Who can mourn 2025?
Opinion
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Why is America in an economic pickle?
To the editor:
President Obama on Saturday accused the Bush administration of creating a “hazard to public health” by failing to curb food contamination problems. Mr. Bush’s successor announced he will form a “Food Safety Working Group” to “upgrade our food safety laws for the 21st century.”
Given politicians’ preoccupation with lists that rank states — and the constant yammering from Nevada officials about being at the bottom of lists for this and that — we’re happy to report the Silver State is tied for 10th in a key measurement of government accountability.
According to a federal lawsuit filed by David Guillory, a civil rights attorney in nearby Nacogdoches, cops in the little town of Tenaha, Texas — along a heavily traveled state highway connecting Houston with several popular gambling destinations in Louisiana — have seized cash and property, up to and including their cars, from some 200 motorists between 2006 and 2008.
We are a self-absorbed lot. Nothing that has been or ever will be can possibly match the superlative moment in which we live right here and now.
In speaking with my mother (who attended school during the 1980s and 1970s) about her scholastic experiences, I’ve come to realize that with a different generation comes a different drive and need for education. Physical labor is no longer America’s respectable means of income; we live in a schizophrenic country with technology being our new economic fixation. Even in the last decade, I can recall with amazement the innovations I’ve come to see in terms of technology and the convenience these innovations have brought. That point aside, the market is in high demand, and requires advanced education to supplement its constant growth. People go where they smell money, and this specific market definitely reeks of capital.
When the evil in the fog of the left’s blogosphere seeped into mainstream commentary, effectively discounting the message of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, it taught political Internet tricksters a lesson.
I’ve written dozens of editorials for this newspaper warning that we all pay dearly when governments conduct the public’s business in private, and that restrictions on access to government records invariably protect wrongdoers and put law-abiding citizens at risk.
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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.
Michael Ramirez
CARTOON: Road kill
Debra J. Saunders
SAUNDERS: Team Trump 2.0 far less likely to say, ‘You’re fired’
