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By ROBERT ROMANO Joe Heck. Heck doesn’t get it.” seas,” citing an Americans for Tax Special To The Penny Press Heck said, ““The role of Congress Actually, he does. Heck wants Reform (ATR) pledge. Only, the is not to create jobs, it is to set the government to lower taxes and repeal ATR pledge has nothing to do with You know the campaign sea- conditions under which the private regulations that prevent businesses jobs being shipped overseas, it’s a son is heated up when politicians sector creates jobs.” So, government from expanding and creating more pledge against raising taxes at all. resort to the age-old dishonest tac- should get out of the way, and let the jobs. Congresswoman Titus, on the But the malicious campaign tic of misquoting their opponents. private sector do what it does best. other hand, voted for the jobs-kill- does not end there. As reported Apparently, when the establishment Heck continued, further con- ing ObamaCare and the Waxman- by the Las Vegas Review Journal, firming this point, “And you do that Markey legislation capping carbon “The American Federation of State, through a stable, fair, predictable emissions and increasing energy County and Municipal Employees tax base, you do that by not pursu- prices. has spent about $700,000 on ads Commentary ing onerous regulations on small, Titus has doubled down on her that recycle a dubious claim that medium and large businesses. And quoting out of context, again saying says in the legislature Heck voted that is where we need to get back of her opponent, “He says it’s not the against a vaccine for cervical cancer cannot debate challengers on the sub- to, that limited government that sets responsibility of Congress to create and that he wants to privatize Social stance, it instead debates straw men the conditions for the private sector jobs and I believe it’s very important Security.” — misleading the American people to thrive.” for Congress to create jobs, espe- Only, reports the Journal, it’s not and wasting everyone’s time. But the only part of the full cially when unemployment rates are true: “In reality Heck voted against a Take the latest example of quote that survived the ad that the so high.” mandate requiring health insurance Nevada Democrat Congresswoman incumbent Congresswoman used As if that was not enough, the providers to cover a specific brand of Dina Titus, whose campaign saw fit was “The role of Congress is not to ad said “Heck signed a pledge to vaccine against HPV, which can be a to pull out of context the quote of create jobs”. The clip stops there, protect tax loopholes giant corpo- precursor to cervical cancer. And his her opponent, Nevada State Senator and then the narrator says, “Sen. rations use to ship our jobs over- Social Security plan involves a pro- Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly Voice Of Las Vegas FLOYD BROWN PAGE 5 Penny Wisdom FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Inside: JOE TARTARO PAGE 7 Suppose you were an idiot AL THOMAS PAGE 10 and suppose you were a mem- Harry Must Think ber of Congress. But I repeat WYATT COX PAGE 11 myself. HOWARD RICH PAGE 14 Rurals Are Stupid —Mark Twain LETTER TO THE EDITOR PAGE 14 See Editorial Page 6 PET OF THE WEEK PAGE 15 THE PENNY PRESS,SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 PAGE 4 How Low Can Titus And Friends Go? Continued from page 3 posal to allow new enrollees to choose how their money is invested, while have any impact. But it does show the lengths the establishment will go to keeping employer contributions in the current system. The new enrollees in order to keep a hold of power. could also keep their money in the current system if they wished.” There’s no indication yet if the misleading claims against Heck will Robert Romano is the Senior Editor of Americans for Limited Government (ALG) News Bureau.

www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 PAGE 5 Commentary: Floyd Brown This is an organization that claims to we can’t defend her actions. Maybe The strength of the Reagan coali- Ann, We Won’t be conservative despite its advocacy she has spent too much time with tion was its embrace of the millions of liberal social values that would the elites in D.C., New York and of activists that were motivated to Defend You This make Russell Kirk blush. Hollywood. It looks as though she stand up for traditional values. The GOProud endorses the gay left’s has run up the white flag in the cul- conservative movement switched Time redefinition of marriage. It supports ture war. from activism to institutionalism open homosexuality among the sail- But alas, she is not alone. It is during the late 1980s and 1990s. Sometimes we feel like we’re in ors, airmen and infantry forced to an open secret inside the Beltway Today, the activists are in a new an amusement park funhouse as we live in close quarters in our military. that the political operatives who run movement, the tea-party movement. participate in the present conserva- It wants to remove societal supports the RNC, act as media commenta- Conservative leaders are frantic to tive movement’s battle to confront of traditional family and marriage tors and lead countless so-called get at the front of this parade, but it our culture: The mirrors are dis- by rewriting federal tax and benefit “conservative” organizations in D.C. is unlikely they will succeed. torted; the corners are dark; and a laws. Its members even advocate an long ago surrendered in the culture Americans want leaders who new shock is waiting around every activist foreign policy to pressure war. Every four years there is a nasty have courage. Republicans controlled corner. sovereign countries that have the internecine battle to keep issues like Congress and the White House six The latest shock is the capitula- boldness to outlaw sodomy within the sanctity of human life, the tradi- of the Bush administration’s eight tion of Ann Coulter to LGBT activ- their own borders. tional definition of marriage -- and years, and their failure to achieve ists. She has proudly announced her In the nearly 20 years we have other issues dear to social conserva- any meaningful advance in the cul- acceptance of a speaking engage- known Ann Coulter we have defend- tives -- in the Republican platform. ture war, control spending, or to ment before a group called GOProud. ed her countless times. This time The elites would just as soon Phyllis rein-in government is an important Schlafly and Jim Dobson go away. factor in their subsequent defeat. Even the American Conservative If the Republican leadership Union, to my chagrin is getting side- takes a similar course following ways on this issue. Last year they electoral victories in 2010, they will embraced GOProud as a cosponsor likely experience electoral defeats in of CPAC, the granddaddy of con- 2012 or 2014. servative conferences. CPAC’s Lisa Civilizations are successful in De Pasquale defended the group the long run if they reproduce their last year to Ed Morrissey of Hot values in the next generation. On this Air, saying: “After talking with their scorecard, the conservative move- leadership and reviewing their web- ment is failing. site, I am satisfied that they do not The next half-decade is going to represent a ‘radical leftist agenda,’ decide its success or failure. Running The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: as some have stated, and should not from social conservatism and the be rejected as a CPAC cosponsor.” issues of marriage, family and life Steve Wynn for firing Paris Hilton's boyfriend, Cy Waits, and banning Ms. The movement I joined in 1976 will only hasten its demise. Hilton from his properties. Hilton added to her 15 minutes of what passes when I accepted my membership in FLOYD for celebrity last week by being busted for cocaine possession while in Young Americans for Freedom is and her boyfriend's car. The car was originally stopped going down the strip vastly different than it is today. MARY BETH BROWN because the officer said it was leaving a trail of pot fumes behind it. If only Wynn could ban this duo from Las Vegas.

Dawn Gibbons for endorsing Harry Reid. Now, even the people who genu- inely like Reid must be ashamed enough to vote for Sharron Angle. Harry will get the enraged ferret vote from this one and that may come to three extra votes. The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer And A Bouquet of Weeds To:

The Clark County Judges who want to hire the shameless Morse Arberry to lobby the legislature. Arberry just resigned his seat so he could take the job which pays about $124,000 for part time work over two years. Forget that the judges don't need a lobbyist. Forget that Arberry is not a particularly honorable fellow. How about the fact that they're pissing away public money? www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 PAGE 6 OPINION From The Publisher... Harry Must Think Rural Voters Are Stupid Harry Reid has started his disinformation campaign in rural YOUNG: Nobody has fought any harder for second amend- Nevada to try and blunt the palpable hatred which those ment rights than Harry Reid. whose economy he has single handedly destroyed feel for him. ANNOUNCER: The NRA calls him a true champion of the second amendment. There’s more. Harry Reid stopped out Typically tone deaf, he’s telling people in Ely, Nevada (among of state hunters from getting more of our licenses. Larry other rural markets where we own radio stations) that he Johnson, President of the Nevada Wildlife coalition. has protected their gun rights. JOHNSON: He’s saved hunting as we know it in Nevada. Never mind that he changed his mind on coal-fired power plants and cost that county 2400 jobs. ANNOUNCER: And it was Harry Reid who brought the nation’s best shooting park to Nevada. Never mind that his health-care bill (Reid-Pelosi-Obamacare) comes down particularly hard on rural communities. JOHNSON: Because of his efforts we have the finest shoot- ing facility in the United States. Never mind that Reid typically forgets rural Nevada exists between elections. ANNOUNCER: The power to protect our rights, more land for hunting, new gun facilities, that’s Harry Reid. Harry has protected our gun rights. REID: I’m Harry Reid. As long as I’m Senate Leader, your Oh really, Harry? guns are safe. That’s the reason I’m running for re-election and that’s why I approved this message.” Weren’t you the guy who was the leading cheerleader for both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen’s nominations to the I’ll let our readers—each and every one of whom are smart- Supreme Court. er than Reid and his handlers—pick apart the nonsensical claims in this radio spot. Suffice it to say that the only And didn’t Sotomayor dissent on the recent McDonald deci- reason they are running on our rural radio stations is that sion in which the Supreme Court declared gun-ownership the law says we have to let him say what he wants and we a constitutionally guaranteed right which extended to the cannot reject the business since it is a Federal election. citizens of Chicago? And didn’t you vote against confirming the justices who made that decision? Also suffice it to say that if these spots were subject to the actual truth in advertising laws which Reid is so proud of But none of those inconvenient truths stopped Harry from having passed, I would have rejected them immediately. running the following radio spot on radio stations in Ely, Elko and Winnemucca: But a person who has no more respect for the truth than this can have little or no respect for his constituents. “ANNOUNCER: Harry Reid was 12 when his father gave him his first rifle, starting a lifelong love of guns. Today, no And this is the guy who says Sharron Angle is too one’s doing more to protect our guns than Harry Reid. extreme.

REID: Hunting, owning guns, it’s part of who we are, FRED WEINBERG and a fundamental constitutional right. Announcer: When Republican Bill Young was Sheriff, he saw Harry up close. THE PENNY PRESS,SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 PAGE 7 Gun Control Vs. Right Of Survival By JOSEPH P. TARTARO If the intruder does not answer and makes no move to leave, or attempts Executive Editor, Gun Week to approach you, you’re next defensive response is verbal. Special To The Penny Press You can tell them to get out immediately. You can tell them you are call- ing the police. You can blow a whistle or trigger an alarm. There is an essential dichotomy that governs consideration of gun con- But if the person does not respond, does not begin to leave and advances trol. The two prongs of this issue are like railroad tracks. They are insepa- on you, your next response has to be physical, if you are able. By this time rable. They run parallel to one another to the horizon, but, for many, they your adrenalin is charging through the roof. don’t seem to meet. Or do they? If, however, you can now see the marauder(s) and he/she/they is The one rail is the issue of what is generally called “gun control” but is approaching with a club, pipe, knife, gun or even a piece of rope in hand, really a codified policy regarding who may or may not have access to per- what do you do? sonal small arms. The concept of such controls is not a new idea, nor even a You’ve already called 9-1-1. You’ve already sounded an alarm. You may recent idea. It is ancient as we shall see in a moment. It is also universal in have already retreated to a safe room. that it has been tried in many nations and cultures over eons. And the results But there is no one who can help you in time if the intruder is across the have generally been disastrous to the people who are not in power. room, or just a few steps away. The other rail concerns the right to survive. Or, as it is enshrined in What will you do? the Declaration of Independence—the philosophical document on which If you are someone who has thought about this moment before and has the Constitution is based—“life” as in “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of decided you could not harm or even take the life of someone who is attack- Happiness.” ing you—or your brother or sister—or your mother or father. If you have In other words: Survival, the right to live and keep living; the right to decided that you would rather give up your life, or the life of someone you ward off attacks that threaten your life, as an individual, and as a people. love, rather than harm another human being, so be it. You’ll just be another The right to self-defense—as an individual or as a people or culture—is crime statistic. universal. It is embraced by most of the world’s major religions, and by However, if you have decided that you can and will resist such an unjust scholars and philosophers through the ages. attack on your life, or the life of another, you should have to have the means It is the preeminent right because it is so fundamental. to do so. And that means probably will include a handgun. It says you have the right to do almost anything to save your life or the Even five of nine members of the US Supreme Court have agreed not life of someone close to you when you are faced with immediate death or once, but twice that a gun, usually a handgun, is the most common and rea- severe bodily harm. sonable tool for self-defense against predatory attack. It means that you have moral and ethical right to seriously injure or take All of this is why the issue of survival keeps running parallel to the the life of the person or persons attacking you, or someone close to you. In debate on firearms policy. It’s as basic as that. fact, in some religious teachings, it is not only a right to stop the attack, but Bear in mind that the courts have also said that the police have no obli- an obligation. gation to provide protection or come to the aid of any individual. A multiple Now, this poses the question of how you may defend yourself, by what rape case in Washington, DC, not too many years ago got all the way to the means, and the general answer is by any reasonable means. If someone Supreme Court. And the court found for the city and police, not the women comes at you with personal weapons—hands and feet, punches and kicks, victims who had sued. can you immediately employ a knife or handgun? As it happens at the time, Washington, DC, had the most stringent gun The answer may be generally no, or yes. It depends on whether you are control laws in the United States. You could not keep a loaded and unlocked physically able to respond with like personal force. handgun, rifle or shotgun in your home or place of business. You could not If you cannot respond in kind, because of a disparity in size, age, infir- even buy a handgun that had not been registered prior to enactment of the mity, whatever, between you and your attacker, you would be right in using law in 1976. a superior tool, baseball bat, kitchen knife or a gun. Since the high court’s Heller decision, a very small percentage of the If the attacker comes at you with a knife, obviously you can and should residents of the nation’ capital city have been able to acquire handguns to respond with a gun. We’ve all heard the axiom about not bringing a knife keep in their homes. to a gun fight. Chicago had similar restraints on the means to self-defense, and the Of course, the laws of a particular state may detail this more succinctly. Supreme Court has also struck down those laws. And, even as this is written, But there is ample provision in law for both justifiable homicide and excus- a few residents of the Windy City are in the process of regaining the means able homicide, usually based on a “reasonable person” standard. to self-defense. By that I mean, what would any other reasonable person have done in But the battle against state and local governments that deny people the the same situation. best means to survival are not over. The struggle goes on in the courts. In the police community, this is discussed as a “continuum of force.” The laws against the means to survival are already being challenged in Let’s trace that continuum in a household break-in, a home invasion. several states and there is no guarantee that all of those gun control laws will It is the middle of the night. You are awakened by a noise, the dog, an be overturned any time soon. And, as has happened in Chicago, the powerful alarm. gun grabbers who hide behind their armed body guards, or who are armed But you are awake and you are frightened by the noise of someone or because of special laws that apply to their political status, will continue to several someones in your home that shouldn’t be there. try to deny the general public the free choice to obtain the best means to They may think you are not home. survival. Fine, the first thing you do is announce your presence. You can do that And thus, the debate between gun control and survival continues. The by simply shouting, “Who’s there.” railroad tracks stretch far into the future. THE PENNY PRESS,SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 PAGE 8 Rodd William Stowell Weekday Mornings 6-9

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Ever heard that one before? The best odds are you have a one When your broker calls you or a friend gives you a great tip on a stock chance In four of making money with any stock or fund purchase. they always talk about how much it will go up and the huge profits you can Buying is not where the smart money looks. Professionals want to know expect. Yes, and pigs can fly. the risk. How much can I lose if I put my money on this? The NYSE is Las Mr. Broker will bury you with information with the pink sheets, green Vegas East and don’t me give that nonsense about being a long term inves- sheets and slicks and prospectuses. It is worthless as everyone already tor. It is still gambling. knows it. It is trading by looking in a rearview mirror. You want to know A wise investor will always compute the amount he is willing to lose what is ahead not what is behind. before he buys anything. It might be 10%, maybe more, maybe less. Be careful of any prospectus. It was not written for the investor. Of How is that arrived at? It is a personal decision only the investor can course, that is what they tell you. No, it was written for the Dilbert lawyer make. Unless it is done the investor will lose money. Doing research will in his cubicle at the SEC in Washington. All he cares about is it conforms to help. If the equity is volatile the risk could be 20%. Choosing a stock with all the jillion securities regulations. He knows them all, but has no idea if the low volatility is much preferred. information in the prospectus is true or how much it has been embellished. In real estate you must buy right. In the stock market the investor must Your friend knows nothing or close to it. He might have a friend who sell right. He must have an exit strategy or he will never make money long has a friend who knows someone in the company he is touting. He is trying term. to help you so don’t blame him if you lose money with this puppy. (It’s not Do you set the amount of risk when you buy? When risk is known you a full grown dog yet.) are able to buy intelligently. Now that you have all the POTENTIALS for huge profits has anyone AL THOMAS asked you how much you are willing to lose? Huh? I doubt if you heard that Al Thomas’ book, “If It Doesn’t Go Up, Don’t Buy It!” has helped thousands one before. of people make money and keep their profits with his simple 2-step method. Brokers never bring it up as it might keep him from creating a commis- Read the first chapter at www.mutualfundmagic.com and discover why he’s sion. Your friend has his head in Never-Never land and has already taken the man that Wall Street does not want you to know. off in his hot-air balloon. THE PENNY PRESS,SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 PAGE 11 Commentary: Wyatt Cox to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is Wronghaven LLC? fair: 1. The purpose and character of the use, including ELY—I’ve been writing these columns for a few years and only had one whether such use is of commercial nature or is for occasion where someone else took the column and made it the basis for one nonprofit educational purposes of their own. 2. The nature of the copyrighted work Our McDonald’s rants apparently became the cause for a pseudo-cus- 3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in tomer service blog to take off on us. I appreciated the recognition but not relation to the copyrighted work as a whole their comments that we were holding McDonalds to a higher standard. We 4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or were, in fact, pointing out that the Arches customer service was so far below value of, the copyrighted work most of the other fast food restaurants on average that they could slide under The distinction between fair use and infringement may be unclear a worm while wearing a high silk hat. and not easily defined. There is no specific number of words, lines, If they would have reproduced the column in whole or part, I would or notes that may safely be taken without permission. have been slightly upset, but would have dropped them a note and asked Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not sub- them to link it, not copy it. Suing? For my thoughts? stitute for obtaining permission.” But it appears that suing for copyright infringement has become a whole new industry. And it’s rooted here in the Silver State. News-oriented sites like Ron Futrell’s LocalsLoveVegas.com and The Las Vegas Review Journal has engaged a company named FutureVegasMedia.com have discussed and quoted portions of R/J stories Righthaven LLC to track use of the newspapers Intellectual Property and and provided links to the original stories, which in the past have held to be attempt to sue infringers out of existence. proper under Fair Use. Futrell has been sued. He is mounting an aggressive I have no problem with enforcing your Intellectual Property rights. But defense which will net him nothing but the knowledge that he was right. to sue first and ask questions later is akin to hunting squirrels with an RPG. Many other bloggers haven’t the resources or determination of facing down You succeed in killing the squirrel, and in the process, cause a great deal of the Stephens Media machine. collateral damage. But what about political advertising? I don’t think this is about IP protection. It’s about generating revenue It’s been held that political campaigns can use media quotes, passages, and eliminating potential competition. If this was about protecting copy- even broadcast anchor-read stories from local TV stations without having rights, there would be a letter or other contact first requesting the infringing to pay for use. material come down, followed by additional actions after that. Now Righthaven is going after the Sharron Angle campaign. Not so with Righthaven and the RJ. They sue first and ask questions Could it be that Sherm Fredericks, bastion of First Amandment flag later. wwaving, isn’t happy about Angle upsetting his darling in the primary, and So far they have filed over 100 cases in US District Court in Las Vegas. has engineered this effort to bankrupt? Some have attributed and linked material to the Review-Journal, while oth- Probably not, but it sure makes good copy. ers have reprinted articles wholesale. The latter is improper, and the former The bottom line is that the R/J may be suffering from a lack of circula- is protected under Fair Use. The US Copyright office at http://www.copyright. tion, advertising, and integrity. It needs the bucks that a Righthaven can gov/fls/fl102.html points out that the law is unclear: bring in. Let’s suppose that Righthaven works like your typical ambulance chasing attorneys and takes half of what it collects as fees. Given the sue “(Section 107, Title 17, US Code) contains a list of the various first business model, it’s most likely. It’s money the R/J could sure use. purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be It’s not getting any revenue from me any more, that’s for sure. considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teach- ing, scholarship, and research. 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To the eight million Americans who have lost their jobs during the Clearly, that hasn’t happened – nor is it going to happen. egistration “Great Recession,” the so-called recovery our nation is currently experienc- The official U.S. unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 10 September 24, 25 ing hasn’t been very “stimulating.” percent, while the broader “underemployment rate” is stuck at 16.5 percent. ree R and 26, 2010 In fact it’s been downright depressing – and conditions are not likely to Neither rate has moved for months, although both are about to start moving F 25th improve anytime soon. again – albeit in the wrong direction. Annual Hyatt Regency With virtually all economic indicators retreating and a barrage of job- Last month, the U.S. economic growth rate for the second quarter was killing tax hikes scheduled to take effect in 2011, a dreaded “double-dip” revised downward from 2.4 percent to 1.6 percent – with roughly the same San Francisco Airport recession is imminent – despite repeated assurances to the contrary from the anemic rate of growth predicted for the third quarter. Meanwhile existing administration of President Barack Obama. Also with trillions of taxpayer home sales plunged by 27.2 percent – the largest one-month decline ever dollars still being spent, lent, pledged and printed in the name of supporting – and new home sales fell by 12.4 percent to their lowest level ever. this phantom “recovery,” government continues to amass a debt so large that Just as it did in 1929, the U.S. government is on the verge of turning a 2010 Gun Rights Policy Conference its interest payments alone will consume more than a third of federal income recession into a depression by virtue of its costly excess interventionism. tax revenue by 2015. In 1930, a year after the stock market collapsed, the U.S. unemployment Far from preventing an economic collapse, the costly federal interven- rate stood at 8.7 percent. In 1932 – after an ill-conceived government tariff, tionist policies of Obama and former President George W. Bush have sown massive public works program and the largest tax hike in American history the seeds for a larger, longer economic downturn – mirroring the failed – the unemployment rate had nearly tripled to 23.6 percent. Six years later “government-first” approach of the 1930s that managed to turn a recession – after the implementation of Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” – it was still SavingSaving FFrreedom!eedom! into full-blown depression. at 19 percent. Sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Just as government cannot tax and spend its way out of bad economic Also, let’s not forget government’s starring role in the years leading up times (then or now), the Obama administration is discovering that it can’t to this crisis – a decade of overspending and politically-correct lending prac- and the Second Amendment Foundation talk its way out of them either – although that hasn’t stopped the authors of tices that pumped trillions of dollars into mortgages for people who simply Come meet national gun rights leaders and your fellow grassroots activists at the 25th Annual Gun “Obamanomics” from attempting to do so. couldn’t afford them. Rights Policy Conference (GRPC 2010) in San Francisco, California. This is your once-a-year chance to A year ago U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared that Amazingly Obama and his allies still cannot read the handwriting on the network and get an insider look and plan pro-gun rights strategies for the coming year. the U.S. recession was over – a sentiment that was echoed by Obama’s top wall, as just a few weeks ago Vice-President Biden reiterated that there was Past GRPCs have outlined victory plans and made public the latest firearms trends. They allow economic advisor in December of 2009. In April of this year, Obama’s other “no doubt we’re moving in the right direction” economically. you a first-hand chance to hear movement leaders--and make your voice heard. top economist said that there would be no “double-dip” recession, comments Despite the rhetoric of “recovery,” America’s economic hole is clearly This year we’ll take a look at critical issues such as: city gun bans, youth violence, “smart” guns, concealed carry, federal legislation, legal actions, gun show regulation, state and local activity. We’ll which prompted a flurry of rosy rhetoric from the White House. getting deeper – and the only way out is a return to the free market, limited also preview the upcoming elections and analyze the U.S. Supreme Court McDonald decision. “We can say beyond a shadow of a doubt today we are headed in the government principles on which our nation was founded. The full roster of GRPC 2010 speakers has not yet been set. Past speakers have included: Alan M. right direction,” Obama said during a speech back in May. “All those tough Let’s hope our elected officials realize that before it is too late. Gottlieb, Joseph P. Tartaro, Wayne LaPierre, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Larry Elder, Ken Hamblin, steps we took, they’re working, despite all the naysayers who were predict- HOWARD RICH John Lott, Sandy Froman, Massad Ayoob, Tom Gresham, Alan Gura, Reps. Bob Barr and Chris ing failure a year ago.” The author is chairman of Americans for Limited Government. Cannon and many others. Check our web sites -- www.saf.org or www.ccrkba.org for updates. CONFERENCE and HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF MATERIALS ARE FREE! Books, monographs and other materials—enough to start a Second Amendment library are free, as are Saturday We Get Letters... luncheon, Friday and Saturday evening receptions and morning and afternoon snack breaks. Other meals, travel and lodging are to be paid by attendee. After you register, you will be mailed information about hotel reservations, Editor, entire district as a group and I think we’d all be a little more confident in the quality invited speakers and a tentative agenda. of education in our state. It angers me to hear callers on our local Channel 5 call in While I agree with almost all of your assessment of education deficiencies, and say how, with the release of NCLB figures, how mad they are about the “obvi- particularly in the area of parental involvement, I’d like to set the record straight ously poor quality of our schools and teachers”. I do not believe that is true. for you on the AYP (adequate yearly progress) question. Before I became a teacher, I was in business in LV for 22 years. I have 6 I am a teacher at Foothill High School. I teach dual credit CSN Pol Sci children who are products of the Clark County Public School system, 4 girls and 2 2010 Gun Rights Policy Conference / FREE 101/CCSD Honors Government and AP Government (I have all seniors, thank boys. Three went to Western HS and three to Chaparral (BOTH haven’t met AYP Yes, I want to attend. I understand that registration, conference materials and luncheon will be provided goodness). Foothill did not make AYP this year and here’s why: Schools are for 8 years). My children are: 1 large business owner, 1 Professional Civil Engineer, courtesy of CCRKBA and SAF. All other meals, lodging and airfare are to be paid by attendee. divided into 32 subgroups for evaluation and each subgroup MUST make a cer- 1 family practice doctor, 1 major real estate property manager, 1 attorney (for tain percentage of improvement every year, usually 10% (pretty difficult if you’re MTV), and one elementary school teacher. I have no complaints about the educa- NAME______already at 92%). This year, in Special Education, we had a subgroup comprised of tion they received in Clark County, but as you have suggested...I was involved in ADDRESS______5 severely handicapped students. One (1) of these students was unable to achieve their education. (I became a teacher AFTER most of them were in college). over 80% in reading proficiency (this also happened to us in 2005). As a result, So before we become critical of all schools and school districts, please do a CITY______STATE______ZIP______PHONE (______)______our school and all 2700 students are “rated” by No Child Left Behind criteria as a little research on the criteria used to evaluate them. Fax______Email______Topics you would like discussed:______“failure” this year. This goes for ALL Clark County High Schools but TWO(2)!! Yours very truly (and a HUGE fan of The Penny Press) NCLB has a number of other flaws in its criteria, but this is probably the most ______serious one. I do not know how many Clark County (and national) schools are in Richard C. Vaughan Send to: this position, but I suspect it is quite a few. I’m also betting a LOT of other Nevada Las Vegas 2010 GRPC/12500 NE Tenth Place/Bellevue, WA 98005 county schools were in the same boat. A better criteria would be to also rate the Phone (425) 454-7012/ Fax (425) 451-3959 Email your registration to: [email protected] THE PENNY PRESS,SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 PAGE 15 Pet Of The Week Adopt This Pet ! SAGE Call 702-672-7204

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