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BLOG: Sacrificing the 4th Amendment on the altar of popular opinion
The Assembly Judiciary Committee has voted to send to the floor SB243, the Guilty-Until-Proven-Innocent bill. What this bill allows the government to do is take a sample of your DNA upon any arrest for an alleged felony offense. That’s arrest, not conviction. Disappointingly not one Republican on the committee ...
BLOG: Could disregard of the U.S. Constitution by Harry Reid end up dooming Obamacare?
LAS VEGAS -- The last time Obamacare was challenged before the U.S. Supreme Court, it barely survived. Only because Chief Justice John Roberts creatively re-construed the law’s unconstitutional penalties as constitutional “taxes” was a 5-to-4 Court majority able to form and save the gargantuan law, officially known as the ...
BLOG: Incline Village's fight for independence
As part of a recent presentation the IVGID board I was assigned to research and present a history of independence movements in Incline Village/Crystal Bay. Few of the details or names of the movers and shakers were recorded so I am indebted to Attorney Geno Menchetti for filling me ...
BLOG: Only one anti-internet tax champ in all of Carson City
Turns out there’s only one elected representative in the entire Nevada Legislature who got the Internet tax issue (SJR5) correct. Every other legislator voted to force out-of-state companies to suck “use” taxes (since you intend to “use” the product in your home state) out of your pocket for online ...
Blog: Ex-superintendent has an idea to fix Nevada's schools
Nevada’s loss is . . . . Nevada’s gain. Here’s how that came about. Just over a year ago Dr. James Guthrie became Nevada’s first superintendent of instruction to be appointed by Governor Sandoval. Guthrie has the most impressive array of lifetime academic and professional achievements of anyone who ...
BLOG: Artful Dodger Guv strikes again; time for lean 15 to mount up!
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval broke his word in the last legislative session and decided to extend some $600 million worth of “temporary” tax hikes passed in 2009 to balance his budget. However, in early May of 2011 the Economic Forum had declared that there would be an additional $300 ...
BLOG: Liberal thinkers in Nevada schools hurt minority students
When told that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was an inveterate drunk Abraham Lincoln reportedly replied: “Find out what he’s drinking so I can get some for my other generals.” The public education hierarchy may be facing a similar paradox with the recent announcement that American Indian Public Charter High ...
BLOG: GOP dirty half-dozen gang and the Great Nevada Mine Robbery
Perhaps not since Benedict Arnold sold out the American patriot movement have we seen such a betrayal as that of Republican State Sen. Mike Roberson to all that’s held dear by the Nevada conservative movement this legislative session. If only I were embellishing. The conservative Nevada Republican Party platform ...
BLOG: Washoe County School District, money well spent?
There was an interesting mix of opinion pieces in the April 17 Reno Gazette Journal. First, a One View column by Thomas Gargus (“Where has WCSD money gone?”) in which the author opposes Assembly Bill 46 which would raise property and sales taxes to pay for school building maintenance ...
BLOG: Why is this legislator protecting rapists, murderers and thieves?
A young woman with a concealed carry (CCW) permit, Amanda Collins, was brutally raped in the parking garage on the campus of UNR in 2007. The same dirtball kidnapped, raped and murdered another young Reno woman, Brianna Dennison, a few weeks later. The insult added to Collins’ injury ...
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