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Put up time?

It’s nearing the time for Nevada’s legislative Democrats to finally “put up.”

First the banks, now the automakers

The typical American automobile in the early 1920s was easy to describe. It was boxy and black, offered a manual transmission only, and sported a straight-up four-cylinder engine. Creature comforts were few.

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No declaration of innocence

Solidifying its reputation as a toothless, bumbling bureaucracy, the state Ethics Commission on Thursday concluded four days of hearings on improper pay raises within the Nuclear Projects office by declaring the charges against former chief Bob Loux weren’t worded properly — and letting him walk.

Apologies and appeasement

During last year’s presidential campaign, as part of larger questions surrounding Barack Obama’s lack of foreign policy and military experience, a handful of scholars and pundits asked exactly what the Democrat meant in asserting that his administration would “restore America’s reputation and moral authority abroad.”

What if all the angels stand on one foot?

Once you begin haggling over the details — it’s OK prior to 60 days before an election but not after, a 90-minute movie might be OK but not a 30-second commercial, this money is good but that money is corrupting — you have lost sight of the fact that the fundamental premise of the whole damn thing is a fraud perpetrated by charlatans against liberty and democracy.

Build solar! Build wind! … but not in my desert

A new era is dawning, we’re assured. The dark clouds of industrial pollution (OK, carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and necessary, but let’s not get bogged down in details) are about to be banished, ushering in a glorious new day of hygienic energy cleanliness and perfectly balanced global neither-warming-nor-cooling.

Which books to collect, and what are they worth?

About a year ago, a writer for one of the town’s less-than-every-day papers infamously reported with regret that the Reading Room bookstore at Mandalay Place inside the Mandalay Bay was closing, leaving Las Vegas without any independent booksellers.

3D movies aren’t a gimmick anymore

It’s no secret that 3D movies are enjoying an incredible resurgence. As studios and exhibitors look for ways to keep providing moviegoers with reasons to leave the comfort of their homes and spend money to go to the movies, 3D has once again become a promising platform.

Brave new world

In his novel “1984,” George Orwell created the satiric template for the modern totalitarian state, a humorless bureaucracy endlessly changing the very language to disguise its purposes.

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