If only Republican leaders in the Legislature knew how to hit a big, fat, juicy softball over the fence. Or even back to the pitcher’s mound, for that matter. I mean, it doesn’t get handed to you on a silver platter any better than this – and yet what passes for GOP leadership in the Legislature is completely AWOL. Continue reading »
In the 1970s war classic Tora! Tora! Tora!, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is quoted as saying after the Pearl Harbor attack, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” That same quote might well be used today to describe what the election of Barack Obama has done for the conservative movement. Continue reading »
Some quotes and media accounts of yesterday’s wildly successful Tax Day Tea Parties held in Las Vegas and Carson City… Continue reading »
More than 2,000 people showed up for the Las Vegas Tax Day Tea Party which Citizen Outreach participated in today – and that doesn’t include the hundreds of people who continued to walk up and down the sidewalks outside the park during the event. Continue reading »
“Six new public schools are supposed to open in the fall,” reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal today, “but Clark County School Board member Sheila Moulton wonders whether it might be better to ‘mothball’ some of them because of the dire financial circumstances.” Continue reading »
Legislators in Carson City are clandestinely preparing to nail Nevada citizens with a huge tax hike right smack dab in the middle of this recession – and the way they’re going about it is an outrage. Problem is, Republicans are complicit, if not active partners, in the Royal Screwing we’re all about to get. Here’s the dirty deal. Continue reading »
Proponents of making mandatory seat belt use a primary offense, along with opponents of repealing Nevada’s mandatory helmet law for motorcyclists, keep saying the main reason is to protect the taxpayers from picking up the tab for others’ irresponsible behavior. Indeed, in speaking about the seat belt bill yesterday Sen. Mike Schneider (D-Las Vegas) used pretty much those exact words. Continue reading »
Taxes, spending, education, health care. Pretty important issues. And yet the Assembly yesterday took time out to pass a bill (AB 257) which “Prohibits the taking of an excessive number of certain free publications under certain circumstances.” Persons found guilty of taking too many “free” newspapers – now to be referred to legislatively as “periodicals” – would face jail time and fines of up to $500. Continue reading »
Let’s face it, as the state goes to hell in a hand-basket economically this year, legislators have wasted almost the entire session so far on the trivial, the mundane, the useless, the ridiculous…and of course, a huge tax increase. It’s clear that these people are wasting a boatload of time which clearly could have been put to better use addressing our financial crisis in the first half of this 120 day session. And yet… Continue reading »
Blocked by the people and the Constitution from meeting more than 120 days every other year, the Legislature is trying to do an end run. Continue reading »
