Jealousy produces terrible public policy.
Opinion
Angry, fearful conservatives are saying President Obama is lying when he opposes a single-payer government system of health insurance.
The debate over ObamaCare has degenerated into angry shouts, name-calling and thuggery, drowning out the very purpose of free speech: Persuasion.
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As President Obama’s health care proposal survives on life support, his huge energy tax plan known as “cap and trade” passes each day in the next hospital room, breathing with the help of a respirator.
At Monday’s National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 at UNLV, an array of high-powered political and industry leaders gathered to talk about renewable energy, climate change and the recession. It was a wide-ranging discussion, covering almost every aspect of the green movement.
Barack Obama has embarked upon an ambitious agenda, pushing everything from the most massive spending bill in American history, to a “cap-and-trade” carbon tax on energy consumption, to his slow-motion plan to impose on Americans “single-payer” socialized medicine.
For the better part of four years, Nevada Democrats have relentlessly assailed Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons for having the leadership skills and intellect of a lemming.
On his Wall Street Journal blog, Stephen Grocer noted last week: “Wall Street compensation is once again making headlines. The U.S. pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, will push to renegotiate contracts that he views as excessive or seek other ways to reduce overall outlays at institutions receiving big dollops of federal aid, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The green extreme likes to put a smiley face on its feel-good-about-yourself-while-saving-the-planet rhetoric. But every once in a while, one of its foot soldiers slips up and reveals the disturbing philosophy that drives the far-left environmental lobby and so many of its “progressive” peers.
Since lawmakers cleared out of Carson City in early June, we haven’t heard much about the need to “stabilize” Nevada’s tax base. But rest assured, the rhetoric will ramp up again as we approach the 2011 legislative session — or even sooner, should a special legislative session be needed to deal with continued declines in sales and gaming tax receipts.
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Three hours before his clients arrived at the Las Vegas Grand Prix last year, Nevada Stupak was already there, walking the route they’d take that evening.
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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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