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Thursday, Apr. 26, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Interestingly enough, vendors say it's the customers who are expressing the most nostalgia over the fact the Charleston Antique Mall will close forever -- at its present location, anyway -- at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 29...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012 at 5:56 PM
I don't know about you, but if a friend called me and said he was in jail in Chicago for "felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon," I'd figure he'd done something pretty bad — pistol-whipped a blind newsboy within an inch of his...
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Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 at 7:08 PM
When I was a kid, I visited Mystic Seaport, on the Connecticut shore. They still had a few old-timers there who could demonstrate 19th-century crafts, creating works of art out of knotted rope or carved whalebone. I remember their calloused hands,...
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Friday, Mar. 09, 2012 at 1:59 PM
Vin,
Some time back you wrote an article about illegal speed limits. IIRC, you said that since the states had accepted federal funds they were required to abide by national standards which specified speed limits in all urban, metro and highway...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Friday, Mar. 02, 2012 at 5:54 PM
The "common wisdom" -- at least the variety now peddled by the Lamestream Media -- holds that Republicans "can't win" in the current Washington contortionist sideshow over birth control mandates, since American women will vote...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 at 5:26 PM
I heard the president on the radio, Thursday.
In Florida to attend a $30,000-a-person fund-raiser at the home of Dallas Mavericks guard Vince Carter, President Barack Hussein Obama dropped by the University of Miami and -- with comic timing as good...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Monday, Jan. 09, 2012 at 2:03 PM
Watch the Lamestream Media continue to dismiss top-tier GOP presidential contender U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, as an "unelectable crank" because he argues our endless, undeclared, "no-win" overseas wars are both unaffordable and...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2011 at 2:04 PM
If you've been unable to find any good local reporting on the Southern Nevada Health District's absurd debacle, destroying perfectly good, locally grown organic food at Quail Harbor Farm in Overton back in October -- refusing to even let it be fed...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 at 7:16 PM
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has taken a lot of ribbing about his inability to remember, during yet another GOP presidential primary debate on Nov. 9, which three federal departments he’s supposed to pretend to want to close.
Though it was painful,...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM
Are parents merely "advised," or are they actually "required," to get their infants an ever-increasing barrage of marginally efficacious vaccinations -- even if they have no intention of ever allowing them to be interned in the...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 at 6:22 PM
The Ace pawnshop has hung on, paying its taxes and absurdly jacked-up license fees, for SIXTY YEARS. On the other hand, the city's "subsidize our buddies" seizure-for-private-development schemes go bankrupt after a year or three, like...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 at 2:48 PM
Fresh-from-the-farm organic produce: considered by your county health department, right here in River City, to be a "bio-hazard" not suitable to be fed to pigs?
The incident occurred Oct. 21 in Moapa, Ariz., about an hour northeast of Las...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 at 2:38 PM
I see where "conservative" Republicans on Washington's budget cutting "supercommittee" have offered to "compromise" by embracing $300 billion to $500 billion in tax hikes pretty much right away, in exchange for...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 at 8:39 PM
So, help me with the math, here:
If the Democrats on the "supercommittee" propose to achieve $1.3 trillion in deficit reduction through "a cocktail of cuts to entitlements, including Medicare, and ... new tax revenues" as...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2011 at 2:17 PM
Sparks (Nev.) City Council member Michael Carrigan voted in 2005 to approve a casino project being promoted by his campaign manager, after he was advised by the Sparks city attorney’s office that he could satisfy state ethics law by simply...
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