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The only way to truly kill Yucca Mt. is to use it as bombing practice. As long as the tunnels remain, so will the likelihood that one day they will hold all of the high level nuclear waste ever produced since the dawn of the nuclear age. That cannot be allowed. It is time to test bunker buster bombs on Yuca Mountain!

Steve Gibson's Righthaven is trying to turn the federal court system into an ATM machine. After a while the court will likely do what it did in California when a lawyer flooded the courts with hundreds of lawsuits for technical Americans with Disability Act (ADA) violations: sanction him and shut down this nonsense. Real lawyers serve take-down notices first. Then, if the website owner does not comply, file a lawsuit. Gibson's tactics are both tacky and an enormous waste of judicial resources.

When judicial candidates tour all the law firms in town asking for campaign donations, and then do not recuse themselves from cases in which those law firms appear, they are violating the Judicial Cannon that judges avoid the "appearance of impropriety." So even if they are not being influenced, they are being unethical by definition. And it happens every day in almost every case. Perhaps worse, the system we have now guarantees that about 1/3 of the judges serving in Nevada are incompetent. Block voting by certain groups sweep their insiders onto the bench, and then they proceed to ignore the law and the facts. Many couldn't make it as lawyers so they run for judge. It is time for a change, Nevada. Bring justice and competence to the bench. Question 1 will help end this mess of a system.

I love the way the RJ campaigns for "tort reform." Then they clog the Federal District Court with these frivolous suits filed for an improper purpose and in violation of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Me thinks some fellow lawyers are going to get disciplined . . . and the RJ will have to pay for all the defendants' costs and legal fees. The punitive damages awards against the RJ should be very interesting. Hey, RJ, you gonna sue me for using the same alphabet?

This is exactly the kind of government investment we need in Nevada. But we need to do more than set up Federal research centers. We need more, many more, commercial electricity-producing solar installations. Nevada can and should be the national leader in solar electricity production! Bravo Senator Reid. But this is only the start. We need to expand the grid to distribute the energy. That is where economic stimulus money should go. The investment could be repaid over years through a charge to the utilities who receive the electricity (and the carbon credits they get for using it). Hopefully, this research facility will catalyze further private sector investment. This is exactly why we need to keep Harry Reid as our Senator.