It’s no longer even arguable among objective observers: The problem with America’s mediocre government-run schools isn’t a lack of money but a lack of competition. Monopolies are inherently less productive and incredibly resistant to change. Ask any businessman. That’s why Nevada State Sen. Barbara Cegavske’s “Special Needs Scholarship” bill (SB 158) may […]
Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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In town recently, here’s what Sen. John McCain said about nuclear energy…
“We have in use today a zero emission energy that could provide electricity for millions more homes and businesses than it currently does. Yet it has been over twenty-five years since a nuclear power plant has been constructed. The barriers to nuclear […]
Posted on April 29th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Thanks to the Gibbons Tax Restraint Initiative of 1994-96, it requires a 2/3 majority vote in both houses of the Nevada Legislature to approve a tax hike directly. Republicans hold a majority of the seats in the state Senate and 15 seats in the state Assembly. If…and that’s a big *if*…but if Republicans […]
Posted on April 29th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Dear Fellow American: No, you didn’t just wake up in the old Soviet Union, but…the House of Representatives did recently pass one of the most un-American pieces of legislation ever.
H.R. 800, the grossly misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act,” would eliminate an employee’s right to a “secret ballot” when voting on unionizing.
As I said at […]
Posted on April 28th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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It’s not all doom-and-gloom for Republicans in Nevada. Despite the number of GOP legislators who are killing the party on the tax issue this year, some very talented and experienced people are coming on the scene who could make a world of difference in the coming election cycle.
First and foremost is Sue Lowden, […]
Posted on April 28th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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A few weeks back, Republican Assembly Minority Leader Garn Mabey said at his one and only press conference of this legislative session that instead of rewarding the exceptional teachers in a school with “merit pay,” instead maybe we should give ALL the teachers of a school which shows improvement some kind of equally divided merit […]
Posted on April 28th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The Internet, for all its amazing growth to date, is just beginning to reach its full potential. The people and businesses of Nevada will best realize the infinite possibilities of the ‘Net if government officials get with the program when it comes to increasing high-speed, broadband Internet access.
“American residents and businesses now pay two to […]
Posted on April 28th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Big Labor. It’s not even arguable.
In case you missed it, the teachers union is having their meeting at the Peppermill Hotel in Reno this weekend. Democrat presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards were supposed to speak there. The Peppermill Hotel, however, is a non-union hotel.
So word on the street is […]
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The federal REAL ID program requiring every person in the United States to get a new driver’s license or risk being denied the ability to do simple things like board a plane is not only an anti-freedom program, it’s an unfunded mandate on the states which are being forced to pay the costs of implementing […]
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The following snippet from a Reno Gazette-Journal story this morning nicely encapsulates the argument we conservatives have been making about the budget and government spending:
“The price of gasoline could be breaking records when Charlie and Billie Zumo depart Cheyenne, Wyo., this summer for their 970-mile drive to Reno. But cost won’t matter. They’re coming. […]
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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