Steven Miller
Ever-So-Scientific ... Twaddle
The whole campaign to impose permanent new taxes on Nevadans rests on a fantasy.
Spending Every Last Red Cent
For the better part of the last four years we Nevadans have been told ceaselessly that our state government faces a “structural deficit.” And because of this dire situation, we are given to understand, we all must submit to some new, major and as yet unspecified increase in our tax burden.
Don't forget Prussia
The basic difficulty with Nevada’s public school system is that it essentially runs on the principles of the old Soviet economy: “You can have anything you want as long as it’s what the party elite wants to give you.”
Redoubled Efforts and Forgotten Aims
"Fanaticism,” wrote the philosopher George Santayana back in 1905, “consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
Humbug from Nevada's Trial Lawyers
Nevada’s crisis in medical malpractice liability is an extremely serious matter. The public health itself is at stake, because of the doctors we’re losing and the impact of that fact on health care access.
Reaping the Whirlwind
I’ve about decided that several of Nevada’s big gaming resorts secretly want the gaming tax increased.
Coming to America
Many of us who realize how vulnerable Nevada would be to a single terrorist incident on the Las Vegas Strip found our attention riveted recently when former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the prospective coming to America of the “suicide bomber” phenomenon.
Using the Fear of Big Money to Raise . . . Big Money
According to the federal lawmakers who last week tossed the American Bill of Rights into a back-alley Dumpster, your First Amendment freedoms have to be destroyed in order to “save” political campaigning.
A Cautionary Tale
Al Qaeda's unseen ally: Environmental extremism
"[D]ue to my experience in [construction], I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we hoped for."
- Usama bin Laden, the 'smoking gun' video
No American will ever forget the images of the World Trade Center towers on September 11—huge holes gaping, smoke pouring out.
How Not to Stimulate the Economy
The country is in recession and has been since March. At the same time we face a constant shadowy terrorist threat. The confidence of American consumers has continued to drop, and layoffs continue to grow.
