Archive for June, 2009

If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat, if you take a walk I’ll tax your feet …

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Asking politicians whether they have enough taxes yet is like asking a 10-year-old boy if he’s had enough ice cream and soda pop. Wait a minute: could I have just stumbled on the germ of an idea, there? If Americans like to drink soda pop … of course! Why not hit the stuff with a […]

Discussing gun rights dubbed ‘academic misconduct’

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

The forces of political correctness once vowed that, should they ever take over, their free expression on all kinds of issues — from gay rights to amnesty for illegals to space aliens inspiring the pyramids of ancient Egypt — would no longer be censored. Censored? Heck, spouting the PC line is now MANDATORY, as many […]

‘An extreme approach which would have set the state back for decades’

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

How about that photo on page 3A of Thursday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, featuring Nevada’s Assembly Speaker, Democrat Barbara Buckley, giving a big horse laugh as she wound down her triumphal 2009 legislative session? Or the equally shocking image, on page 1B, of Democratic Assemblyman Morse Arberry and supposedly Republican John Carpenter of Elko, trading broad […]