Hyperbole U’s Spox Fundamentally Dishonest
In his latest “sky is falling” bit of propaganda, University Chancellor Dan Klaich claims in a video that “there are still those who believe we can revive our economy by slowly dismantling our education system.” What complete and total bull-(expletive). There isn’t a single person out here that I know who believes that. It’s a […]
The Best Alternative to Industry-Specific Tax Hikes
In a Las Vegas Sun story on Sunday, my friend Paul Enos, Nevada’s trucking industry lobbyist, decried the notion of raising the mining tax while simultaneously lowering the vehicle registration tax on average Nevada citizens. “We’re against industry-specific taxes,” Enos told reporter Anjeanette Damon. “I don’t think you can say mining are the big bad […]
“Conservative” Wobblies Weigh in on Nevada’s Budget
Ray Hagar of the Reno Gazette-Journal has a very interesting, very telling and very revealing story today concerning all the jockeying around on how to balance Nevada’s budget this legislative session. Some highlights: • Raising the white flag of surrender on taxes, Tray Abney of the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce declared, “We are not about […]
Mining for Left-Right Common Ground
Some folks still don’t fully understand the intent and purpose of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Sen. Michael Roberson isn’t one of them. The purpose of the Pledge is to stop legislators from raising taxes in order to grow government. It is NOT intended to block efforts to “reform” a tax system in an effort to […]
The Amanda Collins Self-Defense Act
Sen. John Lee (D-North Las Vegas) has proposed a bill (SB 231) that would allow individuals possessing concealed carry permits to carry guns on university campuses, noting that his bill “is not about campus security” but “personal security.” The star witness in support of the bill last week was Amanda Collins, a 25-year-old UNR student […]
Ending Early Voting as We Know It
Republican Assemblyman Crescent Hardy (R-Boulder City) has proposed a bill (AB 311) that will tick off half of Nevada’s voters even though it is absolutely, positively the right thing to do: End early voting as we know it. Sure, plenty of Nevada voters love it….but then again, just because kids love ice cream doesn’t mean […]
Piercing the Small Government Complaint
Assemblywoman Peggy “Tax ‘em ‘til They Bleed” Pierce tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Ben Spillman that “The 30 year experiment in radically small government in Nevada has run into the worst economy in 70 years, and we have a crisis.” As such, she proposes fixing the crisis, as liberals are wont to do, by taxing […]
The University System that Cried Wolf…Again
Richard Lake of the Las Vegas Review-Journal notes in a story today that the folks over at Hyperole U have been predicting higher ed Armageddon for the last several years and asks, “Are they doing the same thing all over again?” Yup, same story, different day, said conservative activist and blogger Chuck Muth. “Of course […]
Has Angle Learned Anything from Reid Loss?
Anjeanette Damon of the Las Vegas Sun takes a look today at Sharron Angle’s chances of winning Rep. Dean Heller’s congressional seat next year, including these Muth’s Truths: “Clearly she must have learned something from that Senate race, and I think she is going to be a stronger candidate because of it,” said conservative operative […]
Las Vegas: Gay Marriage Capital of the World?
A new ABC/Washington Post poll shows what I’ve been predicting for years – that opposition to gay marriage will only continue to shrink and shrink. Indeed, the latest poll shows for the first time that a majority of Americans, 53 percent, supports legalized gay marriage. Only five years ago, just over a third of Americans […]
Boulder City Brouhaha
OK, I honestly haven’t been following Boulder City politics as closely as maybe I should, but in light of my speaking engagement there this past week at the kind invitation of the Boulder City Republican Women, I have a question about the three-way mayor’s race there….especially since all three candidates spoke after me at the […]
UNR Rape Victim Supports Campus Carry Law
The victim disarmament crowd is about to get its collective butts kicked by a “soft spoken and small in stature, Amanda Collins,” who tells how she was “defenseless when serial rapist and convicted murderer James Biela attacked her in a University of Nevada Reno parking garage.” Collins will testify in support of SB 231, sponsored […]
Johnny O’s Non-Response to Queen of Hearts Emails
In response to all the emails going into Assembly Speaker John Oceguera’s office protesting the unjust firing of conservative Assemblyman Ed Goedhart’s legislative assistant, Johnny O is now sending out this canned robo-response: Thank you for your email. As I’m sure you understand, I cannot discuss a specific personnel matter out of respect for the […]
Hypocrisy Alert! Hypocrisy Alert!
Does anyone remember Republican Danny Tarkanian slamming Republican Sue Lowden over and over and over again in last year’s U.S. Senate race for having contributed to Democrat Harry Reid 30 years ago when he was in Congress? Well guess who Mr. Republican just endorsed in the Las Vegas mayor’s race? Republican George Harris? No. Republican […]
The Case for Shuttering Nevada State College
On Monday’s Face to Face with Jon Ralston, the guest was Dr. Lesley Di Mare, president of the Nevada State College – a campus that many people objected to creating back in the early 2000s, but was pretty much legislatively shoved down our collective throats by then-Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins. In the interview, Jon asked […]
Harry Reid’s Kisses of Political Death
A story today by Karoun Demirjian of the Las Vegas Sun explores Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s divide-and-conquer strategy of praising House Speaker John Boehner in an effort separate him from the tea party activists pushing Republicans further to the right on budget issues, including a few Muth’s Truths: “Reid isn’t the first to notice […]
Program Shift Does Not a Tax Hike Make
OK, because I have both kids and a DVR, I’m just now getting to Monday’s edition of “Nevada Newsmakers.” And during the “pundit panel” discussion, host Sam Shad asks about a Las Vegas Sun story about Gov. Sandoval’s proposal to shift some state services and programs down to the local level where he believes they […]