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By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views

TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES

Due to technical difficulties, Nevada News & Views, the e-newsletter, hasn’t been delivered since Wednesday. We *think* we have the problem fixed now (if you don’t get this, assume the problem still exists).

Because stories were still being posted on a daily basis on the NN&V website, the older ones have moved off the headline page over the last couple of days. So here’s what you missed with direct links to the posts, as well as three days’ worth of Muth’s Truths and Famous Last Words. We apologize for the inconvenience.

• Alice in Raggioland (Chuck Muth)
• Going RINO Hunting (Mark Noonan)
• EXCLUSIVE: Qualifications? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Qualifications (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau)
• GOP Meeting: Ralston and Impeachment and Wire Taps….Oh, My! (NN&V Staff)
• Watchdog.org Releases District by (Phantom) District Stimulus Guide (Franklin Center)
• Drop in Unemployment Rate Expected to be Temporary (Gov. Jim Gibbons)
• Makeup of Revenue Study Citizen Panel Criticized (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau)
• Tax “Study” Committee a Joke, a Fraud and an Insult (Chuck Muth)
• Raggio Recall Effort Underway in Reno (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau)
• Don’t Read Raggio’s Lips, Read His Written Words (Chuck Muth)

And here are today’s stories:

• Sue Lowden is not Sarah Palin (Mike Zahara) – The hysterics and theatrics from the left over Sarah Palin’s book tour have reached levels even I couldn’t have predicted. Mrs Palin has the ability to just drive the lefties completely nuts.
• Expected holiday spending revised downward to $1.2 billion in Nevada (Retail Association of Nevada) – Black Friday is traditionally considered the day that a surge of holiday shopping launches retailers into profitability for the full year. While we’ve always known the early bird gets the worm, this year, an escalating fear may affect consumer behavior more than ever before: inventory shortages.
• Reid Trying to Fool Public on Abortion Coverage in Health Plan (Don Nelson) – Senator Harry Reid has broken his promise to keep abortion out of health care by rejecting the Stupak-Pitts amendment and substituting it with language that will fund and subsidize abortion on demand throughout pregnancy in two large new federal programs.
• Is Charlie Crist Toast? (Chuck Muth) – The national battle for the soul of the Republican Party has moved from New York’s 23rd congressional district to the Florida U.S. Senate race, where incumbent Gov. Charlie Crist is losing ground quickly to an underfunded conservative challenger by the name of Marco Rubio, who is also a former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
• Union Thug Attacks Young Boy Scout (Warner Todd Huston) – 17-year-old Kevin Anderson wanted to add another Eagle Scout badge to his well-earned collection and so spent some 200 hours over several weeks to clear a walking path along the river in east Allentown park in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Click here to read these stories at the Nevada News & Views site!

SURVEY SAYS!

Should Republican Nevada state Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio be recalled for promising voters he wouldn’t raise taxes during the 2008 campaign and then voting for over a billion dollars worth of tax hikes in the 2009 legislative session?

• Yes
• No
• Couldn’t care less

To cast your vote in today’s online survey, click here!

DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS

• Coming up tomorrow: Who wins a three way race for Nevada governor is Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman runs as an independent, if Brian Sandoval is the Republican nominee and Rory Reid is the Democrat nominee? Our latest election poll results answer that question….and raise a whole lot more. Stay tuned, Batfans.
• Harry Reid and Barack Obama needed 60 votes to nationalize our health care system yesterday. He got exactly that number with not a single Republican vote. And why was Harry Reid able to get 60 Democrat votes? Because John Ensign was distracted sleeping with his best friend’s wife when he should have been focused on recruiting candidates, raising money and not losing EIGHT U.S. Senate seats in 2008 as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Why is this man still a United States Senator?
• This just in: The Nevada teachers union endorsed Democrat Rory Reid for governor next year. In other surprising news, the sun rose in the east this morning. Full report at eleven.
• Two more swine flu-related deaths were reported in Clark County last week while swine flu vaccinations continue to be rationed by….the government. Welcome to ObamaCare writ large.
• Republican Rob Archie officially announced on Tuesday his candidacy for the Assembly District 26 seat in Washoe County. “I do not agree with the most crucial decisions that were made in the 2009 Legislative Session and I will work to reverse those decisions,” Archie said in a press release.
• Interesting news from our southern neighbors, as a new Rasmussen poll shows Sen. John McCain in a virtual tie former Rep. J.D. Hayworth should Hayworth decide to challenge McCain in the GOP primary next year. McCain: 45 percent, Hayworth: 43 percent, Minuteman leader Chris Simcox: 4 percent, someone else: 2 percent, undecided: 7 percent. Run J.D., run!
• For those of you who think it’s insane for the Obama administration to be hounding CIA agents who were doing their jobs trying to keep us safe after 9-11, read this column and visit this website to join efforts to defend those who have been defending us.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

• “Is Sue Lowden the ultimate western-state feminist? Well, yes, I think she is. She is wife, mother, grandmother, businesswoman, political person, and candidate, and above all else, her own woman. That was at one time, feminism’s ultimate goal…before being hijacked by strident, militant lesbian-feminists about three decades ago.” – Democrat blogger Mike Zahara
• “The $787 billion Obama stimulus plan was supposed to create jobs and get the economy moving again, raising incomes for everybody. Instead, three million more jobs have been lost.” – Stephen Moore of Political Diary
• “Last month Nevada lost 7,143 jobs. Since the so-called stimulus legislation was signed into law Nevada has lost over 54,000 jobs and since Harry Reid became the Senate Majority Leader the state has lost over 62,000 jobs.” – Jahan Wilcox, RNC Regional Press Secretary, 11/20/09
• “Today, unemployment stands at 10.2% and shows no sign of decreasing. The Obama Administration and the job killing Congress fail to understand we are in a crisis situation. Their efforts to create American jobs failed while spending $787 billion on stimulus that they claimed would cap unemployment at 8%. Taxpayers have only higher unemployment and larger budget deficits to show as a result of our big spending administration and Congress.” – Newt Gingrich
• “Data from Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys shows that 15.0% of Democrats in the workforce are currently unemployed and looking for a job…while just 9.9% of Republicans are in the same situation.” – Rasmussen Reports, 11/19/09
• “(Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark) Amodei boasted of the Chamber of Commerce ‘taking out full-page ads to thank me for helping to kill the 2003 gross receipts tax.’ For some reason, Amodei failed to mention that during the same session he co-sponsored what would have been the largest tax increase in history.” – Columnist Jon Ralston commenting on Thursday candidate forum in Boulder City
• “(The) National Organization for Marriage…now knows, that (Carrie) Prejean is just another shallow, vapid Paris Hilton wannabe draping herself in the Bible while violating most of its precepts. She’s the female equivalent of John Ensign, Mark Sanford, Newt Gingrich, David Vitter and innumerable others who place themselves on a moral pedestal while violating everything they claim to stand for…” – Blogger Ed Brayton commenting on NOM’s decision to drop Prejean from their website after allegations of the existence of sex tapes went public on TMZ
• “Doug Hampton, the former co-chief of staff to Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., speaks out in his first television network interview, about the affair between his former boss and his wife, Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Hampton, also a former Ensign employee. Speaking exclusively to ‘Nightline’ co-anchor Cynthia McFadden (Monday, November 23rd at 11:35 pm EST), Hampton provides astonishing new details about the affair and its many repercussions, including the end of a close 20-year friendship between the two families and the loss of the Hamptons’ jobs.” – ABC News, 11/19/09
• “That ‘Nightline’ program Monday about Sen. John Ensign, if the initial promo I Flashed to you earlier is indicative, could be the final notes of ‘Taps’ that began playing for Ensign’s career on June 16. The interview is expected to take up the entire program and it sounds as if Hampton was even more forceful than he was on ‘Face to Face’ and then with The New York Times. And on national TV this time.” – Jon Ralston, Flash, 11/19/09
• “How much money did Sen. John Ensign’s Battle Born PAC take in during October? Not a penny. The senator spent about $7,000, mostly on legal fees. At least Monday’s “Nightline” can’t hurt his fundraising – nothing from nothing leaves…” – Jon Ralston, Flash, 11/20/09