Steven Miller
The Private Sector Would Do Better
Nevada’s big school districts don't make the grade in business terms, either
Evidence just keeps stacking up: Nevada’s two metropolitan school districts are too large and bureaucratically ingrown to do their jobs.
TASC: Reagan’s gift to Nevada
Much of Nevada’s Tax and Spending Control initiative originated with the Gipper
Like so many things that make liberals’ blood pressure percolate, TASC—the Tax and Spending Control initiative recently filed with the Nevada Secretary of State—actually began with Ronald Reagan.
Fake Friends of the Republic
The 'direct democracy' charge against TASC is silly
Hypocrisy, said the sage, is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. In Silver State politics today, this phenomenon runs rampant.
Pseudo-Compassion and the State
Genuine, effective compassion is beyond the capability of government
Those who never give up calling for more and more government—whether here in Nevada or elsewhere—learned long ago that their appeals must always be cloaked in the language of “morality” and “compassion.”
Morally hazardous
Why social or medical ‘insurance’ from government will never be a square deal
Television police dramas rely all the time on the concept of “moral hazard.”
A restaurant burns down, or a corpse turns up, and one of the first things detectives do is track down the insurance company.
The Long War
Why we see what we see in Carson City
If you notice, foes of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) idea never claim it is ineffective at restraining budget growth.
'Disciplining' Canadian pharmacists - from Nevada
'You can't be everywhere,' notes a Health Canada spokesman.
Are Nevada politicians who’ve been pushing schemes to reimport drugs from Canada putting at risk the very seniors they say they’re out to help?
The Significance of TABOR
There's a new antidote in the constitutional medicine chest
Gratitude, said Samuel Johnson, is “the fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Ingratitude, on the other hand, wrote Shakespeare, “is a marble-hearted fiend.”
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.
Dead and Not Knowing It, Part 2
Nevada’s tax-financed universities, it was pointed out here last week, are still trying to make a paradigm work that no longer corresponds to reality.
