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November 16, 2009

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Editorial: Draft is not a policy cudgel
Under the bill by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., Americans would have to register for the draft after they turn 18. Rangel says that President Bush and members of his administration "would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress" if they thought that their own children would be sent off to fight.
Letter: Iraq war is not winnable, so let's leave
The 9/11 attacks were not planned nor executed from Iraq. There has not been one terrorist attack or plot that has been planned or attempted from within Iraq.
Entertainer Dane determined to build his castle in Las Vegas
Danish entertainer Tom Dane (real name Thomas Eje) lives in a castle in Denmark, complete with a moat, his spokesman says.
Wranglers are riding the magic bus
Returning an inquiry about the Las Vegas Wranglers' slick new bus, team founder and majority owner Charles Davenport promptly rang one afternoon last week.
Editorial: Deterring drunken driving
Breath-test interlock devices will not allow a car to start until the driver blows into an instrument that measures the level of alcohol in the breath. If the alcohol concentration is above a preset level, the vehicle will not start.
John Katsilometes and fellow Beatles fanatic and Fab Four radio host Dennis Mitchell applaud today's release of CD 'Love'
One is that the Beatles' music should never be manipulated and to do so is sacrilege, even with the blessing of the surviving band members.
Editorial: A tragic lack of planning
And, according to a Washington Post story published Monday, the Pentagon has come up with three scenarios:
Many acts of kindness
By Liz Benston
Las Vegas resident Laura Baker had never heard of Ameristar Casinos or Craig Neilsen when she received roughly $10,000 to lower her bathroom sink and remodel her shower to accommodate her wheelchair - a change that allowed Baker to more easily bathe and groom herself.
Delays drive mother's grief
The mother of a motorist who was killed nearly two years ago by an overweight garbage truck waited 20 months to erect a headstone at her daughter's grave site.
Brian Greenspun on the role of Macau in a developing China and of the country's challenges for the future
Why will Macau work?
Letter: Excess food should go to people, not for fuel
A few years back I was at a theater to see a new movie and before the show they ran a commercial that got me thinking. The ad was by Minneapolis-based Cargill, the international agricultural products company. It was promoting the idea of using corn to make fuel for cars.
LOOKING IN ON: HEALTH CARE
By Marshall Allen
Everybody loves an underdog, but there may not be one in the contract standoff between Sierra Health Services and HCA Inc., a national chain of hospitals.
Judge dismisses defamation lawsuit against Sun
A District Court judge on Monday dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Las Vegas Sands Corp. against the Las Vegas Sun and Sun columnist and Business Editor Jeff Simpson.
LOOKING IN ON: CARSON CITY
CARSON CITY - A $40 million tax refund approved by the state for Southern California Edison is on hold.
Letter: America is a land of immigrants
What are these people thinking? Perhaps they are directing their frustrations in the wrong direction and should take a good inner look at themselves and figure out what is really going on.
More overweight trucks cited by Highway Patrol
Two of every five tractor-trailers stopped on city and county streets this year by the Nevada Highway Patrol have been cited as being overweight, the agency's commercial enforcement division says.

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