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EDITORIAL: The president’s inverted logic

President Barack Obama says it’s “not fair” and “not right” for U.S. companies to set up overseas to avoid taxes. Except when it benefits him politically.

EDITORIAL: Campus sex assault bill flattens due process

America’s college campuses have long displayed contempt for the First and Second Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Now Congress is prepared to pass legislation that tramples students’ Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights as well.

EDITORIAL: Corruption costs

Yes, Nevada sits at the bottom of plenty of good lists and the top of lots of bad rankings. But one recently published study put Nevada way down a particularly nasty set of state ratings: corruption.

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EDITORIAL: Desert tortoise doing just fine

The desert tortoise is so threatened, in such a fight for species survival, that it desperately needs birth control.

EDITORIAL: Steelworkers taken for ride by Reid, Pelosi

The United Steelworkers’ rank and file must have a short memory. Maybe they’re just exceedingly polite. Perhaps their union bosses are exceptionally good at keeping members in line.

EDITORIAL: Mountain Ridge reaches heights of Little League baseball

This was a story decades in the making, an achievement that would have been accomplished long ago if it weren’t for that gigantic obstacle called California. Finally, the state of Nevada, and more specifically, the Las Vegas Valley, broke through.

EDITORIAL: DEA’s money train

There’s waste, and then there’s downright stupidity. The Drug Enforcement Administration might have set a new government standard for the latter.

EDITORIAL: Porn law’s unintended consequences

One of the most easily foreseeable consequences of Los Angeles County’s new ordinance requiring porn actors to wear condoms was the flight of the industry to other jurisdictions, either across the county line, state boundaries or even international borders.

EDITORIAL: Amending the First Amendment

The U.S. military is again engaged in Iraq. The humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is getting worse by the week. And the economy, although recovering, has all the kick of a warm, flat soda.

EDITORIAL: Teacher shortage

The Clark County School District’s growing enrollment and pursuit of smaller class sizes has led to a familiar problem — a shortage of licensed educators.

EDITORIAL: Tanks for nothing

Somebody pass out the helmets. A dispute over who created one of the most famous and effective presidential campaign advertisements in recent history is getting nasty.

EDITORIAL: Skorkowsky’s magnet school plan attractive

The Clark County School District, in desperate need of nontraditional solutions to some of its most urgent and persistent problems, will tackle several of them with a single plan announced Wednesday. And it’s not a stretch to say it’s a stroke of genius.

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