Archive for February, 2013
Sunday, February 24th, 2013
It’s a well known doctrine of economics that what you subsidize you get more of, and what you tax you get less of. Thus, the United States government in its infinite wisdom subsidizes poverty and out-of-wedlock birth, along with unmarried women raising children without any man in the home, and gets more of all three […]
Full Article Categories: About Town, Drug War, Due Process, Elections, History, Law Enforcement, Media, Nevada
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Not content with banning or at least fining those who traffic in cigarettes, trans-fats, salt, and big sugary soft drinks, New York City’s Mayor and millionaire chief busybody, Michael Bloomberg, last week set his sights on a new villain: Styrofoam. In his State of the City address Thursday, Mayor Bloomberg pushed for a ban on […]
Full Article Categories: Big Brother, Drug War
Sunday, February 17th, 2013
A reader — one of many similar — recently wrote in to complain “They tell us that Social Security and Medicare are broken. The fact is the government used that money for wars and should have left the money in the so-called lock box. … I’m incensed that those programs are called entitlements. I paid […]
Full Article Categories: Big Brother, Economics, Money, Readers Write
Friday, February 15th, 2013
In his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Barack Obama made a few favorable references to his erstwhile opponent, Mitt Romney, the guy who four months ago was such a heartless cad that he “didn’t even care” that some woman got sick and died years after she left a company that Bain Capital took […]
Full Article Categories: 2012 Election, Big Brother, Economics, Extreme Green, Government Unions, Medicine, Money, Welfare
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
Delegates of both parties preparing to cave on amnesty for another 10 to 14 million illegal aliens might want to take a gander at a new Pulse Opinion Research survey of 1,000 likely voters nationwide, available at http://tinyurl.com/axlxkyn. “A new poll using neutral language — and avoiding the false choice of conditional legalization vs. mass […]
Full Article Categories: Immigration
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
JoAnn Rupiper, a former pediatric nurse now employed by the Southern Nevada Health District, spoke Jan. 26 at the 2013 Live Well Health Expo at the Bill and Lillie Heinrich YMCA, here in Las Vegas. A report on her talk, billed as intended to “dispel vaccine myths and misconceptions,” appeared in the Jan. 27 Review-Journal.
Full Article Categories: Medicine
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Vin’s note – I received this from Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, a retired neurosurgeon and author. He generously granted permission for me to post his answer here. Dr. Blaylock is a former clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and is currently a visiting professor in the biology department at […]
Full Article Categories: Readers Write