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Nevada News & Views – November 12, 2009
Nov 12th, 2009 by TMH
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
- What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Fort Hood Massacre (Chuck Muth) – Most Americans have this whole Fort Hood massacre all wrong. Maj. Nidal M. Hassan was not a terrorist. And he wasn’t a mass murderer. And he may not even have been a coward.
- Angle to Commander-in-Chief: The Time to Lead is Now (NN&V staff) “You shouldn’t be in it if you’re unwilling to win it,” said Sharron Angle on Tuesday in an appeal to a vacillating administration concerning the effort in Afghanistan.
- Big Health Insurers are Ma Bell (Mike Zahara) – In 1974, The USDOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against then monopoly phone company, AT&T—known then as Ma Bell—to break up the ‘Bell Family’ of companies.
- Conservative Principles Will Defeat Harry Reid (Sue Lowden) – Ronald Reagan once quipped that when you start referring to government as “we” instead of “they,” you have been in office too long. Not only is Senator Harry Reid referring to his liberal majority in Washington as “we,” he complains to reporters about the “smell” of American taxpayers when they visit our nation’s Capitol. Harry Reid has been in Washington far too long.
- Schofield Announces Challenge to Heller (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Wearing the same military uniform he first put on in June 1944, Las Vegas Democrat and university Regent Jack Schofield announced yesterday his intention to challenge Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., for Congress in District 2.
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DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
- At least Harry Reid is keeping his priorities straight. According to a note in yesterday’s Roll Call, “After participating in a Veterans Day ceremony Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was scheduled to hit the road for the remainder of the week to raise campaign cash for his 2010 re-election bid.”
- In his CityLife column this week, Steve Sebelius writes that “For (Chuck) Muth, and for (Gov. Jim) Gibbons, taxes are all that matters.” That’s not exactly correct – at least for my part. The main reason I hammer on the tax issue so hard is that if a politician, especially a Republican, can’t get the tax issue right, odds are they’ll screw up all the others as well. So for me it’s not that taxes are the only issue; it’s that it’s a bellwether issue.
- A new liberal website dedicated to beating up on the Las Vegas Review-Journal was launched this week and tried to drag us into the fight, printing enough demonstrably factual errors to make even Sweet Phoebe Purebread’s propaganda machine over at the Nevada Democrat Party look like a paragon of accuracy. So until they clean up their act and correct all their errors, we won’t do them the courtesy of mentioning them by name or linking to their new website.
OTHER NEWS & VIEWS
- RJ: Venetian rolls out red carpet for Tribute to the Troops
- AP: NV Supreme Court ousts appointed judge
- RGJ: Heller Visits Veterans at Reno VA Hospital
- AP: Donor complains employer made him give to Reid
- WSJ: Reid Weighs Medicare Payroll Tax for Health Bill
- Lewis: Republican Lowden the Clear Front-Runner in Nevada
- Mitchell: Pelosi v. Madison on the powers of Congress under the Constitution
- Sebelius: Gibbons is counting on the power of a promise
- Suprynowicz: “I’m a teacher and I work very hard”
- Barrette: Weapons of mass distraction
- PVT: Wiley swings against Reid
- Ely Times: BLM meets with public about new wilderness
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TUBE TIPS
Sam Shad’s guest on today’s Nevada Newsmakers program will be Rep. Dean Heller, Nevada Congressional Dist 2. The program airs on KRNV-TV Channel 4 at 12:30 pm in Reno and on Cox Cable Channel 123 at 4:30 pm and 11:35 pm in Las Vegas.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
- “Senator Harry Reid claims to have all this power and clout, but since he became the Senate Majority Leader the unemployment rate has risen from 4.4 to 13.3 percent.” – Jahan Wilcox, Republican National Committee spokesman, 11/11/09
- “Counting on Harry Reid’s latest ideas about creating jobs is exactly like booking a cruise you know is captained by that guy from the Titanic. . . . Would you want Dr. Kevorkian to be your child’s pediatrician? Then why would we want Harry Reid to work on job creation. Reid has killed more American jobs than he could ever create.” – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chuck Kozak
CALENDAR
- November 12: The Republican Women of Reno host a Fundraiser Benefit for Reno’s Veteran Guest House from 6:00 – 9:00 pm at the Siena Hotel and Casino downstairs in the Enoteca Wine Cellar and Tasting Bar. Cost is $28.00 per person. Please call for Reservations by Sunday, November 8th. 1-866-806-5501.
- November 12: Fundraiser for Assemblyman John Hambrick at 3 Tomatoes & a Mozzarella (6485 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas) from 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Suggested Minimum Contribution: $500 Individuals/ $1000 Corporations. RSVP to Cathy Gibbs at cathy@thesynclink.com or 702.291.7222
- November 13: Citizen Outreach’s Chuck Muth and Elizabeth Crum will duke it out on a Media Panel with Jon Ralston and Steve Sebelius at the Leadership Las Vegas conference conducted by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. 2:30 pm at the Regional Transportation Commission offices in Las Vegas.
- November 13: U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian will be having a meet & greet lunch in Carson City at Grandma Hattie’s from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Please RSVP to Nadine Hastings at (775) 246-4350 or just drop by to say hello if you’re in the area.
- November 14: Nevada Republican Central Committee meeting in Hawthorne.
