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Opinion
Where there should be open debate, there are closed-door meetings. Where there should be public testimony from a wide range of interests, there is deliberate exclusion. Where there should be complaints about secrecy, there are shoulder shrugs and a weary acceptance of the status quo.
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First the banks, then the auto companies. Energy and health care loom large on the horizon.
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The Legislature appears to have settled on the state’s public schools budget for 2009-11, and county districts have some tough choices to make.
While the derelict Moulin Rouge was, again, going up in thick, white smoke on Wednesday afternoon — quite a visual spectacle, but hardly an all-hands-on-deck, women-and-children-first kind of event in the larger realm of breaking news — my phone rang and a caller suggested I look out the window and across the street.
President Barack Obama asked Congress Thursday to eliminate or trim 121 federal programs for a “savings” of $17 billion in the coming budget year — while crossing his fingers behind his back and failing to mention that he actually plans to shift that money into programs he likes better.
Lawmakers now have less than two weeks to pass a budget that includes tax increases if they want an opportunity to override Gov. Jim Gibbons’ promised veto. And whatever taxes are hiked, whatever services are cut, whatever compromise legislation is attached to the spending plan, the result will answer one of Nevada’s most consequential political questions: Just how powerful are the state’s public employee unions, anyway?
American gun owners, en masse, are “casting their ballots” on how much they believe Barack Obama’s campaign-trail promise to “not take away your guns.”
Word on the street is that it’s not moderate Republican senators who are pushing aggressively for tax hikes in legislative negotiations right now, but a conservative Republican state senator who has signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and works for a construction association when not in session.
Since the invasion of Iraq six years ago, more than 4,000 American servicemen and women have died in the line of duty. Every day, the mainstream media reminded the American people of the mounting casualties. During the presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama sharply criticized the policies of the Bush administration. Such places as Ramadi and Fallujah became synonymous with anarchy, mayhem and death. Each passing month, tens and in the worst months hundreds of U.S. war-related deaths were recorded.
It does not make U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama a racist that he was heard many years ago quipping that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was all right until he found out there was pot-smoking in the membership.
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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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