Democrats Discriminate by Relegating People to Niches »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Democrats discriminate. And I mean that in the most pejorative sense of the word. Not in the sense that one has discriminating tastes — prefers the symphony to heavy metal. I mean Democrats herd people into niches and classify and identify and make assumptions about people, not by their level of discernment and powers of rational thought and deduction, but by their skin color, age, gender and ethnicity. In their worldview a [...]
They All Laughed at »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) in·vest·ment (in-vest-muhnt) noun: the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value. In announcing the president’s travels this week, the White House said: “On Wednesday, the President will begin the tour in Boulder City, Nevada where he will visit the Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility, the largest photovoltaic plant operating in the country with nearly one million solar panels powering 17,000 homes. [...]
Obama Plans to Lower Fuel Prices by Raising Cost of Oil? »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Snake oil salesmen seldom lied outright, but they never really told the whole truth. In today’s radio address Obama told us with a straight face, “Under my administration, we’re producing more oil here at home than at any time in the last eight years, that’s a fact.” Yes, that’s a fact. What he did not bother to mention is that all that production is taking place on private land. As the Washington [...]
Reno Windmills Barely Create a Stir in the Cash Drawer »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) After spending a million dollars from Obama’s green energy stash to erect six electricity generating windmills, the city of Reno over the past two years has saved a whopping $2,785 off its power bill, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal today. The newspaper calculated the savings by using the city’s new “open government” website, which tracks the power each windmill generates. The paper quotes Jason Geddes, Reno’s environmental services administrator, as [...]
Nevada Should Join Utah and Arizona in Still Another Bid to Grab Federal Land »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) The Utah Legislature has approved legislation demanding that the federal government cede certain federally controlled lands to the state. A resolution accompanying the bill says such things as: “WHEREAS, the enabling acts of the new states west of the original colonies established the terms upon which all such states were admitted into the union, and contained the same promise to all new states that the federal government would extinguish title to all [...]
Reid’s Way to Increase Clean Energy ‘Demand’ Is Force Feeding »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) As per usual, Harry Reid’s tome on renewable energy projects in Nevada — “Playing to win in Clean Energy,” produced at your expense — leaves out as much as it tells. Harry touts SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes project near Tonopah, which will use mirrors to reflect sunlight on a 528-foot tower to liquefy salt and drive a turbine, as creating 600 jobs during construction, but fails to mention that it should take no [...]
The Feds Leadeth Me Beside the Still Waters »
(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8) Since 90 percent of the land in Nevada is controlled by one or the other agency of the federal government, those of us who nominally control the other 10 percent — so long as we follow the zoning laws, pay our taxes, abide by a myriad of regulations and are not in the way of some powerful public or private entity’s plans for progress and profit — should strive to understand the mindset [...]
Nevada’s Rosy Jobless Numbers Courtesy of a Computer? »
(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8) The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation came out this morning with the January unemployment numbers. The agency says Nevada’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate fell from a revised 13 percent in December to 12.7 percent in January, down from 13.8 percent a year ago and a peak of 14 percent in October 2010. “Nevada continues to show signs of economic recovery, with slow but steady growth in many important areas,” a new [...]
For an Elected Official to Try to Silence Someone Is an Abuse of Power »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Shelley Berkley has started a petition to demand that Clear Channel Communications take Rush Limbaugh off the air. For Shelley profit is a dirty word. As her petition declares: “Rush Limbaugh can say whatever he wants because the First Amendment says so, but Clear Channel shouldn’t profit from putting his attacks on women in front of a national megaphone. “Rush’s current contract will pay him $400 million dollars through 2016. That’s right [...]
Not Much Choice in Senate Race When It Comes to Green Energy Issue »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Would someone please do a Leroy Jethro Gibbs-style slap to the back of Sen. Dean Heller’s head and alert him to the fact that the citizens of Nevada are not so gullible as to buy this whole green energy snake oil that Harry and Barry are selling? On his website the junior senator proclaims: “In light of the fact that Nevada is nearly 85% federal land, Dean Heller has worked hard to [...]
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