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Harry Reid’s very bad week

The first week of 2013 wasn’t exactly the best for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Moderate gun control is all we can hope for

Let me begin with a bold assumption: If the thunderous voice of God himself, clothed in smoke and fire from atop Mount Sinai, commanding “thou shalt do no murder,” is not enough to stay the hand of human evil, then a law passed by the United States Congress isn’t going to do the trick.

A year in quotes

In the political year about to pass into history, there were literally hundreds of memorable things said. Today, I take a look back at the year that was through the prism of a select few of those remarks.

Sandoval does right thing in expanding Medicaid

There came a moment at the end of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s meeting with the Review-Journal editorial board Wednesday when he said something very illuminating.

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A modest proposal

An open letter to Harry Reid:

So, we’re doing secret budgets now?

Say what you will about Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, he doesn’t make many mistakes. That may account, at least in part, for his overwhelming popularity.

More taxes for cops

Back in 2004, just as voters narrowly approved an advisory question to raise the sales tax by one-half a cent to hire more cops, a disturbing idea emerged: What if the city of Las Vegas and Clark County – the local governments that fund the Metropolitan Police Department – decided to short the department’s budget by an equal amount and spend the money elsewhere?

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