Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the March 28, 2012, Reno Gazette-Journal. When the $2.4 billion Revel casino resort opens in Atlantic City on Monday, it will include a spa, 14 restaurants, 10 pools and a theater that seats 5,050 people. Nevada casinos have spas, restaurants, pools and theaters, of course, many of them just […]
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By Todd G. Buchholz and Victoria Buchholz Americans are supposed to be mobile and even pushy. Saul Bellow’s Augie March declares, “I am an American … first to knock, first admitted.” In “The Grapes of Wrath,” young Tom Joad loads up his jalopy with pork snacks and relatives, and the family flees the Oklahoma dust […]
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By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger In the early days of the Solyndra debacle, as the reality dawned on the White House that its half-billion-dollar investment was about to go belly-up, former Obama economic adviser Larry Summers famously observed that, “Government is a lousy venture capitalist.” The quip, discovered after House Republicans subpoenaed White House […]
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By Phil Taylor, Sports Illustrated The most difficult conversation of Patrick Burke’s life did not come on the day his younger brother, Brendan, revealed he was gay. That was a relatively easy talk, at least for Patrick, now a scout for the Flyers. It was just after Christmas in 2007, and he was 24, five […]
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By Irvin Cannon Among the biggest victims of the economic recession are the once beloved family pets surrendered to shelters as their owners deal with extended joblessness. The U.S. Humane Society estimates 6 million to 8 million dogs and cats enter shelters each year – and 3 million to 4 million are euthanized. “We don’t […]
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By Steve Kubby If you’ve been following the Supreme Court hearings regarding Obamacare, you’ve undoubtedly heard pundits and legal experts proclaiming that the Commerce Clause preempts state law, which in turn provides constitutional support for the government to require you to buy health care insurance. However, such statements are false and deliberately misrepresent the historical […]
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By Robert Reich Republicans have morality upside down. Santorum, Gingrich, and even Romney are barnstorming across the land condemning gay marriage, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, access to contraception, and the wall separating church and state. But America’s problem isn’t a breakdown in private morality. It’s a breakdown in public morality. What Americans do in their bedrooms […]
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By Kathryn Reed I looked around at the students – all sixth-graders – wondering how we got to this place. And I felt sad. I didn’t know the phrase “gateway drug” when I was their age. I could not have told a narcotics officer what drugs were dangerous. (I didn’t even know what a narcotics […]
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By Dick Penniman Have you ever hit a tree while skiing? It doesn’t take much to imagine what it feels like. It hurts, but worse … it can kill you. That’s why most skiers and snowboarders stay on open, groomed trails. What about hitting a lift tower, a signpost or a snowmaking gun? Is it […]
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By Kristin Luker I was a first-year graduate student at Yale in the late 1960s and had been called into the room of a faceless bureaucrat. What I mostly remember about the man was how gray he was: gray eyes, gray hair, garbed in the traditional Ivy League charcoal-gray suit. He told me that the […]
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