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Vin Suprynowicz is a nationally syndicated Libertarian columnist and author. He explores questions on constitutional freedoms in his Sunday column in Viewpoints/Opinon.

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Posted by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 at 6:38 PM
Sen. Joe Biden of Maryland, the U.S. senator who once appeared to be going nearly hairless but who got rid of the comb-over and now appears merely patricianly gray (how do they DO that?), also appears to have survived the bizarre 1987 campaign...
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Tuesday, Jul. 29, 2008 at 7:20 PM
NEWS FLASH, JULY 29 -- "The Los Angeles City Council expects to bar the opening of any new fast-food restaurants in poverty-stricken South Los Angeles, blaming the neighborhood's many burger joints and fried-chicken stands for its high obesity...
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Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008 at 4:42 PM
“Soaring energy and food push annual inflation up at fastest pace in 27 years,” The Associated Press reported on July 15. I don’t suppose there’s any hope of getting The AP’s Washington correspondents to undertake a...
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Monday, Jul. 07, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Another letter-to-the-editor arrived today — on the same day as a proposed op-ed from a 27-year elected county official, insisting his current candidacy for re-election is in no way intended to defy Nevada's twice-approved state constitutional...
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Thursday, Jun. 19, 2008 at 8:30 AM
A recent correspondent objected to my assertion that all NASA has ever given us -- other than some bodies and scrap metal strewn over the landscape -- is “Tang!” and a toilet plunger. The writer actually insisted NASA developed the...
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Friday, Jun. 13, 2008 at 8:26 PM
A state employee on lifetime salary at the University of Nevada to teach young people how big government is good for them — who then regularly double-dips by assuming a seat at the state Legislature, there to turn word into deed — Alice...
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Thursday, Jun. 12, 2008 at 8:52 PM
A news release rolled in Thursday from one Barbara J. Baxter at the National Park Service — the folks who violate the Second Amendment every day by refusing to let us carry arms for self-defense on any federal land under their...
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Tuesday, Jun. 03, 2008 at 7:59 PM
I see where born-again Libertarian convert -- formerly “Republican Congressman” -- Bob Barr won the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party last weekend in Denver. A former “Anti-Drug Coordinator” for the Department...
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Thursday, May. 29, 2008 at 2:57 PM
There it was, right under the May 24 headline that announced “Student meth use declines” -- based on the always reliable CDC methodology of simply asking teen-agers how many of them have been breaking the law. (I’m told a survey...
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Wednesday, May. 21, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Dear Mr. Suprynowicz -- Thank you for your article on education in the May 18 Review-Journal. I am just visiting your city and I’m very grateful to you for addressing what I see as our most pressing issue if we are going to solve any of the...
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Monday, May. 19, 2008 at 9:24 PM
A lot of brave American boys (must we really pretend half the gang double-timing it across those ridgelines carrying 20 pounds of Kevlar plus rifle and ammo are girls?) are still fighting an almost unnoticed war in Afghanistan, which we’re not...
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Friday, May. 16, 2008 at 11:44 AM
The local tin pot dictators admit they've got 38,000 dead in Burma (pardon me, "Myanmar"), though the International Red Cross estimates 68,000 to 128,000, with perhaps 2 million people facing homelessness or food shortages following the...
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Thursday, May. 08, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Preparing my Sunday (May 11) column on the April 26 Nevada state Republican convention, I was tempted to digress into the silliness of every little state wanting its own presidential primary or caucus, these days. There wasn’t room, of course....
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Tuesday, May. 06, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Lots of bellyaching these days about the "rising price of gasoline." Believe me, the babe and I fill up our cars regularly, and there aren't any 8-cylinder gas guzzlers in our family. I'm not saying there's no sticker shock as a fill-up...
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Friday, May. 02, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Time magazine is in town, attempting to determine whether Nevada is still the "Land of Liberty." In the week when Dina Titus announced she wants to join Shelley Berkley as our Southern Nevada "congressional delegation" (meaning...