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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...
April 12, 2011 -
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...
April 12, 2011 -
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...
April 11, 2011 -
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...
April 11, 2011 -
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...
April 11, 2011 -
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...
April 11, 2011 -
Tax Hike Talk Not Over ’til It’s Over
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mike McGinness breathed just a little bit of life into Democrat hopes to raise taxes again this...
April 11, 2011 -
Shades of Maggie Thatcher
“For the record,” wrote Jon Ralston in RalstonFlash last Thursday about Assembly Speaker John Oceguera and Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford,...
April 10, 2011 -
Licensing & Regulating Big Wheels?Not satisfied with registering cars, motorcycles and trucks, charging a king’s ransom for the “privilege,” and then jacking up the fees...
April 10, 2011 -
Wy R Kidz Isn’t Lernin’
Teachers sure aren’t doing themselves any favors by making ridiculously absurd arguments against minor spending reductions in education. Take Annette Bonder...
April 10, 2011 -
Neal Smatresk’s Grand Delusion
A Las Vegas Sun interview last week revealed that UNLV President Neal Smatresk believes taxpayer “state funding for UNLV is not...
April 10, 2011 -
Why Dems Keep Tax-Hike Hope Alive in Carson City
(Chuck Muth) – If Democrats continue to believe there’s even a slim possibility that a tax hike could pass through each...
April 10, 2011 -
Sandoval Recall Underway; Sandoval Loses Sleep
And some think only the Right is infested with gadflies. Not. As such, I bring you Bernie Sammons. This yahoo has...
April 9, 2011 -
The Government Shutdown that Wasn’t
OK, who didn’t see this coming? I mean, really. Who actually stayed up all night waiting to see if the federal...
April 9, 2011 -
If Only They had Really Shut It Down
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported yesterday afternoon that a federal government shutdown could also idle some Nevada state workers, including employees...
April 9, 2011 -
Dems Try to Sneak Tax Hike By; Two GOPers Fall for It
The Assembly on Friday passed a bill that would, as the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports, “create a citizens committee to prepare...
April 9, 2011 -
PLAN’s Smokin’ Tax Hike Plan
Our friends over at PLAN, the Progressive “Liberal” Alliance of Nevada, sent out a tweet this week which read: “One cent...
April 9, 2011
