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Sectarian or inclusive, government-sponsored prayer always a bad idea

To begin with, let’s acknowledge the U.S. Supreme Court has held that prayers offered before meetings of Congress all the way down to City Council do not necessarily offend the First Amendment. They are, as all justices recently acknowledged, part of the fabric and tradition of American life stretching all the way back to the composing of the Constitution and the first Congress.

Two realities, one problem

In one reality, the Bureau of Land Management is a group of American citizens working to preserve and protect commonly held land for all Americans. In the other, they are agents of an occupying foreign power, bent on destroying ranching operations so we all have to eat kale salad for dinner, just as first lady Michelle Obama intended.

There’s no doubt: Flores opposes Education Initiative

It was probably unreasonable to expect Assemblywoman Lucy Flores to embrace The Education Initiative, even and perhaps especially after she became the de facto top-of-the-ticket standard bearer for Nevada’s Democrats in 2014.

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School achievement pledge not just another gimmick

Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky’s new Pledge of Achievement is aimed at holding the school district, and the community, accountable for student success.

Tax dollars at work

Last week was the deadline for filing federal income taxes, a cause for mourning unless you’re one of those lucky few U.S. corporations that pays no income tax. But the rest of us had to pony up.

Republican endorsements leave boycotting candidates out in the cold

If you didn’t know why the Nevada Republican Party’s plan to issue pre-primary endorsements was controversial before, it’s easier to understand when you glance at the final list of party-approved candidates.

Appoint judges now!

If there’s one inescapable conclusion to Review-Journal reporter Jane Ann Morrison’s excellent story last Sunday, it’s this: We’ve got to stop electing judges.

Religious right doesn’t like Sin City? Their loss!

Republicans were outraged in 2009, after President Barack Obama said companies that took bailout money “can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime.”

A few things about platforms

There was no small bit of controversy following the Clark County Republican Party’s vote to drop planks opposing same-sex marriage and abortion from its official party platform.

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