockroaches

Sometimes the irresistible force of the press slams into an immovable object — public employee job security.

Mercy elevates humanity above terrorists

On Aug. 20, Kenny MacAskill, cabinet secretary for justice, announced the nation of Scotland’s release on humanitarian grounds of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. To date, Megrahi is the sole person convicted of a dire act of terrorism — the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of a commercial airplane which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.

Enough is enough, Harry

This newspaper traces its roots to before Las Vegas was Las Vegas.

Paving the way for conflicts

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Jones ordered the County Commission to reconsider bids for a Las Vegas Beltway project — and then Commissioners Tom Collins and Steve Sisolak said they won’t participate.

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Say what you want about organized labor in modern America, at least the unions are always there for the little guy who’s just looking for honest work.

Politically correct mumbo-jumbo in our schools

Do you fret about whether you’re raising your child correctly? Not to worry. Even if you’re deeply involved in your children’s lives and happy with their social development, you have an eager partner in rearing your offspring: the Clark County School District.

You say Ne-vah-dah …

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s poll numbers are in the tank, which imperils not only his political career, but the ultra-progressive agenda the Democratic Party is trying to ram down Americans’ throats.

Learning from California

The acclaimed television drama “Mad Men” is set in Manhattan in the early 1960s. The focus is a fast-paced Madison Avenue advertising agency. The suit-and-tie ad execs quaff hard liquor at work, smoke constantly and utter sexist comments about their secretaries. It’s a great show, extremely well done, depicting a bygone era that at once sickens and evokes nostalgic feelings.

Rigging the game

It looks like a bit of blatant partisan politics might come back to haunt Massachusetts Democrats.

Checkpoint follies

Candidate Barack Obama vowed to “change” the kind of Washington politics as usual that saw important spending needs go unmet, while lower-priority projects in the home states or districts of powerful congressmen got lavished with cash.

Easy road

Nevada’s public employees nearly choked on their Wheaties earlier this year when Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed rolling back their generous salary increases — including the hidden “step” hikes — as a means of addressing the state’s budget mess.

Money and free speech

The Supreme Court telegraphed that a new expansion of the First Amendment right to free campaign speech may be under consideration when it scheduled an unusual re-argument of a previously heard case for Sept. 9. At issue will be whether to overturn two previous rulings that limit corporate spending in elections.

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