Surgical abortions are barbaric. Preborn babies are sucked apart, torn into pieces or chemically burned to death.
Victor Joecks
Victor Joecks’ column appears in the Opinion section each Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Put this down as a something Democrats only mention after an election. Governor-elect Steve Sisolak wants to rename McCarran International Airport after Harry Reid.
Listen to some politicians and you’d think that America’s wealth should be a source of anger, not thanksgiving.
Six months ago, the Clark County School District hired an outside lawyer to conduct an investigation that should have taken no more than six weeks. The public still hasn’t heard anything.
Teachers are facing a pay cut next year. So are police officers, firefighters and almost every state and local government employee. Thank Nevada’s broken retirement system for that.
Nevada’s Public Employees’ Retirement System is still fighting a Supreme Court decision requiring them to turn over public pension records.
Steve Sisolak and Aaron Ford are promising to use their new offices to implement Nevada’s stalled background check initiative. They haven’t said, however, how they are going to do it.
Democrat dominance in Tuesday’s elections revealed a stark contrast in the legacies left by two influential Nevada politicians — Gov. Brian Sandoval and Harry Reid.
Third-parties are so counterproductive that the top priority for Republican donors should be funding a Green Party in Nevada. Green Party candidates would likely draw at least 2 percent from Democrat candidates. That’s a winning margin in close races, and the impacts can be felt all the way down the ballot.
If you want to make Election Day less stressful, make government less important.
This election has high policy stakes for Republicans, but are they high enough to motivate Republican voters? That’s the question Tuesday’s election will turn on.
President Donald Trump summoned two unusual allies in his call to limit birthright citizenship: Harry Reid and Barack Obama. On Tuesday, Axios reported that Trump wants to use an executive order to stop giving birthright citizenship to children born here to illegal alien mothers.
Question 6 would cost Nevada families an average of $2,000 per year, according to James Taylor, the Heartland Institute’s senior fellow for energy policy.
The scariest thing you’ll see this Halloween won’t be someone in a costume. It’s the outrage mob on the prowl looking for children who dare to dress up as someone who doesn’t share their skin tone.
Sen. Aaron Ford was for releasing police body camera footage before he was recorded talking with officers after his son’s arrest. Now it’s up to the Nevada Supreme Court to upload the public’s access to records.
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