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  • Harry Reid is anti-Nevadan, pro-authoritarian.

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    On Friday it was reported that Harry Reid got some sound-bite press coverage while grandstanding about three power plants scheduled to be built in Nevada. My initial reaction was, “why would Uncle Harry be against more power supply in our state?” But we should never underestimate the thrill of power among [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2007, 10:28am EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Tyranny in our midst

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    You may remember a few years back that during the “Axe the Tax” ballot initiative signature gatherers were harassed by the police and employees of “public” places like the post office and UNLV. The pinheads at UNLV, 85% of whose salaries are paid by taxpayers, had the audacity to say [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2007, 3:37pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Property Taxes are Evil – Part III

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    Forward this posting to your friends. It should get them fired up! The property tax bill post card mailer has two parts. The lower portion, which we’ve been examining in the previous two posts, itemizes the distribution of the tax assessment. The upper portion is a bit less clear. It gives [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2007, 6:51am EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Property Taxes are Evil – Part II

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    We’ve been itemizing the wonderful services paid through your property tax bill. We’ve already covered education and police/fire “services,” so what’s next? My particular tax bill reads, “Medical Asst To Indigent Persons” for $128.20. Lovely. So we pay for the medical care of bums, vagrants, druggies, drunks, and other ne’re-do-wells lacking [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2007, 7:15am EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Property Taxes are Evil – Part I

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    I knew I shouldn’t have done it. But I did anyway. I opened up the property tax bill that arrived in yesterday’s mail. My doctor warned me to avoid stressful situations like this. I knew it was going to be ugly, and blood pressure-raising, but I just HAD to see [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2007, 1:27pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Who wants war?

    “Why, of course, the people don’t want war…. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2007, 9:34pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Political corruption runs deep.

    Political scandals in Nevada, and particularly in Clark County, grace the headlines much more often than should be in a civil society. Probably most notorious has been the long-shameful Clark County Board of Commissioners with its admitted felons Lance Malone, Erin Kenny, Mary Kincaid-Chauncey, and Dario Herrera. But you can [...]
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    Posted: July 18, 2007, 2:25pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Real ID unconstitutional, unfunded mandate to states

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    Ask your legislators to support a Nevada resistance to the REAL ID Act, a pernicious intrusion of government into your life and another sure-footed step towards totalitarianism. Several states have already thumbed their noses at the feds; we should do the same. Here’s a quote from New Hampshire’s exercise of its [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2007, 5:24pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • The Ron Paul Revolution is Growing

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    Las Vegas loves Ron Paul! Just 231 years after the Declaration of Independence, there is a new revolution afoot. On 7-7-7 there was a Ron Paul rally at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, and hundreds of energetic supporters of all ages and backgrounds came out to endorse liberty and [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2007, 7:55am EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Has Independence Day’s meaning been lost?

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    In honor of July 4th, I’m going to take a holiday from writing an original blog, and cheat by copying a GREAT OPINION piece that came out in the R-J this past weekend. Steven Greenhut, columnist for the Orange County (California) Register, wrote an article about our eroding freedoms that [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2007, 8:29pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • D.A.’s office is smoking something

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    With all the violent crimes taking place in certain areas of the valley, and with white-collar crimes such as fraud and identity theft running rampant, why do legislators, prosecutors, and courts continue to waste time on victimless “crimes?” It was reported in Thursday’s R-J that some guy had been sentenced to [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2007, 7:31am EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • What do conservative activists look like?

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    My weeklong trip to New Hampshire to investigate the Free State Project has been eye-opening and inspirational. Activists here are motivated, organized, and – best of all – effective. In under 4 short years, a diversified band of liberty-loving citizens from New Hampshire and a couple hundred more who recently moved [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2007, 7:50pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Free State Update from Ground Zero

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    Imagine 300 pro-liberty activists in one place. Now imagine 10 or 20 or 30 times that. I know – sounds like Nirvana, like paradise, like a good start. That’s what’s happening right now in New Hampshire. I am reporting live from Gunstock Campground, in the Lakes region of the Granite State, [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2007, 6:27pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Way to go, Chuck!

    In case you missed Citizen Outreach’s letter to Governor Gibbons, it bears repeating. Chuck Muth takes Jim Gibbons to task on his ATR pledge to not raise taxes on Nevadans. While some conservatives applaud the Guv for drawing a line in the sand and standing up to the big spenders in [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2007, 6:07pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Don’t Drive in New Hampshire, Unless You Want to Live (Free)

    A vote earlier this week in the NH legislature (Senate) to require seat belt use in automobiles died in committee. Hooray for New Hampshire! It’s nice to see a voice of reason from the state whose motto is “Live free or die.” The Union Leader newspaper reported, “The bill, HB 802, [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2007, 2:55pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Maybe they are catching on . . .

    They must be reading BudgetWatchNevada up in Carson City. Nevada’s preeminent e-pundit Chuck Muth reported today that “In introducing his executive budget last January, Gov. Gibbons asked for $2.1 million in “one-shot” funds from the budget surplus for the not-yet-open children’s museum in Reno. Lawmakers reached a deal on how [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2007, 11:46am EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • A conversation with Governor Gibbons

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    This morning I participated on a conference call with Governor Gibbons and other conservative bloggers, discussing the budget, legislation, and taxes. Organized and moderated by Citizen Outreach’s inimitable Chuck Muth, right-thinking scribes Eric Odom, Richard Disney, Sonny Minx and yours truly spent about 20 minutes with the Guv discussing the 11th [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2007, 1:43pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Lesser-known R.P.T.T. tax costs you something big.

    Real Property Transfer Tax Adds Big Bucks to the Cost of Your Next Home Nevada Revised Statutes’ chapter 375 outlines one of the most insidious, perverse taxes of them all, the Real Property Transfer Tax (R.P.T.T.). The following example will walk us through the imposition of this multi-layered tax and how [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2007, 5:14pm EDT
    by Mark Warden

  • Way to go, Dems!

    We like to give credit where credit is due, and last week a couple democrats in the legislature did the right thing. The Nevada politics show on PBS, Capitol Issues, reported Saturday that Assemblyman Kelvin Atkinson used his position as chairman of the Transportation Committee to kill a bill sponsored by [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2007, 7:30pm EDT
    by Mark Warden
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