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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Sep 19, 2013 in Blog, Las Vegas, Politics | 2 comments

Time to Declare a Moratorium on Growth in Las Vegas

Las Vegas faces a serious crisis.

I’m not just talking about the local economy, where every street corner seems to attract someone holding a cardboard sign and more than 40 percent of homeowners are upside down on their mortgages.

I’m talking about water. More specifically, I’m talking about the increasing lack of it. After all, let’s remember — we live in a desert.

Posted by Nolan Dalla on Sep 17, 2013 in Blog, Politics | 2 comments

The Folly of “American Exceptionalism”

With all our guns, all our bombs, all our intelligence — are we actually any safer than the nations with essentially no security or national defense?

Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 16, 2013 in Blog, Essays, Politics | 2 comments

Gays Aren’t Destroying the Institution of Marriage — Rather, They’re Saving It

Opponents of changing marriage laws in the United States claim that extending these rights to same-sex couples “threatens the institution of marriage.”

But evidence shows that gays are hardly matrimony’s primary menace. In fact, it’s the straights, the so-called traditionalists who have evaded, mocked, and in increasing numbers abandoned the most sacred marriage vow, “I wed thee….’til death do us part.”

Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jun 19, 2013 in Blog, Politics | 5 comments

Time for the American Left to Throw in the Towel on the Obama Administration

Maybe the time has finally come to throw in the towel on the Obama Administration.

Our vision for change now has cataracts. Neutered and scandal-ridden, President Obama seems about one more Charlie Sheen meltdown away from lame duckness.

In fact, President Obama isn’t a lame duck. He’s a dead duck. Politically speaking.

Posted by Nolan Dalla on Apr 11, 2013 in Blog, Personal, Rants and Raves | 12 comments

Why Won’t Religion Just Leave Us Alone?

All religions seek to control our lives to determine what we do and how we think. Unfortunately for this reason, we atheists can’t sit idly by and let them pray. We can’t “leave them alone” for one simple reason — because they won’t “leave us alone.”