Yikes! Didn’t know so many News & Views readers felt so passionately about this year’s presidential election. I can honestly say I’ve never received as much email as hit my Outlook Express over the last couple of days on my indecision between voting for Republican John McCain or Libertarian Bob Barr.
In all honesty, […]
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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A few thoughts on the often overlooked Nevada ballot questions…followed by some candidate endorsements.
Back in the “old days,” the powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government were reserved to the states. And the people of the state of Nevada, when adopting our Constitution in 1864, decided that someone should live here for at […]
Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Question 6 on the Washoe County ballot asks voters to support a tax hike which would be used primarily to pay teachers more money. As such, I had to laugh at this headline in yesterday’s Reno Gazette-Journal: “Teachers support room tax increase.”
Gee, ya think?
That said, it is now painfully obvious that there WILL be […]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Polls show about one in ten voters remains undecided with a week to go before Election Day. It still amazes me that people who are so ill-informed that they can’t make up their minds between John McCain and Barack Obama are even allowed in a voting booth.
That being said…I’m undecided.
No, not between […]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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A new friend and reader of News & Views forwarded me a Boston Globe column written last week by Yvonne Abraham. Abraham defended ACORN’s fraudulent activities with the following…
“Voter registration fraud isn’t the same as voting fraud. If somebody registers Groucho Marx to vote in Ohio, that’s voter registration fraud. But that doesn’t affect […]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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While Barack Obama is indeed a socialist by virtue of his loving embrace of wealth redistribution, President George W. Bush may go down in history as something far worse, presiding over a growing national “security” apparatus which would make even Big Brother blush.
“The Department of Homeland Security will take over responsibility for checking airline passenger […]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Good grief, is there anyone NOT engaging in a statewide “listening tour” to curry voter favor? First it was Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley. Then Senate Minority Minority Leader Steven Horsford. Then Attorney General Catherine Cortez-Masto. And now it’s…the Department of Cultural Affairs?
Yep. According to today’s Nevada Appeal, “The Nevada Arts Council […]
Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Mike Robinson is a taxpayer-funded science professor at the taxpayer-funded University of Nevada Reno. And in a published column yesterday in the privately-funded Reno Gazette-Journal, this taxpayer-funded government worker at a taxpayer-funded school actually wrote the following about raising taxes to give taxpayer-funded schools and taxpayer-funded teachers even more taxpayer money (no matter how […]
Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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The election isn’t over yet, but apparently that’s not stopping GOP incumbents in the state Assembly from jockeying for leadership positions and committee assignments in the 2009 Legislature. And despite the fact that, in a best-case scenario, half of the GOP caucus in the Assembly could be freshman who have never served a day […]
Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada | 12 Comments »
A full-color, full-page “apples and oranges” ad championing Barack Obama appears on page 7-A in today’s Reno Gazette-Journal. While it looks a bit like a used car or furniture store ad, it’s still full-page. Hard to miss.
In the body, Obama and McCain are listed and evaluated on various qualities. For […]
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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