Opinion
Harry Reid Makes His Case for Health Care Overhaul
(Mike Chamberlain) – Senator Harry Reid takes to the pages of the Review-Journal today to defend his health care, I mean, health insurance reform bill. He claims “his bill will save lives, save money and save Medicare.” But this bill will definitely not do the first two and is unlikely to accomplish...
Chuck Muth December 14, 2009
Opinion
Universal Healthcare: The Great Bait and Switch Con Job
(Wayne Allyn Root) – My understanding of human nature, negotiating, and deal making skills have taken me from being an S.O.B. (son of a butcher) to a successful small businessman and Vice Presidential nominee of America’s Third Party. For months I´ve predicted on TV and radio appearances exactly how universal healthcare would...
Chuck Muth December 14, 2009
Chuck Muth December 13, 2009
Opinion
Assemblyman Goedhart: The Only Legislator to Lead by Example
(Chuck Muth) – Earlier this year, lawmakers rejected Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons’ recommendation to cut state worker salaries by 6 percent, opting instead for 24-day furloughs that will reduce salaries by 4.5 percent for two years,” reports Anjeanette Damon of the Reno Gazette-Journal this morning. “But while most of the state’s constitutional...
Chuck Muth December 13, 2009
Opinion
Random Thoughts on Excuses for Not Laying off Government Employees
(Chuck Muth) – An excellent Las Vegas Sun story today regarding layoffs of state workers – or, more accurately, the lack of layoffs of government workers – ought to open some eyes; even among many state legislators who usually prefer to remain blind to reality. Here’s the “money quote” from the first...
Chuck Muth December 13, 2009
Opinion
Why We Can Never, Ever Trust the Government
(Mark Noonan) – From the news: “Nevada’s budget woes aren’t only coming from the revenue side, where tax collections for the first quarter of this fiscal year are already off by $53 million. A legislative panel was told this week that state general fund spending on Medicaid is projected to be $55...
Chuck Muth December 13, 2009
Opinion
Massive Failures
(Paul Jacob) – How many times, in the last year, have I heard praise for FDR’s banking reforms, even down to the specifics of federal deposit insurance? The funny thing is, this factoid is false. Roosevelt opposed deposit insurance. Everyone did who at that time knew the history of the states that...
Chuck Muth December 13, 2009
Chuck Muth December 12, 2009
Opinion
Horsford Urges Nevada Officials To Immediately Seek Race to the Top Funds
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – State Sen. Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, urged a legislative panel today to push Nevada to apply in the first round of federal Race to the Top funds to improve student performance by a Jan. 19, 2010 deadline. Even if the state is not successful in...
Chuck Muth December 11, 2009
Opinion
Democrat Union Boss Councilman Guilty, Says Ethics Commission
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross (D) was found today to have violated state ethics laws for failing to disclose his labor union interests and abstain from voting for a new city hall project at two different meetings in December 2008 and February 2009. But Ross was...
Chuck Muth December 11, 2009
Opinion
Kill Bill: Death to the Death Tax!
(Karri Bragg) – The following letter, signed by Citizen Outreach and 24 other conservative grassroots organizations, was sent to each member of the United States Senate on Friday: Dear Senator: The 25 undersigned organizations support full and permanent repeal of the death tax. We have been committed to this goal, in many...
Chuck Muth December 11, 2009
Opinion
Democrats Commit Political Suicide — In Three Steps
(Newt Gingrich) – Over at Pollster.Com, President Obama’s “streams crossed” this week. That’s part “Ghostbusters,” part-pollster speak for saying the President’s approval rating dipped below his disapproval rating, causing the lines of the graph charting his standing with the American people to cross. The declining popularity of one of the most popular...
Chuck Muth December 11, 2009
Opinion
Reno RINO Ripping Republicans Apart
(Chuck Muth) – In a Nevada Newsmakers interview this week, Sen. Bill Raggio (R-Reno) said: “I think divisive primaries are hurting the Republican Party. We ought to be encouraging unity in the party instead of extremism trying to rip it apart.” Really? By now, we all know how Sen. Raggio has a...
Chuck Muth December 11, 2009
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