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By MICHAEL SCHAUSSpecial to the Penny Press

Contrary to the fulminations coming out of program opponents, ESAs are not dead and the law was actually found to be constitutionally

solid on multiple critically important points.

It now looks like the defenders of the status quo — the people more concerned with funding failure-ridden public schools than expanding educational opportunities for children — are actually beginning to believe their own propaganda.

With self-righteous indignation,

the ACLU and Educate Nevada Now — the two leading opponents of Nevada’s sweeping Education Savings Accounts program, (ESAs) — are demanding that Treasurer Dan Schwartz essentially stop doing his job.

A lawyer for one of the groups even sent a letter to Nevada’s Attorney General, demanding that action be taken to stop Schwartz from continuing to accept ESA applications from hopeful parents.

“It’s time for Treasurer Schwartz to face the fact that ESA vouchers were declared unconstitutional because they would have drained tens of millions of dollars from Nevada’s public schools, with Clark County schools losing over $30 million in the first year alone,” said Sylvia Lazos, UNLV law school professor and policy director for

ENN.A law professor should have

more respect for the facts.Contrary to the fulminations

coming out of program opponents, ESAs are not dead and the law was actually found to be constitutionally solid on multiple critically important points. It was the plaintiffs themselves, the court showed, who were seeking unconstitutional rules to strait-jacket Nevada public education. And on all those issues, ESA opponents bit the dust.

What the state’s high court took issue with in the law passed by the 2015 Legislature, however, was the particular funding mechanism on which lawmakers had settled. ESAs, in themselves, the Supreme Court held, were entirely within the law.

However, said the Court,

ESAs cannot, constitutionally, be funded out of a particular account — the state Distributive School Account (DSA) — because it was theoretically possible that so many parents could abandon the public schools that the state would find itself incapable of also fulfilling its constitutional obligation to maintain a system of public schools.

Secondly, noted the court, because the ESA legislation was passed by lawmakers before the DSA was funded, it runs afoul of a constitutional amendment passed in the 1990s requiring that DSA money be appropriated before any other appropriations. Technically, therefore, the ESA legislation did not qualify as an appropriation bill.

Of course, when the court released its ruling ESA opponents rushed to claim the program was

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Penny WisdomThat’s (the United Nations) some very good real estate in New York. Trump ought to figure out a way to put his name on it and turn it into condos. — Charles Krauthammer

The Conservative Weekly Voice Of NevadaInside:Obama Anti Semite,Closet Radical Islamic

See Editorial Page 6

RON KNECHT PAGE 5FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6ROBERT RINGER PAGE 7TIM OGILVIE PAGE 9TUCKER/VANETIK PAGE 10ROBERT ROMANO PAGE 11CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14

Death of Nevada ESAs Greatly Exaggerated

Commentary

Continued on page4

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“dead.”But the truth is, ESAs are alive. They’re simply not funded.And, based on Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval’s pledge to place

ESA funding in his Executive Budget, it’s entirely appropriate for Nevada Treasurer Schwartz to create, process and approve as many applications as parents would like. It’s then up to lawmakers to decide if over 8,000 Nevada parents will get state assistance providing their children with new opportunities — or if educational choice remains only a privilege for a wealthy and lucky few.

The ACLU and ENN — clearly hoping lawmakers will ignore the hopes of thousands of families — are engaged in a propaganda campaign to demoralize parents and keep the monopoly of the public school system intact.

“You have no hope!” is the silent, but obvious, subtext of this campaign. Its goal? Starving the reform out of existence during the next legislative session.

The reason for this immoral campaign is obvious enough — and fully evident in opponents’ argument that the ESA program will “drain money” from public schools.

Notably, it’s an argument that misses the entire point of education.

Essentially it assumes that children exist to provide jobs for public school employees and education bureaucrats. But all parents instinctively understand their children should never be considered mere funding mechanisms for chronically subpar government schools.

Of course the alternative — having a public conversation focused on the needs of students and parents, rather than politicians or bureaucrats — is the last thing defenders of the status quo want.

So, to ENN and the ACLU, it is much easier to try to convince families that local public schools are the only choice available, rather than argue against the merits of putting parents in control of their child’s educational dollars.

From a political perspective, it makes sense that these two organizations would try to damp down the excitement and enthusiasm parents have for the reform.

The fact that they are now threatening more legal action, however, seems to indicate that — instead of actually reading the Supreme Court decision — they’ve been drinking too much of their own Kool-Aid.Michael Schaus is communications director of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, a nonpartisan, free-market think tank, and a Heartland Institute policy advisor. For more visit http://npri.org.

ACLU Waging Political War on School ChoiceContinued from page 3

The Godfather: It’s About Family and MoreEditor’s Note: This column originally appeared in this space a year ago.

Why is The Godfather so popular among conservative men?

A Mafia film with some famously violent scenes and dealing with the problems of a family (in both senses) of criminals? One that ends with the underworld boss fully in control after dispatching his enemies with extreme prejudice?

True, the earnest opening lines are: “I love America. America has

made my fortune.” An awesome beginning, but that’s not the reason.

Much of the reason lies with the backstory we heard about how Francis Ford Coppola came to produce and direct the film and co-author its script with Mario Puzo, who wrote the book.

In 1970, Coppola had already co-scripted Patton, another great film beloved by conservatives. While still not rich, he was a hot young film-maker. He worked in San Francisco and was looking for digs in wealthy Marin County, across the Golden Gate from The City, and the center as much as anywhere in the world of hip culture of the ‘70s.

He was part of a crowd that liked to crash many weekends from Friday to Monday at some group member’s home and party as folks

could only in Groovy Marin. Dope, food, booze, coupling, hot tubs, group grope, music, whatever.

One weekend, a young woman in the group who was known to give good party, sat curled up in a corner of a back bedroom all by herself throughout the entire event reading Puzo’s book. Coppola had seen other young women seemingly transfixed by this best-selling book at the time. He asked her what charm a gangster novel could possibly hold for someone of her sophistication.

And she gave him the answer that captured perhaps its most important character and a key theme around which he organized the film. She said simply: “It’s about family.” So, he took up a book he otherwise would not have read. He saw she was spot on. And there were other really great aspects of the story.

Paramount Pictures was looking for someone to make the movie. Despite his Sicilian-American bona fides and a good resume for a film-maker in his early thirties, including some feature-film directing and much writing, he hadn’t yet directed or produced a major picture. At first, he had reservations about taking it on, too.

Paramount already had two name-brand directors in its sights, but they passed and he was hired. His hippie appearance didn’t help with some of The Suits, however, and the relationship was rocky from the start and tenuous throughout. But he prevailed on casting, setting, mood and other artistic choices.

The essence of the story is family, as the aging Don Vito seeks to groom his oldest son Sonny as his successor in empire and to shield his youngest one, college

boy and war veteran Michael, from all the family business so he can go legitimate and become perhaps senator or governor.

But Sonny is an arrogant, imprudent hothead who ultimately thereby gets himself gunned down. Second son Fredo is stupid and feckless, allowing the old man to be shot. In their time of need, Michael steps forward to take control in key situations requiring diligence, care and judgment. Protecting the old man who is recuperating in a hospital bed, Michael whispers, “I’m with you now, Pop,” and the Don knows he can be trusted to lead the family prudently.

Among the most touching scenes are those of a recovering Pop assiduously mentoring Michael to become the new Godfather and Michael just as eagerly learning. All that is essential when the climax comes, and it allows Michael to prevail.

There’s lots more about family, involving both Michael’s brothers and the women in his life. And Pop’s insistence that: “Any man who does not spend time with his wife and children cannot call himself a real man.” It’s all catnip for conservative men.

Moreover, as reflected in the end of Part II, this is thoroughly a morality tale. Michael has again prevailed over many enemies and is wealthy, but feels like he has a mouthful of ashes. The words of his former crime partner explain Michael’s paradox: “This is the business we have chosen.”

It’s worth watching again this New Year’s weekend. Happy 2017!

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The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To:President Elect Donald Trump who questioned the effectiveness of the United Nations, saying it’s just a club for people to “have a good time,” after the U.N. Security Council voted last week to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, sites which Israel won after an Arab sneak attack in 1967.

Israel’s Prime Minister who lashed out at President Barack Obama, accusing him of a “shameful ambush” at the United Nations over West Bank settlements and saying he is looking forward to working with his “friend” President-elect Donald Trump. Netanyahu’s comments came a day after the United States broke with past practice and allowed the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a “flagrant violation” of international law.

The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer And A Bouquet of Weeds To:President Barack Obama who, with his customary arrogance and lack of class told his former campaign manager that if he were allowed to run for a third term he would have beat President Elect Donald Trump. One of the reasons Trump won in the first place was the total lack of accomplishment in Obama’s two terms. He was an affirmative action hire who—in a different world—would have been fired. www.pennypressnv.com

Tips Of Our Capand

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Commentary: Ron Knecht & Geoffrey Lawrence

RON KNECHT and GEOFFREY LAWRENCE

I was raised in a reform Jewish household where we went to Sunday School for 10 years whether we needed it or not.

It was almost a 10 year, college level education in comparative religion taught by some of the best and brightest in the Midwest. We got to see through most of our teachers’ bias and make decisions for ourselves. We learned Jewish ritual and we learned why that was important to a people more often the oppressed and almost never the aggressor.

We learned that after the end of World War Two, when it became widely known that Adolph Hitler’s “final solution” included the genocide of 6,000,000 Jews, some of our more recent ancestors said, “never again” and decided that one of the ways to insure that was to create a Jewish state named Israel. We also learned that—even in Peoria, Illinois—many of us (my sisters and I included) were only one or two generations removed from either people who fled Europe prior to the war or came after the war with serial numbers tattooed on their forearms.

Israel came about in 1947, carved out of a desert, surrounded by avowed enemies which, to this day, have promised to push the only democracy in the Middle East into the sea.

And yet…

About 75 years later, it is a nation which has thrived at no expense to its neighbors save the ass whipping it dealt those neighbors which tried to make good on those vows to wipe it off the map in 1967.

It has been the most reliable ally of the United States despite the fact that the Obama administration literally sent its campaign vendors to Israel to interfere with its recent elections and try to defeat, unsuccessfully, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who our soon to be former President deemed too right wing. Keep in mind that this is the same clown who just told us that the Russians (gasp!) tried to interfere in our own elections.

And, as a going away present, that same clown (Obama, if you don’t have a scorecard) orchestrated a United Nations (an oxymoron is there ever was one) Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s construction of housing within its capital, Jerusalem’s, city limits because they are contested by whatever the Palestinian Authority calls its law this week.

And to leave that resolution on the United Nations’ pathetic permanent record card, Obama had his lame excuse for an ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Powers, abstain from the vote and not veto the resolution.

Other than to illustrate what a useless body the UN is, it was a way for Obama himself to show the world that since he no longer needed Jewish voters, they could go screw themselves.

It’s not like Jews in America couldn’t see this coming. The fact is that if Obama isn’t actually a Muslim he’s certainly a sympathizer who is willing to participate in amazing verbal gymnastics to play both sides of the fence.

Given the times that I was attending Sunday School at Temple Anshi Emeth—less than 25 years had passed since the Holocaust—it was a little easier to put Israel into perspective for people of my generation.

Today, not so much. The words Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald no longer carry the instant ability to still a conversation—primarily because, except for students of history, very few people born after 1970 know where those extermination camps are or their significance. Time has a way of making the horrible a little more acceptable. And people like Obama have become the useful idiots of the Islamic State in helping that acceptance along.

Apparently, Israel has not only become “inconvenient” for Obama but for a large group of so-called Jews in the United States as well.

There is simply no other explanation for any Jew—and that’s the majority of them—who supported Obama in two elections.

Fortunately, even Obama can only have two terms. Not only is he NOT a “friend” of Israel’s, but I don’t think he’s much of a friend of the Jewish people, either.

This is a guy who was purely focused on getting the reliable votes of a reliably liberal voting group while busily stabbing them in the back because the truth is that he doesn’t believe in or see the necessity of a Jewish state so that an Adolph Hitler can never again exterminate six million Jews. A Jewish state which is, was and should always be strongly backed by the greatest freedom loving nation on the face of the earth in the face of others who would gladly pick up where Hitler left off.

If you think that defending the right to have an abortion, the right to get free birth control pills, the right to have the government pay for your health care is more important than your ultimate right to practice the religion of your birth, than you are simply not thinking about the world in very clear terms. You have lost track of what the term “unalienable rights” really means.

If no other person of Jewish ancestry will say this in print because it is politically incorrect, let me be the one.

Barack Obama didn’t deserve a single Jewish vote, much less 70% of them.

I am almost certain that Donald Trump will do much better. And, he won’t need a majority of Jewish votes to do the right thing.

FRED WEINBERG

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OPINIONFrom The Publisher...

Obama Either an Anti-Semite or Muslim Sympathizer

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The Customer-Employee ChallengeFor many years, I felt a moral obligation to inform business owners whenever I

thought they had a personnel or customer-service problem they may not recognize. I say moral obligation, because I, for one, have always been grateful when a customer — or anyone, for that matter — took the time to call to my attention any aspect of my business which they felt was not up to par.

I use the past tense here because I rarely volunteer my observations anymore. Even though the urge to be of help to a fellow entrepreneur or business owner still resides within me, I long ago came to the conclusion that most business owners are neither interested in, nor serious about, receiving such feedback.

A few years ago, I was doing business with a public relations firm that assigned a seemingly intelligent young lady (“Ms. Snit”) to my account. Subsequent events made it clear that she had it all — negligence, laziness, incompetence, and a huge chip on her shoulder. Her purported job was public relations, but her entitlement mentality caused her to focus on her technical “duties” rather than on pleasing her company’s customers.

After enduring one abysmal experience after another with her, I finally decided to go to the trouble of writing a letter to the CEO of the company, a letter in which I detailed Ms. Snit’s myriad deficiencies and belligerent attitude. I subsequently spoke to him on the phone and emphasized that I would prefer he handle the matter in a general sort of way in order to avoid a backlash. I specifically requested that he leave my name out of his discussion with her, given that I have an aversion to axe murders.

I suggested that he simply point out some areas of weakness where he felt Ms. Snit needed some improvement. He assured me that he wouldn’t even mention my name and that he would handle the matter “gingerly.” I guess we had differing definitions of the word gingerly, because he not only told her straight out what I had said about her, he actually showed her my letter!

A short time later, I called Ms. Snit to inquire about an unrelated matter, whereupon she went into a tirade about how I had “defamed” her. In rare form, she demonstrated an uncanny knack for coming up with four-letter words that I didn’t even know existed.

Needless to say, from that point on she went out of her way to make things difficult for me. Worse, having been allowed to get away with her outrageous behavior, it was a green light for her to continue to treat her company’s most valued assets — its customers — with glaring contempt.

So much for Ms. Snit.About a year later, I hired an audio/video company to do some work for

me, and dealt primarily with the vice president of new business development. Notwithstanding his impressive title, he never once delivered work to me on time. Worse, he was unresponsive to an extreme.

I finally got so fed up with the bad service I was getting that I felt compelled to let the owner know about it. Since he had been the one to personally solicit my business, I assumed he would be concerned about the lack of follow-through on the part of one of his top people. Here again I asked him to please be sure to handle the problem gingerly since we were only about half way through my project and I didn’t want any problems.

Once again, however, there apparently was a wide disparity between our definitions of “gingerly.” Wham! Immediately after the owner of the company talked to him, the vice president of new business development called to let me know, in no uncertain terms, that he didn’t appreciate my “going behind his back” to complain to his boss.

I didn’t bother to remind him that on numerous occasions I had expressed my dissatisfaction directly to him, but it seemed not to have had any effect. Needless to say, working through the remainder of the project with him was a very uncomfortable experience for me.

Advice: If you’re a business owner, when a customer does you a favor by pointing out that one of your employees is not doing his job properly, don’t make the mistake of creating an adversarial relationship between your employee and your customer. Be grateful to the customer, thank him for taking the time and trouble to tell you about his dissatisfaction, then approach the employee gingerly.

Meaning, tactfully point out the area or areas where you feel he needs improvement, but leave the customer out of it. Why? For at least two reasons.

First, because you can count on the employee’s having his own version of the story, and that version is almost certain to cast him as a victim. Which means you then have to make a decision as to whom to believe.

Second, if you intend to have an ongoing relationship with the customer, the offending employee is likely to act in ways that will drive him away from you by exacting retribution for his “tattling” on him.

I believe that one of the reasons so many employers make this mistake is that they tend to be naive. By and large, anyone ambitious enough to go into business for himself is usually conscientious, competent, reliable, hardworking, and customer-oriented. Where the naiveté comes into play is that such business owners also have a tendency to assume, at least subconsciously, that their employees possess the same traits.

And, fortunately, many employees do — at least the ones who are focused on getting ahead in life. However, the employees who treat customers disrespectfully are most likely to be the same ones who excel at kissing up to their bosses.

How do some employees manage to get away with this kind of charade throughout their careers? Sadly, I believe the egos of many business owners simply can’t resist the gushy verbiage of the professional sycophants on their payroll. It makes them feel secure to know they are surrounded by a cadre of pit bulls who make great theater of protecting their bosses.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that many employers are literally addicted to the fabricated adulation of their employees. The unspoken understanding is that in exchange for treating the boss as if he were the Pope, they can count on him to stand up for the guys and gals on “his team” at all costs.

All of which sounds very noble, except for the reality that it’s simply not good business. An owner cannot serve his customers effectively if he is focused on not offending his employees.

I want to emphasize that making certain your employees are treating your customers with tender loving care does not prevent you from treating those same employees with respect. But your relationship with an employee should be based on how well he treats your most precious asset — your customers — rather than how well he treats you.

The corollary to this is that if you happen to be an employee, you should skip the sycophantism and focus your efforts on pleasing your company’s customers. You’ll get ahead much more quickly by having customers tell your boss what great service you gave them rather than by your continually telling the boss how great he is.

Finally, if you’re a work-alone entrepreneur, everything is in your lap, because you are both the employee and the employer. Without customers, you have nothing. Treat them like the valuable assets they are. The only rigid policy you should have is that the customer must be satisfied at all costs.

In fact, you should look at every customer complaint as an opportunity to strengthen your relationship with that customer. I’ve done this a thousand times in my career not only by apologizing and thanking the customer for letting me know about his dissatisfaction, but also by doing something special for him.

Almost without fail, it results in having a more loyal customer than having one who has never registered a complaint. In other words, you should view a customer’s complaint as an opportunity rather than a problem.

One last piece of advice that I feel is critical: Don’t ask customers to fill out evaluation forms unless you, personally, are prepared to read them. On at least two occasions that I can think of, I was about to fill out one of those “tell us how we’re doing” forms, because I thought the owner of the company would appreciate knowing that someone in his organization was not performing up to par.

The problem? In both cases, the form was to be returned to the very person I was having the problem with! As I said, many business owners are very naive.

If you own a business — or plan to own one some day — never make this mistake. If having your customers evaluate your products and services is really important to you, make sure all customer evaluation forms are sent directly to you. Otherwise, you’re tempting the employee who reads the forms to shred the ones that don’t please him — and then plot ways to get even with those who do the complaining. ROBERT RINGERRobert Ringer (© 2016)is a New York Times #1 bestselling author who has appeared on numerous national radio and television shows, including The Tonight Show, Today, The Dennis Miller Show, Good Morning America, ABC Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, as well as Fox News and Fox Business. To sign up for a free subscription to his mind-expanding daily insights, visit www.robertringer.com.

Commentary: Robert Ringer

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Commentary: Tim OgilvieTo Feed the World, Look to Veterinarians

Across one-fourth of the globe, people aren’t getting the nutrients they need to stay healthy, according to the newly released Global Hunger Index.

In many countries, the cause isn’t a lack of food — it’s a lack of safe food. The risk of malnutrition caused by unsafe food is increasing, as human populations grow and continue to urbanize.

This public health problem can be solved — not by doctors but by veterinarians. They’re crucial to safeguarding the health of animals that are the foundation of the world’s food supply.

Unfortunately, well-trained veterinarians are in short supply worldwide. To improve global food safety, that has to change.

The world’s population will increase by 2.6 billion by 2050. Feeding these billions of new mouths will require a 70 percent boost in food production — including 200 million tons of meat.

Increasing levels of urbanization will make it harder to meet the demand for animal protein. Seven in 10 people will live in cities by 2050. Even a minor disruption in the food supply for one densely populated megacity could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. Contaminated food can quickly result in malnutrition.

In other words, animal health, expressed through food safety, has a significant impact on human health. Consequently, as guardians of animal health and food quality, veterinarians represent a crucial part of our planet’s public health infrastructure.

Vets are essential to the security of the production of foods like eggs, milk, and meat. They ensure that animals are healthy and treated humanely, whether on farms, in transit, or in slaughterhouses.

Food-safety vets are also critical to warding off illnesses that can kill livestock and lead to food shortages.

Consider Rinderpest, or cattle plague. As recently as 20 years ago,

epidemics of the disease could wipe out 95 percent of an infected herd — and thus lead to mass human starvation.

In 2011, Rinderpest was declared eradicated, thanks largely to the vaccination efforts of public-health veterinarians.

Unfortunately, food-animal veterinarians are in decline. Just 17 percent of U.S. vets work with food animals at all — and only 2 percent do so exclusively. Seventy percent of our nation’s veterinarians specialize in dogs and cats.

As the demand for food rises, this shortage could have dangerous consequences for public health. To secure our future food supply, we must recruit and train aspiring food-animal vets now.

Some institutions have taken action. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture pledged $2.4 million to fund education for vets who practice in areas with veterinary medicine shortages. The World Organization for Animal Health has programs to aid in the training of veterinarians to ensure safety of animal products as they move across international borders.

Veterinary schools are also attacking the problem. The University of Georgia, North Carolina State University, and Kansas State University all have incentive programs to encourage veterinary students to specialize in food animals.

At St. George’s University, where I teach, veterinary students adhere to the tenets of the One Health One Medicine Movement. The Movement promotes a holistic view of health that emphasizes the connection between animals, humans, and the environment — with a special focus on public health threats through food.

Our veterinary school also emphasizes the valuable role vets play feeding the planet through our dual-degree program in veterinary medicine and public health as well as our outreach programs in animal and human health.

But there’s more to be done. Veterinarians are integral to supplying safe, nutritious food to our increasingly crowded planet. We cannot allow a shortage of these health professionals to put the world’s food supply at risk. TIMOTHY OGILVIEDr. Timothy Ogilvie is the Dean of St. George’s University School of Veterinary Medicine in Grenada.

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To Win Black Vote, Trump Must Fight Despair with a Job Plan

Donald Trump’s effort to woo black voters has gotten off to a rocky start. The GOP nominee’s main argument — that black communities have been poorly served by Democratic leaders — is certainly powerful. But, as recent polls have shown, this strategy has yet to move the needle with African Americans.

What’s missing from Trump’s appeal is a positive vision for how he will improve the lives of black Americans. And a Republican proposal for creating stable inner-city jobs is exactly the plan the Trump campaign needs.

From Detroit to Washington, DC and Chicago, years of progressive policies have produced black communities plagued by dismally high levels of unemployment and crime.

Look at the West Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester. This is the birthplace of Freddie Gray, the young black man whose death while in police custody sparked the riots that ravaged the city last year. Half of the households in this area earn less than $25,000 a year, and the local murder rate is double the citywide average.

Over the last decade, state and municipal officials have poured $130 million into Sandtown, specifically to spur local business growth and create jobs. Their investments failed horribly. Unemployment didn’t budge. The number of black-owned businesses actually fell.

It’s precisely these sorts of efforts that have created a sense of despair in many black communities. Trump has a chance to replace that dreary narrative with a hopeful vision that promises to put black Americans back to work. Oddly enough, in crafting that plan, he’d do well to take his cue

from the dreaded Carter Administration.Back in 1977, the federal government experimented with a tax credit

that rewarded employers for making new hires. Every company that had expanded its workforce by at least 2 percent over the previous year was awarded a tax credit worth up to $2,100 per employee — about $8,400 in today’s dollars.

This credit goosed job growth. But since it expired after one year, it didn’t make a substantial dent in the ranks of the unemployed.

In 2010, federal lawmakers briefly resuscitated this idea specifically to address the problem of the long-term unemployed. That program offered a $1,000 credit for hiring workers that had been jobless for at least 60 days.

Now imagine a permanent policy that combines elements from both of these initiatives. This new tax credit would cover the long-term unemployed for the first five years after they’ve secured a job. It would offset fully 100 percent of wages — up to, say, $24,000 — for the first year and gradually taper off over the following four.

Such a credit would defray the costs of hiring and encourage companies to expand. The policy would generate the kinds of long-term employment that can transform the lives of inner-city residents.

To pay for the tax credit, Trump can propose targeted cuts to progressive programs that aren’t working.

It’s not enough for Trump to criticize the progressive programs holding back black communities. He needs to offer a hopeful vision of his own. A tax credit that grows jobs from the bottom-up would provide inner city communities with the opportunity and self-respect that Democratic leaders have failed to deliver. THOMAS TUCKER and YURI VANETIKThomas Tucker is the co-founder of The New Majority. Yuri Vanetik is a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and serves on the national board of Gen Next and the Gen Next Foundation.

Commentary: Tucker and Vanetik

Live by executive action, die by executive action

Whatever can be done with executive action can be undone by executive action.

That was one of the messages outgoing President Barack Obama had for his successor, President-elect Donald Trump in an interview with NPR, where Obama said, correctly, that “If he wants to reverse some of those rules, that’s part of the democratic process. That’s, you know, why I tell people to vote — because it turns out elections mean something.”

So, suddenly, upon assuming office, Trump could start immediately rescinding controversial executive actions, whether Obama’s executive amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children, or his decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

In total, Obama has issued 260 executive orders. Those could all be rescinded on day one, as there is no legal requirement they be retained.

There’s also a bevy of regulations, including the 2009 Carbon Endangerment Finding by the Environmental Protection Agency and its corollaries, the new and existing power plant rules, that constituted the agency’s expansive war on coal electricity.

There are labor regulations, including the overtime pay rule or the persuader rule.

There was the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule that conditioned the receipt of community development block grants on municipalities making changes to local zoning along racial and income guidelines.

Those could be rescinded by the agencies that issued them, through the process under the Administrative Procedures Act, which could take a couple of years. Best to get started right away.

There is also the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which gives Congress the power to roll back with simple majorities regulations within

60 legislative days of being implemented. That goes back to June, and according to the Heritage Foundation, includes “many dozens of major rules [that] could be vulnerable to a CRA challenge. These include, among others: Rules under the Dodd–Frank financial regulation law, Sick leave for federal contractors, Offshore drilling rules, and Energy mandates for home appliances.”

It would also include a bevy of midnight regulations now being implemented at lightning speed, said to cost $6 billion.

Then there is Obama’s executive action to indefinitely seal off much of the outer continental shelf in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from oil and gas drilling. Obama officials are bragging that this is one action that cannot be undone by executive action, although there is a clear process under the law for issuing new offshore drilling leases.

But even if an attempt to undo Obama’s action to block drilling via executive action got caught up in federal court, Congress could always just defund it or pass new legislation repealing the provision he invoked.

Speaking of which, Congress could always defund, or prohibit the use of funds to implement regulations and any other executive action. So, where all else fails — if for example litigants manage to preserve certain regulations and other actions via federal court mandates — there is always the budget and the power of the purse where Congress can intervene.

With that in mind, Congress could act preemptively, and defund what it can in the April continuing resolution, particularly controversial items the left is likely to sue over, to strengthen the President’s hand.

A lot can be done to undo Obama’s legacy, and Trump will be in the driver’s seat. Ironically, not so much action is required by Congress. Which, really, is Obama’s fault, since he relied on executive action so much during his tenure.

If Trump washes away Obama’s legacy, ending implementation of a scores of Obama executive orders, actions and regulations, they will be wiped away like a dry erase board—and Obama will have nobody to blame but himself for acting unilaterally to begin with. ROBERT ROMANORobert Romano is the senior editor of Americans for Limited Government.

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Commentary: Robert Romano

Commentary: Natalia CastroWill Islamic State unseat Merkel?

Berlin has been beset with terror once again. In a confirmed act by Islamic State on Monday, a driver drove a speeding tractor trailer through a crowded Christmas market in Germany’s capital, 12 Germans have been killed and dozens are recovering with serious injuries. Unfortunately, this bold act showed a lot more than just the group’s strength in Europe, but also German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s weakness.

Merkel has already begun receiving attacks from political opponents throughout Germany who highlight her openness to refugees as the “importation” of terrorism into the country. A leader of the conservative Alternative for Germany party (AfD), Georg Pazderski, explained to Time Magazine following the attack that , “What happened is an outcome of the chaotic migration policy of Mrs. Merkel. She has to answer for this.”

A lawmaker for AfD, Marcus Pretzell took to Twitter demanding stronger German rule of law and the end of Merkel’s career. He tweeted, “When will the German rule of law strike back? When will this cursed hypocrisy end? It is Merkel’s dead!”

But his demand for accountability is not unique to the political right, members of the European Parliament across Europe and Germany have been quick to blame Merkel for the catastrophe.

The call for political change has been echoed throughout the country. With fear of terror on the rise, Merkel’s actions to import more than 1 million refugees from the Middle East and North Africa fleeing various civil wars seem to have put global interests in front of the safety of her own people, turning the people toward nationalist leaders who empathize with their plight and concur with the need for action.

Frauke Petry, another AfD leader argued similarly that open door, whole continent based solutions were directly linked to domestic terror. Petry explained, “This is a terrible day, but it

is not completely unexpected given the warnings from the security authorities, including about the prospect of an attack on Berlin. We cannot go on denying there is a link between Merkel’s migration policy and these attacks, or we will prepare that ground for more of these attacks.”

The sentiment against open borders has developed into a euroscepticism throughout the continent, pushing Merkel and other national leaders further and further from power.

In France, a country which last year experienced a similar terror attack, Marine Le Pen has grown in power representing right-wing populism and anti-establishment ideas. Her growing significance pushes France further from the EU and can be credited to a growing nationalism in mainland Europe.

Similarly in Italy anti-establishment and euroskeptic candidates are attracting national attention. Under the pledge to hold a referendum removing Italy from the Eurozone and to rein in refugee and migrant crisis, rightist Northern League candidate Matteo Salvini has generated a strong support network.

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Italy has already resigned after a constitutional referendum he proposed was crushed at the polls, in part, because of the refugee crisis.

Candidates like Merkel represent the European Union establishment, which she has led, and which has opened its borders to immigrants and brought terror to European people’s backyards. Now, throughout Europe it has become clear this establishment that Merkel represents is not fighting terror but fueling it.

With the breakdown of these European establishment candidates, risks the breakdown of the entire European Union.

As Germany continues to struggle to fight terrorism, the political fight against a united Europe and integration of refugees has only just begun, which may claim Merkel as its next victim. NATALIA CASTRONatalia Castro is a contributing editor at Americans for Limited Government.

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Watching Outfor Our Country, County and CityLIKE A HAWK!

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Making Garbage Collection Great AgainDo you recycle? Not me. Not after I watched Penn & Teller’s “Bullsh*t” episode

about recycling a few years ago. Indeed, as Penn and Teller explain, the only thing that maybe makes financial sense

is to recycle aluminum. Which is why all the dumpster-diving homeless people are sifting through trash bins for cans and not much else.

So if you truly want to do something positive to help the environment while simultaneously helping the homeless, you should ONLY recycle your empty tuna and soup cans, put them in Hefty trash bags and hand the bags to those “Will Work for Food” people on street corners instead of cash.

But I digress…The reason I bring this up is two-fold…1.) My neighborhood in Clark County recently got “single streamed” by Republic

Services. As Wikipedia explains it, single streaming means that “all paper fibers, plastics,

metals, and other containers are mixed in a collection truck, instead of being sorted by the depositor into separate commodities and handled separately throughout the collection process.”

What it really means in reality is that my trash is now only picked up once a week instead of twice, and I now have one big trash can for recyclables instead of those three red, white and blue crates (that I never used).

It also means I now only get one Republic-provided trash can for my garbage. And it means if I generate more trash in a week than will fit into that single trash can, Republic won’t take it. No more separate trash in Hefty bags that can be tossed in the back of the garbage truck.

Frankly, it sucks - especially since my monthly bill for garbage pick-up wasn’t cut in half the way my service was.

2.) Now, if you’re fortunate enough to live in Las Vegas, you haven’t been single streamed. Yet.

According to an editorial in the Las Vegas Review-Journal last month, Republic’s monopoly contract for twice-a-week residential trash service in Las Vegas runs through 2021.

However, Republic is trying to get the city to extend that service now for an additional 15 years – including forced single streaming and reducing pickups to once a week.

But the big problem with this premature contract extension: No other trash pickup service is being allowed to even submit a competing proposal. That’s not right.

Look, I understand that Republic has been picking up garbage in southern Nevada, quite efficiently and comparatively inexpensively since, I think, the Lincoln administration. But let me ask you a couple of questions…

Have you ever gone online to Expedia, Travelocity or PriceLine to see if you can find a better hotel or air fare deal?

Have you ever price-shopped your local department, appliance or electronics store?Have you ever gone to more than one car dealership to see which has the better

offer?Did you date more than one person before getting married???So what’s the harm in the City of Las Vegas opening up the process and allowing

competitors to at least put on the table competing bids for trash pickup? I mean, if Republic is so good, it should have no problem beating out the competition, right?

On the other hand, maybe - just maybe - there’s a company out there that will offer the citizens of Las Vegas a better deal. And wouldn’t that be in the best interest of the constituents of the mayor and city council?

Again, what’s the harm in simply opening the process and seeing what’s out there?One more parting thought on this…Last month we had an election. You may have read about it.In addition to voting for a new president, the citizens of Nevada voted to open up

the electricity market to competition. Why should the garbage collection monopoly be any different?

Again, what’s the harm in Las Vegas opening the process and looking to see if another company is out there that can make twice-a-week garbage collection great again? And if there is, maybe those of us in Clark County will get it back someday, too. CHUCK MUTH

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