Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
MASTERS OF DISASTER
“Last night, Republicans lost their third special election in a row in districts they had easily carried in the 2004 presidential election. Should the voting patterns found in those districts be repeated in November, it would be a disaster for the GOP.”
– John Fund, Political Diary, 5/14/08OLD GRAY MARE
“I’m [...]
From Fox News:
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s community colleges will no longer admit illegal immigrants, returning to more restrictive policy on the advice of the state Attorney General’s Office.
Last year, the system said it would enroll illegal immigrants who are 18 years old and high school graduates at all of its 58 campuses. The [...]
From Doug Giles:
By Doug Giles
“One of the most salient features of our culture is there is so much bull——.”
Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton philosophy professor
How many of you have met the book smart 4.0 magna cum laude lady who, in regard to street smarts, is a magna dumb loopy chick? What about the poor honey who [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
PROFILES IN POLITICAL COURAGE
“Republican Chairwoman Sue Lowden showed great political courage in standing up against mandatory vaccinations in the state Senate a few years back. That brave stand gave the Culinary union all the ammo they needed to bring her down, absurdly claiming the young mother was ‘in favor of [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
NAACP FIGHTS FOR BUSSING
The Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County is in contract talks with the Teamsters this week at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks. And what cataclysmic issue is of such monumental concern in the negotiations that it warranted a full-scale press release this morning? Wages? [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
STOP THE UNION TAX GRAB
Citizen Outreach is launching a 10-day informational television campaign in Reno and rural Nevada urging voters not to sign the teachers union’s petition to raise taxes which will primarily go to paying union members more money for the bang-up job their doing in our public schools today. [...]
From American Forces Press Service:
By Navy Seaman William Selby
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2008 – The Defense Department is developing a proposal to finance university research on national security-related issues, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday.
The Minerva Consortia, as it’s called, would have the academic and intellectual communities focus on certain physical [...]
From ZombieTime:
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the “Nakba” (Arabic for “Catastrophe,” the Palestinian name for the founding of Israel in May of 1948), the U.C. Berkeley group “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) set up a mock “security checkpoint” at Sather Gate on the U.C. campus, on May 7, 2008.
The purpose of the checkpoint [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
SO LET IT BE WRITTEN, SO LET IT BE DONE
In formally announcing the creation of the James Commission to look into ways to make government more efficient and less expensive, Gov. Jim Gibbons said yesterday, “My first goal is if we can get government so efficient that it does not take [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
STUCK ON STUPID
Just to give you an even better idea of the stupidity of the Nevada Department of Education, especially with regard to how they handle distance learning, or “virtual” schools, by which the students complete their lessons online in the privacy of their own homes. I just received an [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO
The Nevada Department of Education, the Nevada State Board of Education and the teachers union all have objections to one degree or another with distance learning and virtual schools – even though learning online is gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds as more [...]
From Citizens Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE DEAN OF RACE-BAITING
“Howard Dean, the head of the Democratic National Committee, says Republicans are race-baiting when they bring up Sen. Barack Obama’s long-time pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.”
– CNS News, 5/5/08WHAT WAS IN SANDY’S PANTS?
“The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library will not make available to the public the documents that [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
VOUCHER DEMAND HEATING UP IN OHIO
“Applications for Ohio’s state-funded private school vouchers grew nearly 29 percent for the 2008-09 school year, according to final tallies by the state Education Department. Statewide, 10,245 students applied for the EdChoice scholarships, which pay up to $4,375 for eligible K-8 students and $5,150 for [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
LEARNING FROM HISTORY
MGM gaming chief Terri Lanni appeared on Jon Ralston’s Face-to-Face television program this week and had this to say:
“I supported Jim Gibbons. I continue to support him. I don’t agree with everything Jim believes in. I think a pledge of no new taxes is a major mistake. We [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
DINA TAXUS TO THE RESCUE
With the last-minute, mysterious withdrawal of anointed Democrat congressional candidate Robert Daskas in the race against incumbent Republican Rep. Jon Porter, the powers-that-be appear to have settled on anointing state Senate Minority Leader Dina “Tax ’Em Til They Bleed” Titus to replace the previously anointed Daskas.
This is [...]
From Kiplinger.com:
Take a look at Kiplinger.com’s new ‘Paying for College’ Section which features, among other things, the best ways to borrow money for college, key ways to handling credit wisely and how to compare student loans.
I just went through this and it is a GREAT resource! If you’ve got children who are college age or [...]
From the Washington Post:
Pr. William Policies Drive Immigrants To Inner Suburbs
By Amy Gardner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 28, 2008; Page A01
Hundreds of foreign-born families have pulled their children from Prince William County public schools and enrolled them in nearby Fairfax County, Arlington County and Alexandria since the start of the school year, imposing a new [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
HAVING A BALL
Boy, can Nevada GOP Chairwoman Sue Lowden throw a party.
Last night’s Boots and Rhinestones Ball at the Peppermill Casino in Reno was, by every measure, a smashing success. A star-studded who’s-who of Republican leaders, elected officials and grassroots activists turned out to kick off what is expected to [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
IS THERE A CONTEST HERE?
The following email is making its way around the ‘net. You may have already seen it. Not sure who the original author is, or I’d give ‘em credit:
“We in Holland cannot figure out why you (Americans) are even bothering to hold an election. On [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE ROOT OF ALL PUBLIC EDUCATION EVIL
Comedian Lewis Black has a new show on the air called “The Root of All Evil.” Black serves as the judge while two fellow comedians make cases for why one person/entity or another is the worst blight on society. We could use a Nevada episode [...]
From Citizen’s Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
NO DAWN THIS MORNING
I spoke with First Lady Dawn Gibbons last evening at an event in the Larry Ruvo Stateroom at the Governor’s Mansion. She thanked me for thinking of her for the position of Republican National Committeewoman; however, she said that after seriously considering it she’s decided it would [...]
From Citizen’s Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
DAWN OF A NEW COMMITTEEWOMAN
“Gov. Jim Gibbons has declared this week to be National Volunteer Week, which is why we think it’s so totally awesome that first lady Dawn Gibbons is volunteering to be Nevada’s next Republican national committeewoman. A source tells us she’s calling county chairs to gauge support.
“The job [...]
From Fox News (Hat Tip: Joe Enge):
DAKAR, Senegal — On the day he decided to run away, 9-year-old Coli awoke on a filthy mat. Like a pup, he lay curled against the cold, pressed between dozens of other children sleeping head-to-toe on the concrete floor. His T-shirt was damp with the dew that [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
PUBLIK SKOOL MATH
“Higher math failure isn’t just a high school phenomenon in the Clark County School District. End-of-semester exam results show that most district eighth-graders also lack the necessary skills to show competency in algebra. Districtwide, 79.2 percent of the 14,104 eighth-graders tested in pre-algebra earned grades of F. [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES
Another chapter of “Great Moments in Public Education” was written this week in Sparks, Nev., where a public school principal – Kristen McNeill of Moss Elementary School – decreed that children may no longer gather in groups larger than three during recess unless they’re involved in a [...]
From The Radio Patriot:
This morning’s fallout from yesterday’s premiere of Ben Stein’s movie EXPELLED shows up in this piece in the LA Times in which famed atheist (and mendacious) Richard Dawkins (prominently featured) characterizes a belief in a supernatural being tantamount to belief in “space aliens”. Gawd, this guy is condescending…
“I… sometimes hand an olive [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
On April 7, less than a year after it was formed, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus passed the 25,000-members mark and made note of the fact that approximately one out of every 755 college students in the United States is now a member of the organization.
SCCC reached this milestone only days [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE MUTH TAX
Happy Tax Day, everyone! As in your own states, there are incessant efforts to raise taxes in my home state of Nevada. Shockingly, however, I’ve decided to abandon my “no new taxes” pledge and have come up with a tax hike proposal the Left is absolutely going [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE MUTH TAX
Yes, it’s Tax Day! And what better day for me to unveil my compromise proposal for raising taxes in Nevada? Frankly, I don’t see how anyone could possibly oppose this fair-minded, fiscally-conservative plan. Get all the eye-popping details HERE on Muth’s Truths.
MR. ROGERS’ HIGH-TAX NEIGHBORHOOD
Multi-gazillionaire University [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
TESTING, 1,2,3
As a home-school dad and unapologetic school choice advocate I often encounter the complaint from public school defenders that home-schoolers and private school students don’t have to take the same tests as the public school students. In short, I’ll take theirs if they’ll take mine. Click HERE and [...]
From Townhall.com:
By Doug Giles
Did you catch the video this week of a student kicking the stuffing out of an art teacher in Baltimore, Maryland while the rest of the class cheered the pounding on? Y’know, if that teacher was moi, and some F-bomb dropping Darwinian throwback came over my desk to accost me, I’d grab [...]
“Minnesota Madrassa”: the spreading of Cultural Jihad on your tax dollars
comment by Jerry Gordon
This Investor’s Business Daily editorial underscores our earlier posting, today, on Katherine Kersten’s revelatory column in the Minnesota Star Tribune, yesterday. It notes the following: Forced conversion is a genuine concern at TIZA. How many of its 300 students have recited the [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
REID MY LIPS, NO NEW TERM LIMITS
“Sen. Harry Reid continues to play a key role in a quiet but widespread effort in both parties to upend a state constitutional amendment passed in the 1990s imposing term limits on legislators. . . . Nineteen legislators, including (Assembly Speaker Barbara) Buckley, are scheduled [...]
From kstp.com:
A Star Tribune newspaper column has prompted a state investigation into a charter school. A substitute teacher said a school in Inver Grove Heights is blurring the line of separation of church and state.
Being a charter school Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, or TIZA, is supported by tax dollars. The teacher told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
TIME TO TAKE GLOBAL WARMING SERIOUSLY
I have to admit, I’ve been in the camp which hasn’t taken the threat of global warming seriously, but this story from FoodWeek Online has forced me to change my position.
“Beer production in Australia and New Zealand could be cut by climate change within 25 years, [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Take a look at this blog entry from Steve Sebelius over at CityLife yesterday, and then we’ll discuss it a bit…
“Speaking of Gov. Jim Gibbons, a remark of his in the Review-Journal today stands out. The governor was discussing the budget deficit, which has now risen to $910 [...]
From Star Tribune.com:
By KATHERINE KERSTEN, Star Tribune
Recently, I wrote about Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Charter schools are public schools and by law must not endorse or promote religion.
Evidence suggests, however, that TIZA is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers.
TIZA has many characteristics that suggest a [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
A GOOD STOREY
While Democrats in general, and some Republicans like state Sen. Dennis Nolan in particular, continue clamoring for higher taxes, Storey County is actually planning to CUT property taxes this year. Read how a little outside-the-box fiscal conservatism could put a little more money in the pockets of taxpayers [...]
From ACT! for America:
With respect to the advance of militant Islam, we are often asked “what can be done?” The first thing we in the West must do is to make a decision that “tolerance” does not mean we are obligated to be tolerant of Islamist intolerance. As Lee Harris notes in The Suicide of [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
NOW, THIS IS JUST EMBARRASSING
If a gubernatorial proclamation is issued and no one was aware of it, was it actually issued? Yes, in the case of Nevada Home Education Awareness Week.
You may recall an item here in News & Views last year where I ridiculed the silly, often inane, “proclamations” [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
VAYA CON DIOS
Heaven is now well-armed with the arrival of Charlton Heston. Thanks for being such a stalwart defender of the 2nd Amendment, Chuck. Like Moses, you may not have reached the promised land of a Supreme Court ruling affirming our individual God-given right to self-defense, but you helped [...]
I would wager it’s guess the religion time once more here… From Fox News:
SYDNEY, Australia — Five teenagers brandishing baseball bats and machetes rampaged through a suburban school Monday and hit a teacher over the head, police said. Eighteen students were treated for minor injuries.
The drama unfolded as hundreds attended an assembly in an [...]
From The National Terror Alert Response Center:
Why should this story concern you? Read this previous article School Bus Terrorism – A Practical Analysis
Jupiter Florida – A 21-year-old Tequesta man rode a bus with more than 50 Jupiter Middle School students Wednesday, all the while boasting to the children that he was carrying a switchblade knife [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
CFF: CLINTON FAMILY FRAUD
This is just so typically Clinton.
It was disclosed yesterday that the Clintons have raked in over $100 million since leaving the White House with the fine china and bath towels. Fine. It’s a free country. And the money came from idiots stupid enough to pay [...]
From Citizen’s Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE PAMPERED PRINCE OF PRIVILEGE
You just gotta love this story about the former Chairman of the Nevada Democrat Party by Tony Cook in the Las Vegas Sun this week…
“If you don’t know Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins, here’s a tip. Don’t ask him about his parking habits. A Sun reporter [...]
From Islam Monitor:
Written by Sujit DasOf all the heinous crimes modern societies have witnessed, the worst one, obviously, is crime against children. The violent acts of brutality against children often leave scars in their soft minds, which often never heal in their lifetime.
Islam legalizes many crimes in the name of God. If there is [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
RAISING THE BARR
How dangerous is a possible Bob Barr campaign for president as the Libertarian Party nominee to John McCain…and what, if anything, can Republicans do to avoid another Perot-like electoral disaster? Read all about it HERE on Muth’s Truths.
THE MUTH TAX HIKE PLAN
Yes, folks. I’ve finally given up. [...]
From the American Congress for Truth:
Last September at the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas, a Muslim Brotherhood strategy memorandum detailing plans for subverting the United States from within was entered into evidence. The essay below provides background and insight into this plan to “destroy Western Civilization from within.”
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The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
PUBLIC (SCHOOL) SHOOTING GALLERIES
“In all, 20 Chicago public school students have been fatally shot so far this school year—seven in March alone.”
– Washington Post, 4/2/08HOME IS WHERE THE SCHOOL IS
“Nationwide, the National Center for Education Statistics says that in 2003 – the latest year for which it has a number – [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE TASC AT HAND
Government spending has exploded over the last 15 years, far in excess of the population growth rate plus inflation.
What we need is for someone in the governor’s office to take a look at what the state budget was in 1993. Then apply State Sen. Bob Beers’ “Tax [...]
