Joe Hardy’s RINO Protection Act

For those who may have forgotten already, liberal Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska lost her GOP primary race last...

Schneider Blazes ObamaCare Trail

Nevada legislators, strapped for cash and fighting efforts to make any cuts anywhere on anybody in the state budget, are backing...

Putting a Leash on Public Employee Unions

SB 342 would do a lot of good things. It would allow, as the Las Vegas Review-Journal noted in an editorial...

Will Greedy Teachers Union Screw over Their Students?

According to a letter-to-the-editor in the Las Vegas Sun written by public school teacher Brian Backman, if teachers don’t agree to...

Hyperbole Machine Targets Dean

The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) put out an email following Shelley Berkley’s announcement that she’s running for John Ensign’s Senate...

Divided Republicans Speaking with Forked Tongues

At the tea party rally in Carson City on Friday, Assemblyman John Ellison (R-Elko) declared that Assembly Republicans “are sticking together...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Tax Hikes

Despite claims to the contrary on the Left, Nevada’s government is presently operating on a biennial general fund budget of about...

Depends on Your Definition of “Firm”

A story in the Elko Daily Free Press yesterday was headlined “GOP stands firm on no new taxes.” It quoted three...

Happy Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Anniversary!

April 15, 2011, marks the unofficial third anniversary of the establishment of the tea party movement. And for those who don’t...

Stations Stiffs its Hit Man

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported yesterday that affiliates of Stations Casinos have “filed prepackaged bankruptcy reorganization petitions as part of the...

Berkley, Lippold Jump In; Game On

Both Steve Sebelius and Jon Ralston report this morning that Democrat Rep. Shelley Berkley will today enter the U.S. Senate race...

Jon Porter, State Chairman?

More than a few heads were scratched last week with the announcement that former moderate Republican Rep. Jon Porter’s political corpse...

Screw Mining!

According to a tweet from the Sun’s Anjeanette Damon, the mining industry’s lobbyist, Tim Crowley, told her today that his “industry...

Partisan Reality Slaps Frosh GOP’er

I’d like to say “I hate to say I told you so,” but I don’t. Last year, I had any number...

GOP Opposes Reasonable Attorney’s Fees?

In an awkwardly-worded press release today, the Republican Assembly Caucus in Carson City explains that current Nevada law allows victims of...

Hyperbole U’s Boob Bait

Erik Herzik is a boob. He’s a “political science” professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, who, according to a Las...

Humpty Dumpty Horsford

In Alice in Wonderland, there is this particularly well-known quote from one Humpty Dumpty: “When I use a word, it means...