It’s a lot easier to waste someone else’s money.
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Just a few short months ago, Barack Obama was flitting around the country vowing to change the way Washington does business — in particular, the Democratic presidential nominee pledged to put the kibosh on pet projects dropped into spending bills without debate.
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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.
Before going downhill fast, Bobby Jindal started badly in his nationally televised Republican response to President Obama the other evening.
Fortuitously, I recently stumbled on a copy of Henry Hazlitt’s “The Failure of the ‘New Economics,’ ” 1959, reprinted 1973.
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.
The First Amendment guarantees government may not take away your right to free speech.
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.
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.
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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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