• Tax Repeal fight ain’t over ‘til it’s over

    (Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – Paraphrasing the great Mark Twain, reports of the death of the We Decide Coalition’s referendum to repeal the largest tax hike in Nevada history – including that new gross receipts tax – have been greatly exaggerated. While it’s true that on October 1, 2015, Carson City District...

  • Those who fail to remember history… will see their life savings wiped out

    (Thomas Mitchell) – When your life savings disappear when the bubble bursts again, who ya gonna blame? But...

  • Heck statement on Afghanistan troop level announcement

    (Greg Lemon) – Congressman Joe Heck (NV-03), Chairman of the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee, released on Thursday, October 15, 2015 the following statement on President Obama’s Afghanistan troop level announcement. “Today’s announcement is a reminder that our national security strategy must be based on one thing: conditions on the ground, not...

  • Miller: ACLU using weasel words in ESA suit

    (Steven Miller, NPRI) – Inadvertently, the ACLU’s recent Las Vegas Review-Journal op-ed was actually illuminating. Illuminating, because it reveals how much the organization’s case against Nevada’s Education Savings Accounts has to rely upon historical ignorance and weasel words. Take, for example, the ACLU’s recurrent use of, and indeed dependence upon, the word “sectarian.”...

  • Economic Freedom is good for the State, too

    (Ron Knecht & Geoffrey Lawrence) – The freedom of individuals to take a job, quit a job, start a business, or close a business at will is an essential part of America.  When Thomas Jefferson wrote that we have a God-given right to “the pursuit of happiness,” this is a big part of...

  • Weinberg: First Rule of Holes? Stop Digging!

    (Fred Weinberg) – The mainstream media has a love/hate relationship with Donald Trump and to a lesser extent Ben Carson. It lines up with the hardcore conservative wing of the GOP—it wants them dead, cold with a stake through their hearts. Financially, however, these guys bring eyeballs. Lots and lots of eyeballs which translate into...

  • Sebelius: Is the single-subject rule legal? It’s still an open question

    (Steve Sebelius, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – Back in 2012, attorney Kermitt Waters mounted his most audacious legal attack on a law that restricts the ability of citizens to propose laws by initiative. That law, known as the “single-subject rule,” says initiatives can only address a single issue. It was put in place in...

  • Christopher Columbus’ Objective: FREE Trade Routes

    (Seton Motley) – Monday was a federal holiday.  By that we mean: Government bureaucrats have the day off...

  • Attorney General Laxalt announces sentencing of Las Vegas man for Worker’s Compensation Fraud

    (Office of the Attorney General) – Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt announced that Michael Joseph Bricker, 49,...

  • LVRJ: State controller’s group seeks to repeal commerce tax

    (Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – A group led by state Controller Ron Knecht has filed a referendum...

  • Hillary: I am woman hear me pander

    (Thomas Mitchell) – Asked how she would not be just a third term of Obama, Hillary Clinton did...

  • LVRJ: Nevada high court declines to hear single-subject initiative rule challenge

    (Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – The Nevada Supreme Court has rejected a request to determine if the Legislature’s “single subject” rule requiring bills to be limited in scope is constitutional. The challenge was brought by Citizen Outreach and two other groups that argued last year that the single-subject rule for citizen-backed initiative...

  • A majority in name only

    (Robert Romano, NetRightDaily.com) – On Oct. 9, 218 members of the U.S. House of Representatives issued a...

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