Nevada, USA Volume 9 Number 18 JANUARY 19, 2012 the PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 2

Penny Press Nevada, USA Volume 9 Number 18 JANUARY 19, 2012 THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 2 www.pennypressnv.com The Penny Press is published weekly by Penny Credits: Far West Radio LLC All Contents © Penny Press 2012 Publisher and Editor: Contributing Editors: Letters to the Editor are encouraged. They should be Press Fred Weinberg Floyd Brown Al Thomas emailed to: [email protected] No unsigned or Logotype Doug French Chuck Muth unverifiable letters will be printed. Pointedlymad John Getter Pat Choate licensed from: 702-418-0433 eFax: 201-304-0355 Rich Gast Tom Mitchell Penny Press NEVADA USA 16 PAGES VOLUME 9 NUMBER 18 JANUARY 19, 2012 Nevada On Front Line Of Property Rights Battle By THOMAS MITCHELL The latest skirmish comes in liberty, or property, without due versus some vague concept of Contributing Editor the form of a case before the U.S. process of law; nor shall private communal benefit — protecting Supreme Court in which the EPA property be taken for public use, “wetlands” — as arbitrarily defined There’s a struggle in the land. has blocked an Idaho couple from without just compensation.” by the bureaucrats. As the briefs It is a fight for superiority between building a home on a half-acre, But The New York Times, in the case show, the definition of the property rights of individuals $23,000 lot in a subdivision near bastion of collectivists editorialized, “wetlands” includes completely dry and “public interest.” Priest Lake. There are already “Allowing challenges to E.P.A. land anywhere near a puddle. several homes between the lot and orders before they are enforced This case is reminiscent of the the lake. would give landowners the ability Kelo v. New London decision six Commentary When Mike and Chantell to delay in correcting the harm years ago. Sackett obtained a building permit they caused. Compliance orders The New York newspaper’s and began to fill the lot to prepare are useful because they allow the editorialists praised the 5-4 court Nevadans have been on the for construction, the EPA stepped agency to press landowners to decision to allow the “power of frontline, voting overwhelmingly in, wielding the cudgel of the Clean negotiate about mitigating harms.” eminent domain to spur development in 2008 for the Peoples’ Initiative Water Act, ordering the couple to Negotiate? Negotiations take was a welcome vindication of cities’ to Stop Taking Our Land (PISTOL) return the lot to its original state place between parties who can ability to act in the public interest. — a constitutional amendment immediately and demanding a fine afford to say, “No.” The EPA has the It also is a setback to the ‘property blocking use of eminent domain of up to $37,500 for each day they power to dither, delay, demand, fine rights’ movement …” to acquire private property for a failed to comply. and litigate until any private party The “public interest” was more private business — and rejecting in The EPA action was clearly a is bankrupt. That is not negotiation. tax money for the bureaucrats of 2010 a ballot initiative that would violation of the Fifth Amendment’s This is a clear contest between New London, Conn. The city seized have poured water down the barrel Takings Clause, which says no the right of individuals to use their the homes of several individuals of PISTOL. person shall “be deprived of life, private property as they see fit and turned it over to Pfizer for a Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly Voice Of Nevada ERIC BING PAGE 5 Penny Wisdom FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Inside: MATT BARBER PAGE 7 No man's life, liberty or AL THOMAS PAGE 10 Ross Miller Courting property are safe while the legislature is in session. ROBERT BRADLEY PAGE 11 Failure As A Legacy —Judge Gideon J. Tucker CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 PETS OF THE WEEK PAGE 15 See Editorial Page 6 THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 4 Your Rights Belong To You—Not The Feds Continued from page 3 research center and associated restaurants and retail stores, because that Murray Rothbard, a former UNLV economics professor, once argued, would generate more tax dollars. (As testament to their hubris, today the “Liberals generally wish to preserve the concept of ‘rights’ for such land is a vacant lot.) ‘human’ rights as freedom of speech, while denying the concept to private On one Sunday, a Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial, along with property. And yet, on the contrary the concept of ‘rights’ only makes columns by myself and Vin Suprynowicz, excoriated the Kelo decision. sense as property rights. For not only are there no human rights which are The editorial called it an “un-American expansion of government power not also property rights, but the former rights lose their absoluteness and at the expense of individual liberty.” clarity and become fuzzy and vulnerable when property rights are not used I said it was a “nullification of the Fifth Amendment’s provision as the standard.” barring taking of public property except for public use … just because the Rights accrue to the individual, not to some amorphous collective city thought it might gin up more tax revenue.” of seething humanity. But far too many people are willing to make the Suprynowicz said the court “gutted our property rights like a flopping individual subservient to the collective — along with their rights, liberty fish,” and suggested the town of Weare, N.H., condemn Justice David and property. Souter’s family home and give it to a hotel builder. A disregard for private Thomas Mitchell is a longtime Nevadan. 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It may vary in colour, shape, size, cost and appearance. www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 5 Commentary: Eric Bing news -- fully 70% of anti-retroviral retroviral drugs. countries, yet fewer than 5% of The Next Step HIV/AIDS drugs available in poor After the global HIV/AIDS women in these parts of the world countries are provided by the fund. rate of new infections exploded in will ever have a pelvic exam. in Fighting It’s up to the rest of the the 1980s and 1990s, experts were Meanwhile, every year there international community to pick predicting the disease would kill are some 1.4 million new breast up the slack. Given the uncertain off entire generations of people cancer cases worldwide. More Disease in the economic climate, it’s all the more in poorer countries. PEPFAR was than 450,000 women die from the important that we are focusing our a cornerstone in the international disease annually. Developing energies and dollars on programs effort to check the spread of the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon is a that will work, sharing resources epidemic. Program officials, $75 million joint effort between World and maximizing the synergies across making a concerted effort not to the George W. Bush Institute, disease-specific infrastructures. trample local medical operations, PEPFAR, Susan G. Komen for the One of the world’s largest Fortunately, a large-scale model of worked in conjunction with state Cure, UNAIDS, and several major foreign aid organizations just an effective program already exists and municipal authorities to build companies. announced it will be forced to -- and it was started right here in the up medical infrastructure and It follows the PEPFAR playbook: make substantial program cuts this United States. address the health care challenges contribute vital medical equipment year.

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