Enthusiasm Gap: McCain Campaign Pain Remains

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, the overwhelming majority of your notes urged a vote for McCain. However…

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Nevada Ballot Recommendations/Endorsements

A few thoughts on the often overlooked Nevada ballot questions…followed by some candidate endorsements.

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The Great Teachers Union Money Grab

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?

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The Undecided Vote

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.

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Why Voter Registration Fraud Matters

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…
 
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Papers, Please

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.

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The “Need” for Art

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?

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And the Winner of the Karl Marx Award Is…

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 badly they’re performing):

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A Hardy Tax-Hiker for GOP Leadership

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 with incumbent Republicans in the Legislature, the caucus has scheduled a hurry-up pow-wow to elect leaders for the upcoming session.

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Going to Bat for Obama

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.

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