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Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 at 9:15 AM
I’m sure the higher educrats clamoring for more money from the state budget were heartened by the AP story in today’s paper that said those with college degrees have an easier time finding a job.
But for the long haul, they may want to...
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Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2011 at 6:56 AM
To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first...
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Monday, Apr. 18, 2011 at 7:03 AM
On Saturday President Obama’s radio address further outlined his budgetary path for this country. It was largely another attempt to counter the “Path to Prosperity” offered by Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan.
Obama says...
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Saturday, Apr. 16, 2011 at 7:47 AM
With the Highland Games taking place at Tule Springs this weekend, I thought I’d offer some appropriate theme music from Edinburgh by way of Austin, Texas, courtesy of Ed Miller. This piece is on his Generations of Change album (all five of...
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Thursday, Apr. 14, 2011 at 7:38 AM
District Attorney David Roger, right, earlier this month balked at a demand from the county manager to cut his office’s personnel costs by 9 percent.
He said his office has suffered enough cuts and further reductions to his budget will...
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Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2011 at 7:24 AM
The Assembly Taxation Committee heard arguments Tuesday for a Nevada corporate income tax.
Assembly Bill 336, being pushed by tax pusher extraordinaire Assemblywoman Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, would extract a 4.5 percent income tax from businesses...
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Monday, Apr. 11, 2011 at 7:43 AM
The tale in Sunday’s paper by court reporter Francis McCabe about the plight of Victor Fakoya — acquitted of murder of a friend’s child but still not allowed to see his own children unless he confesses to the act that a jury said...
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Saturday, Apr. 09, 2011 at 10:55 AM
President Obama told a questioner at a town hall meeting in Fairless Hills, Pa.: “So, like I said, if you’re getting eight miles a gallon you may want to think about a trade-in. You can get a great deal. I promise you, GM or Ford or...
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Thursday, Apr. 07, 2011 at 10:56 AM
There is something obscene about having to pay taxes to someone who takes that money and uses it to tell you how to behave and demand that more taxes should be paid.
Take a look at the tagline at the end of this commercial. Yes, it is paid for by...
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by Thomas Mitchell
Thursday, Apr. 07, 2011 at 7:44 AM
In remarks last night on the failed budget talks with Sens. Harry Reid and John Boehner, President Obama used this anecdote to illustrate the plight of Americans if the federal government "shuts down" by furloughing about 20 percent of...
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by Thomas Mitchell
Wednesday, Apr. 06, 2011 at 6:33 AM
Add to the lengthy list of household uses for yesterday’s newspaper: Stopping leaking radioactive water from a tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant.
According to the UK’s Guardian, a newspaper, engineers stopped a leak from Japan's...
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by Thomas Mitchell
Tuesday, Apr. 05, 2011 at 8:07 AM
Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan in today’s Wall Street Journal outlines the Republican budget proposal for the next 10 years, starting in fiscal year 2012. He is using nail clippers when an ax is needed.
House Budget Committee Chairman Rep....
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by Thomas Mitchell
Sunday, Apr. 03, 2011 at 7:19 AM
While there are certain politicians who are sticking to their no-need-to-worry-about-the-unfunded-liability-for-20-years mantra and calling people liars, there are people who have looked closely at the numbers and warn something had better be done...
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by Thomas Mitchell
Friday, Apr. 01, 2011 at 6:28 AM
Harry Reid now says Social Security is just fine. No need to worry about it for decades to come.
The following are excerpts from the Congressional Record, Oct. 9, 1990:
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Robb). The Senator from Nevada.
[Page: S14758]
Mr....
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by Thomas Mitchell
Thursday, Mar. 31, 2011 at 8:09 AM
President Obama goes on television and says it is time to get serious about the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. Where have we heard that? How about every president since Nixon?
Meanwhile, America's dependence on foreign oil has grown from...
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