DHS officials should back off.
Opinion
To the editor:
On the campaign trail last year, Barack Obama expressed refreshing opposition to the Gestapo-like tactics the Bush Justice Department had used to undermine the popular will on the issue of medical marijuana.
Sen. Arlen Specter was faced with the prospect of a strong challenge from conservative Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania’s 2010 GOP primary. And the state is now trending Democratic.
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In a decision that can be described only as pure !@#*&$%!, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowly upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s power to impose regulations intended to discourage the use of curse words on television.
American universities are supposed to be bastions of open discourse and free thought. Instead, they’ve too often become safe havens for the easily offended, places where well-paid, ivory-tower academics plot to indoctrinate and punish anyone who challenges their sensibilities through acts of free expression.
Firefighters were politically bulletproof even before the terrorist attacks of 2001. The public regards the safety workers as heroes — and unlike police, they don’t write speeding tickets.
To promote the development of alternative fuels, which unfortunately cost a pantload, Congress in 2007 expanded the tax credit for using non-fossil fuels, offering firms 50 cents a gallon to blend renewable fuels such as ethanol with traditional fossil fuels like diesel.
I’d like to offer a word to the wise in both political parties. If the Democrats think the tea party protests held in hundreds of locations across the fruited plain on April 15 were only about taxes and President Obama’s proposals to raise taxes, and if Republicans think the tea parties were only about Obama and the Democrats, then both parties were reading the tea leaves entirely wrong.
The laws of war, as subscribed to by most civilized nations — even if adherence can be spotty — draw an important distinction between uniformed prisoners of war and irregulars who wear no recognizable uniform, the better to meld into the general populace of non-combatants in order to act as spies or saboteurs, blowing up military installations behind the lines.
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Las Vegas Personal Injury attorney Ryan Alexander has always believed that the holidays should be a time of joy, hope, and togetherness. Determined to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others, he launched his charitable initiative, “Give Hope & Help.”
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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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