http://www.npri.org/rss/blogs.asp This is blogs from NPRI en-us (c) 2007 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST http://feedvalidator.org/docs/rss2.html www.eResources.com (Generator) webmaster@npri.org (NPRI) support@eresources.com (eResources) 60 http://www.npri.org/blog/second-thoughts-on-the-second-amendment Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumptive nominee for president, has spent his public career accumulating a consistent record of hostility toward gun rights. He's done this through his financial support for anti-gun groups, his voting record and his rhetoric. Of the recently overturned Washington, D.C., handgun ban, Obama had said last November that he believed the ban to be constitutional.

]]> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:49:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/second-thoughts-on-the-second-amendment http://www.npri.org/blog/judging-the-judges Proponents of gun rights claimed victory this week as the United States Supreme Court, in the latest of several 5-4 decisions, struck down Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns. While the news is certainly welcome, the razor-thin margin by which this case was decided ought to be unsettling for those who believe in fidelity to the Constitution. This one was closer than it should have been.

]]> Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:27:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/judging-the-judges http://www.npri.org/blog/a-changing-climate A friend and NPRI supporter has called to our attention some recent comments by John Coleman, who founded The Weather Channel and is now with KUSI-TV in San Diego. Coleman has some harsh words for Al Gore and his brethren in the environmentalist movement, and makes the case (and a compelling one, at that) that there is a direct link between overblown global warming alarmism and skyrocketing gas prices.

]]> Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:45:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/a-changing-climate http://www.npri.org/blog/naco-vs-the-taxpayers Jon Ralston's blog post from June 11 contains a link to a letter written by Steve Martin of Nevadans for Fair Taxes, in which Martin takes the publicly funded Nevada Association of Counties (NACO) to task for using taxpayer dollars, at the behest of special interests (i.e. gaming and the teacher union) to lobby county governments to push for massive tax increases.

]]> Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:23:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/naco-vs-the-taxpayers http://www.npri.org/blog/right-for-the-wrong-reason Las Vegas Sun editorial published last weekend caught my eye for its sub-headline, which is dead-on accurate: "State government wrestling a budget crisis largely of its own making". Then I read the editorial.]]> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:51:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/right-for-the-wrong-reason http://www.npri.org/blog/john-mccain-and-yucca-mountain Thu, 29 May 2008 13:40:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/john-mccain-and-yucca-mountain http://www.npri.org/blog/neff-said Las Vegas Review-Journal, Erin Neff bemoans Gov. Gibbons' call for state agencies to cut up to 14 percent from anticipated 2009-2011 budget levels.]]> Wed, 21 May 2008 08:45:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/neff-said http://www.npri.org/blog/get-rich-quick National Review before he'd even turned 30, is among today's brightest pundits, on politics and policy alike.]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 14:45:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/get-rich-quick http://www.npri.org/blog/the-continuing-campaign-for-a-grossreceipts-tax Thu, 08 May 2008 18:12:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/the-continuing-campaign-for-a-grossreceipts-tax http://www.npri.org/blog/when-youre-right-youre-right--even-when-youre-centerleft-2 Thu, 08 May 2008 14:48:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/when-youre-right-youre-right--even-when-youre-centerleft-2 http://www.npri.org/blog/it-keeps-growing-and-growing Las Vegas Review-Journal today reveals that Nevada is adding government employees at a slower rate than the rest of the country.]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 11:52:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/it-keeps-growing-and-growing http://www.npri.org/blog/a-big-step-toward-transparency Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:21:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/a-big-step-toward-transparency http://www.npri.org/blog/the-rules-dont-apply Las Vegas Review-Journal has an astute editorial out today on the whining over Gov. Gibbons' insistence that agencies trim their projected budgets in the face of lower-than-expected revenues.]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:35:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/the-rules-dont-apply http://www.npri.org/blog/the-friedman-survey The results of NPRI's statewide survey on Nevadans' attitudes on education, conducted along with the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, are in, and they paint a not-so-pretty picture for the state's education establishment.

]]> Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:30:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/the-friedman-survey http://www.npri.org/blog/understanding-michigan Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:20:00 EST http://www.npri.org/blog/understanding-michigan http://www.npri.org/blog/what-to-make-of-hucks-win Mike Huckabee's victory in the Iowa caucuses, and the growing possibility that he may capture the Republican nomination, have alarmed a lot of folks on the right for whom limited government and fiscal conservatism are priorities.

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