The Las Vegas Business Press reports that “premiums for certain types of health insurance have started to escalate more rapidly than in recent years even though very few parts of (ObamaCare) have gone into effect.” Gee, who’d of ever predicted THAT would happen? Continue reading »
Les McKay, the Independent American Party (IAP) candidate for Assembly District 21, signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge this week. Neither the Republican challenger, Mark Sherwood, nor the Democrat incumbent, Ellen Spiegel, have similarly pledged to the voters of AD 21 that they will not vote to raise taxes if elected.
This could be another race where conservatives and tea party activists go third party in November, thus costing the GOP a possible pick-up in the lower legislative house.
The same situation exists in Assembly Districts 13 and 15 – where the IAP candidates have made the anti-tax hike commitment and signed the Tax Pledge while the GOP candidates have not.
Republicans never seem to learn.
So I took the kids to the beach in San Diego for Independence Day, and what a sad reminder of how badly we’ve let our liberties slip in this country. Everybody was sitting on the beach having a blast – tossing footballs and Frisbees and building sand castles and such – when a pair of beach cops on beach buggies started riding through the crowd, giving people who weren’t bothering a soul the evil eye.
What were they doing? Looking for anyone who might have, God forbid, a cold beer in their cooler. And yep, they found just such a scofflaw sitting just a little behind us – and proceeded to not only read this poor guy the riot act, but issued him a ticket to boot.
On “Independence” Day.
Can you just imagine what Tommy Jefferson or Johnny Adams would have said about such nanny-stating government insanity? Why, they might have even resorted to a Second Amendment remedy!
Ciara Matthews, communications czarina for the Nevada Republican Party, inked a thoughtful, insightful column on Sen. Harry Reid on Sunday, dispelling the myth that we need his power and position. Not only that, but it was written in plain English, not Washington-speak. Not once did she use the phrases “liberal cronies” or “out of touch.” Continue reading »
Happy Independence Day!
Not Happy Fourth of July. Happy Independence Day. Continue reading »
Harry Reid is working his re-election tail off to kill off Yucca Mountain, but the project remains on life support. This week, one federal agency told another federal agency that it can’t pull the project with approval of Congress. All of which leads me to two questions:
Why are Nevada taxpayers continuing to fund a redundant state effort to kill Yucca Mountain when it is obviously a totally federal battle now with General Reid in command?
So isn’t it time to get rid of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects?
Remember the panic the government created over the swine flu and a shortage of vaccines against last year? Turns out things weren’t anywhere near as bad as the government predicted.
“About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired,” reports the AP today, “meaning 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash.” AP further notes that the amount of discarded vaccine “is as much as four times the usual leftover seasonal flu vaccine.”
This is the same government that Barack Obama and Harry Reid want to turn our entire health care system over to. God help us.
Jon Ralston, Dean of Nevada Political Pundits, wrote in his e-newsletter this week that I was “ecstatic” about Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval’s education reform proposal.
That was actually a race case of understatement by Mr. Ralston.
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In response to Comrade Sen. Mike Schneider’s bone-headed legislative proposal to use the compulsive power of government to force auto repair shops to check your tire pressure – or else! – reader Pete Fundis notes this sort of thing inevitably starts us down a slippery slope.
“Chuck, maybe they’ll take this a little further,” Pete writes. “Unlimited possibilities. At DUI checkpoints there could be a pressure check, or perhaps just have pressure checks randomly. I can already see the federal money pouring into our state for being the pilot program; what with the fuel savings and safety concerns.”
Frightening….because I can actually see it happening.
As state and local governments battle budget deficits and spending cuts; as unemployment continues to soar; Joe Schoenmann of the Las Vegas Sun reported yesterday that “The Southern Nevada Health District board last week approved a $30,000 raise for its chief health officer and 5.5 percent raises for most of its 526 employees – and at the same meeting voted to increase some of the fees it charges the public for vaccinations and other services.”
Are these people retarded?
