Chuck Muth

• Opinion

  Did ACORN buy Dirty Harry’s silence for $50,000?

  If someone walked into a bank and demanded money, what would you do? Comply if he was armed, right? What if he wasn’t carrying a weapon but somehow managed to convince the Bank’s Leadership that he was entitled to the money? What if it was from your account that he was demanding...

  Chuck Muth November 14, 2009
• Opinion

  Reid, Lowden camps exchange barbs

  The re-election campaign of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., called on Sue Lowden, a potential Republican challenger, to, “do her homework,” before talking about alternative energy subsidies. Continue reading…

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Wiley seeks to upset Reid for Senate

  Mike Wiley is one of 10 Republicans seeking the right to challenge Harry Reid for U.S. Senate. He says he can beat former state Senator Sue Lowden, the front-runner, and the rest of the field in Nevada this cycle and take Reid’s seat in the general. Continue reading…

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Soldiers disarmed

  In March 1993, under President Bill Clinton, the Army imposed regulations forbidding military personnel from carrying their personal firearms. For the most part, only military police regularly carry firearms on base. Continue reading…

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Politicians will exacerbate the recession

  Statistics released last week reveal that the national unemployment rate has topped 10 percent for the first time in a quarter-century. Though October’s state-level data has yet to be released, Nevada had the second-highest unemployment rate in the nation for September, at 13.3 percent. That figure is expected to increase when the...

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Reno Chamber Hears Pros, Cons of Yucca Mountain Project

  (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Members of the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce heard a spirited debate today on the pros and cons of establishing a high level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, but no formal position is expected from the group anytime soon. Even so, several of the 50 or so...

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Heller Says Federal Stimulus Funds Not Helping Economy

  (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., said yesterday the federal stimulus program is not working because it is creating short-term public jobs, not sustainable private sector employment. In an appearance on the Nevada NewsMakers program, Heller said only six percent of the stimulus funds went to roads and bridges...

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  The Nanny State for Pets!

  (Rep. John Shadegg) – Americans genuinely concerned about our nation’s health care system thought health care reform meant slowing the ever increasing cost of care, covering the uninsured and dealing with pre-existing conditions. Little did we know that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama envisioned regulating vending machines and providing government subsidies to...

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Reid Enables 9/11 Mastermind To Be Brought To New York City

  (National Republican Senatorial Committee) – Just over one week after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) voted against a critical measure that would have barred captured terrorists from being brought onto American soil, Reid’s allies in the Obama Administration announced this morning that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the 9/11...

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Clowns Plus Playground Equal Fun at First-Ever Kids Happy Hour!

  (Karri Bragg) - On Tuesday evening, conservative families gathered for a little laid-back fun at Citizen Outreach Foundation's first-ever Kids Happy Hour & Deck Party at Joe's Crab Shack in Green Valley.

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Despite report, higher taxes not the answer

  Here we go again. Another month, another left-leaning think tank condemning Nevada as a bottom-feeding badland in desperate need of more and higher taxes. Continue reading…

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Lawsuit questions language of anti-abortion initiative

  The ACLU, Planned Parenthood and several individuals filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging language in the “Personhood” petition whose sponsors want to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing abortion. Continue reading….

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Candidate laments curbs on revolution

  In the summer of 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote, gave gun rights advocates a notable victory. The majority opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, said the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” applies to individual Americans, not simply to members of what the amendment vaguely calls...

  Chuck Muth November 13, 2009