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| The Republicans appear to be gloating about their marginal wins in two recent gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. The fact that these two winning candidates, both conservatives, posed as moderates willing to work with the Democrats is... more... |
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130 YEARS AGO When intoxicated, a Frenchman wants to dance ..., a Spaniard to gamble ..., a Russian to be affectionate, an Irishman to fight, and a Carson man to get a position in the Mint or Legislature. 120 YEARS AGO |
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| “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty famously said in Alice in Wonderland, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” | |
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| Recently the Nevada Appeal ran an article on a proposed prison program to reduce inmate overcrowding. The only way to solve this issue is to stop the revolving door of prisoners returning after their release from prison. | |
| Stanford Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., was the recipient of a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. She and her colleagues have been studying “happiness-sustaining strategies,” or, in other words, how... | |
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| I blame political correctness for the reluctance of the Defense Department and mainstream media to recognize the obvious fact that the Fort Hood shooter, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is an Islamic terrorist. | |
| It's somewhat disconcerting, but the Obama administration continues to dance around the terrorism question. While a new Rasmussen poll shows 60 percent of Americans want the Fort Hood massacre investigated as a terrorist act, the president sees the mass... | |
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President Obama, speaking at Fort Hood, said it best, “No faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor.” Amen. ••• |
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| I was disappointed with Frank Partlow's column in the Reno Gazette-Journal of Nov. 1, “Legislature doesn't know and it doesn't care.” Mr. Partlow is the executive director of the Nevada Spending and Government Efficiency... | |
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Most Americans have this whole Fort Hood massacre all wrong. Maj. Nidal M. Hassan was not a terrorist. And he wasn't a mass murderer. And he may not even have been a coward. Maj. Hassan was an enemy combatant. |
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| This past week I have been in Europe to help commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I went into this trip with a great deal of enthusiasm and an expectation that the heroes responsible for that momentous event be justly... | |
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