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Playing God with human rights

The Democrats have finished their convention and the Republicans are about to start theirs. The “party faithful” remain a-twitter, while the rest of us sift through the “sis-boom-bah” in hopes of understanding who the candidates really are and who would be the better president.

NLV Airport safety

The odds are almost as unbelievable as the tragedy: In less than a week, two different airplanes crashed into two different houses near the North Las Vegas Airport, killing a total of four people.

An ’emergency’

FBI Director Robert Mueller recently apologized to The New York Times and The Washington Post for improperly obtaining the phone records of their reporters in Indonesia in 2004.

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Liquefied coal? Not so far-fetched

Harken back to Nevada’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, when Jim Gibbons was roundly ridiculed by the Democratic establishment and its media enablers for suggesting the state develop a liquefied coal industry as part of its alternative energy portfolio.

Fired up over local shooting park

A group of northwest valley homeowners filed a lawsuit against Clark County on Monday, attempting to stop the construction of a shooting park so far north of town that it abuts a mountain.

The uninsured

Barack Obama, who will accept the Democratic nomination for president tonight at Denver’s Invesco Field, favors an expansion of government-run health care to cover millions of uninsured Americans.

School funding, choice and results

Just a year on the job, District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has shuttered 23 schools, fired more than 30 principals and given notice to hundreds of teachers and administrative workers.

Castle doctrine

Nevada would be much better off if most bill drafts requested by state lawmakers never saw the light of day.

The GOP and earmarks

The recent intransigence of congressional Democrats as they side with green extremists and refuse to advance spending bills that might be amended to end the moratorium on offshore oil drilling has made Republicans in the nation’s capital happy for two reasons.

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