Chuck Muth

• Opinion

  Ten Reasons Public Won’t Buy Senate Health Care Plan

  (Grace-Marie Turner) – At a time of record deficits and a $12 trillion national debt, President Obama and the Democrats are pulling out all of the stops to pass a plan that dramatically expands government powers over health care. According to a Nov. 23 Rasmussen survey, only 38 percent of Americans polled...

  Chuck Muth November 27, 2009
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  State Pensioner Thinks He’s Blameless for Pension Mess

  (Warner Todd Huston) – The Chicago Tribune printed a letter to the editor that perfectly describes the disconnect that state workers have between their pensions and the political process. These state workers stare wide-eyed in faux innocence pretending that they themselves, as individuals, are wholly innocent of the mess that is our...

  Chuck Muth November 27, 2009
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  Senate Health Care Bill: The Five Paragraphs You Must Read

  (Sue Blevins and Robin Kaigh) – “There is no such thing as a little freedom,” said Walter Cronkite. “Either you are all free, or you are not free.” Whether you’re for or against federal efforts to help people buy health insurance, you should know that the reform bill before the Senate would...

  Chuck Muth November 27, 2009
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  Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

  (Rowan Scarborough/Fox News) – Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com....

  Chuck Muth November 27, 2009
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  Mike Wiley is an Crazy Irrational Angry Paranoid Conspiracy Kook Blowhard Nut!

  "Wiley for Senate" campaign volunteers watch their cadidate go Face-to-Face with television talk-show host Jon Ralston last month.

  Chuck Muth November 27, 2009
• Opinion

  Oakland Raiders finally return to Thanksgiving menu

  (Steve Corkran/Mercury News) – The game was played 39 years ago, to the day, yet Hall of Fame center Jim Otto remembers in vivid detail the grass condition, the steel beams supporting the stadium and that the Raiders lost a game they should have won. It has been a long wait, but...

  Chuck Muth November 26, 2009
• Opinion

  To Whom Do We Give Thanks?

  (Newt Gingrich) – On the south side of the Rotunda in the United States Capitol Building is a painting titled The Embarkation of the Pilgrims. The painting depicts the deck of the ship as it departs from Holland for the New World in 1620. Look, and you will see that the pilgrims...

  Chuck Muth November 26, 2009
• Opinion

  Plymouth Rock: America’s First Experiment with Socialism

  (Joseph Farah) – There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding the people responsible for the American Thanksgiving tradition. Contrary to popular opinion, the Pilgrims didn’t wear buckles on their shoes or hats. They weren’t teetotalers, either. They smoked tobacco and drank beer. And, most importantly, their first harvest festival and subsequent “thanksgivings”...

  Chuck Muth November 26, 2009
• Opinion

  The Real Story of Thanksgiving

  (Rush Limbaugh) – Okay, time for the real story of Thanksgiving as written by me in my book “See, I Told You So!” We’re on Chapter Six here: “Dead White Guys or What Your History Books Never Told You,” page 70. On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a...

  Chuck Muth November 26, 2009
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  George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation

  Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.

  Chuck Muth November 26, 2009
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  Gibbons, Montandon and Sandoval: What Are You Offering Us?

  (Mark Noonan) – With the gubernatorial election less than a year away, it seems that our declared candidates for Governor should offer us at least a clue about what they want to do, should they be elected. Certainly, our collapsing economy should be front and center in GOP plans. Unfortunately, it seems...

  Chuck Muth November 25, 2009
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  Prescription for Real Health Care Reform

  (Mike Zahara) – Let’s begin with what Congress could easily pass tomorrow and save itself a whole bunch of seats that will otherwise be lost next year because they’re forcing through such a bad bill that reforms nothing and still leaves millions uninsured in the process: 1. Barring insurers from canceling existing...

  Chuck Muth November 25, 2009
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  I’m the Conservative Who Can Beat Harry Reid

  (Sharron Angle) – Can anyone beat a powerful senator like Harry Reid? Tsunamis are powerful. Harry Reid has been a national tsunami. His blind support of: President Obama’s stimulus programs, cap-and-trade proposals, bail-outs, and the take-over of the health care industry, are a disaster for our nation. The unemployment rate is wavering...

  Chuck Muth November 25, 2009