Jealousy produces terrible public policy.
Opinion
President Obama slipped out of Washington on Friday for a brief family vacation — just in time to avoid certain questions about more bad economic news.
To the editor:
Back when the Endangered Species Act was being debated in Congress, everyone seemed to have a pretty good idea what they were talking about. The eastern woodland bison was already extinct, along with the passenger pigeon. Nothing to be done about any of those — barring the miraculous discovery of a remnant population, or some kind of cloning project out of a science fiction novel.
To the editor:
All right, then, let us now review Week Two of “America Gone Wild.” First there was Dick Armey, a former Republican congressman from Texas who goes around these days stirring up Fox News viewers, which sounds like easy money. He said on “Meet the Press” last Sunday that it amounts to “tyranny” to force Americans to participate in a government program.
Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., have sent letters to an estimated 52 insurance companies asking them to provide detailed information on their company-funded executive conferences and retreats, as well as executive and board member pay for those making more than $500,000 a year, Fox News reports.
When Gary Peck arrived on the scene 13 years ago as the executive director of the Nevada chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Review-Journal editorial page offered him some suggestions about issues his organization could address.
A key contention of President Obama and congressional sponsors of health insurance “reform” is that a health insurance “exchange” — allowing consumers to choose between private health plans with premiums artificially jacked up by government mandates, and a government program with artificially low premiums — would increase competition.
On Jan. 10, 1994, Time magazine published a cover story titled “Las Vegas, U.S.A.” The piece, beautifully written by Kurt Andersen, was prompted by the Strip megaresort boom and reflected the anything-goes optimism of that era.
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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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