A few worthwhile books have
crossed the desk lately, the most notable being Thomas E. Woods’ “Politically
Incorrect Guide to American History,” Regnery, $19.95.
This is a non-threatening 246-page large-format paperback. In fact, what I
mis
Demonstrating his macho
qualities for reporters (at least, after the fashion of lawyer-politicians in
business suits) California Attorney General Bill Lockyer bragged not long ago
that he would like to “personally escort” Enron CEO Kenneth Lay
I wish I could say it was amusing, but that would be disingenuous. It’s more
like having to deal with a child who continually wakes up screaming that there
are monsters under the bed.
John Banzhaf, a professor of “public
interest law” at George Washington University Law School, is famous enough to
merit his own “hostile” Web site at www.banzhafwatch.com, where his critics
complain
Is some new mixture of satire,
fact, and ridicule required?
Art Buchwald, Mike Royko -- an older generation found a safe niche in a world
of newspapers put out and read by blue collar Joes more likely to play poker
down at the firehouse th
So long as their jobs are funded out of tax moneys, most would agree that
a firefighter injured while rescuing residents from a burning building, or a cop
or probation officer who blows out a knee while chasing a dangerous suspect,
should have
It would be a bad thing if talented
individuals were blocked from their careers of choice because of sex or race.
But while some subtler prejudice doubtless remains, the days when applicants to
American colleges or medical schools were told “Yo
Out of Green Bay, Wisc., The
Associated Press reported Tuesday “A woman who was upset over being searched
bodily at an airport was convicted Tuesday of assaulting a security screener by
grabbing the federal officer’s breasts.”
Colorado led the way, a decade ago.
History had shown that “voluntary spending limits” adopted by legislative bodies
are easily (and inevitably) sidestepped, violated and/or ignored by the very
same legislators who enact them.
“The federal government’s campaign
against income tax protesters suffered a major setback yesterday when a federal
jury in Sacramento acquitted a former Internal Revenue Service investigator on
charges of helping to prepare false tax returns,”
There’s a lot of face-saving
going on as the nonprofit Las Vegas Monorail Co. dismisses its current
management company, Transit Systems Management LLC, and moves in to take control
of the troubled East-of-the-Strip Las Vegas tourist train, itse
I wish I could say it was
amusing, but that would be disingenuous. It’s more like having to deal with a
child who continually wakes up screaming that there are monsters under the bed.
Except that with children you can be reassuring and suppo
Dozens of innocent British civilians
were murdered -- hundreds more injured -- in a series of four terrorist blasts
targeting the London transit system Thursday morning.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible -- such events have be
There's a wide consensus that American
medical care needs reform. The problem is that by "reform," most Americans --
particularly our politicians -- seem to mean "more socialism."
In fact, socialized medicine failed so badly under Russian co
This weekend we celebrate that
stirring day in history, July 4, 1812, when the first president of the United
States, Benjamin Franklin, emerged from the old State House in Boston, held up
the new Constitution freshly penned by Thomas Jefferson
I first heard a version of the idea
proposed by New Hampshire state Libertarian Party Chairman John Babiarz at a
June 25 luncheon at J.W. Hill's pub, across Elm Street from last weekend's
Freedom Forum in downtown Manchester, where Marc Victor
Back in 2001, a dangerous loony -- am I
now required to call him a “former dangerous loony”? -- named Michael Kane was
playing a violent video game with some friends at a house near Flamingo Road and
Boulder Highway, in Las Vegas.
Meeting in London June 11,
government functionaries of the “Group of Eight” industrialized nations agreed
on an historic deal which will see the taxpayers of Germany, Great Britain and
the United States (primarily) pay off more than $40 billion
During last year’s presidential
campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate generally portrayed by the urban,
left-leaning media as sophisticated, intellectual, nuanced, and complex, while
George W. Bush was dismissed as a barely literate simperi
The young soldier
was standing at the back of the ticket line at McCarran International Airport.
He had on his travel uniform. He was carrying his duffel bag. Those things can
get heavy.
“Everyone was just ignoring him, and the line was so
On June 7, the 2005 session
of the Nevada Legislature ended in failure.
Yes, there’s a budget, if you can call it that: a bloated monstrosity
featuring the kind of ongoing over-20-percent spending growth that will either
bankrupt the state
When we hear of various American
freedoms being protected “by the Constitution,” we tend to assume the speaker
refers to the first eight amendments to that document -- the main body of the
Bill of Rights.
On May 24 in San Francisco, more
than 150 parents of autistic children launched a new nonprofit outfit,
Generation Rescue, coordinating their announcement with a full-page ad in that
day’s USA Today, offering the eye-catching message (twice) th
Defense attorney Andrew Leavitt and
Clark County Public Defender Phil Kohn contend an unmistakable pattern has
developed in Southern Nevada courtrooms -- illegal aliens who are convicted of
crimes that would likely draw probation for U.S. citiz
Memorial Day. This first weekend of summer has long been a time of
picnics and barbecues and trips to the beach. To their credit, Americans never
actually forgot the sacrifices of those who gave the final measure to protect
the freedoms we now
When was it (and what was it that
kept us too distracted to notice) -- when ours became something other than a
government staffed by common citizens taking time off to pitch in and do the
public’s business, oiling the roads and cleaning the dea
Bart Ross, a 57-year-old
out-off-work Chicago electrician, blamed a jaw disfigured by cancer on doctors
and the judge who dismissed his medical malpractice suit.
Usually appearing without a lawyer, Ross became a fixture in the state and
fe
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