Chuck Muth

• Opinion

  GOP in disarray won’t assure Dems an easy ride here in 2010

  By now, the instant post-mortems on Election 2009 results will have been written, either overstating (most likely) or understating their significance for Campaign 2010. Continue reading…

  Chuck Muth November 4, 2009
• Opinion

  Angle Says Reid Building Financial House of Cards

  Four-term Nevada Assemblywoman Sharron Angle (R-NV), a conservative Republican running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Harry Reid (D-NV), charged the Majority Leader with building a financial house-of-cards, an illusion that will collapse in the months ahead. “The just-released preliminary third quarter gross domestic product of 3.5 % is the...

  Chuck Muth November 4, 2009
• Opinion

  Med Board Pres: Enough is Enough!

  The president of Nevada’s Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. Charles Held, is fighting back against what he calls “political rhetoric, inflammatory journalism, and outright untruths…” Continue reading…

  Chuck Muth November 4, 2009
• Opinion

  Stimulus Website Now Up

  (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Jim Gibbons today announced that a website detailing the spending of Nevada’s federal stimulus funds is now up and functioning as part of his promise of providing taxpayers with transparency in government. The website detailing the use of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will be...

  Chuck Muth November 4, 2009
• Opinion

  Governor Names Appointees to Board of Finance and Indian Commission

  (Nevada News Bureau) – Governor Jim Gibbons yesterday announced several appointments to Nevada boards and commissions. Steve Martin has been appointed to the Nevada Board of Finance. He is presently self-employed at his own CPA firm specializing in comprehensive accounting litigation with emphasis on fraud and business valuation, auditing and consulting issues,...

  Chuck Muth November 4, 2009
• Opinion

  Ray Shaffer, former state Senator, dies at 77

  (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Ray Shaffer, a member of the Nevada State Senate for 20 years, died Saturday at age 76. Shaffer, a Democrat from North Las Vegas for most of his years of service, served in the Legislature from 1985 to 2004. In an unusual move for a politician, Shaffer...

  Chuck Muth November 4, 2009
• Opinion

  Memo to Nevada Republicans: Don’t Belittle Harry Reid

  (Mark Noonan) – The other day I happened to have the TV on for a moment and on comes the thing we all watch TV for: a Harry Reid campaign ad. It was a stunning admission of political weakness on the part of Reid. What Reid is trying to do with the...

  Chuck Muth November 4, 2009
• Opinion

  Dems Lose Big: Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast, Too Left

  (Mike Zahara) - Tuesday’s races in VA & NJ were almost identical to those of 1993 in the same states and that’s not a good thing if you’re a Democrat on a 2010 ballot. Historically, it has always been the Governors’ offices that signal an electorate swing, also not a good thing...

  Chuck Muth November 4, 2009
• Opinion

  Las Vegas appears to only be growing in intolerance

  Hello, rising wave of intolerance, I haven’t seen you in a while. I was tempted to believe that momentarily we had dispatched with the villainization of gay people; because, yawn. I guess I assumed that the onset, in October, of legal partnerships in Nevada somehow elevated the conversation an irreversible smidge. Even...

  Chuck Muth November 4, 2009
• Opinion

  Kasich speech brings ring of truth

  When former U.S. Rep. John Kasich recently addressed the Nevada Development Authority, he had a receptive audience of 500 businesspeople. He could have talked politics — he is now a Republican candidate for governor of Ohio. Or he could have trumpeted business themes. But Kasich took an almost contrarian tone and addressed...

  Chuck Muth November 3, 2009
• Opinion

  Libertarians host first annual Government Sucks Day

  (Examiner.com) – Forget the Tea Party protests. Forget the 9/12 project. Libertarians are gathering in Texas for an event that cuts to the heart of the freedom movement: big government sucks. Billed as the First Annual National Government Sucks Day Rally, the event is being held by and for small government and...

  Chuck Muth November 3, 2009
• Opinion

  Welcome to Paultard Karaoke!

  (Chuck Muth) – In case you’re just tuning in, I’m one of the millions of Ron Paul supporters in America today. In fact, I was a Ron Paul fan long before being a Ron Paul fan became “cool.” But in any group of people there are always lunatic fringe elements. So when...

  Chuck Muth November 3, 2009
• Opinion

  Ballot Box Mystery Solved? Hold On There, Bubba-Louie

  (Chuck Muth) – On Sunday, Las Vegas Review Journal columnist/blogger John L. Smith wrote the following: “If anyone wants to study the dysfunction of Nevada’s Republican Party, they’ll have to analyze the horse manure that passed for procedure during the April 2008 GOP state convention. Animated Ron Paul supporters turned out by...

  Chuck Muth November 3, 2009