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Banning the pickup truck

The Tuesday headline was clear: “Obama’s new rules will transform U.S. auto fleet.”

Gun rights

The Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress is moving to restore a Bush administration policy that allowed Americans the same right to carry self-defense weapons in the national parks as in any other part of a state.

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Outrageous scheme

A last-minute amendment adopted in Carson City last week by the Senate Government Affairs Committee would allow the union that represents Las Vegas police to negotiate wage and benefit contracts directly with the Clark County sheriff, shutting out Clark County commissioners, Las Vegas City Council members and their representatives.

Budget games in Carson City

Legislative Republicans have a hill to die for. Only it’s more like an anthill — and it’s still too steep for majority Democrats.

Tax plans

A public opinion poll conducted last week for the Review-Journal provided a detailed snapshot of the electorate’s views on most of the tax increases under consideration in Carson City. One indisputable conclusion can be drawn from the survey: Voters are worried about their livelihoods and don’t want to see their recession-ravaged employers hit with job-killing levies.

New ideas?

It’s been a common theme of so-called “progressives” since the Democrats swept to power in November. It goes something like this:

Same-sex marriage

If a man and a woman, or two guys, or two gals desire to bind themselves contractually to what the state calls a “marriage,” then what’s a good ol’ fashioned American conservative to say?

Three GOP wise men

Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee are right. That’s how bad it is for Republicans.

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