I see where the Review-Journal published without notable dissent (lede story, Page 2B, Jan. 16) another one of these cooked-up “report cards” on how Nevada is doing, this one from a Henderson-based outfit calling itself the Children’s Advocacy Alliance. As usual, the finding was: “We suck.” Oh, the state scored an A-minus for infant and [...]
For decades, sensible skeptics have warned that government tariffs and subsidies designed to encourage the conversion of corn to alcohol and requiring fuel distributors to mix this corrosive stuff into our gas tanks was not going to “solve the energy crisis,” reduce dependence on imported oil, or do anything helpful for “the environment” — unless [...]
I’m to do a “blog.” “It’ll be easy, Vin. You type in your thoughts. The readers respond. You respond to their responses.” “I already do that. I use lots of reader mail in this thing we like to call my ‘weekly column.’” “This will be much faster. And it builds traffic!” Ah. Just like a [...]
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