SEX!
OK, now that I have your attention…
Some folks were confused upon arrival at the Bahama Breeze Brawl/debate between Clark County GOP Chair Cindy Lake and her challenger, Dave McKeon that Citizen Outreach hosted at last week’s First Friday Happy Hour.
Naturally, I’m biased, but I thought it was both very informative and very entertaining - and Dan Burdish, Alan Stock and I are looking forward to doing a lot more of these next year during the party primaries.
That said, let me again explain that I publish TWO different and separate e-newsletters…
1.) Muth’s Truths (which you’re reading right now): This one is FREE.
2.) Silver State Confidential: More of an “insiders” e-newsletter which covers issues and politics at a more detailed and advanced level. This one is a PAIDsubscription newsletter.
Now…everyone who subscribes to Muth’s Truths was able to get into the debate at the regular starting time of 5:00 pm on Friday night.
However…paid subscribers to Silver State Confidential were allowed to come in earlyat 4:30 pm for a meet-and-greet with the candidates and to reserve the best seats in the house. After all, as the saying goes…
Membership has its privileges!
And yes, Silver State Confidential subscribers will continue to get “special treatment” at various events, forums, debates, etc. – including, once again, early access to next month’s First Friday Happy Hour (which is being changed to theSECOND Friday, July 12th, due to the Independence Day – not Fourth of July – holiday weekend) for a meet-and-greet with our special VIP guest, tax championGrover Norquist.
So for those of you who are not yet subscribers to Silver State Confidential, I invite you to get the best “right-wing” e-newsletter in Nevada and begin enjoying not only the “inside scoop” on all things conservative, but the special side benefits that come with it - like early access and priority seating at events, as well as invitations to the Third Thursday lunches (more to be added on a regular basis).
BAHAMA BREEZE BRAWL AFTER-ACTION REPORTS
I’ll share some of my thoughts and concerns about last Friday’s “Bahama Breeze Brawl” debate with Silver State Confidential subscribers later this week (right now I’m getting ready to head out to the airport for a brief trip to DC).
In the meantime I received two fairly brutal assessments of the debate performances by the candidate from two individuals who were in attendance. I’ve posted both on Nevada News & Views for those who have an interest:
And for those of you who may have missed the one-hour debate last Friday, you can still catch it on video by clicking here.
STOP CRAP!
A group of politically connected Democrat “vulture” capitalists are tempting the city of North Las Vegas to abuse its eminent domain powers to snatch home loans that are being paid and are current, screw the original lender, and then hope to refinance the loan and sell it back to the homeowner all at an obscene profit for the investors (with some “vig” on the side for the city).
The scheme, originally called the Community Resolutions Assistance Program – or “CRAP” for short – is set for a vote by the NLV city council next Tuesday night. Citizen Outreach has set up a dedicated website to explain this in layman’s terms and organize opposition to it.
Check out www.StopCRAP.org
FREE MARKET SUGAR
The 2013 Farm Bill (S 954) - as controversial as every other farm bill has ever been - is working its way through Congress.
One aspect of the bill is the U.S. sugar policy, which includes import quotas and tariffs but NO taxpayer subsidies for farmers has split the conservative movement, with, for example, conservative Sen. Marco Rubio defending American sugar farmers against unfair subsidized imports and Washington Post columnist George Will saying to scrap the program completely and let the chips fall where they may.
Citizen Outreach has adopted the “zero for zero” strategy to resolve this issue: The U.S. sugar industry should give up the quotas and tariffs if foreign nations give up subsidizing their inefficient growers. And we have a dedicated website up on this issue for those who might have an interest: www.FreeMarketSugar.com
SURVEY SAYS!
Hey, I’ve outsourced my website development to a great guy in India namedMinesh Desai who installed a new plug-in on my Muth’s Truths blog so we do online polls again. Look for the “Survey Says!” box in right-hand column under the “Subscription” box.
And to give it a test drive, consider weighing in on this first question: Who was the biggest “drama queen” of the 2013 legislative session?
- Sen. Justin Jones
- Assemblywoman Lucy Flores
- Sen. Michael Roberson
- Sen. Kelvin Atkinson
- Assemblyman Skip Daly
Click here to cast your vote.
WHY SCOTUS WAS WRONG ON THE DNA DECISION
The following Los Angeles Times take-down of the U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing government authorities to take DNA samples from people who have been arrested, but not CONVICTED, for a felony is about as clear an explanation of why this was such a bad decision as I’ve found.
“Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority opinion disingenuously suggested that swabbing King's cheek for DNA was reasonable given ‘the need for law enforcement officers in a safe and accurate way to process and identify the persons and possessions they must take into custody.’“But, as Justice Antonin Scalia noted in a devastating dissent, there was no real question about King's identity or, for that matter, his address or date of birth. The real purpose of acquiring his DNA and entering it into a database was to see if King could be linked to other crimes.“And what is wrong with that? On its face, connecting arrestees to cold cases sounds like a pretty good idea. But under previous court decisions interpreting the 4th Amendment, police may search arrested persons for weapons and for evidence ‘relevant to the crime of arrest.’ The fact that police had probable cause to arrest King for waving a shotgun didn't create probable cause to acquire King's DNA and search a database to see if he could be implicated in another crime. Kennedy's opinion would allow such fishing expeditions.“The other problem is that although Kennedy said it was constitutional to obtain DNA evidence from persons arrested for a ‘serious offense,’ his reasoning would justify taking DNA from people arrested, as Scalia put it, ‘for whatever reason.’“Although DNA analysis is new, the constitutional issue raised by this case is a familiar one: When should society's interest in detecting and punishing crime override an individual's right to privacy? Obtaining DNA from people arrested for (but not convicted of) a serious crime may close some cold cases. But so would taking DNA from people arrested for minor offenses — or from citizens applying for a driver's license or gun permit. Or from all of us. The court's unwise decision makes such additional intrusions less unthinkable.”
For those of you who supported the bill (“Brianna’s Law”) in this just-concluded Nevada legislative session to do just that, you might want to consider the Pandora’s box you just opened.
MEET KEVIN MCCARTHY
The Republican Women of Southern Nevada will be holding their first “Red, White & Blue Gala” fundraising dinner on Saturday, July 13th at the Venetian/Palazzo.
The keynote speaker will be the conservative Majority Whip for the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.). VIP reception at 6:00 pm. Dinner at 7:00 pm.
For additional information, please visit http://www.RepublicanWINPAC.com
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