Frankly speaking for ESA homeschoolers
My Muth’s Truths column Friday blasting Nevada legislative Republicans for blowing their opportunity to pass a better ESA (Education Savings Account) bill brought a simmering disagreement among homeschoolers to the boiling point. In a Yahoo group post on Saturday, Frank Schnorbus, a leader of the Nevada Homeschool Network, described my column as “a full serving […]
Reid teams up with Sandoval, Ralston to fight Tax Repeal “crazies”
Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid joined the attacks on Nevada citizens who are seeking to repeal the $1.4 billion tax hike passed by the 2015 Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Brian “America’s Worst Governor” Sandoval despite the fact that not one of them last year campaigned on such a tax hike and […]
The ABC’s of how the GOP totally fouled up the ESA’s
Repeat after me: Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity. And it seems that even when they do something right, they find a way to do it wrong. Such is the case with Nevada’s new universal school voucher program called “Education Savings Accounts.” Yes, ESAs are a type of voucher program, though we’re […]
Propaganda Prince unleashed to attack Conservative “Cuckoos”
Early on in the World War II classic film, Patton, we’re shown the scene of a just-concluded battle with Arabs stripping U.S. soldiers of their clothing and valuables. A pair of jeeps carrying American military personnel roll up to survey the carnage. As the officers review the battlefield and the casualties, there’s this horribly annoying […]
Defending Rubio’s defense of U.S. sugar farmers
James Bovard’s recent USA Today column attacking Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) support of U.S. sugar policy is built on the false assumptions that a global free market in sugar exists and that supporting U.S. farmers is at odds with being conservative. Every sugar-producing country in the world subsidizes its sugar industry with policies that are […]
Net-metering for dummies: Explaining the rooftop solar scam
Because of the unrelenting cries of anguish emanating from the rooftop solar industry about how Big Bad NV Energy is trying to kill 6,000 solar industry jobs, maybe you’re thinking you should try to learn something about the brouhaha. But then every time the term “net-metering” is mentioned your eyes glaze over like a Homer […]
Conservatives must take a stand in support of innovation
In today’s economic climate, America’s small businesses are under attack. Not only must they comply with onerous government regulations, but they increasingly face lawsuits filed by patent trolls, who work with trial lawyers to target innovators with claims of infringement on dubious grounds. Rather than create new products and technologies themselves, trolls abuse our patent […]
Nevada Taxpayers should have the Last Word on Largest Tax Hike in history
In 2009, the Nevada Legislature passed a series of “temporary” tax hikes totaling in excess of $600 million. The people of Nevada were promised that those tax hikes would expire, “sunset,” in two years. Instead, the Legislature extended those tax hikes for an additional two years in both 2011 and 2013. In 2014, the teachers union […]
India looking to give Subsidized Sugar away
India’s government heavily subsidizes its sugar industry, which is in crisis. With such sweet incentives from India’s government, Indian farmers continue to grow the crop far in excess of what can be consumed at home. And with an equally huge glut of sugar in the global marketplace, India can’t sell its excess without additional government […]
SandRINOval is “Fioreous” over Tax Repeal Referendum
Nevada Gov. Brian “America’s Worst Governor” Sandoval’s initials ain’t B.S. for nuthin’. Indeed, if anyone needs further proof of what a liberal, card-carrying RINO (Republican in Name Only) this guy is, gets a load of what he said about our efforts to repeal his largest tax increase in Nevada history, including the creation of a […]
$1.4 Billion Tax Repeal Referendum filed
Let the games begin! The We Decide Coalition officially hand-delivered a 50-page referendum petition to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office in Las Vegas this afternoon calling for an up-or-down vote by the people of Nevada on SB483. That bill – passed by the 2015 Nevada Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Brian Sandoval – […]
Recap of “Hands Up, Don’t Scoot” Prez Debate
The first presidential debate lived up to its high expectations, but FOX News clearly decided to take an early swipe at Donald Trump right out of the box with its “Hands Up, Don’t Scoot” question. I think it backfired on them. Yes, the folks in the audience didn’t like the fact that Trump wouldn’t promise […]
Power Disruption is on Nevada’s Horizon
When it comes to “disruptors” – new players in a market that totally upend the conventional way of doing business – I’d have to say today’s top three are Uber for what it’s done to the taxi industry, Airbnb for what it’s done to the lodging industry…and Donald Trump for what he’s done to the […]
Near-Death of Hawaiian Sugar Industry Explained
The opinion column below, published last week in the Honolulu Star Advertiser, provides a quick primer on the danger of trade deals that open a global “free market” in which our “partners” undercut us through government subsidies that our own people do not receive. As you’ll read below, thanks to some ill-advised trade deals in […]
The Conservative Blueprint for Making Nevada Great Again
A painful political lesson was re-learned by Nevada conservatives during the 2015 legislative session, which produced the biggest blown opportunity by Republicans in state history. As you’ll recall, following the Republican takeover of the U.S. House in 1994, the conservative “Contract with America” was stopped cold in its tracks by moderate Gumby Republicans in the […]
Trump Fever: Catch It!
If you’re a long-suffering conservative you can’t help but take at least a little perverse pleasure from the angst Donald Trump is causing the Republican Party establishment and the media, even if you’re supporting another of the GOP presidential candidates. For years, the media has twisted innocuous statements made by conservatives into alleged racist, homophobic, […]
Goedhart returns to make Nevada a priority
This is just absolutely excellent news… Former Assemblyman Ed Goedhart served two terms in the Nevada Legislature – 2009 and 2011 – representing a sprawling rural district centered primarily in Pahrump. During his tenure, Goedhart earned a reputation as a smart, principled, libertarian-leaning conservative who was unapologetic about his conservatism and unafraid of challenging the […]