Who did Sen. Larry Craig hurt? I mean, let’s say everything that reportedly happened in that Minneapolis airport restroom happened. Let’s say the distinguished gentleman from Idaho WAS “cruising” for a good time. Let’s say his actions WERE an invitation for the police officer squatting on the throne next door to join […]
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Here’s something you probably didn’t see or hear on the ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN newscasts this week:
“Ambush: 28 Aug, Kandahar Province, Shah Wali Kot District – A joint forces convoy was ambushed. Air support was called in. Report states that more than a hundred insurgents were killed.”
But you’ll find this, and a whole more, […]
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Carson City school board member Joe Enge, who refuses to simply go along to get along with other members of the board, is filing a Open Meeting Law (OML) violation complaint against his own board and board president today.
This isn’t the first time the Carson City school board has been hit with a complaint that […]
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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There will be, beyond a shadow of doubt, a HUGE push for tax hikes in the 2009 Nevada Legislature. And there will be, beyond a shadow of doubt, a number of Republicans who will SUPPORT the notion of raising your taxes. Some of them will even have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising […]
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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From the Department of Stuck on Stupid, Sen. Larry Craig, Idaho Republican, got popped in June for lewd conduct in an airport restroom. You can read the details, as reported in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, HERE on the Free Republic website.
In short, Craig entered a bathroom stall where a lot of “lewd […]
Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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This may surprise you, but President Bush’s Border Patrol chief in Laredo, Texas, recently said at a town hall meeting that the Border Patrol’s job isn’t to stop illegal immigrants, drug dealers or other criminals from crossing the border. A couple of questions: Since when? And…if not the Border Patrol, then who or what […]
Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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As I wind my way through to the thrilling conclusion of Ron Chernow’s “Alexander Hamilton” (I understand that, as in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” a major character is killed off in the end!), I continue to be amazed at how much America and its politics today resemble the politics of our nation in […]
Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore, who will be speaking at the 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference this October, has penned a must-read column in the American Spectator on Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn.
As Moore notes, Coburn is unique in the Senate for a lot of reasons - his crusade against pork-barrel spending heading the list - […]
Posted on August 24th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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I really get a kick out of all the gnashing of teeth in many quarters over the supposed loss of civility in politics today, especially when it comes to the current crop of presidential wannabes.
As it is, in between running from bears at our campsite this week, I’m reading a biography of America’s original big-government […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The cluck-cluckers over at the comically misnamed “Planned” Parenthood organization are squealing like stuck pigs over a vote recently cast by Nevada’s Republican Rep. Dean Heller which would deny the abortion provider additional taxpayer funding. Where to begin?
First, whether pro-life or pro-choice, all of us should agree that tax dollars shouldn’t be used to […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada | 3 Comments »
