The Race to Replace NV GOP Chief
The race to replace Nevada GOP Chairman Mark Amodei, who has resigned once he resigns from the post to run for Congress, is on. Patrick McNaught, a conservative businessman who ran unsuccessfully for that state senate against moderate Joe Hardy in Clark County last cycle, has told folks he’s in and is expected to make […]
How did AP find Burbank needle in unemployed haystack?
According to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, there are over 200,000 Nevadans officially listed as unemployed or have given up looking for a job. And out of those 200,000-plus people, an Associated Press reporter somehow found Tera Burbank, a big-time Democrat activist, to feature in a sob story about the unemployed which […]
Ex-Cole commander could command attention in CD 2 race
All the pundits and speculators are speculating over who will run for Heller’s congressional seat in northern and rural Nevada if/when he runs for Senate. Sharron Angle – who ran for the seat in 2006 and lost to Heller before losing to Bill Raggio for his state Senate in 2008 and then losing to Harry […]
Heller Sitting in Catbird Seat
Much chatter this week about Sen. John Ensign’s announcement that will not be running for re-election (he could and SHOULD still resign) and the all-but-officially announced campaign of Rep. Dean Heller, who has chalked up a solid conservative voting record since going to DC, to run for the seat. Most everyone expects Heller to clear […]
Tax My Meat Pete still fighting for state government handouts
Republican Assembly Minority Leader Pete Goicoechea continues to twist the knife in Gov. Sandoval’s back, telling the Las Vegas Sun on Tuesday that if the governor’s budget proposal is approved without tax hikes, then rural counties would have to pay for their own restaurant inspections and other services which the state currently provides to rural […]
Philosophizing about the end of Women’s Studies
So a rep from Hyperbole U testified Wednesday that if proposed budget cuts are implemented for the university system, UNLV would have to close down its Women’s Studies and Philosophy departments. The obvious question is….so what? Women’s Studies is nothing but liberal, feminist BS and I’m not exactly sure the demand for stand-up philosophers is […]
Tera Burbank: The Real, Untold Story
An Associated Press story last weekend headlined “Nevada Family Fights For Survival In Down Times” was a real tear-jerker that went viral and national. It’s the story of an unemployed construction worker named Tera Burbank, 34, her family, and the hardships they’re facing thanks to the ongoing Obama-Reid recession. Poor Ms. Burbank wears a “frayed […]
Mini-Muth’s Truths: March 7, 2011
Everybody and their uncle put out a statement regarding Sen. John Ensign’s decision not to seek re-election today. Here’s mine: “Better late than never; however, had he resigned long ago as he should have, Republicans would have appointed a replacement who would now be running as an incumbent for re-election in 2012 instead of competing […]
UNLV Prof. has BS in Hyperbole
(Chuck Muth) – The Hyperbole Factory, aka the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), cranked out a new “don’t cut our budget” missive in a letter-to-the-editor published Sunday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal; this one by the hand of Michael Pravica, an associate professor of physics. Which I find ironic. I mean, what we’re talking […]
How Can You Tell When Rory Reid is Lying?
OK, I’ve read about the Rory Reid money-laundering scheme, and today I watched Rory appear on Jon Ralston’s Face to Face television show to defend his actions. And all I can tell you – and this is solely my opinion based on the interview and the facts as we know them today – is that […]
More Higher Ed Catastrophic Hyperbole
In a guest column published by the Las Vegas Sun today, William Cobb, a member of the University Board of Regents, declared that proposed budget cuts to Nevada’s university system would be “catastrophic.” Hmm. Catastrophic, you say? For some reason that evokes memories of these immortal words uttered a couple weeks ago by University Chancellor […]
The Sun’s Reality vs. My Alternate Reality
All three of the Las Vegas Sun’s front-page stories today are about Nevada budget cuts; as is its editorial and only local op/ed. At this point, is it fair to suggest that the Sun has stopped being a “newspaper” and is now practicing “advocacy journalism”? Also, in its “A poor budget plan” editorial, the paper […]
If You Want a Good Screwing, Call the Guys with the Long Hoses
Joe Schoenmann of the Las Vegas Sun reports today that Eddie Beaman – father of Clark County firefighter union boss “Lyin’” Ryan Beaman – chalked up 355 hours of sick leave in 2006, 275 hours of sick leave in 2007, 205 hours of sick time in 2008 and 427 hours of sick leave in 2009. […]
Johnny O’s Gym Now Open: Special Offer!
Susan Furlong-Reil of the Legislative Counsel Bureau (LCB) got around to the really important operational issues for this legislative session in an email she sent out on Friday: “Sign-ups for the fitness room located in Room 3151 are currently underway. As a reminder, the room is available to all legislative staff and contains two treadmills, […]
Sheila Leslie vs. James Madison
A Las Vegas Sun story reports today that proposed budget cuts would eliminate a program of providing free, taxpayer-funded eye-glasses. When did it become the proper role of government and taxpayers to be subsidizing purchases from Lenscrafters and Pearle Vision? In the story, liberal Sen. Sheila Leslie declared that “It’s a fantasy to think that […]
Stupidity Virus Strikes Courtland, Virginia
OK, let’s say you’re a kid in a public middle school. In fact, let’s say you’re an “A” student. And let’s say you see a lady whom you know with her hands full…and you open the door for her. If you’re the school’s executive director of administration, what do you say to such a polite, […]
Rory Reid’s PAC of Lies
Rory Reid, caught by Jon Ralston laundering $750,000 for his gubernatorial campaign through 91 dummy PACs last year, claims his campaign was told it was legal by Democrat Secretary of State Ross Miller’s office and that he did it this way in order to be “more transparent.” After making that claim, his nose grew 15-feet […]