Volume 6, Number 7 • July,
1998
Cover Story
Aristocrats
at Play
Public Employment in Nevada
Believe it or
not, bureaucrats are not a 20th century contrivance. Bygone bureaucracies were actually
responsible to someone. NPRI Senior Research Fellow Ralph Heller brings
you up from antiquity to the present, making it poignantly clear that power in the hands
of today's government servants is too often unchecked by the media or by you. [the article]
Spam be dammed
Who in the world likes junk e-mail? Contributing Editor D. Dowd.
Muska suggests we don't do what the Nevada Legislature tried -- dumping the
First Amendment along with the spam. Trust the marketplace, advises D. Dowd. [the article]
Religious freedom
in the next millennium
Who
in the world opposes religious freedom? Just a few antiquated Stalinist regimes? Upon
returning from two conferences in Tokyo and Berlin, Editor Pat Hickey
questions whether Americans are taking their freedom reigiously enough. [the article]
Departments
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Power and privilege
The label "union thug" is so common- place
we'll probably see it on Jeopardy. What you probably didn't know is how the term
"rat world" is applied to hard- working construction folks in Las Vegas who
choose to work for non-union contractors. Managing Editor Steven Miller
acquaints you with a whole new world of terminology and tactics - compliments of the union
movement.
Bill of Rights
From Elko, Great Basin College economics professor Glen
Tenney debunks the myth that handgun controls will do anything other than hand
guns over to criminals.
Publisher's Page
New Editor Pat Hickey gives you an intro to
himself and a glimpse of things to come.
Nuggets
Diane Alden is back with wit, wisdom, and more
quotes.
Great Speeches
William Faulkner hardly ever gave a speech, but he is
remembered for this one.
Education
Americans understand that our students are
not making the grade, nationally or internationally. An investigative
look by Washington Times writer Carol Innerst reveals how the
nation's teachers are not being adequately schooled. wisdom, and more quotes. |
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 Miller pulls out old standard in opposition to nuke dump
Scoring zero
points for originality, Governor Bob Miller has announced a new approach in the fight to
keep the nation’s nuclear testing ground pristine.
Miller recently explained that the effort to dispose of the waste from the
nation’s nuclear power plants in the Nevada desert should be abandoned because it was
going to cost a lot more than originally planned. ....[more]
An 18th Century Champion of
Personal Privacy
More
than a little alarmed by everything from so-called asset forfeiture laws to judicial
insistence on seeing what former Senator Bob Packwood had written in his personal, private
diaries, today's Americans wonder just how far government should be permitted to go in
violating personal privacy. [more]
Arts, Books
& Culture
Truth, Myth and
the American Indian
Killing the White Man's Indian, by Fergus Bordewich, lays
waste to today's politically correct mythology and helps us truly see the first Americans.
A review by Contributing Editor Diane Alden analyzes a seminal modern
work on the American Indian. [the article]
In the Next Issue:
Latinos
in Nevada
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