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Time to ‘throttle back’

Democrats love to criticize Republicans for being hypocrites when it comes to spending restraint. “Why, look at the big deficits run up by the Bush administration,” they shout. “Those Republicans are really the big spenders.”

Dysfunction in the big Democratic tent

Democrats took back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006, mainly by seizing an opening arising from Republican excess and corruption.

Plaintiffs never lose, in the lawsuit lottery

On Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed in a New Jersey court, seeking to require hot dog manufacturers to place health warning labels on their products.

Save the habitat, kill the turtles

When — in the name of heaven, I demand to know — are those responsible for enforcing the Endangered Species Act going to do something about remediating the habitat devastation and starting to recover the minuscule remaining population, before it has dwindled past the point of no return, of that brave and noble beast, the poodle?

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Confidence down on Congress? Here’s why

The Gallup polling organization does an annual survey on public confidence in our nation’s institutions. The results last month show our most esteemed institutions are the military, small business, organized religion and the police.

Call them the ‘Know-nothings’

California could lose out on millions of federal education dollars unless legislators change a law that prevents the state from using student test scores to measure teachers’ performance, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was expected to announce in a speech Friday.

The convention boycott

What do “Reno, Orlando and Las Vegas have in common? To some pockets of the federal government, they just seem like too much fun.”

Health care for illegals

President Obama’s frenzied attempt to nationalize health care has hit a few snags, despite the best efforts of liberal congressional Democrats.

Anniversaries preserve public’s interest in history

Clark County came into existence 100 years ago this month. Before its creation, Las Vegas was in Lincoln County, with the county seat 175 miles away in Pioche. Las Vegas civic leaders, upset by Lincoln County’s shenanigans and eager to control their own destiny, organized a campaign to carve out a new southern county with Las Vegas at its epicenter. The Las Vegas contingent persuaded the Nevada Legislature to split Lincoln County, creating Clark County on July 1, 1909.

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