It’s a lot easier to waste someone else’s money.
Opinion
It’s not often that I find myself in agreement with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, but on the point of the idiocy of the obsolete concept for long-term storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, we seem to share some similar views.
To the editor:
Thursday
When I was but a youngster, my father and my grandmother frequently told me that money didn’t grow on trees. However, I’m starting to think the Democrats and the federal government believe otherwise.
President Obama appeared at week’s end to be intending to break a campaign promise and try to do something about the foul smell wafting from pig excrement in Iowa.
As luck would have it, I was up well before the doorbell rang at 7:45 a.m. Thursday.
“The United States will be vigorously engaged in the pursuit of a two-state solution every step of the way. The inevitability of working toward a two-state solution is inescapable.”
Massive cash handouts like the current “stimulus” funds flowing out of Washington invite several problems, but the obvious risk is that such one-time funds will be used to create new jobs, programs and constituencies who can be relied upon to squawk like starving nestlings when the funds run out.
Higher education officials haven’t wavered from their forecasts of fiscal doom: Further budget reductions, they say, will destroy their ability to provide core academic programs at Nevada’s public colleges and universities, including those in high demand amid the deepening recession.
Recent business before the Clark County Board of Equalization was the tip of a very large iceberg that could leave the governments of Nevada taking on even more water.
We thought the 2009 Legislature might be too busy figuring how to cut and pay for state operations to meddle in local government affairs. But state Sen. Mike Schneider, D-Las Vegas, apparently has enough time on his hands to visit Clark County’s graveyard of deceased policy ideas and dig up a fresh corpse.
Fairness and openness are the foundation of the justice system. If either are sacrificed to benefit a favored class, the public will lose trust in the integrity of the proceedings.
Anxious to accomplish the bulk of his radical agenda as quickly as possible, regardless of what it appears to be doing to investor confidence, President Barack Obama offered his most supportive comments to date Tuesday for the hopes of organized labor to unionize the American workplace through “card check.”
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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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