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Papal resignation portends same old reaction
The abdication of Pope Benedict XVI, so rare it was last done six centuries ago, offers scant hope that the Roman Catholic Church will abandon its medieval philosophy. The same fossils who chose Benedict will choose his successor. Benedict refused to acknowledge how women actually live in the 21st century, how they repudiate church teachings. The church is adamantly against birth control, yet most Catholics worldwide practice it. Garry Wills...
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One of Sparks’ favorite sons passes
The recent death of Jack Streeter, one of Sparks’ favorite sons, came as sad news to the people who knew him.
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Nevada abrogating taxing authority to Home Rule
The Washoe County School District is asking the Nevada Legislature to abrogate their taxing authority, allowing the District to increase local property and sales tax for their own benefit.
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The brutal law of unintended consequences
The Nevada teachers' business tax petition is poised to perpetrate the damndest legal scramble the state has ever seen. The legislature has until March 15 to pass the measure verbatim or it advances to the November 2014 ballot. For more than 100 years, petitions have been deemed passed if they win a simple majority of those voting on the issue. In 1980, Sen. Joe Neal, D-N. Las Vegas, ordered the Legislative Counsel Bureau to research a const...
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Guy Clifton at Good Old Days Club
The featured speaker at the February 15th meeting of the G.O.D. Club (Good Old Days) was Reno newspaperman Guy Clifton. His power point presentation and talk to the sold-out audience was about his most recent book effort, “Images of America RENO”. In essence what the book does is show important pictures with comprehensive captions. The photos themselves are categorized in nine classifications. They are: Favorite Sons and Daughters; Business a...
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The Holy See of discontent
It’s bemusing to me how the smallest nation in the world (.02 square miles)  has more power, influence and world-wide wealth than most members of the United Nations. A landlocked imperialistic nation with a population of about 700, mostly men, no equal rights for women, no voting rights for men and the seat of the self-proclaimed voice of God is about to enter the reality of the 21st century. The Vatican oligarchy is on the verge of restructur...
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Labor law stacks deck against workers
Labor desperately needs the Employee Free Choice Act, a law that would allow workers to unionize and bargain collectively if the majority in a unit sign for it. But as labor law now stands, workers have to vote to approve a union. This allows companies to intimidate, threaten and fire workers who lead organizing drives. Workers are fired for such trivial reasons as affixing names of the “wrong candidates” on their bumper stickers. Companies a...
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Dishonest Abe: white hood on a stovepipe hat
The case against term limits was validated this week by Washoe County Republican lawmakers. Inexperienced Minority Leader Pat Hickey and Assemblymember Randy Kirner advocated exemption of senior citizens from a proposed property tax increase to maintain and repair slumly schools. They apparently don't know about the Nevada constitutional provision that mandates "a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation." (Article 10, Section 1) T...
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Faith distorted by religion
According to Albert Einstein, time is distorted by travel and space is distorted by gravity.
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Waterboarding bad, drones okay
Testimony in Washington, D.C. last week on the appointment of a new CIA Director and especially the Benghazi questioning were both eye-opening.
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Death of print journalism greatly exaggerated
Four years ago pundits were proclaiming the death of print journalism, characterizing newspapers and magazines as “dead men still walking” in the Digital Age. I too preached that gospel of gloom and doom, even pontificating abroad by giving speeches in Athens and Oxford about anachronistic print journalism. Yet today newspapering is a healthy business. Sunday newspapers are fat, bulging with advertising stuffers. Media giants like Comcast, N...
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Greasing the suckers and goosing the gullible
Read this column and you will make money and lose 20 pounds. If such claims insult you as sucker bait, you're correct. But you've gone this far, so let's take a ride. GOOSING GASOLINE PRICES. BigOil once again rapes and pillages with impunity after racking up record profits. As usual, the legit media parrot petroleum-dipped press releases purveying the perpetual propaganda. For two decades, I've documented how the domestic cartel figured ou...
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Mike Wallace spinning in his grave
Veteran newsman and “60 Minutes” outstanding interviewer, the late Mike Wallace, is probably spinning in his grave after the week-ago-Sunday interview of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that aired on the once venerable program was televised.
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Wonderful memories of Bonnie and Clydesdales
Besides the typical hype leading to the kickoff, one of the most entertaining aspects of the Super-bowl is its half-time entertainment and television commercials.
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French invasion of Mali revives colonialism
France’s recent military intervention in Mali is hard to believe coming from its socialist president, François Hollande.
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Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men
A few weeks back, I printed three unbreakable rules for lobbying the biennial Carson City petting zoo and beer bust. Now comes a fourth that is obvious to all save some with PhD’s: Show up.
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Hillary, ‘What does it matter?’
The long awaited and often postponed appearance of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before Congress finally came to pass last Wednesday.
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Republicans: Political courage and personal conviction
Our nation was built on the cornerstone of Democracy by visionary men with political courage, personal conviction and collective moral purpose.
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Clinging to the ledge and paying for our sins
It’s time to pay for our sins in that biennial confessional called the Nevada Legislature. First up to do penance, our fearless leader hisself. GOV. SUNNY’S DARK SIDE. Liberals have made much of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s seemingly un-Republican decisions to cooperate with President Obama. Treading where other Republicans have feared to schlepp, the guv signed a 2011 bill to establish a health insurance exchange website where consumers can shop p...
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Vegas political columnist shames PR reporting
Hugh Jackson, columnist for CityLife of Las Vegas, is the best political commentator in the state. He reveals the truth behind the truth. Every political writer tells us that Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller is expected to run for attorney general in 2014. Only Jackson tells us of Miller’s “naked political cynicism” about voter ID. Miller, the state’s chief election officer, has repeatedly declared that voter fraud does not exist in Nev...
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