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Nevada Democrats should have the courage to defend their actual beliefs

December 23, 2021 12:42 pmDecember 30, 2021 12:01 pm

A temporary vaccine mandate enacted by the Nevada System of Higher Education was recently suspended after all Nevada Republicans on the Legislative Commission voted against making it permanent. The vaccine, of course, remains readily available to all those who wish to take it, but Democrats made clear that forcing everyone...

Nevada needs leaders who will defy next lockdown push

December 8, 2021 2:07 pmApril 3, 2022 8:36 am

Lockdowns were one of the “greatest peacetime policy disasters of all time,” concludes Professor Douglas Allen in a paper just published by the International Journal of the Economics of Business. Elsewhere, a team of researchers with the National Bureau of Economic Research “failed to find” any evidence that lockdowns led to a reduction...

Opinion: Critical Race Theory Lies and People Who Tell Them

November 22, 2021 6:30 amNovember 21, 2021 2:02 pm

Listen carefully to the language used by proponents of critical race theory (CRT). That language is intentionally false and misleading. It was invented to sell folks many Big Lies they couldn’t sell with honest language. For example, diversity, equity, inclusion and access was invented to sound like equal opportunity and...

Happy 157th Birthday, Nevada!

October 31, 2021 6:31 pmNovember 5, 2021 1:24 pm

On October 31, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln officially declared Nevada the 36th state. The state at that time had only 40,000 inhabitants, short of the required 60,000 for statehood. However, with the discovery of silver and gold, miners, Republican politicians, and Nevada citizens became the driving forces for statehood. Since...