Tax Study Committee One Big Joke
Nevada legislators on Monday named 19 people to the Nevada Vision Stakeholder Group which will participate in a review of the state’s tax system. And here’s all you need to know about where this group is going:
What About Joe?
As you’ll find on the Nevada News & Views headline page today, the conservative business organization Keystone Corporation announced its state Senate endorsements today. But perhaps the biggest news of the announcement was who DIDN’T get endorsed: Joe Hardy
All in the Family
Without doubt, one of my favorite elected officials in all of Nevada is Nye County Commissioner Joni Eastley of Tonopah. She not only knows her issues and is on the “right” side of them, but she’s politically savvy as well…and a darned nice person to boot. You don’t hit that triple crown in politics very […]
Muth’s Truths – November 6, 2009
The headline over a Washington Post story on the front page of today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal reads: “Gunman kills 12 soldiers.” Now, I’m no expert, but shouldn’t that headline have read “Muslim Gunman kills 12 soldiers”? And why did the Post story not even mention the man was a Muslim until almost the end of […]
Drive-by Muthings – November 5th
• One of the big new sayings this year is “too big to fail.” But perhaps considering Obama’s lack of real world experience for the job of POTUS, the operative phrase now should be “too small to succeed.”
How Gov. Gibbons Can Get His Groove Back
So, is Gov. Jim Gibbons toast? In a general election held today….yeah. But in the Republican primary next June? Not so fast.
A Day in the Life of the Chosen One
What a day yesterday was for President Barack Obama!
Drive-By Muthings: October 7, 2009
“Lap dancers would be cited for lewd conduct for improperly touching customers under a new code proposed by Las Vegas police,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported today. Hmm. No one forces these gals to work there, and no one forces customers to go there. So if police have enough money to crackdown on such consensual […]
Doubting John Ensign
Does anyone doubt that the Sen. John Ensign scandal – especially after the explosive new and sordid details emerged this week in the New York Times about ethical, if not illegal, actions on the part of John Ensign after the affair with his best friend’s wife was discovered – is now in Eveready Bunny mode […]
A Code of Conduct for Health Insurance Companies
In the never-ending debate about national health care, the most common refrain is “our health care system is broken.” That is immediately followed by never-ending government solutions to “fix” said system at an estimated cost of trillions of dollars. Rarely mentioned in these expensive, government-knows-best debates, however, is any discussion of free-market, non-legislative solutions to […]
Johnny Casino and the Eveready Bunny
Does anyone doubt that the Sen. John Ensign scandal – especially after the explosive new and sordid details emerged this week in the New York Times about ethical, if not illegal, actions on the part of John Ensign after the affair with his best friend’s wife was discovered – is now in Eveready Bunny mode […]
Not Goin’ Postal
You just can’t make some things up.
GOP’s Dream Team II
Way back on May 14, 2009, I wrote in Muth’s Truths that Nevada Republicans had the potential of fielding a “dream team” of top-tier candidates who could potentially lead the beleaguered party back from the political wilderness.
Ensign Backs Tax Hike
As we’ve discovered recently, Sen. John Ensign’s record on keeping promises, pledges and vows ain’t so great. So it should come as no real surprise that he’s broken his Taxpayer Protection Pledge by promoting and voting for the Travel Promotion Act.
And the Oscar Goes To…Carson City?
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman continues to float the notion that he might throw his crown into the race for governor next year….either as an independent or in the Democrat primary against the Son of Reid. And many folks continue to pooh-pooh his chances, maintaining Oscar just won’t “sell” in the rurals. An extremely likable […]
Gibbons’ Worst Appointment Possible
“Gov. Jim Gibbons intends to appoint his former chief operating officer, Dianne Cornwall, to the Nevada Gaming Commission when a seat becomes vacant in April,” CityLife editor Steve Sebelius wrote on Friday, adding that “sources who asked to remain anonymous say the appointment has been under consideration for some time, and that it is a […]
Raggio’s RINOs
“State Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio warned today that a citizens committee expected to propose changes in taxes and state spending to improve the quality of life in Nevada must not be filled with ‘tax users’ for its recommendations to win public acceptance,” reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week.