Nevada GOP Prepares to Nominate CD2 Candidate
Here’s the full email sent out by the Nevada GOP regarding their June 18 special meeting in Reno: Dear Friends, There is a ton of exciting news happening right here with the Nevada Republican Party. Chairman Amodei asked that I send our Central Committee an update on the events that have transpired, actions that our […]
Why Government Sucks: Another in a (Long) Series
If this doesn’t make your blood boil, you have no heart. From today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal: “A homeless single mother who lives in her van pleaded not guilty Wednesday to stealing $16,000 worth of education for her son by enrolling the kindergartner in her baby-sitter’s school district. Tanya McDowell, 33, was arrested April 14 on […]
Where’s Amodei on Collectivist Bargaining?
Back in February 2003, then-Sen. Mark Amodei was asked by reporter Geoff Dornan of the Nevada Appeal about giving state workers the same collectivist bargaining sledgehammer power that local government workers enjoyed over taxpayers. According to Dornan, Amodei “said he supported collective bargaining for state workers four years ago, again two years ago and will […]
RINO in the Midst
In the Republican primary for state senate last year, then-Assemblyman Joe Hardy (R-Clark County) falsely advertised himself as a conservative in order to get elected. For example, he said in campaign literature that he “voted against tax increases” and “believes in low taxation” without disclosing that during his short tenure in the Legislature he managed […]
Screwing the Children is “for” the Children?
For educated people, some public school teachers can be awfully dumb. Delen Goldberg had an interesting story in the Las Vegas Sun yesterday about a half-dozen public school teachers at a local elementary school who walked out at precisely 2:41 p.m. to protest necessary proposed budget cuts. “The time is significant,” writes Goldberg. “At 2:41 […]
Atlas Shrugged Defies Critics & Hollywood Elite
John Fund of Political Diary notes today that the libertarian/free market crowd’s bible, Atlas Shrugged, is doing quite well at the box office despite its low budget and hostility from the typical Hollywood elite. People have been waiting so long for Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel “Atlas Shrugged” to be made into a movie that the […]
Republicans Voting Badly…Another in a Series
AB 289 would grow the government by requiring that “dieticians” be licensed and regulated by the state, complete with a new mandatory Government Regulation Tax, as well as, get this, establishing a new State Board of Dietetics – just as Gov. Sandoval is calling for the elimination of most other useless boards and commissions. Republicans […]
RINO Joe Strikes Again
Teens are free to trot down to the local abortion clinic without parental notification, let alone parental permission, but if SB 291 is passed into law, they’ll have to get a note from mommy before patronizing a tanning salon. This ridiculous bill passed the Senate this week with two Republican votes. One was term-limited Dean […]
Johnny O Goes to War with NRA Warrior
On Easter Sunday, Carrie Herbertson, Nevada State Liaison for the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, sent the following email to members of Nevada’s Assembly opposing a bill introduced by Assembly Speaker John Oceguera which, in essense, plagiarized four individual gun bills sponsored by other legislators and, as amended, increases the fee gun owners […]
The New Counter-Culture Warrior
The following letter-to-the-editor appeared in today’s Record-Courier, in which I’m referred to as “the new counter-culture warrior.” I’m honored! EDITOR: Nevada Appeal columnist Chuck Muth took out an ad in the April 12 edition calling out Nevada State Assembly Speaker John Oceguera’s plagiarism of other legislators’ work. Sounds like an interesting news story. I wonder […]
Senate Republicans Who Love Government Too Much
Over in the Nevada state Senate on Tuesday, three Republicans joined every Democrat in approving new government regulation – complete with a new $200 licensing tax (fee)! – of, get this, “Music Therapists.” What the hell is a Music Therapist you ask? Well, according to the American Music Therapy Association, music therapy “is the clinical […]
Republicans Who Love the Nanny State, Higher Taxes
The Nevada state Assembly voted on Tuesday to expand the regulatory arm of government by requiring that mopeds be registered with the DMV, imposing a new registration “fee” (tax) on their owners, as well as require moped drivers and riders to wear full government-approved motorcycle helmets. Republicans who voted to raise taxes and expand the […]
Atkinson’s Alarming Arrogance
If you truly want to understand the arrogance of legislative Democrats consider this little item from Assemblyman Kelvin Atkinson (D-Isle of Man). Sen. Don Gustavson has introduced a bill to repeal Nevada’s nanny-state mandatory motorcycle helmet law in every session he’s been in at the state Assembly. This year he did so again, only as […]
Assembly Republicans Vote for Higher Taxes
One of the oldest tricks in the liberal book is to couch tax and fee hikes into something “for the children” – and some Republicans fall for it, hook, line and sinker every time. And so it was on Monday with Assembly passage of AB 192. AB 192 could QUADRUPLE the fee for you to […]
Angle Can’t Win: The Untold Story from 2010
It was around this time last year that Sharron Angle’s U.S. Senate campaign – thanks in part to the out-of-state Tea Party Express teaming up with Harry Reid’s supporters to boost her candidacy – began to take off. And by the time early voting began, it was pretty clear that Angle was definitely in a […]
The Heller Angle & Worst Case Scenario
Over the weekend there has been some speculation that it might be in the GOP’s best interest if Gov. Brian Sandoval appoints a “placeholder” to fill the vacancy created by Sen. John Ensign’s resignation rather than appoint the obvious choice, Rep. Dean Heller. The argument is that it would cost the state too much money […]
The New RINO King
RINO, of course, stands for “Republican in Name Only.” And while the tea party movement has helped place them on the endangered species list, there are still a few still running around posing a serious danger to limited government, individual liberty and fiscal conservatism. In fact, one was spotted in Carson City just last week. […]