Chuck Muth

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  Cut to the Bone, My Butt

  (Chuck Muth) – According to a report by Emily Richmond in the Las Vegas Sun on Tuesday, “UNLV is spending about $500,000 on raises and new positions for non-teaching administrators.” Raises? New positions? Non-teaching? I thought the government was in deep financial doo-doo thanks to the lousy economy? I thought the government...

  Chuck Muth November 18, 2009
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  Jackass Pro-Life Activist Attacks Nevada Pro-Life Leaders

  (Chuck Muth) - Keith Mason doesn’t live in Nevada and is a relative "newbie" in the pro-life...

  Chuck Muth November 18, 2009
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  LV Biz Press: No tax boost is right decision

  The Obama administration, after considerable review, is backing off a decision to raise taxes on American businesses that profit overseas. It’s a good call. The crux of the problem is simple: As The Wall Street Journal recently reported, nearly all industrialized nations tax domestic companies only for revenues earned at home. The...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  Orlando Sentinel: What is a ‘Charlie Crist’ Republican anyway?

  It was a moment of unintentional comedy earlier this year when newly appointed U.S. Sen. George LeMieux called himself a ” Charlie Crist Republican.” No doubt LeMieux spoke in earnest about the man who appointed him to the Senate, and who is now running to succeed him in it. But the joke...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  Ralston: Who says gubernatorial hopeful Brian Sandoval can’t go to the right?

  He can. Really, he can. Or so a Sandoval for Governor fundraising invite would have you believe. Sandoval, who has been seen as a moderate vulnerable to Mike Montandon and Jim Gibbons on the right, is being feted by some very conservative folks, including at least two members of the Reno Tea...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  LVRJ: Parks jumps into County Commission race

  State Sen. David Parks announced today he will take a run at the Clark County Commission seat that Rory Reid is vacating. Parks, 65, said he hopes to use his four decades of government experience to tackle the county’s pressing budget problems. “I think I can do a great job,” Parks said....

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  Dullard Mush: Mark Amodei’s Plaintive Tweet

  Maybe taken by itself it’s not so bad, but viewed on a page of tweets Mark Amodei’s looked, well, sad. Please visit my website to learn more about me. http://bit.ly/2R5PoU Even sadder, Click here to read more…

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  Sun: NEI calls on NRC to proceed with review of Yucca Mountain license

  The nuclear industry’s lobbying arm has suggested that work continue on a license request from the Energy Department to build a nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain, even though President Barack Obama has signaled an end to it. Marvin S. Fertel, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, wrote to Gregory B. Jaczko, chairman...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  Sebelius: Pro-lifers against personhood amendment? What?

  Everybody knows that the so-called personhood amendment proposed for the Nevada Constitution is aimed at outlawing abortion in all its forms once and for all. According to organizers — and drawing on language found in the famous 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade — if a fetus was to...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  LV Sun: Raggio defends pork spending

  The list of projects approved by the 2007 Legislature looks like a collection of receipts from a Christmas past, when mommy and daddy still had jobs and the house wasn’t in foreclosure. There’s $10 million for the Nevada Cancer Institute; $3 million for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute; a few hundred thousand for...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  Politico: Biden touts stimulus benefits in Vegas

  Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, said the federal stimulus had provided 190,000 Nevadans with unemployment insurance, pumping $500 million into people’s pockets through tax cuts and saving the jobs of about 4,000 educators in the state, according to a pool report of the event....

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  LVRJ: Health Care Overhaul: New ads target Titus

  After voting in favor of health care reform legislation, Rep. Dina Titus finds herself caught in the crossfire between special interest groups. At least three groups — two opposed to the bill, one in favor — feature Titus, D-Nev., in new video ads aimed at Nevadans. The groups are focusing on Titus...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
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  Politico: Hampton’s one-man crusade taking toll on Ensign

  Five months after Sen. John Ensign admitted to having an extramarital affair with a staffer, the scandal is still in the headlines — in large part because the husband of his onetime lover keeps making them. Doug Hampton’s latest stop: “Nightline.” Click here to read more…

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009