Paid Vacation Doesn’t Count As An Act Of Service »
(Ryan Hamilton) – The weeks before spring break were abuzz with media coverage of UNLV’s largely student (and therefore, also, taxpayer) funded “Alternative Spring Break” — a “service trip” for 27 undergraduates and three staff members to San Francisco. The way the news was reported and the trip was advertised, one would think that Las Vegas doesn’t have a needy AIDS community worthy of assistance. Even if Las Vegas did, surely they couldn’t teach these [...]
It’s Time For The Republican DREAM Act To Pass »
(Jim Clark) – Now that it looks to be clear sailing for Mitt Romney to get the GOP presidential nomination, it’s also time to look past the arguments that dominated the GOP primary/caucus fights and formulate a winning policy position for the November election. President Obama’s pronouncements from his trip to Central America signal that he is again going to make immigration reform a major issue of this campaign. Translation: Having promised, as a candidate [...]
Getting Away with Murder: How the Left is Exploiting Trayvon Martin to Kill ALEC »
Get this: George Zimmerman isn’t the real bad guy in the shooting of Trayvon Martin; it’s Ronald McDonald. Let me explain. Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s foul-mouthed (“The Republicans can go f- themselves!”) former chief-of-staff (now mayor of Chicago), once famously said: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” And boy, oh boy, is the Left ever following that advice when it comes to Trayvon Martin.
Why Not Homestead Part Of Nevada? »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – We devote a lot of space in this publication to the way we in Northern Nevada relate to the Federal Government. All that space is not unwarranted. There is, for example, the constant effort on the part of both the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to stifle economic development through the hegemony they exercise over more than 82% of the state’s land. How many states have [...]
Madison on ObamaCare: ‘If the Laws Be So Voluminous That They Cannot Be Read’ »
Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) When the debate turns into a cacophony of noise and people seem to be shouting over each other with arguments that twist and turn in upon themselves and degrade into mere name calling, it is time to return to the original concepts and reread the original text to grasp the foundational principles. Thus it is with the debate over ObamaCare. Though it carries the president’s name in the commonplace short-hand for the [...]
Marbury v. Madison, Mr. President. Study The Case. Again. »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – Once upon a time, back in 1972 at Bradley University, I took Constitutional Law 101. I cannot remember the name of the professor, but I certainly remember the specifics of a case named Marbury v. Madison. The actual case itself was a relatively petty dispute about a prospective justice of the peace, William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams near the end of his term. Well, it [...]
Paul Supporters Inject Themselves Into Nye and Douglas GOP Conventions »
NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – Reports from around the country are showing that Ron Paul supporters are unhappy with the poor showing of their presidential candidate in the nationwide primary and caucus season. Although candidate Paul has the fewest number of delegates, his supporters are showing themselves to be much more forceful in ensuring their voices are heard. In early March, Clark County held its GOP convention, and Ron Paul supporters turned out in force. The [...]
Obama Warms Up Campaign Speech Against ‘Unelected’ Court »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) It seems our former constitutional law professor of a president has again leveled a bit of criticism toward the robed ladies and gentlemen of the highest court in the land. In a press conference Monday, Obama made pointed reference to an “unelected group of people,” meaning the court. While couching his comments as an expression of confidence that the court would uphold his signature health care law, he managed to criticize. [...]
Equal Footing?: Nevada and Other Western States Got the Rug Pulled Out From Under Them »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) On Friday, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed House Bill 148, the latest volley in the long-running skirmish known as the Sagebrush Rebellion. The bill demands the United States extinguish title to federally occupied lands — about two-thirds of the state — and transfer title to the state of Utah on or before Dec. 31, 2014. I prefer the term “occupied” to controlled or owned. One major flaw with the bill is that [...]
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 [...]
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