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Advice to students: Choose friends carefully

How many times have high school students heard the saying, “These are the best years of your life”? If you were to survey students today, the majority might agree — but with a few exceptions.

Don’t study tax hikes, avoid them altogether

Taxpayers got some rare good news this week when Gov. Jim Gibbons vetoed legislation to spend $500,000 studying how to raise Nevada’s taxes even higher.

The green blues

A lot of things people do in an attempt to “think green” and “leave a smaller carbon footprint” end up backfiring.

Reform American health care now

I have done the research and am prepared to discuss the details of health care reform legislation. But there’s little sense in going there if we can’t agree on the answer to this basic question: Is medical care a privilege or a right?

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Staying in school

It’s the talking point the tax-consuming class never tires of telling us: Nevada ranks at the bottom of the states in every important social index.

Judicial impartiality

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that large allocations of campaign cash that benefit a judicial candidate can create an unconstitutional threat to a fair trial.

Car wars

As the country waits to see how Obama Motors fares, Democrats in Congress provided another hint this week as to how they plan to get Americans to actually buy the teeny-tiny electric box cars they so admire — barring the return of $5 a gallon gasoline.

Maybe we’ll ‘allow’ you to pay it back

Anyone who’s ever borrowed money from the mob — or a credit card company, for that matter — knows that seeing you pay off your debt is the last thing such characters ever seem to want.

Budget follies

Barack Obama was at it again Tuesday, highlighting his masterful ability to say one thing while actually doing something completely contradictory.

Grading lawmakers

The Review-Journal’s anonymous “grade the legislators” survey, conducted after each regular session of the Legislature, has all the suspense of a homecoming ballot. Like the ever-popular jocks and princesses, lawmakers who embrace process and bigger government get the crowns. Like the geeks and burnouts, no one who favors principle and smaller government will fare well … or even be asked to dance.

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