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The right to keep and bear arms in Nevada: Part II
The state’s unconstitutional gun laws
The record suggests Nevada has a working majority in its legislature covertly scornful of your right to keep and bear arms.
The right to keep and bear arms in Nevada: Part I
Lawmakers seem eager to misunderstand the Second Amendment
Lawmakers seem eager to misunderstand the Second Amendment
Destroying child care to 'help' it: Part III
State child-care regulators follow views of well-meaning zealots, not parents
The final piece in a series that shows how Nevada's child-care regulators are following well-meaning zealots, not parents.
Destroying child care to 'help' it: Part I
Bureaucrats still think government force can produce Utopia
State regulators are trying to price low-income parents out of the child-care market.
Axing the public’s lawyer
Assembly Speaker behind freeze on child welfare dollars
Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley worked energetically in both the 2007 and 2009 Legislatures to kill the ability of the Clark County District Attorney to represent the public interest when children are being abused, a review of legislative minutes reveals.
Licensed to exclude
Licensing laws limit competition and increase prices
Earlier this month a federal judge struck down a provision of Connecticut law that forbid the use of "interior designer" as a job title by those not licensed by the state. The judge ruled correctly that the law unduly restricted commercial speech. But more importantly, the law's chief intent was to restrict the supply of interior designers in the state — mainly to protect an interior-decorating cartel.
Memorial Day: Remembering what our servicemen died for
Freedom is worth preserving
On Memorial Day, we honor and remember the hundreds of thousands of men and women who have died protecting the United States. Their deaths have given us the freedom we have today. Did they die in vain? Was — is — freedom worth defending? That's not a rhetorical question. Many of our elected officials won't say it publicly, but their actions indicate that they don't believe in freedom.
Voodoo economics don’t hold water
Keynesian ideas are politically convenient, but they don’t spur recovery
On Monday, Mark Zandi, a chief economist at a website division of Moody's Analytics, addressed a group of Las Vegas conventioneers and told them that pervasive government intervention into the marketplace — through record spending, artificial money creation, high taxes and indebtedness — will be a boon to the economy and will cause the recession to end by October. It's too bad the Keynesian ideas expressed by Mr. Zandi have never worked despite the many times they have been put into practice.
The change we really need
The Right should give substance to the slogan.
Insofar as "change" – whatever exactly that was supposed to mean – seems to have triumphed at the ballot box in November, complete with some serious coattails that have altered the balance of power in our own state legislature, the new "out" party and its philosophical allies now need to recognize the opportunity they've just been handed.
The Bubble Factory
Nevada faces a head-wind of bad monetary policy from Washington, D.C.
There's a simple reason why banks have been so reluctant to loan to other banks. More than anyone, bankers know what banks do. Fractional-reserve banking, after all, is the business of legally lending out money one doesn't have, hoping all the while that large numbers of your depositors never all show up at the same time, demanding their money.
