Chuck Muth

• Opinion

  LV Sun: Gibbons: Special session would target test scores law

  Gov. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday that if he calls a special session of the Legislature he might ask lawmakers to repeal a law preventing Nevada from competing for up to $175 million in federal funds for public schools. “It will be one of the high priorities” on a list for lawmakers to...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
• Opinion

  Union President a Criminal Lobbyist?

  (Warner Todd Huston) – Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and the Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) have formally requested that acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips launch an investigation into the possibly illegal lobbying activities of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern. When news came out not long ago that...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
• Opinion

  The Problem with Our Health-Care Debate

  (Alex Epstein) – Everyone seems to have a different take on how to solve America’s health-care problem. But notice that every solution offered involves some elaborate new system of government controls. Different proposals include a “public option,” mandatory insurance for individuals, government-supported health-care exchanges, government-sponsored “efficacy research,” government-supported co-ops, and as many...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
• Opinion

  Pro-Lifers Issue Statement Opposing “Personhood” Initiative

  (NN&V Staff) – A trio of Nevada pro-life leaders has issued a statement opposing the “Personhood” initiative filed a few weeks ago by other pro-life activists. The statement shows that at least some in the pro-life community recognize that the abortion issue is not just a moral issue in America, but a...

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
• Opinion

  Liberals, PEW Slam Gibbons’ Tax Restraint Law

  (Jim Clark) – Nevada just made another list of “worst’s.” We are one of 10 states courting fiscal disaster according to the Pew Center on the States. We are right up there with California, Arizona, Rhode Island, Michigan, Oregon, Florida, New Jersey, Illinois and Wisconsin all of which face severe budgetary problems....

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
• Opinion

  Did You Hear the One About the Tax “Study” Committee?

  (Chuck Muth) - Not only is the Nevada Vision Stakeholder Group one of the more stupidly named government committees in the history of stupidly named government committees, but it’s a joke. Any conservative who takes whatever this group recommends seriously ought to have his or her head examined.

  Chuck Muth November 17, 2009
• Opinion

  Comfort Replaces Lowden as Nevada GOP Chair

  A Las Vegas dentist has been elected chairman of the Nevada Republican Party. Dr. Chris Comfort replaces Sue Lowden, who resigned Sept. 30 to launch her campaign for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination and try to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in next year’s election. Click here to read more…

  Chuck Muth November 16, 2009
• Opinion

  City Life: Mendy Elliott Quits State Job

  Mendy Elliott, the governor’s former deputy chief of staff who was exiled to the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation after a staff shake up this summer, has announced her resignation from the job, sources confirm. Stacey Woodbury, the governor’s current deputy chief of staff, said this in response to an e-mail...

  Chuck Muth November 16, 2009
• Opinion

  The politics of government usurpation, post-Kelo

  The politics of government usurpation, post-Kelo (Paul Jacob) – Strong-arm, power politics — how long does it take self-proclaimed “caring” folks to learn that such tactics cannot lead to their promised peaceful, loving utopia? New London, Connecticut, was ruled by a cadre of allegedly well-intentioned movers and shakers, the kind of people...

  Chuck Muth November 16, 2009
• Opinion

  Without Stupak Amendment, Government Will Fund Abortion

  (Don Nelson) – Does Harry Reid support the Stupak Amendment which passed the House 240-194 to keep government funding out of health care reform? Harry Reid’s claim that the health care bill he is writing in the Senate will not pay for or subsidize abortion will not be believable unless it contains...

  Chuck Muth November 16, 2009
• Opinion

  Keystone Corporation Announces Endorsements

  (Monte Miller) – Today, the Keystone Corporation, Nevada’s leading political voice for free market business development, private sector job creation and fiscal conservatism, announced endorsements in key state senate races for the upcoming 2010 election cycle. Endorsed candidates include: • Senator Barbara Cegavske – running for re-election in Clark County’s District 8....

  Chuck Muth November 16, 2009
• Opinion

  U.S. troops battle both Taliban and their own Rules of Engagement

  “(I)n what is perhaps the worst possible affect of the rules of engagement (in Afghanistan), troop morale is beginning to suffer. The lamentable fact is that U.S. troops are battling the rules under which they operate as much or more as the enemy himself.” – Herschel Smith, Captains Journal, 11/16/09

  Chuck Muth November 16, 2009
• Opinion

  Joe Biden visit signals hard race for Dina Titus

  Bracing for a tough election cycle in 2010, the White House sent Vice President Joe Biden to Las Vegas Sunday to boost the campaign coffers of Democratic Rep. Dina Titus. Biden’s visit is the largest indication yet that Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District is a top priority for the Obama administration and Democrats...

  Chuck Muth November 16, 2009