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Not fair on the air?

The Senate voted Wednesday to bar federal regulators from reimposing a policy, abandoned two decades ago, that effectively barred partisan political gabfests like that of Rush Limbaugh, assuring blandness on the nation’s airwaves.

Jindal falls and can’t get up

Before going downhill fast, Bobby Jindal started badly in his nationally televised Republican response to President Obama the other evening.

Why is failed Keynesianism back in vogue?

Fortuitously, I recently stumbled on a copy of Henry Hazlitt’s “The Failure of the ‘New Economics,’ ” 1959, reprinted 1973.

This is the plan?

For sheer boldness, you gotta love those deep-breathing Beltway Democrats who suggest America ought to alter her traditional economic principles to overcome the global recession.

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Bargain hunting

Some smart operators still seem to believe Las Vegas casinos are a good investment.

A closer look at university system cuts

For more than a year, Chancellor Jim Rogers has been screaming from the tops of the university system’s ivory towers that Gov. Jim Gibbons is beyond irrelevant. The budget-cutting Republican is a political Neanderthal, a public official so loathed and isolated by his own repugnance that he makes Richard Nixon seem cuddly by comparison.

Buckled up

For Nanny Staters, the socialization of public services is the gift that keeps on giving: As politicians pile more financial obligations on taxpayers, more intrusions and restrictions on personal liberties can be justified as necessary to control those increasing “public” expenses.

SAY WHAT?

“This is a strong statement by Boyd Gaming to double down on the locals’ market.”

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