Other issues
Design flaws
Nevada has a poorly structured regulatory system.
Bob the Decorator faces absurd regulatory barriers. Why? Because Nevada can't allow unregulated interior designers to run amok, as your health and welfare apparently may be threatened if your new bergère doesn't match the color of your La-Z-Boy.
Socialism in America
It's a bad idea, whatever we call it.
After more than 200 years, Americans still believe in individual freedom, and so socialism has remained a dirty word. The political Left has worked diligently to rebrand socialism in America, and thus it has gone by many names. Today, opportunistic politicians, illiberal academics and economically illiterate journalists are once again trotting out old myths to breathe new life into an idea that should be long dead.
The high cost of renewable energy
The world's poor suffer most.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), along with former President Bill Clinton and oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens converge on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas this week for the National Clean Energy Summit.
What’s at stake in 2008?
The policy implications of this year’s elections could be significant.
An unpopular Republican governor, an increasingly deep economic funk, and a national outlook that nearly all prognosticators say greatly favors their party. Nevada Democrats couldn't have come up with a better storyline heading into the 2008 elections if they'd been allowed to write the script themselves.
When compassion goes bad
Problems with the ADA abound.
The Americans with Disabilities Act is just another government encroachment on property rights that makes us all worse off – including the disabled.
The next real estate bubble
Another assault on Nevadans from runaway property taxes already looms down the road.
The widespread consensus in America's financial centers today is that our nation's runaway real estate bubble is the direct result of the U.S. Federal Reserve's profligacy – i.e., its prolonged and heavy pedal-to-the-metal foot on the central bank's monetary accelerator.
The Covert Consensus
Authoritarians agree in their antipathy for Bush.
If you've ever wondered why even a mention of George W. Bush regularly causes American leftists to become unhinged, his Vegas speech Jan. 31 offered a major clue.
Right then, and right now
Milton Friedman’s ideas continue to shape America and the world.
Next month will mark one year since the death of Nobel laureate and 20th Century intellectual giant Milton Friedman, who contributed so much to the cause of freedom and whose legacy is sure to grow even more with the passage of time.
No time like the present
Nevada faces an opportunity it can ill afford to miss.
For the nearly 150 years since its Civil War-inspired inception, Nevada has played the unfortunate role of the unloved, unappreciated and oft-abused step-child of the republic.
Infantile Adult Syndrome
We subsidize pathology, then wonder why we get more of it
The Southern Nevada news media is fixated on the Adacelli Snyder child abuse case. Given the horrific particulars of how the little 2-year-old lived and died, it’s understandable.
