Price Control is not the answer! - Nov. 14, 2005
   Big-five oil company management was summoned for questioning on Capital Hill last week and berated by a bi-partisan panel of pecksniffs. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said the executives did not ''adequately answer the question of whether the sky-high gas prices we saw earlier this fall were entirely justified, and whether their companies' profit margins are appropriate given the hardships energy consumers are facing and will continue to face this winter." According to the Boston Globe, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois, urged Exxon Mobil's Lee Raymond in a private meeting yesterday to invest profits in production. While supply and demand affect the cost of gas, ''we should not tolerate price-gouging," Hastert said after the meeting. "Urged on by an economically ignorant public," economist Tom DiLorenzo writes, "Congress recently held one of its periodic Grand Inquisitions of oil company executives to demand an answer to the question: "How dare you profit from the American free enterprise system?"

TABOR...Far from Dead - Nov. 7, 2005
   The usual suspects are crowing about the passage of Question C in last Tuesday's election in Colorado. "Tuesday was a great day in holding state elected officials accountable for the investment in and performance of government services," wrote gubernatorial candidate Dina Titus. "Colorado voters, lead by the state's Republican Governor, agreed to put a hold on that state's TABOR statute - a measure that placed the state's budget on auto-pilot and tied spending levels to population increases."

City Council should stick to pot holes - Nov. 3, 2005
   There are condominiums in the Las Vegas valley which used to be crappy apartments and now are selling briskly in the "mid 100's" as those ubiquitous signs say.

Goodbye to Greenspan - Oct. 31, 2005
   Now that conservative beltway insiders and outsiders don't have the Bush-loving Harriet Miers to kick around anymore, attention has turned to the man who will replace Fed Chair Alan Greenspan: Ben Bernanke.

Go with the Union Label...Vote Gibbons? Isn't he a Republican? - Oct. 24, 2005
   It's just one endorsement after another for Jim Gibbons. Jon Ralston, in his RalstonFlash dispatch, reports that the Nevada Bankers Association is endorsing the congressman. The bankers have evidently looked into their crystal balls and figure Gibbons will be elected governor next year and maybe, just maybe, he will repay their very early support with a lowering of the financial institution payroll tax and branch taxes. No doubt, Congressman Gibbons has promised as much. However, one wonders what bank owner and Gibbons hater, University Chancellor Jim Rogers, thinks about the NBA endorsement.

Animal Rights? - Oct. 17, 2005
   While property rights continue to be trampled, the cause for animal rights marches on. Most readers can't imagine that the environmental kooks could be getting any traction for the cause of rats, guinea pigs and other critters, but even that bastion of capitalism and human action, the New York Stock Exchange, is cowering to the animal rights gang.

Washington Insiders - Oct. 12, 2005
   In the wide world of conservative punditry, we don't count for much. We publish a weekly in"flyover"country and if you think that all the lip service "flyover: country" and "red states" get on the Fox News Channel count for anything, than you don't really understand Washington. You see, Washington isn't about a clash of ideas. Washington is about making money.

Apparently its never enough for Government Workers! - Oct. 10, 2005 
   People from Kansas are assumed to have good sense. After all America's heartland isn't La-La Land. The weather is harsh and the people are hardy.

Paid leave for city employees facing felony theft charges? - Oct. 5, 2005 
   Why in the world are taxpayers, paying 5 city employees accused of theft of more than $10,000 worth of tools, equipment and other items that were purchased with city credit cards? That's right five utility service employees were placed on paid administrative leave (paid vacation time in my book) in March after their homes were searched as part of an investigation of possible misuse of public property. Two of them were indicted and only then were they put on unpaid leave. That's 6 months of free vacation time for five people.

Time to Lose Davis-Bacon - Oct. 3, 2005 
   In the wake of hurricane Katrina President Bush did at least one sensible thing-suspend the Davis-Bacon Act in the states effected by the storm-and a few of the usual suspects are outraged.

Why is TABOR (Taxpayer's Bill of Rights) so important? - Sept. 28, 2005 
   Here's one reason according to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation, from June 2004 thru June 2005 government wages far surpassed those of private industry. Let's take a look.

Liberal UNLV Professor wrong on Gas Taxes - Sept. 26, 2005 
   The chairman of the UNLV economics department, Stephen M. Miller, was given an editorial page platform in the Las Vegas Review Journal recently to advocate for a windfall profits tax on oil companies as a solution to the nations oil dependence. Despite the article's title: "Gasoline Prices: Don't mess with the market" the professor advocates for just the opposite.

from The Life of Colonel David Crockett, - Sept. 19, 2005 
   Crockett was then the lion of Washington. I was a great admirer of his character, and, having several friends who were intimate with him, I found no difficulty in making his acquaintance. I was fascinated with him, and he seemed to take a fancy to me.

Buy Gold! - Sept. 12, 2005 
   Gold is continuing its longest bull market ever, 53 months, yet the conference crowd at last week's Las Vegas Gold & Precious Metals Investment Conference held in Las Vegas was no larger than when the yellow metal was making lows in 2000.

Shifting Ideology on College Campuses - Sept. 9, 2005 
   Remember the 1960s, when radical students confronted conservative college administrators and faculty with sit-ins and protest marches? Fast-forward to the 21 st century. You'll find much of the same spirit on campuses around the nation. But this time, conservative students are defying and protesting the leftist values and policies of the faculty and administrators. What's going on here?

Trading With the Enemy Act (TWEA) - Aug. 29, 2005 
   You probably already knew that the government has a claim on a share of your income. Now consider the news that the U.S. Government has the authority to seize your gold and silver, as well as anything else that can be considered a financial instrument.

Inside Business Today, Marketing to Tweeners - Aug. 26, 2005 
   If you have sons and daughters between the ages of 8 and 14, you might still think of them as children. But for more and more businesses, they are neither children nor traditional teenagers; they're tweeners. And tweeners are becoming one of the hottest consumer demographic clusters - and a big opportunity for revenue growth.

Gibbons Needs to brush up on the Facts - Aug. 22, 2005 
   Congressman Jim Gibbons came to town last week to tell attendees of the center-right coalition third Tuesday luncheon sponsored by Nevada Policy Research Institute, that the government in Washington is doing great things, especially with the passage of President Bush's new energy policy.

Human Impact Statements - Aug. 19, 2005 
   Reforming the Legislative Process with Human Impact Statements.

City looking to screw taxpayers - Aug. 17, 2005 
   Clear Channel Founders Never Welched On Anything.

French vs. Smith - Aug. 15, 2005 
   John L. Smith thinks he is paying too much at the pump and believes there must be a conspiracy being perpetrated by evil oil gangsters to steal his money. The idea of supply and demand evidently escapes the wounded wordsmith.

Liberty Watch on the Road - Aug. 8, 2005 
   Liberty Watch reader Jack Van Dien waded into the murky waters of tax debate with a letter to LW last week criticizing Steve Forbes' flat income tax idea, and specifically Forbes' argument for the exemption of interest and dividends from taxes. Mr. Van Dien believes that Forbes' argument that businesses have already been taxed, thus shareholders or bondholders receiving after-tax dividends and interest shouldn't be taxed on that income is "fallacious."

Carbon Nanotube Electronics, the Old is New - Aug. 5, 2005 
   As we all know, computer chips have been getting smaller, faster, and cheaper year-by-year for decades now. Today, some $10 pocket calculators pack more power than the most sophisticated, multi-million-dollar mainframe computer of the mid-1950s.

 From the Mailbag - Aug. 3, 2005  
FLAT TAX
   The concept of a flat consumption tax is excellent. Consumption is at least partially discretionary. The worst problem with a consumption tax is that congress will fiddle with what is taxable and lobbyists will seek exemptions for certain products. Introducing a value-add-tax with no exemptions is the least likely to become corrupted.

The Flat Tax Cometh - Aug. 2, 2005 
   There are 8 million words in the Federal Tax Code, and the IRS itself doesn’t even know what they all mean. That code supports an entire industry of lawyers and accountants. Taxpayers in America spend a cumulative 6 billion hours each year just trying to figure out how much they owe the IRS.

Real Estate in Vegas? It's Hot, Hot, Hot - Aug. 1, 2005 
   "Some of you in this room will see the median price of a home in Las Vegas be $1 million," SalesTraq's Larry Murphy told a packed audience at the Marketing Solutions 2005 Crystal Ball seminar. "Some of you younger people."

Hettrick to support Bob Beers - Jul. 29, 2005 
   Assemblyman Hettrick to support Beers' bid for Governor Contemplates own Legislative future.

Malone, Weinberg and Government - Jul. 26, 2005 
   Fred Weinberg can finally get a good night's sleep. Evidently he has been living in fear all these months while that dangerous man Lance Malone has been at large. What a relief Fred must feel.

Weinberg Goes Wild over Malone - Jul. 25, 2005 
   Not only is disgraced former Clark County Commissioner Lance Malone and all around general sleaze bucket, he’s a crook as well.

Rural Nevada Fighting for Independence - Jul. 22, 2005 
   With all the attention on Hawthorne Nevada you would think we are important, and to the residents of this rural area it is. The (BRAC) Base Realignment and Closure commission announcement on May 13 to close our base put the community into a tailspin. This wasn’t on anyone’s radar, perhaps it should have been, but little planning had taken place to address the what if scenario of base closure.

OK, Jim what's the Deal? - Jul. 20, 2005 
   Watch out for Republicans who say "we are in a crisis, we must fund these programs" they're Democrats registered as Republicans.
   Jim “Jimbo” Rogers calls himself a Republican he’s talking about running for Governor of Nevada. Yes you heard it here first media mogul “Jim Rogers” Governor of Nevada. The problem is Jim is a lot like our current Governor Kenny Guinn he’s really not a Republican oh, he’s a registered Republican but he’s really a Democrat!