Jealousy produces terrible public policy.
Opinion
Every elementary school in America has a bully. The bully regularly taunts and intimidates his classmates in order to get what he wants. Often, the bully’s teacher must display strong leadership and discipline in order to rein the bully in and teach him that the same rules apply to everyone.
It’s nothing new in the political arena. Politician ‘A’ serves in an elected position, sees an opportunity to advance to a more prestigious political position and announces a bid to seek it.
Remember the collective relief of the political and public-sector classes when the Legislature wrapped up its $6.9 billion, two-year spending plan just over two months ago? That relative comfort is history, along with any prospects of the state budget remaining balanced, for either the nearly concluded biennium or the one to come.
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Forty years ago, three events helped transform rising ecological concerns into the modern environmental movement.
Over the past 10 years, our state has competed in, and won, a national competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation to build the first 300 mph magnetic levitation (maglev) train in the Western Hemisphere, with a $45 million guarantee to the state of Nevada to complete final environmental approvals and start construction.
As America’s veterans returned from World War II, government officials launched massive spending on new “housing projects.”
Imagine a foreign army occupies the state of Indiana. Its commanders are concerned that local Hoosiers don’t like the foreigners in their midst, displaying that dislike practically every night by setting off murderous roadside bombs every time a patrol goes by.
Boot Camp Las Vegas owner Julie Johnston should consider moonlighting as a lobbyist, or — as the Euphemism Police prefer to call them — a “government relations specialist.” When ordered by heavy-handed Clark County officials to keep her fitness classes out of public parks, the businesswoman challenged a bureaucracy overflowing with arrogance and short on common sense — all the way to the County Commission.
Back on the day President Obama nominated 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the man who chortled while celebrating the federal actions that burned to death dozens of minority women and children at the Mount Carmel Church in Waco, Texas, 16 years ago, warned his Republican colleagues that any who opposed this nomination would do so at their “own peril.”
Although powerful Democratic Sens. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Kent Conrad of North Dakota — whose committees oversee the mortgage banking industry — claimed they had no idea they were getting special mortgage deals from Countrywide Financial Corp., an official who handled their loans has told Congress in closed-door testimony the pair were indeed informed at the time they were getting special deals.
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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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