According to the Associated Press, on December 23, 1914 - almost a century ago - a young girl named Ethel Martin in Oberlin, Kansas, was mailed a Christmas card by her cousins in Alma, Nebraska. The post office finally delivered it this week. Unfortunately, Ms. Martin died while waiting for the card to […]
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Another day, another example of government blowing money it doesn’t have.
There was a quarter-page ad in this week’s Nevada Appeal headlined “Got a Question?” The ad lists three sample questions: (1) Where can I write my congressman? (2) What’s the state flower of Florida? (3) Where can I find the health information […]
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The Nevada System of Higher Education has been of no help to me whatsoever; nevertheless, I’ve been able to uncover some new information on the salaries being paid to some of the upper echelon of Chancellor Jim Rogers’ education kingdom anyway. While unable to obtain the actual names of the individual workers, the list […]
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Rudy Giuliani is slipping. And unless there’s a major new attack on U.S. soil sometime soon, the rationale for his candidacy in the GOP presidential primary dissipates to practically nothing. And I’m not just talking about among social conservatives. Gun rights conservatives, civil libertarians and anti-illegal immigration voters have major problems with […]
Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Seems University Chancellor Jim Rogers hasn’t taken too kindly to voices of opposition which call into question His Highness’s claim that there’s nothing in the higher education budget which can be cut during these lean times.
According to Nevada state Sen. Bob Beers, Rogers was asked this week by reporter Samantha Stone if he had read […]
Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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HOUSE VOTES TO CODDLE TERRORISTS: “Defying a White House veto threat, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to outlaw harsh interrogation methods, such as simulated drowning, that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists.” - Reuters, 12/13/07
TORTURING CONGRESS
“Suppose the CIA briefed Congress that there was credible information of a planned terrorist attack to […]
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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For comparative purposes, consider that the governor of the state of Nevada is the guy (and someday gal) who is in charge of a whole mess of departments and programs, including the university system. We’re talking about transportation, K-12 education, health and human services, agriculture, business and industry, corrections, economic development, motor vehicles, wildlife, […]
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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University Regent Howard Rosenberg was a guest on Sam Shad’s “Nevada Newsmaker’s” pundit panel yesterday and was asked to respond to my blog column in which I asked why the university system was cutting rural campuses instead of high athletic director and sports coach salaries. Which led to this little on-air conniption:
“Let me start […]
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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THE CHOICE OF THE ANTI-CHOICE CROWD: “Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who is vying for first place in the GOP primary polls there, was endorsed yesterday by the New Hampshire affiliate of the National Education Association. The union’s President Rhonda Wesolowski called a news conference to praise Mr. Huckabee for opposing school vouchers […]
Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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ROMNEY ON A ROLL
Fresh off landing the endorsement of David Keene, the long-serving chairman of the American Conservative Union, Mitt Romney scores a major endorsement by highly-regarded conservative magazine National Review.
“Our guiding principle has always been to select the most conservative viable candidate,” explains NR. “In our judgment, that candidate is Mitt Romney, the […]
Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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