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Well, we'll see. The new chief at Death Valley National Park is saying about what I said a year or two ago, and we'll see if anyone in Pahrump takes notice, or if the effort is more than it can handle. Press the button, Detroit will be accommodating WASHINGTON -- Gulliver's travels took him to the Academy of Lagado, where "professors contrive new rules and methods" for <i>everything</i>: "One man shall do the work of ten; a palace may be built in a week, of materials so durable as to last forever without repairing. All the fruits of the earth shall come to maturity at whatever season we think fit to choose, and increase a hundredfold more than they do at present." There was, however, the "inconvenience" that "none of these projects" had yet come to fruition and "the whole country lies miserably waste." But "instead of being discouraged," people were "fifty times more violently bent upon prosecuting their schemes," which included "extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers." Letters to the Editor COMMUNITY VIEWPOINT: Part of a stronger, larger company As you might imagine, we have been getting a great deal of inquires at the dealership as to what effect the Chrysler bankruptcy has on the local dealership and its customers. Obama benefits from the Bush surge in Iraq Since the invasion of Iraq six years ago, more than 4,000 American servicemen and women have died in the line of duty. Every day, the mainstream media reminded the American people of the mounting casualties. During the presidential campaign candidate Barack Obama sharply criticized the policies of the Bush administration. Such places as Ramadi and Fallujah became synonymous with anarchy, mayhem and death. Each passing month, tens, and in the worst months hundreds, of U.S. war-related deaths were recorded. GUEST COLUMN: It's as Simple as E-I-E-I-O While moving forward on critically important bills such as naming an official state bug, criminalizing taking too many "free" newspapers, and changing the official name of "manicurists" to "nail technologists," the state Assembly killed my bill which would have injected some old-fashioned free-market competition into our Soviet-style government school system. Learning to love the yellow dust of springtime The thick, yellow pine pollen is finally subsiding. Or it could merely be a temporary reprieve brought about by recent rain. It is difficult to think of anything other than pine pollen this time of year. What concerns me is the amount of negative publicity circulating about the spring dust. Labor reform? Still gestating Card check may be dead. It probably is, actually. |
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