Uber Comes to Las Vegas!
Free-market ride-sharing company Uber – despite threats from the taxi cartel and the bureaucrats they own – opened for business today in Las Vegas, Reno and Carson City. Woohoo! Folks, this is gonna be a political battle royale like you haven’t seen in Nevada in a LONG, LONG time. Bruce Breslow, professional bureaucrat and Gov. […]
UNLV prez candidate a walking s***storm magnet
On Monday, UNLV announced that it had narrowed its selections for a new president down to three. One of them is Ricardo Azziz, president of Georgia Regents University – which makes me wonder if the search committee, headed by a consultant who was paid $150,000, has ever heard of Google. Because a quick Google search […]
An Unloaded Gun Ain’t Good for Nothin’
Under cross-examination in an opening scene of the movie classic True Grit, John Wayne’s character, U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn, was being grilled over a confrontation with some suspected outlaws he was trying to arrest who ended up dead. Prosecutor: “Was your revolver loaded and cocked?” Cogburn: “Well, a gun that’s unloaded and cocked ain’t good […]
The Liberal or the Liar?
The incumbent in State Senate District 20, Michael Roberson, ran in 2010 as a fire-breathing conservative. In fact, he signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge on Tax Day at a tea party rally! He then sold out conservatives in the 2013 legislative session by breaking his Pledge and supporting the extension of the “sunsets” and proposing […]
What’s Up in District Court 8 Race?
I’m having a really tough time getting a handle on this District Court Department 8 race between the incumbent Doug Smith and his challenger, Christine Guerci-Nyhus. I have two good conservative Republican lawyers who I often rely on for recommendations in such races. One tells me Smith is “one of our best judges.” The other […]
For NV Senate District 9: None of the Above
This is a tough one, as it’s a choice between two Democrats – it’s just that one of them recently changed her registration, but not philosophy, to GOP. The one who is still a registered D is incumbent state Sen. Justin Jones, the darling of the gun control crowd. Problem is, his RINO opponent, Becky […]
There’s No Question, Vote “No” on Question 2
In an editorial voicing support for Question 2, the Las Vegas Review-Journal began: “If voters approve Question 2 on this fall’s ballot, they will not increase taxes on Nevada’s mining industry.” But that’s like saying if the Gibbons Tax Restraint law – which requires a 2/3 super-majority vote of the Legislature to approve any tax […]
Help Henderson School Win $100,000
In case you missed my column on this last March, C.T. Sewell Elementary School in Henderson is everything you’d want a government school to be. High academic standards, strict discipline, teachers who care about the students more than the teachers union and a principal and staff who don’t whine about not having enough money and […]
Gay Couples Need to Stop Being Intolerant Crybabies
It was ten years ago that I testified, for my first and only time, before a government legislative body – the United States Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution. It was surreal. Up on the dais, on my side of the issue, were some of the most liberal elected officials in all the land, including the […]
Finally Consensus: As POTUS, Obama Sucks
Over the past six years, Republicans have been critical of President Barack Obama’s weak, misguided national defense policies when it came to dealing with terrorists, thugs, dictators and thieves. But if you think it’s only Republicans who think the president has been lousy in this area, you’ve got another think coming. Get a load of […]
Guns Save Lives: Another in a Series
On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that… “Gun control groups say this is the year they finally go toe-to-toe with the National Rifle Association and match their foe’s imposing campaign spending for congressional candidates.” AP further noted that… “Organizations led by billionaire Michael Bloomberg and the wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., will unleash huge […]
Golden State Bags Plastic Bags; Silver State Next?
From the Department of Stupid Is As Stupid Does comes the latest from Nevada’s neighbor to the West. The California Legislature has passed, and Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown has signed, the nation’s first statewide ban on…plastic bags (SB 270). So how are canine owners supposed to pick up the dog poop on sidewalks and the […]
The Most Important Nevada Race in 2014
The most important Nevada race in 2014 isn’t for governor, or secretary of state, or attorney general, or even lieutenant governor. No, the most important race on the ballot will be between Republican Dan Schwartz and Democrat Kim Wallin for the office of state Treasurer. Why? Because that little-known office has everything to do with […]
Political Investing: The Top 4 Conservative Candidates in Nevada this Year
Unless you’re a true conservative, go ahead and hit the delete key RIGHT NOW…because there’s nothing in this missive that’ll be of any interest to you. Nothing whatsoever. Go ahead. Hit “Delete.” Bye-bye. Don’t let the e-door hit you on the way out. Now, for the rest of you… I have a subscriber to Muth’s […]
I Like Little a Lot
When pressed in the GOP primary to explain why he was claiming to be a conservative even though he’d voted to extend the $600 million-plus worth of “temporary” tax hikes from 2009 that were supposed to expire in 2011, and again in 2013, Republican lieutenant governor candidate Mark Hutchison has said it’s what Gov. Brian […]
Dave for Himself: Epic Fail
Clark County GOP Pooh-Bah “Dave for Himself” McKeon sold Central Committee members a bill of goods that would make any snake-oil salesman proud. Alas, not only have the dineros failed to flow into the party’s coffers under his “leadership,” neither have Republican voter registrations. Here’s something you might not know. When an organization such as […]
Noonan Nails It (and by extension, Roberson)
Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter and opinion columnist for the Wall Street Journal, wrote this absolutely fantastic closing sentence in her column this week… “It’s good to win, but winning without a declared governing purpose is a ticket to nowhere.” Noonan was writing about Republicans in Congress whose electoral strategy is “don’t rock the boat, […]