The Obama administration is doing everything in its power to block the development and use of low-cost coal and oil reserves in this country — and even in Canada. Bad enough that the administration continues to block the Keystone pipeline from Canada to Texas, a job-intensive private project which would reduce our dependence on Mideast […]
Steve Hill, a Las Vegas businessman and new executive director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, visited with us this month to discuss a new 178-page report from the Brookings Mountain West division, recommending new ways to diversify Nevada’s economy. While Nevada still scores high (everything is relative, you understand) on its tax and […]
Imagine some Great Reformer back in 1650 had decided we needed to replace sailing craft, since it took so many men to run a sailing ship that they had to live crammed together in wall-to-wall hammocks, with little hygiene and even less privacy, under a discipline little better than slavery? Imagine a powerful government at […]
Nevada, widely acknowledged to be “Ground Zero” of the Great Recession, needs both cheap and plentiful electricity, and jobs. President Obama has acknowledged, more than once, that the great historic generator of jobs and sustainable wealth in this country has always been the private sector.
Introduced by Republican Congressman Fred Upton of Michigan, a bill that would prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from placing limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and oil refineries passed the House of Representatives 255-172 on Thursday. Nineteen House Democrats joined in support. The EPA is preparing to set limits on emissions of […]
So widespread is the outrage over the absurd federal ban of Americans’ familiar incandescent light bulbs, closing domestic factories and throwing Americans out of work while requiring consumers to buy less popular and more expensive Chinese-made bulbs full of toxic mercury vapor, that individual states are starting to act in defiance of the federal power […]
It seemed so easy. No need to wait for dull-witted consumers to decide on their own, based on free-market price signals, to make changes in their household fixtures and behavior that might save them some money on their gasoline, water, and electric bills. That could take forever! Instead, an elite blessed with vastly superior wisdom […]
Government economics sure are weird. Imagine you go to the grocery store and the manager tries to convince you to pay $8 for a gallon of milk — twice the usual price. “But wait,” he says. “I’ll give you a $4 subsidy or rebate for the gallon of milk, which drops the price to an […]
Here in Las Vegas nine days ago, President Obama, who ran on a promise of post-partisan “change,” made a campaign swing in support of 23-year U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who has spent 40 of his 70 years on the public payroll. A passage in Mr. Obama’s Friday speech at UNLV seemed somewhat disconnected from most […]
In the early 1870s, Thomas Alva Edison declared “The time was right” to introduce the stock ticker and the printing telegraph. It was. Americans, grasping the benefits of his inventions and finding them affordable in relation to those benefits, willingly purchased Mr. Edison’s inventions; he and the capitalists who invested in the enterprise grew rich.