Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
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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 [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
HE SAID/HE SAID
Once again the state of Nevada in general, and the Republican Party in particular, find themselves caught up in yet another Gov. Jim Gibbons-related controversy. This time it has to do with the governor’s appointment of former U.S. Government Printer Bruce James to head the newly-created Nevada Spending [...]
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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 [...]
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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? [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
ANOTHER DUMB DEMOCRAT JOKE
An old, blind man wanders into a bar in Washington, DC, by mistake. He finds his way to a barstool and orders a beer. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, “Hey, you wanna hear a Dumb Democrat joke?” The bar [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
Libertarian Fringe Comes Unhinged
We all know the Democrats are having a dickens of a time getting its act together and rallying ‘round a presidential nominee. The party of affirmative action is in a quandary as to whether or not to cast their November lot with the liberal black man or [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
SLOW-DOWNS AND CLOSE-DOWNS
According to USA Today, Disney announced on Thursday that it was closing down 98 of its retail stores due to the slumping economy, while Home Depot announced it was closing down “15 underperforming stores” for the same reason. This combined with companies all across the country who are [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
From: “Jon Ralston”
Date: May 2, 2008 4:35:48 PM PDT
Statement from Gibbons’ lawyer
Today, on behalf of our client Governor Jim Gibbons, our firm filed various legal documents pertaining to the dissolution of his marriage and requesting a court ruling concerning the living arrangements of Governor and Mrs. Gibbons. The documents were filed [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2008
CONTACT: Chuck Muth
(775) 884-9264
GRACE/MUTH/RALSTON COMMISSION COMES TO LIFE
Almost three decades after President Ronald Reagan empanelled the Grace Commission to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal budget, Gov. Gibbons announced yesterday the creation of a similar commission which both Las Vegas Sun columnist John Ralston [...]
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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 [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
THE GULF OF RONKIN INCIDENT
History buffs will recall that a questionable 1964 incident in the Gulf of Tonkin was used by then-President Lyndon Johnson to go to war with North Vietnam. Many surmise that Johnson was looking for an excuse, any excuse, to launch more aggressive military action and used [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
RON PAUL’S BLIND BANK ROBBERS
Many of the Ron Paul supporters at the Nevada GOP convention in Reno this weekend were like blind bank robbers: You know someone is going to get shot; you just don’t know who…and it’s just as likely they’ll shoot one of their own.
That’s exactly the situation we’re [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
RON PAUL REVOLUTION: THE HANG-OVER
First, I wasn’t there.
As an independent, like Nevada, I opted to take my kids to the UNR softball game yesterday afternoon – where the Wolfpack won a no-hitter against Louisiana Tech – rather than attend the Nevada Republican Party convention up the road. So any observations [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
STUPID IS AS THE LEGISLATURE DOES
Carson City District Judge Bill Maddox ruled yesterday that two initiative petitions capping the amount of tax money going to subsidize the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and redirecting excess revenues to public safety and education can go on the ballot if supporters collect the [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
BLOGGERS OF THE RIGHT, UNITE
Folks in Colorado, specifically those who have had to deal with the liberal media machine known as Colorado Media Matters, will be happy to know that center-right/Free-market bloggers are organizing and networking to counter the message of bigger government and more regulation on the lives/businesses of free [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
THE CASE OF THE DEADBEAT LEGISLATOR
When you’re bad to the bone, you’re bad to the bone. So it won’t surprise readers of Nevada News & Views that Assemblywoman Francis Allen (R-Las Vegas) doesn’t just stick it to the voters of her district; she’s even sticking it to the florist for [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
HIGHER TAXES, HERE WE COME!
Legislators last year were sold on a bill (SB 154) which established an advisory committee to study ways to raise taxes for new school construction in Washoe County. Those options would be narrowed down and put on the ballot this November for a thumbs-up or thumbs-down [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
FedEx-cess, Part Deux
With this year’s national day of anguish – otherwise known as Tax Day – upon us, this seems like an appropriate time to follow-up on a column I wrote a couple weeks ago about FedEx and the danger its employment practices pose for many self-employed entrepreneurs coast-to-coast.
FedEx has been [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
DEATH OF BIG GOVERNMENT BY A THOUSAND CUTS
Every time I suggest a potential budget cut, someone from the big-government side of the equation inevitably says something like, “But Chuck, that’s only $5 million.” Or, “But Chuck, that’s only $2 million.” Or, “But Chuck, that’s only $7 million.”
“Only.”
As the saying [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
GREAT AMERICAN HERO
Whether you agree with the war or not, you cannot deny the power of this story about a Marine who had his left leg amputated after losing it in combat retuning to Iraq to again take up the fight. And make sure you watch the video on the [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
HURRY UP AND DELAY
When former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay laughably said a couple years ago there was no fat left to cut in the federal budget and challenged critics to produce such a list, it was fiscally-conservative Republican elected members of the House of Representatives who quickly researched and produced [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
MCCAIN AND THE GOOD EPA
OK, one wouldn’t expect Hillary or B.O. to support a measure limiting the role of the federal government to…well, the limited role established by our Founders. But what about John McCain? Why has he never supported this bill? Read all about it HERE at [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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” [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
SHOULD GIBBONS RESIGN?
CityLife editor Steve Sebelius thinks Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons should resign. He lays out his case in brutal column this week, which you can catch HERE
In a companion piece, Sebelius shares thoughts by unidentified Gibbons “associates and advisers” on whether the governor can be re-elected in 2010. [...]
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By: Chuck Muth
MARINE WITCH-HUNT SUFFERS ANOTHER SET-BACK
“You’d hardly know it if you relied on the mainstream media, but the government’s case against the Haditha Marines took another body blow last Friday that may be the beginning of the end for this whole sorry attempt to severely punish eight heroic United States Marines for [...]
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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. [...]