53°F
weather icon Clear
Flame on!

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.

Oh, those Washington jokers

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.

THE LATEST Opinion
Both sides should take tea parties seriously

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.

Impeach Bybee? What a joke

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.

Domestic partnerships

Government has no business regulating relationships between consenting adults. The institution of marriage would be best left to churches and secular organizations that have religious or tradition-based interests in administering such contracts.

Sacrificing Nevada’s voice in favor of mob rule

On a party-line vote, the Democrat-dominated Nevada Assembly on Tuesday backed a bill designed to neuter the 538-member Electoral College, guaranteeing the presidential candidate who wins the national popular plurality will always be declared president.

What would Pol Pot do?

Let me get this straight. President Barack Obama is “open” to the prosecution and impeachment of Jay Bybee, a sitting federal judge, because of an opinion — an opinion?! — the man rendered before he became a judge and while serving America in the war on terror?

MOST READ
LISTEN TO THE TOP FIVE HERE