Hi, I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Protect You

In the 2011 session of the Nevada Legislature, there was once again a plethora of bills to license, regulate and tax...

CPAC to Gay Conservatives: Up Yours!

Well, it appears – at least for now – that the homophobes have defeated the homocons. GOProud is an organization of...

It’s Not “Partisan” to Expose Abuses of Power

Nevada’s Dean of Political Pundits, Jon Ralston, went after the libertarian-conservative Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) in his Las Vegas Sun...

Pretzel Logic

My friend and political pontificator extraordinaire Jon Ralston is gonna need a chiropractor after all the contortions he’s going through to...

Hop on the Bus, Gus…No Matter How Much it Costs Taxpayers

Every time I hear some boy-who-cried-wolf politician in Nevada whine that we’ve cut government to the bone and simply HAVE to...

Baby, You Can Drive My Car

In a recent op/ed published by the Las Vegas Sun, Nevada Department of Transportation chieftess Susan Martinovich complained (again) that “Nevada...

Property Rights vs. Urban Blight

Las Vegas Sun columnist J. Patrick Coolican inked a piece this week pointing out all the unfinished construction projects in Las...

The Doctor is (Back) In!

Psephology (see-fol-oh-gee): noun – The study of politics and elections. As many of you know, before my first daughter was born...

Assembly GOP’s Big, Huge, Stupendous Announcement

To paraphrase an old saying, it’s better to not send out any press releases and be thought a boob than to...

You Can’t Please Everybody

By all accounts, the Clark County Republican Central Committee had a productive meeting on Tuesday and elected a slew of new...

Liberal Poli-Sci Dropout all Hat, No Cattle

A liberal Nevada political science drop-out/blogger named Justin McAffee wrote an error-filled post back on July 9 titled “Michael Roberson Should...

The War Against the Tax Pledge

Nothing strikes fear into the political left and mushy moderates the way the 25-year-old Taxpayer Protection Pledge does. And the fact...

Sandoval’s Credibility Gap

Here’s a little-remarked problem Gov. Sandoval will eventually face in future legislative and campaign discussions: a credibility gap. Because he broke...