In the Catholic and Mormon churches they call it excommunication. The Amish refer to it as shunning. The Klingons call it discommendation. In each case, it’s a process by which an individual who has committed an egregious offense so serious they are literally kicked out of the organization.
In Tennessee, Republicans [...]
Last July, Republican Sen. Bill Raggio (R-Reno) was fighting off a furious primary challenge by former Assemblywoman Sharon Angle and issued this seemingly clear and unambiguous statement regarding tax hikes: “This is not the time to start talking about raising taxes. It is something that we can’t even consider.”
I have [...]
Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, issued the following statement yesterday afternoon after repeated requests to speak with Gov. Gibbons were blown off by the governor’s office…
NV Gov. Jim Gibbons Breaks Taxpayer Protection Pledge
Governor’s Executive Budget Includes 3 Percent Room Tax Hike
WASHINGTON D.C. – Nevada Gov. Jim [...]
Today is the second day of the 75th legislative session. Which means it’s the second day of the 75th legislative session without a specific Democrat alternative to Gov. Jim Gibbons’ budget proposal which opponents have so vocally bitched about for weeks now. It also marks the second day of the [...]
One of the reasons Republicans are no longer the majority party in Congress is that they didn’t do things when they had the majority that they knew they should have done but didn’t do. Like dramatically overhauling, if not outright privatizing, the post office. Every email from a constituent they [...]
As the saying goes, you can’t beat somebody with nobody. And right now the GOP has no clear front-running candidate to take on incumbent Nevada Democrat U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. A look at the potential field, including my personal assessment on the odds on their getting into the race and [...]
Fans of the Jurassic Park movies will recall that the velociraptors were the fastest, most lethal killing machines in all of dinosaur-land. So I doubt it was merely a coincidence that the United States Air Force nicknamed its fifth-generation F-22 fighter jet the “Raptor.”
The Raptor is the world’s most sophisticated [...]
God help us, the 75th session of the Nevada Legislature convenes tomorrow. Expect legislators - who have 120 days to fix a $600 million overspending hole in the budget - to get right down to business from Day One.
OK, just kidding. Tomorrow’s first day will be pretty much wasted on [...]
That’s like asking if kids should eat their vegetables.
If you ask the average citizen to name the three most inefficient, aggravating organizations to deal with, you’ll likely get back, in no particular order, the post office, the IRS and the DMV. And it’s no coincidence that all three are government-run [...]
Well, not really.
On Wednesday afternoon, Jon Ralston reported in Flash: “As much as I had hoped they would have begun the education process earlier - usurping the role Gov. Jim Gibbons has abdicated - legislative Democrats Thursday appear poised to produce some real, substantive plans for the session.”
The key words [...]
While what passes for Democrat “leadership” in the state remains AWOL on our budget woes, one has to give credit to the socialists over at the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN). Unlike their cowardly kindred spirits in the Legislature, PLAN has courageously released a ridiculous plan to jack up [...]
Yesterday, Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford and Assembly Speaker released the following statement about Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed budget…
“The Governor and his full-time staff have had more than six months to come up with a vision and budget for Nevada — legislators have had four days of [...]
Here’s why I’m still not crying any crocodile tears about all these proposed “devastating” cuts to “essential” government services. The city of Sparks put out this announcement today…
“Is the interior of your home in need of an update, but you just don’t know how or where to start? Get that [...]
After spending several months on her “Magical Misery Tour” telling Nevadans how rotten their state is, Democrat Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley has finally posted some suggestions from citizens for dealing with the budget crunch on her website. Alas, opinions and suggestions are like…er, belly-buttons. Everybody has one.
The thing is, [...]
On Monday, Steve Hill of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce reportedly had this to say about Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed cuts to the bloated higher education budget: “The deep cuts to higher education we just don’t see as viable.”
Fine, Mr. Hill. Then exactly what IS viable? What’s your alternative? [...]
“The nervousness over the Democratic hegemony in the Legislative Building already is percolating as some groups fear rollbacks in tort reform and construction defects,” reported Jon Ralston in Flash yesterday.
Well, elections DO have consequences. Unions dumped a ton, and I mean a TON, of money into legislative races for Democrats [...]
Starting with his State of the State Address, Gov. Gibbons has been pushing this notion of diversifying the state’s economy by transforming Nevada into some kind of super global leader in clean energy.
But when he talks of this, he only mentions wind, solar and geothermal. While admittedly clean sources of [...]
Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th century British politician and author, wrote that it’s “much easier to be critical than to be correct.” And Nevada’s Democrats and liberals are taking the easy way out when it comes to the current budget problem.
“I’ve noticed that while there are people critical of the governor’s [...]
I’ve been following a lot of emails and letters to the editor which share the general sentiment expressed by Teri Sparks in today’s Nevada Appeal…
“I have to voice my opinion about Gov. Gibbons’ plan to cut employee pay by 6 percent. I don’t think it is fair of him to [...]
As we painfully were reminded recently, the “read my lips” word of some politicians is as good as dirt. Even signing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising voters to oppose any and all efforts to increase taxes isn’t enough to keep some Republicans from breaking their word and supporting tax hikes.
How [...]
As you know, University Chancellor Jim Rogers has three solutions to the current revenue shortfall which requires some serious budget cutting over at the Nevada System of Higher Education: More money, more money and…more money.
But giving this expensive, top-heavy system more money will only delay the inevitable. The fact is [...]
Nevada University Chancellor and Bloviator in Chief Jim Rogers went on television last night (but only on television stations he owns) and delivered a bitter and self-serving “State of Education” address in which he said that “only a few” Nevada parents “appreciate the importance of a college education.”
Ironically, former Republican [...]
Nevada state Sen. Bob Coffin (D-Las Vegas) announced yesterday that he would entertain the notion of holding hearings before his Senate Taxation Committee on proposals to legalize and tax prostitution in areas of the state - including Las Vegas and Reno - where it is currently illegal. “(Prostitution is) going [...]
While University Chancellor Jim Rogers and other university system staff are stirring up student unrest on campus to fight against necessary budget cuts in the Nevada System of Higher Education, UNLV’s College Republicans are refusing to play the role of “useful idiots.” Instead, they’re distributing a flyer pointing out egregious [...]
Last November, shortly after Barack Obama cleaned John McCain’s clock at the polls, many of the nation’s governors packed up their tin cups and paraded to Washington seeking a federal handout along with Wall Street and the Big Three. Not every governor, however, participated in this unseemly trick-or-treat beg-a-thon. Conservative [...]
The following letter urging the Nevada Board of Examiners to deny a request for $20,000 to defend “Loux the Looter” was sent today…
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEVADA BOARD OF EXAMINERS:
NO TAXPAYER-FUNDING FOR LOUX DEFENSE
January 22, 2009
STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS
State Capitol Building
101 North Carson Street
Carson City, [...]
The only thing worse than Jim Gibbons breaking his 2006 campaign promise to the voters that if they elected him governor he would “oppose and veto any and all efforts to raise taxes” is the dishonest way in which he’s done it and tried to cover it up.
First, he’s tried [...]
Hoooo-weeee! You’d have thought somebody’d kicked a puppy to hear all the squealing and caterwauling coming from the bleeding heart, tax-and-spend, redistributionist socialist-liberals over what amounts to less than a ten percent “cut” in the budget; not the widely reported 34 percent or the astronomical $2.5 billion cut we’ve been [...]
A Las Vegas teacher was invited to go on President-elect Barack Obama’s train ride to Washington yesterday and was mentioned by name in an Obama speech in Baltimore. To which Rosa Mendoza had this to say: “I felt like the clouds opened up and the angels just poured bliss over [...]
The funniest thing to come out of the frothing reactions to Gov. Jim Gibbons’ budget proposal has been the continued attacks on him for rigidly adhering to his “no new taxes” pledge.
Why, just this morning the Las Vegas Sun editorialized that higher education “must not be decimated just because one [...]
The running line in Nevada’s current budget war is that Gov. Gibbons is slashing the budget 34 percent and cutting spending by some $2 billion. As Jon Ralston points out in his column today, Gibbons himself has been fueling these figures, including a claim in his State of the State [...]
It was billed on the program Thursday night as Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons’ “State of the State Address,” but it might well go down in the history books as his gubernatorial farewell speech. All depends on whether or not he ends up actually cheating on the voters who elected him [...]
Exactly how many soldiers do we need to prosecute for doing their jobs before soldiers decide it just ain’t worth it any longer?
Longtime readers of this newsletter know of the incident and railroad job done on Lt. Col. Allen West some years ago for SCARY a captured Iraqi policeman who [...]
For those who may have missed or forgotten the details of the prosecution of Lt. Col. Allen West some years ago, here’s a little reminder…
In a National Review Online column in December 2003, Jed Babbin reported that there was good, local intelligence that an assassination plot was in the works [...]
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons delivered his state-of-the-state address last evening and there’s certainly a lot about it to chew on. Some observations…
* The devil is, of course, in the details, and a lot of the details were not included in the speech. The governor’s budget proposal, outlined in the speech, [...]
Perhaps the biggest hoax to be played on Nevada’s citizens by its elected officials during the 2009 legislative session is already being played on them before the session even starts.
Elected officials from Gov. Jim Gibbons on down are claiming a proposed three percent increase in the hotel room tax was [...]
The hard-core socialists over at the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) have proposed over a billion dollars worth of tax hikes this week, including a new income tax on businesses. I’ll have a lot more on this in the coming days, but suffice it to say for now that [...]
For those who claim state government has already been cut to the point where any further cuts will hurt “essential” services, take a look at this announcement in yesterday’s Nevada Appeal:
“The Nevada Arts Council presents ‘Stop the Car, Dad!’ 8 a.m.-5 p.m. through Friday, Feb. 27. The exhibit is a [...]
Big Labor came through for the Democrats last November big time. They put their man in the White House, helped expand the Democrats’ majorities in Congress. Now it’s payback time.
The biggest problem facing organized labor in this country today is that so many people have wised up to their scam [...]
Folks, you know I don’t often ask for donations through Nevada News & Views…but I’m asking today. And once you read what just broke this morning, you’ll understand why.
Um, you might not want to read this on a full stomach.
They’re coming.
And some Republicans, we found out this morning, are [...]
Here they come. Grab your wallets.
Word leaked out this week that Gov. Jim Gibbons might propose cutting state worker pay by 6 percent as part of his effort to balance the budget. And the coordinated parade of whiny woe-is-me emails to state legislators has begun and is in full force. [...]
“Gov. Jim Gibbons plans to include a 6 percent cut in pay for state employees, including teachers, in his proposed budget, a source in state government confirmed Thursday,” reported the Las Vegas Review Journal on Friday. “Dennis Mallory, chief of staff of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal [...]
Big-government types rightly ask of responsible no-new-taxes fiscal conservatives, “Well, then what would you cut?”
Unlike most Republican elected officials, the “right”-thinking thinkers over at the conservative Nevada Policy Research Institute think-tank aren’t afraid to put their government-cutting mouths where their “read my lips” are.
“Nevada state government is now experiencing [...]
Let’s get this out of the way first: The traditional college football BSC (or is it just BS?) bowl way of determining a national champion is a disgrace and an insult. The NCAA needs to create a true playoff tournament along the lines of March Madness for basketball.
That being said, [...]
A few months after Dean Heller thumped Jill Derby the first time to become Nevada’s representative for the 2nd congressional district, the liberals, the Democrats and their “amen” corner in certain parts of the mainstream media were giggling like little schoolgirls over this quote about the conservative freshman from Carson [...]
Our friends over at Americans for Tax Reform note this morning that the very citizens Obama said wouldn’t get screwed by his tax hike plans are at the top of the list of folks who are about to get screwed by a tax hike.
“Remember this quote?” ATR asks. “If you [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If shooting yourself in the foot were an Olympic event, Gov. Jim Gibbons would be a gold medalist.
How in the world the man could allow himself to get into a childish press release fight with his own lieutenant governor and fellow [...]
“Without a sense of irony, without a sense of shame, without a sense of loyalty, without a sense of propriety and, of course, without a clue, the governor (Jim Gibbons) has now horrified many of his supporters by attacking a weakened member of his own party (Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki) [...]
Last month during the Special Session, the Nevada state Assembly voted on who would serve as Speaker during the upcoming legislative session which begins on February 2nd.
Seven Republicans voted against Democrat Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley by abstaining from the vote. And you’d have thought someone had kicked a puppy. The [...]
Liberal UNR Prof. Mike Robinson inked a guest column published in Sunday’s Reno Gazette-Journal which was titled, “Though hard to stomach, a state income tax is best for everyone.” I’m shocked; shocked I say.
“When the Legislature soon meets to address the budget shortfall for the new biennium, I hope, as [...]
Some readers expressed both surprise and a little consternation over Nevada GOP Chairman Sue Lowden’s defense of Sen. Harry Reid a couple days ago. Reid was accused of being a racist, without basis, simply because he didn’t want to accept Illinois Gov. Blagojevich’s pick, who happens to be black, [...]
Questionnaire for Candidates for
Chairman of the Republican National Committee
Prepared and distributed to candidates for RNC chairman November 25, 2008, by Morton C. Blackwell, Virginia Republican National Committeeman. The answers are just as provided by Saul Anuzis of Michigan, Ken Blackwell of Ohio, Katon Dawson of South Carolina, Mike Duncan [...]
In my last column I took a look at the bad and the ugly: Proposed legislative Bill Draft Requests (BDRs) which will either grow the size and expense of government or were trivial, foolish, silly wastes of time - like Republican Assistant Assembly Minority Leader Lynn Stewart’s proposed bill to [...]
In a Christmas Eve press release, Gov. Jim Gibbons tried to sneak through an unlawful appointment of a crony’s under-qualified friend to the position of executive director of the Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT).
Unlawful because the law stipulates that the NCOT commissioners have to interview candidates for the position and [...]
Las Vegas should be embarrassed. Ashamed, actually.
Because some careless union worker accidentally set the roof of the Monte Carlo Hotel on fire a few months ago, some government genius(es) decided that the New Year’s Eve fireworks show - which has successfully been launched from the rooftops of Strip hotels for [...]
Gov. Jim Gibbons’ stealthy Christmas Eve appointment of Kirk Montero to the vacant Executive Director’s job at the Nevada Commission on Tourism continues to raise eyebrows, to say the least.
“In an email to tourism commissioners sent Christmas Eve, Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki’s chief of staff expressed surprise at Gov. [...]
State archivist Guy Rocha is quitting.
Rocha tells the Associated Press that he’d rather throw in the towel than stick around and see his taxpayer-funded government agency “gutted” by budget cuts next year; cuts which he claims will “leave the public without many vital programs and facilities.”
Um, excuse me. Could somebody [...]
The economy is in a shambles. Nevada leads the nation in foreclosures. Private companies are closing their doors. Workers are being laid off. The budget has a billion dollar hole. The public schools suck. Crime is on the rise. And health insurance costs continue to skyrocket.
So what does Republican Assemblyman [...]
OK, according to a news report in the Las Vegas Sun on Saturday the former Director of the Commission on Tourism, Tim Maland, got himself “cornwalled” last September - as in pressured to resign by former Gibbons Chief Operating Officer and rumored-to-soon-be Chief of Staff Diane Cornwall. Cornwall is [...]
Welcome back to school, class. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Now please open your American History books to page 174.
For those of you not born then, the year was 1968 -and Richard Nixon was running for president on what reporters described as a “secret plan” to end the Vietnam [...]
An interesting side note on the above-referenced story.
Mark Peplowski, who teaches political science at the College of Southern Nevada, commented in the article on what he believes are the political motivations behind the GOP’s visit to Yucca Mountain and Chairman Lowden’s “put up or shut up” challenge to Harry [...]
A couple weeks ago, a voice-vote was cast to elect Democrat Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley as Speaker. A number of Republicans claimed immediately thereafter to have abstained from that vote.
Of course, unless you publicly tell everyone that you abstained from a voice vote, how would anyone prove you did or didn’t. [...]
By the way, the above-referenced story also notes that as punishment two years ago for Assemblyman Cobb voting against Barbara Buckley for Speaker, the Democrats who chaired various committees refused to even hold hearings on all but three of his bills.
Similar threats have been conveyed against the seven who publicly [...]
Now that the day of peace-on-earth-goodwill-toward-men is almost behind us, let’s waste no time in getting back to the really important things in life: Like ridiculing our elected representatives.
The Legislature reconvenes in just over a month, and without doubt we have some serious, pressing problems that need to be dealt [...]
Ho, ho, ho-ly cow! Boy, did Christmas come early for Illinois’ dying horse track operators this year or what?
Here’s the issue in a nutshell. People in Illinois aren’t going to horse tracks the way they used to. It’s a dying industry. On the other hand, people ARE going to [...]
As I suggested last week, it turns out that the vote for Barbara Buckley for Speaker during the Special Session never actually happened after all, thanks to a major league blunder by Democrat Secretary of State Ross Miller, the state’s chief elections officer. I’ve obtained a copy of the audio [...]
I know “hate” is a strong word. But for those of us who have watched how the unions have done every thing in their power to try to destroy casino entrepreneur Sheldon Adelson - who had the nerve to open up his Venetian Resort on the Strip in Las Vegas [...]
While Assemblyman Ed Goedhart (R-Amargosa Valley) is introducing a bill which would allow parents, rather than the government, to choose which school their kids attend - providing a much-needed opt-out option for parents not happy with the government schools their kids are “zoned” for - the Assembly Education Committee has [...]
Folks, if you haven’t been following the budget travails of our neighbors to the West in the Land of Fruits & Nuts, you should know that Republican legislators there are defiantly holding down the fort and holding the line on tax hikes despite a fiscal meltdown which makes Nevada’s troubles [...]
Many in the press have declared Nevada’s legislative Republicans “irrelevant” thanks to their new minority status in both the state Senate and state Assembly. But as Mark Twain would say, the rumors of their irrelevance may be greatly exaggerated. Here are some hopeful signs…
1.) Two years ago only one Republican [...]
Conservative icon Paul Weyrich passed away today, but not before penning this final commentary…
The Next Conservatism, A Serious Agenda for the Future
By Paul M. Weyrich
December 18, 2008It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It is the worst of times because millions of Americans [...]
There might be fifty ways to leave your lover, but even Albert Einstein himself would have trouble adding up all the excuses the Left uses to explain why so many of the government-run schools suck eggs.
The number one excuse, of course, is lack of money.
Number two, naturally, is…lack of money. [...]
As the old saying goes, Gov. Jim Gibbons is free to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
By telling a reporter that he was including a tax hike in his upcoming budget just minutes after reassuring a meeting of Republican Party leaders that his policy was still “no new [...]
On Jon Ralston’s “Face to Face” television program today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was asked about “criticism from struggling homeowners that the bailout has done little to help them.” Reid responded, “I think they’re right.”
Is anyone really surprised that despite everything the government is doing to “fix” the problem [...]
It was so simple, categorical and absolute that I wrote it down right there on the spot. At the Nevada Republican Central Committee meeting at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday, Gov. Jim Gibbons took to the podium and declared in an unmistakably clear voice, “I’ve said it [...]
While George Bush sat in the White House, George Bush controlled the Republican National Committee (RNC) and pretty much decided who the national chairman was. It’s good ta be da king.
Now that a Republican will no longer be living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the 168 members of the Republican National [...]
Apparently there was some confusion on that conservative protest vote against Democrat Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley for Speaker on Monday. Yes, seven conservative Republicans did abstain from voting for Madame Speaker; however, some of them are now saying the Speaker vote was one thing; joining the Assembly Conservative Caucus (ACC) and [...]
First, read the following editorial which appeared in today’s Reno Gazette-Journal - and then I’ll comment extensively on their sage advice…
Revolt doesn’t bode well for regular session
Just when we thought that lawmakers might be willing to work in a bipartisan way for the good of Nevada, we find a fly [...]
Good news/bad news, fellow conservatives.
Good News: As you saw in that news release we distributed yesterday afternoon, a conservative caucus within the Republican Assembly Caucus was born yesterday - and the first act of the seven conservative members forming the core of the group was to publicly abstain in the [...]
Hat tip to Nevada Republican Assemblyman Ed Goedhart - a charter member of the new Assembly Conservative Caucus - for pointing out that any new tax hike should be called what it is: a taxpayer bailout of government. Amen!
[...]For a rundown of the votes in yesterday’ special session, we turn to Janine Hansen of Nevada Families, who put out this recap late last night…
AB 1: Transfers funds from various State special accounts to the State General Fund.
Assembly Vote: 42 Yeas, Nays
Senate Vote: 21 Yeas, NaysAB 2: [...]
And finally, in case you missed it, every member of the Executive Committee of the Nevada Republican Party, every Republican Party county chairman, and the Nevada Federation of Republican Women signed and sent a resolution to every Republican state legislator yesterday warning them against voting for any tax hikes - [...]
The only remaining Republican in the state Assembly who voted for the largest tax hike in Nevada’s history back in 2003, Assemblyman Joe Hardy, was at it again yesterday. Hardy suggested a “temporary” hike in the sales tax to plug the budget deficit for the remainder of this fiscal year.
Anti-tax [...]
At 9:00 a.m. this morning, elected Republican legislators will be asked to vote on who should serve as the upcoming session’s Speaker of the state Assembly.
Despite the fact that Republican legislators Bob Beers and Joe Heck will not be participating in today’s special session thanks to the million dollar campaigns [...]
The following trans-partisan open letter to Nevada’s congressional delegatio was sent this morning…
December 8, 2008
We the undersigned urge you to vote against legislation that adds any further bail-out funds to the auto companies.
The auto companies already have failed, otherwise they would not be coming to Washington with their hands out. [...]
OK, when you voted for Republicans last month; when you walked door-to-door for Republicans; when you made phone calls for Republicans; when you donated money to Republicans…did any of you do any of that so that Republicans elected to the state Assembly could vote for Democrat Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley for [...]
Has anyone seen the GOP’s legislative agenda for the 2009 session of the Legislature? Does anyone know what, say, the top three legislative priorities are for Nevada’s minority Republicans? Anyone with information on the missing GOP agenda is encouraged to contact the Secret Witness program.
[...]On Friday, our friend David Schwartz over at the Las Vegas Sun wrote, “A bipartisan consensus has emerged that the state cannot cut 34 percent of the spending compared to the last legislatively approved budget, as would be required without new taxes under revenue projections made Dec. 1 by the [...]
The idea of borrowing money from the counties to fill the state’s revenue hole is not an idea supported by Carole Vilardo, president of the Nevada Taxpayers Association. “Personally, I’d rather see a quarter- or half-percent increase in sales tax for a year.”
What the…?
A tax hike on consumers in the [...]
In a memo sent to members on Friday, Hugh Anderson, Chairman of the Government Affairs Committee for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, hopped on the tax hike bandwagon.
“With the cuts already made to the state budget, there will be a limit to the amount of spending that can be [...]
As noted above, before we should even think about thinking about tax hikes, we first need to define exactly what the government should and shouldn’t be doing in the first place. What are “core” or “essential” services and what aren’t?
Naturally, the Nevada Arts Counsel is neither “core” nor “essential.” [...]
The Nevada Appeal noted last week that registration for lobbyists who will be working the 2009 Legislature is now open. Unpaid citizen lobbyists - such as myself - working to keep taxes and spending low need to register, pay a fee for an identification badge, and submit regular government-mandated reports. [...]
This column is going to appear to be a “Marco Polo” – all over the map. But bear with me, Nevada taxpayers. I’ll tie it altogether at the end.
In Washington, DC, this week, auto executives groveled at the feet of Congress, begging for a $34 billion government bail-out to save [...]
Gene Paslov – Carson City’s most prominent unreconstituted California liberal who, as Nevada’s government-schools superintendent for nine years, directed public education’s headlong slide down the razor blade of mediocrity – is now offering his expert advice to the GOP. Oh, joy.
“The Republican Party has been hijacked by right wing ideologues,” [...]
OK, just bear with me here and read the script from the following scene which appeared at the opening of the “The Godfather” movie. The local undertaker, Signore Bonasera, is asking Don Vito Corleone to avenge a brutal sexual assault on Bonasera’s daughter. We pick up the action there…
Bonasera: I’ll [...]
In a Thanksgiving Day story in the Nevada Appeal, budge czar Andrew Clinger expressed some agitation with folks such as myself who have been critical of the administration for not laying off non-essential government workers the way the private sector has been doing. “They say we haven’t done anything because [...]
Here’s what we know: Democrat Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is seeking a grand jury indictment of Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki having to do with a college savings program Krolicki oversaw a few years ago while he was the state Treasurer.
Here’s what we don’t know: Exactly what Krolicki [...]
My friend Steve Sebelius - editor of CityLife newspaper in Las Vegas and fine judge of good wine - responded to my letter yesterday urging Gov. Jim Gibbons to honor his Taxpayer Protection Pledge with the following:
“…(W)e think the governor has a big problem. Muth is right: The pledge is [...]
While almost every private business in the land and most state governments are laying off employees, reducing payrolls and cutting non-essential spending to deal with the economic downturn, Nevada continues to keep its head buried in the sand.
“We’re doing everything we can to avoid layoffs and reductions in salaries,” Gov. [...]
Hi, I’m John Ensign…and I’m here to help.
“Sen. John Ensign vowed Wednesday to resurrect the Nevada Republican Party, which has fallen into deep disarray and was overwhelmed by Democrats in this year’s elections,” according to the Las Vegas Review Journal on Thursday. “Although he is a senior Republican office holder [...]
