“A Garrett Junior High School (Boulder City, NV) teacher and youth soccer coach was arrested Thursday on felony charges of possession of child pornography,” reports the Las Vegas Sun this morning. “Based on an anonymous tip, police picked up Charles Richard ‘Rick’ Rogers as he was about to leave school. . . . He is being held at the Clark County Detention Center on $192,000 bail on 64 counts of possession of child pornography.”

I wonder if Garrett Junior High is a public school? I wonder if Rogers is a member of the teachers’ union? I wonder how long it’ll take to fire the guy? I wonder if the teachers’ union will defend him? I wonder if Rogers was active in getting that room tax increase passed to pay him more money? And I wonder why, oh why, parents in Nevada can’t have school vouchers so they can send their kids to private schools where the teachers don’t watch kiddie porn between classes?

AB 288 is one of the few good bills requested in the Nevada Legislature this year. Known as the “Castle Doctrine,” the bill allows you shoot burglars, rapists, murderers and other such bad guys who break into your home. It’s probably the best piece of pro-Second Amendment legislation we’re likely to see this year.
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AB 522 would grow the government we already can’t afford by creating a brand-spanking new Nevada Energy Commission which is expected to focus on the promotion of renewable energy…as long as it doesn’t include nuclear energy. Oh, and a new tax hike on any renewable, but not nuclear, energy which is generated in the state. A liberal’s dream.

What’s the over/under on how many Republicans will vote for this bill?

Speaking about Senate Higher Taxation Committee Chairman Bob Coffin’s proposal to levy a $5 toll on Nevada’s ladies of the evening, Gov. Jim Gibbons said this week, “I’m not a supporter of legalizing prostitution in Nevada.”

Huh? How is it that the “Luv Guv” doesn’t know that prostitution is ALREADY legal in most of Nevada’s counties?

Three weeks ago, Gov. Jim Gibbons put out a press release lambasting Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nevada) for criticizing Gibbons for his objections to taking some of the stimulus money for unemployment with all the federal strings attached.
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I’ve taken some heat from a few of the remaining supporters of Gov. Jim Gibbons for calling on him to resign a couple weeks ago. But yesterday we were treated with yet another example of how clueless and/or intellectually dishonest the man is, especially on this tax hike business.
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Sen. Mike Schneider (D-Pluto) is pretty much out of his mind.
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For Nevada to take some of the Uncle Barack’s stimulus money, it will have to create some new unemployment benefits which the state will have to continue funding long after the stimulus money runs out. That strings attached to the money are why Gov. Jim Gibbons is thinking about rejecting this portion of the federal “spendulus” plan. It would be fiscally short-sighted and irresponsible to do otherwise.
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It will be billed as a “safety” measure, but make no mistake, AB 504 is nothing more than a gigantic Big Brother tax hike.
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Monday was yet another bill submission deadline, and Nevada’s tax-happiest legislator didn’t miss the opportunity.
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