Chuck Muth

• Opinion

  Board Approves Tax Study Over Governor’s Objections

  (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Over the objections of Gov. Jim Gibbons, the Board of Examiners today approved a request to spend $500,000 on a study of Nevada’s revenue structure sought by a bipartisan group of legislative leaders. The $500,000 figure is not guaranteed to be the final price of the study,...

  Chuck Muth October 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Reid Sides With Trial Lawyer Allies

  (National Republican Senatorial Committee) – On the eve of the Senate Finance Committee’s vote on the Baucus health care proposal, a new report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that limiting medical malpractice lawsuits could save the government as much as $54 billion over the next 10 years. As reported...

  Chuck Muth October 13, 2009
• Opinion

  The Trials and Tribulations of Li’l Nate

  (Muth’s Truths) – Our resident Gadfly-in-Chief, Nathan Taylor, is not only mulling a run for the Nevada State Assembly – where he’d actually fit right in with all the other RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) – but on Monday he sent out a press release loaded with exclamation points(!) about being treated...

  Chuck Muth October 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Opposition to Public Funding Of Abortion Leads to More Lies

  (Don Nelson) – Last week, presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs claimed that “there’s a law that precludes the use of federal funds for abortion that isn’t going to be changed in these health care bills.” Gibbs also said “there’s a fairly well documented federal law that prevents it” (funding of abortion). Mr. Gibbs...

  Chuck Muth October 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Term Limits to Change Nevada Political Landscape in 2010

  (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) The November 2010 general election is more than a year away, but a political shift is already in motion as term limits take effect and 17 veteran lawmakers must either leave the Legislature or set their sights on other elective office. The potential departure of more than a...

  Chuck Muth October 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Homeschoolers Do Much Better for Much Less

  (Nevada News Bureau) – A new study commissioned by the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and conducted by Dr. Brian D. Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute shows home-schooled children performing significantly better than their public school counterparts in numerous ways. The study collected data in the spring of...

  Chuck Muth October 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Dina Titus is a Murderer?

  (Mike Zahara) – Rep Dina Titus a Murderer? Well, of course she is if you follow the same logic used against Dr Joe Heck—a doctor; not a hack politician—when he came out against state mandates for Gardasil, which has now killed dozens of our young girls. Everyone in Nevada who supported using...

  Chuck Muth October 13, 2009
• Opinion

  School Superintendent Kills Himself

  In Ottawa, Illinois schools superintendent John Harrison committed suicide over the weekend. Ottawa is south west of Chicago in LaSalle County. The school is suffering a teachers unions trike at this time, but it isn’t known if the strike and controversy is connected to the suicide. One interesting part of the report...

  Chuck Muth October 13, 2009
• Opinion

  Gibbons Names Energy Czar & Energy Director

  (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Jim Gibbons announced today his selections to fill two key state positions in the energy field, the newly created commissioner of energy and director of the Office of Energy. Dr. Hatice Gecol will transfer from her position as director of the Office of Energy to become...

  Chuck Muth October 12, 2009
• Opinion

  Gov. Jim Gibbons Makes New Appointment to the Nevada Athletic Commission

  (Sean Whaley) – Gov. Jim Gibbons today named Francisco Aguilar to the Nevada Athletic Commission. Aguilar is presently employed as corporate and communications counsel for The Andre Agassi Foundation for Education and Agassi Graf Holdings. Aguilar’s professional past includes working as senior counsel for Southwest Gas Corp. and as special counsel to...

  Chuck Muth October 12, 2009
• Opinion

  A Day in the Life of the Chosen One

  (Chuck Muth) – What a day yesterday was for President Barack Obama!

  Chuck Muth October 12, 2009
• Opinion

  ‘Sanje’ Sedera Exposed; yet again!

  (Mike Zahara) – Ahhhh, Karma is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? For obvious reasons and for exactly what we told you about after our little brush up with him that we won, we are positively delighted and the local South Asian community is all abuzz that Darkara Sanjeewa ‘Sanje’ Sedera filed for...

  Chuck Muth October 12, 2009
• Opinion

  Norquist Requests that Michaels Undergo Confirmation Process

  Norquist Requests that Michaels Undergo Confirmation Process In a letter on Friday to Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Grover Norquist requested that Professor David Michaels be subjected to Senate confirmation procedures in light of some disturbing positions on government regulation of private industry....

  Chuck Muth October 12, 2009