January 31
Preview Las Vegas 
This year's prognostication season kicked off last week with Preview Las Vegas 2007 at the Thomas and Mack. Although more than one speaker called it Vegas' "preeminent forecasting event," it is more like a huge happy hour, sans the booze, but with a loud monotonous techno soundtrack and flashing lights.

January 15
The Politics of Envy 
While the financial press crows about the new highs being set in watered down dollar terms by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the politics of envy are in high gear. In this post-Enron age, the rule makers in Washington are doing their best to make headlines and win votes claiming to make investing safe again for the average dim-witted shareholder.

November 13
Are Voters Schizophrenic? 
Voters proved to be their old schizophrenic selves last week; voting in favor of PISTOL, which will, if voters collectively say yes again in two years, make it harder and more expensive for governments to seize private land via eminent domain actions. But then the majority voted in favor of regulating what bar owners can do with their private property with a "yes" to Question 5, voted to take away a person's right to work for a wage less than what the government deems to be the minimum, and against people being able to ingest what they want in their own bodies by voting down Question 7.

November 6
Mo' Money 
With concerned voters waiting breathlessly to learn what was on the Gibbons/Mazzeo garage tapes-"I think I saw a puddy cat, I did, I did"-so as to make the "informed" decision about who to elect as Governor-that wasn't one of Jane Ann Morrison's 54 cats was it-more enlightening news about the direction of state government was tucked away safely off the front page of the Las Vegas Review-Journal last Friday.

October 30
WhoToVoteForNevada.com 
And many of us are eager to hit the polls and put another election behind us. And in case you still have a few concerns about who should earn your vote, we at Liberty Watch and the Nevada Republican Liberty Caucus invite you to www.WhoToVoteForNevada.com.

August 28
Cruise, Pluto and TASC 
With TASC getting closer and closer to the November ballot, the opposition engines have geared up. Oh it's probably just a coincidence that the study produced by out-of-towners (Denver) Augenblick, Palaich and Associates was made public last week. The study found that Nevada taxpayers must cough up another $1.3 billion per year to adequately fund K-12 education. K-12 already gets $1 billion a year and look at the results.

August 22
How to win an election 
Republicans can only win elections if they get their message out - and getting the message out costs M-O-N-E-Y.

August 21
Talking Trash 
The Clark County Commission, in a rare fit of collective acumen, rejected a plan to institute a pilot program designed to increase residential curbside recycling. This is despite the fact that from 2003 to 2005, only 2 percent of household trash in Clark County was recycled, down from 4 percent in 2000, according to the EPA.

August 17
Titus turns to UNLV for help 
Two years ago, the UNLV Students for Academic Freedom and the UNLV College Libertarians released a report that revealed that UNLV is more liberal than Cal-Berkeley. Of 125 professors selected for the study, 91 percent of those affiliated with a party were registered Democrat or Green. At UC Berkeley, 89.4 percent of the staff is Democrat or Green. Now there's hard evidence that this liberalism isn't limited to university teachers - it penetrates the administration.

August 16
Liberals love to hate Liberty Watch 
A few of you have e-mailed me about liberal twins Jon Ralston and Steve Sebelius, who went on an attack binge against me yesterday. Both of these "journalists" are angry Democrats and they will do and say anything to marginalize any conservative. I just happen to be an easy and visible target because I publish Liberty Watch: The Magazine.

August 14
Liberty Watch Endorsements 
For those of you still sitting on the fences about who to vote for in Tuesday’s primary, I invite you to think ahead to the general election. Who will be able to defeat Dina Titus? The headline says it all.

August 13
Beers is the only Republican who can beat Titus 
BY GEORGE HARRIS
For those of you still sitting on the fences about who to vote for in Tuesday’s primary, I invite you to think ahead to the general election. Who will be able to defeat Dina Titus? The headline says it all.

August 12
Gibbons takes beating in debate; Beers clear winner 
BY MIKE ZIGLER
RENO - Nineteen people stood outside Reno's City Hall last night wearing Jim Gibbons T-shirts and waving Jim Gibbons signs. Such a poor turnout on his home turf seems to parallel Gibbons' dwindling momentum as his campaign approaches its conclusion. That's likely due to his inability to understand issues important to Nevada.

August 11
Jon who? Liberty Watch on the rise 
BY MIKE ZIGLER
Last Friday at the Republican gubernatorial debate, Jon Ralston's secretary Dana Gentry approached George Harris, publisher of Liberty Watch: The Magazine. She asked if Harris sold Liberty Watch cover stories. After reading Thursday's Living section in the R-J, Gentry's interrogation makes sense: She and Ralston are trying to understand why Liberty Watch is so successful while their show holds bottom-feeder status among locally produced programs.

August 09
Gibbons misleads again 
BY MIKE ZIGLER
For a campaign that has shamelessly painted a tax-and-spend picture about Bob Beers, it's not surprising to hear another bogus message from Camp Gibbons - this one in the form of a poll. Less than two weeks ago, Gibbons felt the heat of a narrowing lead. He responded with negative radio and television spots. Now - despite two other credible polls indicating a dead heat - Gibbons and Co. continue to mislead Nevada Republicans.

July 31
He calls himself conservative 
BY DOUG FRENCH
"I dunno, I'll see where the money is," a steaming Jim Gibbons said, responding to a question as to whether he was going to run for governor or Congress. A number of politicians worked out at Reno's Sports West in 1993 besides Gibbons; Randolph Townsend and Pete Ernaut used to regularly work up a sweat in the early morning hours.

July 27
Jerry Airola? Yep, he's a cop 
BY FRED WEINBERG
A headline in Tuesday's Review Journal reads, "Airola says he's a cop, but he's not."

July 24
Las Vegas housing: Now a buyers market 
BY DOUG FRENCH
Stephen Bottfeld led off his quarterly Crystal Ball seminar by giving away the punch line: "Buy now," Bottfeld told the capacity crowd at the Suncoast, "there will never be a better time to buy real estate in Las Vegas than right now." But one local homebuilder, who is trying to make a living selling homes (instead of putting on seminars), was not convinced, and calling Bottfeld's rosy prognostication "a bunch of crap."

July 21
Vote Kathy Augustine the right person for the job 
BY MOLLY BALL
Even in death, Augustine exerts political influence

July 17
Weinberg and Choate wrong on Idiot Savants 
BY DOUG FRENCH
Last week's piece questioning the universal fawning over Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's philanthropic endeavors by the mainstream press prompted an editor's note in the Penny Press from that publication's editor Fred Weinberg and his friend Pat Choate.

July 14
Apple-cheeked Secretary of State 
BY FRED WEINBERG
The Honorable Newt Gingrich will be raising money for Congressman Jon Porter on Wednesday, July 26, 2006. If you are interested in attending the luncheon, please call Mary Mai at (702) 304-1414.

July 13
Dean Heller: A True Democrat 
BY GEORGE HARRIS
The Tax and Spending Control in Nevada (TASC) petition has proved to be one of the popular initiatives in Nevada history, garnering 125,438 valid signatures according to Secretary of State Dean Heller who believe it or not is a registered Republican. Yet Heller, who wants to go to Washington to represent Nevada's 2nd Congressional District, won't put TASC on the ballot just yet because the AFL-CIO's Danny Thompson has gotten into Heller's head, or is it his pocket.

July 10
Idiot Savants waste their billions 
BY DOUG FRENCH
The mainstream press is gushing over Warren Buffett's $31 billion contribution to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Even Pat Choate and Fred Weinberg at The Penny Press ladled on the praise. Choate figures Buffett's wealth combined with Gates' wealth and know how will solve "diseases and problems that have been beyond governments and their bureaucracies." Weinberg believes "Gates is exactly the kind of guy who will get results with the money at whatever problem they look at solving."

July 3
Las Vegas Metro Violates Property Rights 
BY DOUG FRENCH
Perhaps you missed that scary looking criminal’s picture gracing the front page of the Las Vegas Review-Journal last Tuesday. He is an average looking 51 year-old guy who nobody knew a couple of weeks ago. Now, he’s front-page news. Why? He engaged in a transaction with another consenting adult. A commercial transaction not at all dissimilar to the many exchanges any of us makes during the course of any given day. Party A has money and wants a particular good or service. Party B just so happens to have the good or service that Party A is looking for, and is willing to trade that good or service for a certain amount of money. Sound familiar? Every day we engage in these types of transactions.

July 1
Steve Wark Strikes Again 
BY GEORGE HARRIS
It seems the Assembly District 21 race has got some bazaar twist and turns going on. Sources close to Liberty Watch explained the anointed candidate Kris Munn was promised by Billy Rogers that he would be taking a pass on the District 21 race because he was over-committed and that made Munn as happy as a pig in slop.

June 27
Old Canards from Young Journalists 
BY DOUG FRENCH
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has evidently decided to compete head-on with the Las Vegas Sun as to which paper can print the most nonsense each Sunday.

June 20
Bob Beers fighting for Taxpayer's & Anti-smoking ballot measure violates property rights 
BY DOUG FRENCH
Bob Beers qualifies his (TASC) Tax and Spending Control amendment this morning, turning in over 150,000 signatures. The TASC amendment will give voters a say on how politicians spend our tax dollars.

June 12
Gold on the Run 
BY DOUG FRENCH
After running up in price to the $730 per ounce range, the price of gold has come back down to the low $600's. A few financial pundits are saying the party is over, contending that gold is but a flash in the pan: A bursting bubble. Nothing could be further from the truth.

June 5
Nevada PERS must be fixed 
BY DOUG FRENCH
The financial markets’ turmoil this spring surely has all employees watching their 401K balances nervously. A few weeks ago, the talking heads were speculating on when the Dow Jones Industrial Average would crack the 12,000 mark. Now, after a tumultuous couple of weeks, the DJIA is barely staying above 11,000. Those invested in US stocks have made essentially zero this year, and with bond yields rising, bond prices have fallen.

June 2
Economics of prices 
BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
Here's what one reader wrote: "Williams, I can understand how the destruction of Hurricane Katrina and Middle East political uncertainty can jack up gasoline prices. But it's price-gouging for the oil companies to raise the price of all the gasoline already bought and stored before the crisis." Several other readers made similar allegations. Such allegations reflect a misunderstanding of how prices are determined.

June 1
Myths and lies on the record 
BY JOHN STOSSEL
Last week, Kenneth Lay was convicted of fraud. Prosecutor Sean Berkowitz said that sent a message: "No matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to play by the rules."

May 31
I-15 should be a private toll road 
BY DOUG FRENCH
Whenever I engage anyone in a discussion about getting rid of government, the first question I'm posed with is: "what about the roads?" "How would that work? I mean if private enterprise owned the roads, then the road owners would jack up the price to point where we couldn't leave our homes." As if that's what private firms do is raise prices to the point where no one can afford their products.

May 15
Union Bosses, Wal-Mart and Consumers 
BY DOUG FRENCH
It is no secret that unions are hounding Wal-Mart. The largest private employer in the world is the world's biggest labor prize. Union honchos dream at night about the torrent of cash that they would swim in if Wal-Mart employees were handing over union dues each and every month.

May 10
Si...The American Voter Is Pissed Off 
BY FRED WEINBERG
One of the more popular rallying cries during the recent spate of media induced pro illegal immigration rallies has been Sí, se puede, which, properly translated means "it can be done" even though the organizers would have you believe it means "yes, we can."

May 8
What Congress Can Do About Soaring Gas Prices 
BY CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL
Gasoline prices are soaring and the people are screaming. And they want something done about it - now!

May 2
Government pushes gas prices higher, while blaming oil companies 
BY DOUG FRENCH
Politics and economics continued to collide last week. On Capital Hill, a Senate committee announced an investigation into taxes paid by major oil companies and asked the Internal Revenue Service for the companies' tax returns. This by the way hasn't been done since the panel asked for Enron's returns.

April 24
As GM goes, so goes the nation 
BY DOUG FRENCH
"As GM goes, so goes the nation" was the old saw when General Motors was a corporate powerhouse. But now the car making behemoth is spilling red ink profusely and armies of bankruptcy attorneys are standing by.

April 21
The winning Republican message in '06 
BY BEN SHAPIRO
Prospects look bleak for the Republican Party in the upcoming midterm elections. The latest Washington Post poll shows registered voters heavily favoring Democrats over Republicans. This isn't because Democrats have articulated a vision that Americans find compelling -- it's because Republicans have splintered and abandoned their message. The public isn't happy with Democrats, it's angry with Republicans.

April 17
Conservatives worship the state at tax time 
BY DOUG FRENCH
With April 15th falling on a Saturday, today is the day to file your tax return or extension and of course, "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's." Most rational people loath the day taxes are due as it is the day that the federal government reaches out and touches us in a very personal way. You are forced to hand over a portion of your private property, the sweat of your brow, to a bloated government that goes through the unimaginable sum of two and a half trillion dollars each year.

April 13
As November approaches 
BY JOE SOBRAN
Bush's little helpers have made "conservative" mean, to the average voter, "reckless lunacy"

April 12
America's orphan 
BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
My sentiments on immigration are inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty: ". . . Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

April 11
America's orphan 
BY GEORGE HARRIS
Let's talk about government by petition, shall we? To hear the establishment tell it, you'd have to believe that signing a petition is a subversive act designed to destroy our system of government. The very idea you have the right to change the ground rules the leadership operates under drives them to distraction.

April 10
America's orphan 
BY DOUG FRENCH
The barrage of garish political signs that have popped up like weeds this spring tells us that in HL Mencken's words; "a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods" or election is near.

April 6
America's orphan 
BY JOE SOBRAN
In the 1979 movie The In-Laws, Peter Falk plays a dotty former CIA man who awes his sidekick, Alan Arkin, a timid dentist whose daughter is married to Falk's son. "Were you involved in the Bay of Pigs operation?" asks the fascinated Arkin. Falk replies proudly, "Involved in it? It was my idea!"

April 5
Calling the public school bluff 
BY JOHN STOSSEL
Last month, 500 angry schoolteachers assembled outside my office. The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) was furious that "Stupid in America," a "20/20" show I did on education, suggested that some union teachers were lazy. They shouted that I didn't understand how difficult teaching was, and chanted, "Shame on you!

April 3
V for Vendetta 
BY DOUG FRENCH
When's the last time you saw a good old-fashioned anti-government feel good romance movie? It's likely been awhile, if ever, but your time has finally arrived with "V for Vendetta."

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