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Nov 26 2008, 10:29 AM
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Nov 26 2008, 10:29 AM

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Nov 26 2008, 10:30 AM
Buyer's Remorse on the Left
Janice Shaw Crouse
The Far Left contends that Barack should be dancing with the ones that brought him to the White House. Those on the right who treasure our traditional America values of personal responsibility and freedom have far more serious cause for worry. More

Obama on the 'urgency' of combating 'global warming'
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Few challenges facing America and the world are less urgent than combating the non-problem of "global warming". More

Why the Barack Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
Joe the Farmer
Does this Barack Obama birth certificate issue bug you? A guide to the issue the big media don't want to talk about. More

Snuffysmith
Nov 26 2008, 10:31 AM
Russia-Venezuela Naval Manuevers in the Carribean
November 26, 2008
Some ominous news from the southern hemisphere. More

Mormons Under Fire in California
November 26, 2008
California's Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has agreed to investigate a complaint against the Mormon Church. A group called "Californians Against Hate" (CAH) filed the complaint about the church's support of Proposition 8 More

The man who should be Treasury Secretary
November 26, 2008
While we watch the country's top economists flounder to and fro in their various stabs at fixing the troubled economy, one has to wonder where they were two years ago. More

MSNBC columnist calls for 're-regulating' airlines
November 26, 2008
Here comes another mindless call for government-as-savior in the forthcoming Obama era. More

Gates will stay put at DoD - For now
November 26, 2008
Some hope without the change. More

Columbia University Scratches ROTC program
November 26, 2008
What about devotion to "diversity?" More

Rahm and Freddie Mac
November 26, 2008
Rahm Emanuel has benefited financially from Freddie Mac, a fact that seems to be overlooked by the media. More

When Warming Ideologues Attack
November 26, 2008
Dare to point out that it isn't actually getting warmer and unleash the furies. More

Taking PC to deadly limits
November 26, 2008
Who knew some illnesses, even though they are fatal, are politically incorrect? More

The cost of the bailout - in perspective
November 26, 2008
How does $24,000 for every man, woman, and child in the US grab ya? More

Lasky, Feldman, Rubin on the air
November 25, 2008
Transition talk and a look at Obama's developing team on The Rick Moran Show More

Russian Analyst: 'The US will break up into 6 parts'
November 25, 2008
Some jaw-dropping predictions from a "leading" Russian political analyst More

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Nov 26 2008, 10:31 AM
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Nov 26 2008, 10:32 AM
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Nov 27 2008, 10:47 AM
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Nov 27 2008, 10:47 AM

Giving Thanks in Difficult Times
In this economic atmosphere, it is easy to despair or bemoan our state, but on Thanksgiving, we should take the opporunity to gain perspective on the important things in life and to be thankful for what we h... More

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Nov 27 2008, 10:48 AM

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Nov 27 2008, 10:48 AM
America, the Blessing
Kyle-Anne Shiver
The America-hating disease has spread like a brush fire upon the earth. More

Thankful for Family
Larrey Anderson
There is much more going on the traditional nuclear monogamous heterosexual family than meets the eye. The family is the "laboratory" that creates self-aware and decent human beings. More

Thanks for what lasts
Bruce Walker
Barack Obama won the presidency promising change. As we enter our national season of Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the goodness of permanence. More

Snuffysmith
Nov 27 2008, 10:49 AM
Financial system under attack in Mumbai?
November 27, 2008
Could there be another dimension to the terror attack in Mumbai? More

An imagined book cover on the Obama victory
November 27, 2008
We await a flood of books explaining how Obama won the presidency. Here is an imaginary cover for one of them. More

Fiscal crisis or not, Obama may push for nationalized health care
November 26, 2008
Health care reform will not long remain on the back burner, and Obama may well strike while iron is hot -- when his public approval is highest. More

Workers Unite! (Behind Obama)
November 26, 2008
The CPUSA emphasizes unity behind Obama, warning its fellow travelers to "resist efforts by reaction and some on the left" and to "not get bogged down in disputes over Cabinet appointments." More

Unhappy employees in the newspaper industry
November 26, 2008
Nobody likes working for a company in decline. So we should not be surprised at outbreaks of unrest in the newspaper industry. More

Russia-Venezuela Naval Manuevers in the Carribean
November 26, 2008
Some ominous news from the southern hemisphere. More

Mormons Under Fire in California
November 26, 2008
California's Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has agreed to investigate a complaint against the Mormon Church. A group called "Californians Against Hate" (CAH) filed the complaint about the church's support of Proposition 8 More

The man who should be Treasury Secretary
November 26, 2008
While we watch the country's top economists flounder to and fro in their various stabs at fixing the troubled economy, one has to wonder where they were two years ago. More

MSNBC columnist calls for 're-regulating' airlines
November 26, 2008
Here comes another mindless call for government-as-savior in the forthcoming Obama era. More

Gates will stay put at DoD - For now
November 26, 2008
Some hope without the change. More

Columbia University Scratches ROTC program
November 26, 2008
What about devotion to "diversity?" More

Rahm and Freddie Mac
November 26, 2008
Rahm Emanuel has benefited financially from Freddie Mac, a fact that seems to be overlooked by the media. More

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Nov 28 2008, 08:39 AM
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Nov 28 2008, 08:39 AM

Giving Thanks for Self-Reliant Americans
Malkin: In the Year of Bottomless Bailouts, I am most grateful this Thanksgiving for Americans who refuse to abandon thrift, personal responsibility and self-reliance. More

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Nov 28 2008, 08:39 AM
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Nov 30 2008, 10:08 AM
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Nov 30 2008, 10:08 AM

Same Old New Deal?
George Will: People whose recipe for recovery today is another New Deal should remember that America's biggest industrial collapse occurred in 1937, eight years after the 1929 stock market crash and ne... More

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Nov 30 2008, 10:08 AM
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Dec 1 2008, 08:31 AM
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Dec 1 2008, 08:31 AM

Formula for GOP Recovery: Traditional Values Plus Limited Gov.
Parker: Now that Democrats have won the White House and have widened their margin of control in Congress, does this signify that American voters have moved to the left? More

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Dec 1 2008, 08:32 AM
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Dec 2 2008, 10:26 AM
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Dec 2 2008, 10:26 AM

Freedom and the Left
Sowell: Most people on the left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom. More

Snuffysmith
Dec 2 2008, 10:31 AM
Bush’s Memoirs



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Dec 2 2008, 10:32 AM
Naughty or Nice, for the Right Price



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Dec 2 2008, 10:32 AM
Bush Admits He Was ‘Unprepared for War’
President Bush reflects on his time in office, airing some regrets and looking to have some say in framing his legacy, during an interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson airing Monday.

Snuffysmith
Dec 2 2008, 10:33 AM
Bush’s 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy
By Stanley Kutler — The times are unprecedented. Not since 1861 have we watched the last gasps of an outgoing administration with such anxiety. Then the nation was concerned with drift and inertia; now we watch for further ideological mischief.

Snuffysmith
Dec 2 2008, 10:34 AM
Bush’s Hoover Impression Flirts With Depression By Marie Cocco — At the earliest, it is likely to be at least February or March before the first dollar of an Obama recovery plan is felt. This is a national disgrace.

Snuffysmith
Dec 2 2008, 10:35 AM
Senators want Bush to pardon their convicted felon friend — Ted Stevens.»Last month, soon-to-be retired Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) delivered his farewell speech on the floor of the Senate, many of colleagues from both sides of the aisle gave speech after speech lavishing praise on the recently convicted felon. Now, some of those same senators are saying that President Bush should pardon Stevens:

"He has served this country for over 50 years," said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), a widely respected member of the Judiciary Committee. "I think most anybody would probably say, 'Yeah, he should be [pardoned].' I think most anybody would say it's fair to say that." […]

With the door for a pardon cracked back open, some of his Republican colleagues are hoping they can push one through.

For Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the case for a pardon for Stevens has already been laid out. It's all right there in a letter that Stevens' lawyers sent to Attorney General Michael Mukasey — one in which they laid out their allegations of prosecutorial misconduct before and during his trial.

Stevens' longtime friend, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI), noted to Politico that it would be contradictory for Stevens to be pardoned because "he maintains his innocence." "If you pardon someone, you're assuming he's guilty," said Inouye.
Snuffysmith
Dec 2 2008, 10:36 AM
Bush strips collective bargaining rights from federal employees.»
Yesterday, President Bush issued an executive order "that denies collective bargaining rights to about 8,600 federal employees who work in law enforcement, intelligence and other agencies responsible for national security." 900 of the employees affected were already represented by collective bargaining units. Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said that employees "had their collective bargaining rights stripped away for no justifiable reason." For more on Bush's last-minute regulations, orders, and proposed rule changes, check out ThinkProgress' updated report: "Bush's Backward Sprint To The Finish."
Snuffysmith
Dec 2 2008, 10:36 AM
Judge dismisses indictments against Cheney and Gonzales.» Yesterday, a Texas judge dismissed indictments brought against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accused the two men of holding responsibility for prisoner abuse at privately-run federal prisons in the county. "I suggest on behalf of the law that you not present any cases to the grand jury involving these defendants," Administrative Judge Manuel Banales said, urging the colorful prosecutor to "exercise caution as his term in office ends." Guerra responded, "I expected it. The system is going to protect itself."
Snuffysmith
Dec 2 2008, 10:37 AM
After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry 'to produce propaganda.'» The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with "a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio," in order to discuss how "the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image of the United States overseas." Karl Rove attended at least one of the meetings. One of the participants in the meetings, former RIAA chairwoman Hilary Rosen says Rove "put pressure" on them to "produce propaganda":

Hilary Rosen, the former chairwoman of the Recording Industry Association of America, who was also present at the post-9/11 meetings, said that Mr. Rove and other White House officials were looking for the kind of support Hollywood gave the United States during World War II.

"They wanted the music industry, the movie industry, the TV industry to produce propaganda," she said. "Rove was putting a lot of pressure on us."

Snuffysmith
Dec 2 2008, 10:39 AM
For Nearly A Year After Recession Started, Bush White House Insisted That 'We're Not In A Recession'» Earlier today, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that "the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007, making official what most Americans have already believed about the state of the economy." The group, which the White House has previously pointed to as the determinative body for declaring a recession, said in a statement that the "decline in economic activity" after Dec. '07 "was large enough to qualify as a recession."

White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto commented on the news "without ever actually using the word 'recession.'" Instead, Fratto released a statement saying the White House was focused on what they "can do for the economy right now."

It's not surprising that Fratto would avoid the word "recession." Though economic analysts and experts were predicting in late 2007 and early 2008 that the U.S. economy was likely to face a recession, Fratto declared on Jan. 8, 2008, "I don't know of anyone predicting a recession." This wasn't the only time that the Bush administration dismissed the idea of a recession during the same period that NBER now says a recession was underway:

- "We don't believe we're going to have a recession though." [Vice President Dick Cheney, 1/30/08]

- "I think the experts will tell you we're not in a recession." [President Bush, 2/10/08]

- "The answer is, I don't think we are in a recession right now." [Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Edward Lazear, 2/11/08]

– "First of all, we're not in a recession." [President Bush, 4/22/08]

– "The data are pretty clear that we are not in a recession." [Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Edward Lazear, 5/7/08]

- "I don't think we are" in a recession. [Director of the National Economic Council Keith Hennesy, 6/3/08]

– "I think we have avoided a recession." [White House Budget Director Jim Nussle, 7/31/08]

– "I don't think anybody could tell you right now if we're in a recession or not" [Dana Perino, 10/7/08]

Less than a month ago, Fratto said that it was "irrelevant" for the White House to admit that the U.S. is in a "recession." The recession is official now, but Fratto appears to still think admitting it is "irrelevant."

UpdateBloomberg's Timothy Homan and Steve Matthews note that NBER's finding means that this recession is "already the longest since 1982."
Snuffysmith
Dec 2 2008, 10:41 AM

"Impeach Bush" Ornament Accepted For Hanging On White House Christmas Tree
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Dec 2 2008, 10:42 AM
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Snuffysmith
Dec 4 2008, 03:27 AM
Susan Rice and Reality
December 04, 2008
Commentary's blog, Contentions, has a short but sweet take down of Obama's nominee to be Ambassador to the UN, explaining that this naive, incoherent multiculturalist and her boss are about to meet head on with reality More

Bizarre accident
December 04, 2008
A woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex. More

Look Who's Ponied Up for Murtha
December 03, 2008
If you are still as angry as I am about Congressman Murtha's slander of the Marines in Haditha, you might be interested to know who shipped him the last minute funds he needed to pull victory out of a looming loss: More

Chambliss credits Palin with victory
December 03, 2008
Saxbe wasn't the only winner in Georgia last night. More

In Chicago, it's unions first, snow removal second
December 03, 2008
Hizzoner da Mayor may save a little money - but at what cost to himself and Chicagoans? More

Think Tanks warn Obama of Iranian threat
December 03, 2008
Predictable advice from an expected source. More

Toronto cracks down on the threat of bottled water
December 03, 2008
It seems like only yesterday that bottled water was cool. Europeans drank it after all. More

Attorney General Designate and the clemency granted FALN terrorists
December 03, 2008
Detailing Holder's involvement in one of the more shameful episodes of the Clinton Administration. More

About that 'windfall profits tax' ...
December 03, 2008
Another promise down the drain. More

India fingers Mumbai 'mastermind'
December 03, 2008
Tensions are rising along the India-Pakistan border as India demands the arrest of the terrorists responsible for planning the Mumbai attacks. More

Bill Clinton Puts Global Warming Threat Ahead of Terrorism
December 03, 2008
Unlikely that the ironic cancellation of next Saturday's Live Earth India global warming awareness concert due to the Mumbai massacre will temper his fanatic priorities. More

Jeb Bush looking at Florida senate run (updated)
December 03, 2008
Bush the Younger would have huge advantages over his Democrat and Republican rivals. More

Snuffysmith
Dec 4 2008, 03:27 AM
Saxby's Win: 08's Most Intellectually Pure Contest
C. Edmund Wright
For all of the talk about "bi-partisanship," the Georgia Senate run-off was nothing if not blatantly partisan. It was, simply, ALL about the party, and by extention, was the most intellectually sound and pure election in all of the 2008 cycle. More

Keynesian borrowing won't solve our economic problems
Raymond Richman, Howard Richman, and Jesse Richman
Keynsian economics is being used to revive the economy, as if borrowing and spending could solve our economic problems. More

First lessons from the Mumbai Massacres
James Lewis
Some poeple just don't get it, but a learning oportunity exists. More

Snuffysmith
Dec 5 2008, 05:31 AM
Will Obama Become the Statesman That America Needs?
Janice Shaw Crouse
The question of the day is whether in President-elect Barack Obama we have a leader who can rise above the perpetual campaign that has characterized the presidency and plagued the nation in recent decades. More

The 'Islamophobia' canard after Mumbai
Joel J. Sprayregen
Saudi King Abdullah has been urging the United Nations to pass a universal law prescribing imprisonment for criticizing Islam. It's already passed a key committee vote. More

False pride and the liberal imagination
James Lewis
Why liberals believe so many strange things. More

Snuffysmith
Dec 5 2008, 05:31 AM
Harper wins temporary reprieve
December 04, 2008
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, facing the downfall of his government in a non-confidence motion, has been granted a temporary postponement. More

The New American Ethic: Lie, Cheat, and Steal
December 04, 2008
30 percent of young Americans admit to shoplifting and 60 per cent confess to cheating on tests. More

Jobless claims drop unexpectedly
December 04, 2008
But workers receiving government assistance is at a 26 year high: More

Osama bin Lego?
December 04, 2008
Just in time for Eid come specially modified Lego figures in jihadi getup, for sale in the UK. More

Good news for the Pirates: Islamic rebels are winning in Somalia
December 04, 2008
Ethiopia is leaving, the UN is dithering, and Somalia is blowing up. More

Pakistan pledges to find Mumbai suspects
December 04, 2008
US and the west working hard to keep a lid on the situation. More

How Rahm cashed in
December 04, 2008
Rahm Emanuel faces no confirmation hearings as White House Chief of Staff, and that's a good thing for him. More

How the Obama Administration will use their grass roots activists
December 04, 2008
Politics has never seen anything like it. More

Demanding religious reciprocity from the Saudis
December 04, 2008
Apparently it takes an oil exporting nation to do the obvious thing when confronting Saudi-financed Islam. More

Obama's single parent upbringing not a drawback
December 04, 2008
Obama's support system as a youth helped overcome many of the pitfalls facing kids from single parent homes. More

Susan Rice and Reality
December 04, 2008
Commentary's blog, Contentions, has a short but sweet take down of Obama's nominee to be Ambassador to the UN, explaining that this naive, incoherent multiculturalist and her boss are about to meet head on with reality More

Bizarre accident
December 04, 2008
A woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex. More

Snuffysmith
Dec 6 2008, 12:04 PM

Message From Georgia: This Too Shall Pass
Michael Barone:The world doesn't stand still. Case in point: the Georgia runoff election last week made necessary because Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss failed, barely, to win an absolute major... More

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Dec 6 2008, 12:04 PM
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Dec 7 2008, 09:40 AM
<h1 style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px;">MUTH'S TRUTHS</h1>
Government Should Stop Doing Unions’ Dirty Work

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 06:36 PM CST

This column is going to appear to be a “Marco Polo” – all over the map. But bear with me, Nevada taxpayers. I’ll tie it altogether at the end.

In Washington, DC, this week, auto executives groveled at the feet of Congress, begging for a $34 billion government bail-out to save their companies. What few will say out loud, but everyone knows in their heart, is that the Big Three are on the brink of extinction for one main reason which can be summed up in four short words: United Auto Workers union. Remember, unions don’t create jobs; they destroy jobs.

But jobs aren’t the only things unions destroy. Once the envy of the world, America’s public education system has been wrecked by the teachers unions which relentlessly lobby for more money for its members (who are then able to pay higher union dues) while blocking every education reform or parental choice proposal that comes down the pike.

Meanwhile, the government employee unions are also primarily responsible for the bankruptcy earlier this year of the city of Vallejo, California. And Vallejo is probably the first of many local governments which will soon go belly-up thanks to ridiculous labor costs and unsustainable benefit packages forced on taxpayers by public employee unions.

Oh, and when Congress re-convenes immediately after Barack Obama is sworn in, the first order of business for Big Labor is to eliminate secret ballot elections. Lovely. How un-American.

The bottom line is that unions aren’t the knights in shining armor they would have you think they are. Much like Big Government, Big Labor isn’t the solution to today’s problems; it’s the cause of them.

OK, with that established, let’s move on to a seemingly unrelated topic.

One of the most insidious inventions of the 20th century, other than the creation of the income tax itself, was the establishment of the practice of payroll “withholding.”

Instead of you getting all of your paycheck every week and then paying your taxes at the end of the year, the government requires that your employer estimate how much you’re going to owe, take a proportional amount out of every paycheck, and submit it to the government in advance. That way the government gets its money upfront - and you have to apply every April 15th to get any overpayments back.

If not for this system of payroll withholding, the government would have one hell of a time collecting taxes from an outraged and unwilling citizenry. It’s always more difficult to get people to write a check to pay what they owe than it is to just confiscate that money right from their paycheck.

The same is true when it comes to collecting sales taxes in Nevada.

Consider this. Let’s say you no longer pay the tax you owe on purchases at the store level. Instead, you need to add up everything you spend money on – separating that which is taxable from that which is not – and then calculate the amount of sales tax you owe on your purchases and write a check to the government every month.

An accounting nightmare, right? And can you imagine how many people would fudge the amount they owe, or refuse to pay their sales taxes outright? So instead, the government forces private businesses to collect the sales taxes you owe on your purchases, keep track of it all, add it up every month, and remit the money to the government.

At the retail level this isn’t as much of an accounting nightmare as it would be for you individually, but the paperwork alone is a royal pain in the arse, not to mention the government audits by the Department of Taxation businesses are regularly forced to endure. As such, the government allows retail businesses to keep a very small percentage of the amount of combined sales taxes it collects every month in exchange for providing this collection and accounting service for the government.

Which brings us to the current budget “crisis” in Nevada.

On Monday, the Legislature will be called into a special session to come up with some $300 million needed to cover the current revenue shortfall. And one of the gimmicks being considered is to cut the amount of money businesses are paid to do the government’s sales tax collection work.

Businesses, fearing an even worse “solution” – such as a business tax hike – probably won’t raise much of a stink over being paid less to do the government’s dirty work. After all, it’s kinda hard to protest when there’s a loaded gun pointed at your head.

But if the governor and legislative leaders pursue this change next week, pro-business and pro-taxpayer legislators should similarly insist on another change to help the state out of its fiscal mess: The government should stop doing Big Labor’s dues collection dirty work.

In this country unions have the right to negotiate their way into bankrupting major industries and even American cities. They also have the right to destroy the education and futures of generations of American kids. But taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill to collect the dues money used to accomplish all of this for public sector unions via taxpayer-funded payroll deductions.

You see, the public employee unions have negotiated an agreement with the government whereby the government withholds the amount of dues owed to the union from the workers’ paychecks, accounts for it, and then submits it each month to the unions. It’s the same insidious practice used by the government to withhold taxes from your paycheck.

But while every other private organization has to collect its own dues from its own members – including us here at Citizen Outreach - taxpayers are paying to provide this service for Big Labor. It’s way past time for that practice to end.

Public employee unions should have to do their own dues collection dirty work. The government’s public payroll system shouldn’t be making payroll deductions for anything other than mandatory deductions required by federal law, tax withholdings, judicial liens and garnishments, deductions for health or other insurance, deductions for retirement plans, and legitimate charitable deductions.

Not union dues.

It’s time for the public employee unions to incur the same expenses and collection challenges that other private organizations – such as taxpayer protection groups, gun rights groups, environmental groups, senior citizen advocacy groups, boys and girls clubs, etc. – face on a daily basis. Why should taxpayers fund and operate this collection service for unions committed to sucking every last penny out of taxpayers’ pockets?

If the Legislature is going to reduce or eliminate the fee it pays private businesses to do the government’s sales tax collection work, then it should also eliminate the cost to taxpayers of providing that same service for public employee unions bent on destroying public education and bankrupting Nevada cities, counties and/or the state itself. Enough is enough.

So let it be written; so let it be done.

Snuffysmith
Dec 7 2008, 09:41 AM
Can This Marriage Last? by Patrick J. BuchananHaving savaged each other for a year, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have now formed a rare partnership in power.
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Dec 7 2008, 09:42 AM
Senate Told It May Take $75 to $125 Billion To Keep Big Three From Bankruptcyby Dan CalabreseA chief economist tells Senate Banking Committee that the requested $34 billion still may not keep Big Three from bankruptcy.


Big Three Big Wheels Go Flat On Capitol Hillby Connie HairArriving in the most expensive carpool in history, the CEOs of the Big Three returned to Capitol Hill yesterday. Go inside the hearing...
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Dec 7 2008, 09:43 AM
Stop Income Tax For Two Monthsby Newt GingrichWhy Rep. Gohmert's tax holiday is better than a bailout.
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Dec 7 2008, 09:43 AM
Jesus Versus the Atheists by Bill O'ReillyJust in time for the Christmas season, Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire has insulted …
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Dec 7 2008, 09:44 AM
What the Obama Cult Factor Portendsby David Limbaugh


The New Hollywood Blacklistby L. Brent Bozell IIIHollywood can still mount a soapbox and recall the dark days when people lost their jobs in …


Richard Nixon Back in the Spotlight by Roger SimonRichard Nixon is hot again. Though it has been 34 years since he was forced to resign his …
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Dec 7 2008, 09:46 AM
Obama at the faculty club
December 06, 2008
Barack Obama's conversations at the faculty club in Chicago sound quite different according to accounts in the New York Times and Washington Post. Which one is wrong? More

The downside of progress
December 06, 2008
People used to understand how things worked by looking at the moving parts. Not in the information age. More

Klaus Reminds Europe What Democracy Is
December 06, 2008
Czech President Vaclav Klaus tells EU biggies the truth about their move away from democracy. More

OPEC Head predicts output cuts
December 06, 2008
Trouble? Or wishful thinking? More

Caroline Kennedy for Senate?
December 06, 2008
Replacing one celebrity with another. More

Why sociology professors shouldn't be in charge of US policy
December 06, 2008
Here's a great idea; force inefficiency, ridiculous work rules, and other union-inspired impediments to competency on the network of foreign-owned auto plants already here in America. More

When we all know the press is lying
December 06, 2008
What happens when just about eveyone can see that the press is lying about the perpetrators of the Mumbai massacres? More

New "New Deal" just like the old one
December 06, 2008
It didn't work back in the 1930's. Why try it now? More

It's Not Just the Students who Lie, Cheat, and Steal
December 06, 2008
Many math teachers in our public schools ... don't know any math. And some states are hiding this fact. More

Bill Ayers on why terrorizing innocent people doesn't make him a terrorist
December 06, 2008
Poor Bill Ayers. So misunderstood that people mistook his "extreme acts of vandalism" for terrorism. More

Bad idea of the week...well, maybe the year
December 05, 2008
Giving in to the Islamists in Somalia may stop the piracy but at what cost? More

The bell is tolling for IL Governor Blagojevich
December 05, 2008
It's all over but the weeping for the corrupt governor of Illinois More

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Dec 7 2008, 09:46 AM
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Dec 8 2008, 07:41 AM
Bill Ayers: Legally, he is a terrorist
December 08, 2008
Scholar Eugene Volokh explains why Ayers is full of it. More

Tribune Company prepares for bankruptcy?
December 07, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Tribune Company, a major newspaper publisher, broadcaster, and owner of the Chicago Cubs, is preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing. More

Earmarks vs protecting our soldiers?
December 07, 2008
Have earmarks resulted in soldiers getting an inferior product for chemical weapon decontamination? More

Public works 'investment' hasn't worked so well in Japan
December 07, 2008
As Obama promises massive public works spending, it is worthwhile looking at Japan, which has tried to use massive public works spending to lift its economy out of the doldrums for the better part of two decades. More

The day that still lives in infamy 67 years later
December 07, 2008
As living memory fades, Pearl Harbor Day is still relevant. More

The end of 'blank checks for Israel'?
December 07, 2008
Those reassurances about Obama's support for Israel are getting shaky. More

Global warming debunkers to have conference in March
December 07, 2008
As the world cools, and warmism skeptics prepare to gather in New York City, expect warmist kookiness to intensify. More

Huh? What does Bill Richardson mean?
December 07, 2008
"Obama is an immigrant"? And here the media has been telling us he was born in Hawaii? More

Susan Rice was roadblock to capturing Osama
December 07, 2008
What's this woman doing advising the next president on anything? More

GOP picks up Dem seat in Congress (updated)
December 07, 2008
Anh Joseph Cao has become the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress, defeating indicted incumbent William Jefferson More

Attack in Pakistan destroys 160 NATO vehicles
December 07, 2008
Whose side are the Pakistani's on? More

For GOP senators, it's not a question of "if" but "how" to bail out automakers
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