Chuck Muth

• Opinion

  Titus Votes For Higher Taxes . . . Again

  (Joe Heck) – Dina Titus voted for what the Wall Street Journal has called “The Worst Bill Ever.” In doing so, it will cost us $1.055 trillion. That’s Trillion. Nancy Pelosi and Dina Titus are trying to ram a huge tax increase and worse, government takeover of healthcare, down our throats. They’re...

  Chuck Muth November 10, 2009
• Opinion

  Shadegg Explains Vote on Stupak Amendment

  (John Shadegg) – Saturday night the House of Representatives voted on a government takeover of health care. I want to make sure you have the full story on the votes that took place and why I voted as I did. As you know, I voted “No” on the final passage of the...

  Chuck Muth November 10, 2009
• Opinion

  How Pro-Life Lobby Won Battle, Lost War

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outmaneuvered Republicans over the weekend in passing her much sought-after health care bill.

  Chuck Muth November 10, 2009
• Opinion

  DOE abandoning Yucca Mountain plans

  Internal Department of Energy budget documents obtained by a Washington, D.C.-area trade publication show the department is abandoning its effort to license the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Continue reading…

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009
• Opinion

  Lowden Facing Opposition From Group Of Ron Paul Supporters

  Sue Lowden, a former Nevada GOP chair and currently a candidate for Senate, could face an interesting obstacle in her quest for the party’s nomination to go up against Democratic Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports — Ron Paul supporters. Continue reading…

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009
• Opinion

  Reid on defensive as Republicans attack

  As a high school student in Nevada, Harry Reid was an amateur boxer, a hobby that stood him in good stead during youthful brawls. The Democratic leader in the US Senate must now hope that those schoolboy skills can prepare him for the brutal fights he faces both in Washington and at...

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009
• Opinion

  Math Scores Mixed

  The importance of math proficiency shows up in the market’s demand for it. Well-paying careers — those of accountants, computer programmers, economists, engineers, scientists and many others — all require it. So how well does Nevada’s public education system teach math? The answer is mixed, with both good news and bad. Continue...

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009
• Opinion

  Opting In to Democracy

  U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian is going to start circulating an initiative that would allow Nevada voters to decide whether to opt-out of the public option in the health-care bill that’s slowly forming on Capitol Hill. It hasn’t been entirely clear how the opt-out provision would work, but up until now, it’s...

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009
• Opinion

  Senate Candidate Launches Issues Campaign, Calls On Legislators To Weigh In

  (Nevada News Bureau staff) – State senate candidate Todd “Taxpayer” Bailey has introduced an issues campaign called the “The Top 10 In 2010” in Nevada, launching a new website that explains the agenda and lists candidates who support some or all of the platforms. “The Top 10 In 2010 is an agenda...

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009
• Opinion

  Obamacare on Life Support without Hispanic Support

  (Jim Clark) – Well, I’ll bet about this time Pres. Obama wishes he could start all over with his health care legislation. He’s showing his inexperience, having only been a state legislator and a US senator for less than a full term. His big mistake was in letting Congress author the legislation...

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009
• Opinion

  Which rights are slipping?

  (Mike Montandon) – Our ignorance is assumed, even counted on, in the war against our freedoms. Even a cursory examination of the history of the first ten amendments to our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, would give us an indisputable argument against the forces that assail our liberties. First, why was it...

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009
• Opinion

  Guv, RJ Publisher Rock November’s First Friday Happy Hour Brew-ha-ha

  (Karri Bragg) – For the fourth round of First Friday Happy Hour Brew-ha-ha this past Friday, November 6th, 300 fans of limited government packed the VIP section at Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Bar on South Las Vegas Boulevard to enjoy a cold beverage and rub elbows with Clark County’s finest conservatives and libertarians....

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009
• Opinion

  New Poll: Sandoval Leads, Gibbons Closes, Montandon Trails

  Former federal judge Brian Sandoval has a double-digit lead over Gov. Jim Gibbons in the June GOP primary for governor although a large percentage of voters remain on the fence, a new Nevada News & Views auto-dial poll shows.

  Chuck Muth November 9, 2009