A startling new survey conducted by the Nevada Policy Research Institute was released this week showing that just 11 percent of Nevada residents, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal story, “said they would send their children to public school if they had the freedom to choose any available option.”
Just 11 percent. Barely one in […]
Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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FINDING A PROBLEM WHERE NONE EXISTS: “It is hard to imagine any time in history when such rampant pessimism about the economy has existed with so little evidence of serious trouble.” - Economist Brian Wesbury
DELUSION CENTRAL
“Washington, D.C. is a place where delusions go to thrive. That explains why Congress and the president are now agreed […]
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Seems I hit a rather raw nerve relating my recent experience with the TSA in yesterday’s Muth’s Truths. Well here’s a little more to chew on from longtime News & Views reader Shane “The Cajun Tiger” Comeaux:
“The thing that gets me the most is the pure stupidity of the 3 ounce rule. It’s […]
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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If the arsonist who burns down your house offers to help you find a new one, would that make everything all better? Of course not. Well now you know how the approximately 1,500 highly-trained, highly-skilled, highly-experienced engineers, scientists and other soon-to-be laid-off workers at Yucca Mountain must be feeling after reading the recent […]
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Just when you thought there was no hope for the archaic notion our Founders embraced that the federal government should be strictly limited, along comes a Reno Gazette-Journal online poll providing a small light at the end of this rather dark tunnel. The question was, “Should Congress renew the No Child Left Behind Act?” […]
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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From my vantage point, here’s where we are in the presidential selection process…
Give the Clintons their due. When push comes to shove, they both push and shove like there’s no tomorrow. Because for them, there isn’t. They give no quarter and take no prisoners. And they’ve now successfully changed Barack Obama […]
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Hate is a pretty strong word. But not strong enough to express how I feel about the TSA - the Transportation Security Administration or Thousands Standing Around, depending on your point of view - which runs those security checkpoints at American airports. I may fear the IRS, and I may dread the DMV […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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COUCH POTATO TAX: “The Sierra Club is proposing a tax on video games and televisions with the proceeds going to programs that encourage families to get kids off of the couch and into the mountains. Call it ‘No Child Left Inside.’ Mike Casaus of the Sierra Club says families hiking a mountain trail together […]
Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Conservatives keep hoping against hope that the current GOP members of the Congress learned their lesson in 2006 when voters returned them to the minority in both the House and the Senate, thanks in no small part to their failure to control spending. But that hope is a pipe dream. Republicans deserved to […]
Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Longtime readers know I’ve been a longtime advocate for ending Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) on government construction projects for roads, schools and everything in between. Mandatory PLAs were imposed on Nevada taxpayers in 1994 by an executive order issued by then-Gov. Bob Miller.
For those not familiar with the term, CityLife editor Steve Sebelius explains […]
Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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