Chancellor Jim Rogers says the Nevada System of Higher Education can’t cut a damn thing in its budget. Really? Get a load of this story in the Las Vegas Sun yesterday. It won’t come as any surprise to readers of this newsletter, but it does further expose the outrageous salaries we’re paying […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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THE ROAD TO REPUBLICAN REDEMPTION: “The federal government is now an astounding 185 times as big in real terms as it was a century ago. A general sense that Republicans have forgotten why they were sent to Washington is a big reason why the GOP lost control of Congress last year. The road to redemption […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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If you’re a sports fan, you know that how you are playing the game at the beginning of the season, while important, isn’t as important as how you’re playing at the end of the season if you want to take home the championship. To win the big one, you need to “peak” just as […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Gov. Jim Gibbons met with Nevada’s 17 public school superintendents yesterday to discuss his order for a 4.5 percent decrease in the 20 percent increase public education received just a few short months ago. Make no mistake. There are NO CUTS to public education involved with the governor’s order.
The increase in […]
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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BOOM-BOOM, OUT GO THE LIGHTS: “Among the regulations packed into the newest energy bill that just passed Congress this week, a ban on the incandescent light bulb will officially end what Edison started 130 years ago. ‘If you outlaw light bulbs, then only outlaws will have light bulbs,’ says Libertarian Party Executive Director Shane Cory. […]
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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For Republican primary and caucus voters who somehow continue to be enamored with Mike Huckabee…
I’M THE CHRISTIAN, HE’S THE MORMON
“Let’s start with the Huckabee Christmas commercial, obviously aimed at evangelical Christians who constitute more than 40 percent of Iowa voters. . . . (N)o matter how many denials he and his supporters offer, that was […]
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Despite generally successful efforts to boost its party’s name identification and improve its political credibility at the national level, a Libertarian Party activist at the local level in Texas appears determined to shoot the party in the foot.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul - presently running for the GOP presidential nomination - is a well-known “small l” […]
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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A few Drive-By Muthings on the budget “crisis.”
* Last January, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed a budget with an 18 percent increase in spending. The Legislature approved a budget with a 20 percent increase in spending. The combined rate of population growth plus inflation was around 14 percent. Had the governor […]
Posted on December 20th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF: Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said of passage of the $555 billion omnibus spending budget, “We are very proud of this bill.” No wonder his party is in the minority.
SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE
Entertainer Pamela Anderson filed for divorce last week, just two months after getting hitched in a quickie […]
Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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At the beginning of this year President Bush ordered a “surge” of additional troops to Iraq to clamp down on the bad guys. In September the commanding general overseeing war operations in Iraq told Congress the surge was working.
The President immediately declared “mission accomplished” (in so many words) and ordered a phased […]
Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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