Muth’s Truths: February 18, 2017
Get this…and it has national relevance, so bear with me non-Nevadans. Citizen Outreach is urging the Las Vegas City Council to open up its trash collection monopoly to competitive bidding per a proposed new ordinance submitted to the city this week. You can read my new column on this subject – “Hoover, Ford, Spiegel, Goodman […]
Muth’s Truths: February 17, 2017
Should Republicans Support the National Popular Vote Compact? Surprisingly…Maybe If you’re a conservative like me, your knee-jerk reaction to any suggestion of changing our presidential elections to a national popular vote isn’t just no, but…”Heck (or stronger), no!” After all, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton both won the popular vote but lost the elections under […]
Hoover, Ford, Spiegel, Goodman and Beers Can’t All Be Wrong
In a recent tweet at the start of the 2017 Nevada legislative session, Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford (D-Las Vegas) wrote… “As we are curating jobs we must protect those jobs. We want to give Nevada companies the first crack at state contracts.” I think he meant “creating,” not “curating” (darned auto-correct!), but the sentiment […]
Should Republicans Support the National Popular Vote Compact? Maybe…
If you’re a conservative like me, your knee-jerk reaction to any suggestion of changing our presidential elections to a national popular vote isn’t just no, but…” Heck (or stronger), no!” After all, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton both won the popular vote but lost the elections under the current system, right? But after attending a […]
Congress Needs to Learn from Hawaiian Sugar Disaster & Prevent Its Spread
It’s said all good things must come to an end. But for Hawaii’s sugar industry, that end is anything but sweet. “The Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company is closing up shop after more than a century,” Agri-Pulse.com reported last week, “bringing an end – at least for now – to commercial sugar farming and processing […]
How Las Vegas Can Clear the Foul Odor of Crony Government
Mayor Goodman Puts Her Finger on the Air Freshener the City Needs If Shakespeare were alive today he might declare that something is more rotten in the city of Las Vegas than the state of Denmark – especially since we’re talking about garbage. Republic Services has had the exclusive monopoly franchise for trash pickup in […]
Muth’s Truths: February 8, 2017
Woman’s Right to Choose? Not So Fast… According to CNN, “A new Arkansas law allows husbands to sue wives to stop abortion.” Feminists always say “it takes two to tango” in making a baby. As such, they’re constantly hitting up the guy for child support. But if it takes two to tango and the guy […]
Cloobeck Reveals Self to Be a Clueless on Sanctuary City
We’ve all heard of “Fake News” (see: CNN), but a liberal time share salesman named Steve Cloobeck on Tuesday introduced us all to the concept of “Fake Guest Column.” Clueless Clooby, a 2018 Democrat candidate for Nevada governor, used the Las Vegas Sun to scribble a campaign ad disguised as an op-ed. In it he […]
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Walk into a Bakery…
Turns out it was no campaign act. “He used to love Oreos,” a former Donald Trump campaign aide told Axios.com recently, “but he really did stop eating them once they moved [their plant] to Mexico.” “The cookie crumbled for Trump,” NewsMax reported this week, “after Mondelez International announced it would close some of its American […]
Ford Has No Mandate for His Far-Left Black-and-Blueprint
While new President Donald Trump bolted out of the starting gate and was halfway around the track before the left even knew the race had started, new Democrat Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford stumbled out of the gate over his two left feet on opening day of the 2017 Nevada Legislature. Indeed, on the very […]
Muth’s Truths: Reagan’s Birthday, 2017
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, together with a coalition of 29 other conservative, free market leaders and organizations – including Chuck Muth and Citizen Outreach – have urged Congress to pass pro-growth tax reform in 2017. In the letter, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady […]
Since Shallow Graves are Illegal, There’s Only One Way to Deal with Raiders’ Owner
Back in the old days if some out-of-state shyster rolled into Vegas and got caught trying to cheat the house, there’s a good chance you’d find him black-and-blue and unconscious inside a trash dumpster in some dark alley – or worse. And after learning of the scam Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis tried to pull […]
From Glut to Shortage: India’s Sugar Manipulations
The argument against the current U.S. sugar program that’s had the most resonance over the past year is that the cost of sugar on the world market was significantly lower than the cost of domestic sugar – though critics always somehow conveniently forget to add in the cost of shipping, as if Brazil was using […]
Cegavske Critics Barking Up Wrong Tree
I want to take this opportunity to clear up some unwarranted criticism out there about Republican Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske over media inquiries to her office this past week on President Trump’s assertion that there might have been millions of votes cast illegally in November’s election. In a press release, the SoS replied… “There […]
Lottery is the Perfect “Thank You” for Paid Parking on the Strip
A recent column by gaming reporter Rich Velotta pointed out that in the next couple of months some 83% of Strip resorts and casinos will be hitting both tourists and locals with paid parking thanks to a decision last year by the corporate bean-counters at MGM Grand. Indeed, despite misleading propaganda claiming MGM’s new T-Mobile […]
Vegas Should Let Garbage Contract Air Out
A major brouhaha has erupted over a $1.2 million NO BID contract that’s been awarded to a politically connected consultant to oversee the reorganization of the Clark County school district. A lawsuit has been filed – which ultimately will be paid by taxpayers – and questions have been raised about the “backroom discussions” and “secretive […]
Ralston “Launches” New Blog amid Web of Deceptions
So Jon Ralston – Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger, whose painful-to-watch TV shows have been canceled more times than a rubber check – has a new gig: Editor of The Nevada Independent. With much pomp and self-promotion circumstance, the new blog was launched – actually, resurrected – on January 17th. Its stated mission: “We will change […]