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Plenty of money to go around

In response to Benjamin Spillman’s Friday article, “Ruling expected to bring more political ads to state for 2010 races”: I am honestly at a loss as to why Republicans are in favor of the ruling allowing unions and corporations to finance campaign efforts, and Democrats are opposed.

The party of ‘working families’?

For as long as I can remember, elected Democrats everywhere have claimed to be devout defenders of “working families.”

WEEKLY EDITORIAL RECAP

Unionized Clark County employees packed Tuesday’s commission meeting to show solidarity against an advisory report that calls for cuts to their ever-growing wages. … Commissioner Tom Collins … played to his audience, clad in yellow T-shirts, in declaring pay cuts off the table. “If they’re not worth what you’re paying them, then you should fire them,” Mr. Collins said. …

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Attacking speech

Reaction from the left to the U.S. Supreme Court’s campaign finance decision this week was nothing sort of astonishing. Meet the new book burners.

On the money

Unionized Clark County employees packed Tuesday’s commission meeting to show solidarity against an advisory report that calls for cuts to their ever-growing wages.

Turn out the lights?

I’d like to say it was fun while it lasted but, honestly, it wasn’t all that fun.

Protecting speech

Last March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving “Hillary: The Movie” — a conservative attack on Hillary Clinton.

Vote tells White House to change direction

Recent election results in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia should send a message to the White House and Congress: America is going in the wrong direction.

Over its head

Although several observers are crediting angst over the president’s radical health care agenda with pushing Republican Scott Brown to victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, the winner himself said Wednesday that the Obama approach to spending, taxes and terrorism were also of great concern to many voters.

One year down

A month before he was inaugurated, Barack Obama said he did not believe his victory marked an abrupt end to the skepticism about top-down government and social engineering ushered in by President Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 — he merely demurred that he thought it was a start.

Spending control

With the Baby Boomers about to retire en masse, insolvency for the nation’s massive redistributionist entitlement schemes is no longer a distant threat.