Nevada’s education establishment hopes you’re bad at history. Otherwise, you’ll identify what’s missing in its push for more funding.
Victor Joecks
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Victor Joecks is a Review-Journal columnist who explores and explains policy issues three days a week in the Opinion section. Previously he served as the executive vice president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute. Victor is also a staff sergeant in Nevada National Guard. Originally from Washington state, Victor received his bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College.
In seven states and Washington, D.C., terminally ill patients can get a prescription from their doctor to kill themselves. Nevada state government, however, can’t legally obtain the drugs needed to kill a convicted murderer who wants to die. Welcome to 2018.
Liberal reaction to Brett Kavanagh’s Supreme Court nomination would be more believable if some of their past apocalyptic predictions had come true.
Brett Kavanaugh is going to be confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice. He has more of a defined approach to the Constitution than Justice Anthony Kennedy, but it’s not possible to say how he’d rule in a case seeking to overturn Roe v. Wade. That’s all according to Thomas Jedding, senior legal fellow with the free-market Heritage Foundation.
Clark County’s inability to stop illegal fireworks — even building a website that ended up highlighting its own impotence — was a fitting tribute to Independence Day.
Politics is a dirty business, but politicians usually avoid attacking charities supported by their own church. Not Steve Sisolak.
Every mass shooting exposes the impotence of government. Thursday’s horrific shooting at a Capital Gazette is no exception.
Two of the Supreme Court’s most high-profile decisions this week involved unions and abortion, but the principle at stake was free speech.
Adults with children caught crossing the border illegally should be released into the country if they claim asylum. A physical barrier wouldn’t deter border crossings, and Republican efforts to outlaw family separation aren’t worth supporting. That’s according to Hardeep “Dee” Sull, a Nevada attorney, who’s part of Lawyer Moms of America.
If you want to raise teacher pay, tell them how to opt out of membership in the Clark County Education Association. That’ll save them hundreds of dollars a year.
There’s evidence that widespread cheating is at least partially responsible for the Clark County School District’s rising graduation rate.
Some mass shooting are more equal than others. At least when it comes to media coverage. Last Sunday morning, one of the worst mass shootings of 2018 took place in Trenton, New Jersey, but the tragedy barely made a blip on the national news.
Democrats are positioning themselves to vote down a bill that would permanently prevent the separation of illegal immigrant parents and children. Remember this the next time you see liberals compare President Donald Trump and his administration to Nazis on this issue.
The recent Democratic primary was a setback for progressives, and the governor’s race will come down to which candidate voters trust.
If you want to understand why Republicans think the news media is biased, contrast how two recent stories were — and weren’t — covered.