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www.pennypressnv.com The Penny Press is published weekly by Penny Credits: Far West Radio LLC All Contents © Penny Press 2014 Publisher and Editor: Contributing Editors: Fred Weinberg Floyd Brown Al Thomas Letters to the Editor are encouraged. They should be Press emailed to: [email protected] No unsigned or Logotype Doug French Chuck Muth unverifiable letters will be printed. Pointedlymad John Getter Pat Choate licensed from: 775-461-1515 eFax: 201-304-0355 Rich Gast Tom Mitchell Penny Press NEVADA USA 16 PAGES VOLUME 11 NUMBER 32 APRIL 17, 2014 Nevada Is An Old Whore By BYRON BERGERON did a fantastic job and deserve a property. But as I stated above his property, no livelihood without Contributing Editor great deal of credit for their effort. not all rights are equal. Grazing violating BLM restrictions and Moreover, I would not have some rights were never recognized nor owes the government 1.1 million Growing up in rural Nevada of the information I need to write established as a legal property right in fines and fees. At least he got his I used to hear old timers use this this piece had it not been for their in the United States. They can be cows back for the time being. phrase. It was kind of vulgar and diligence. extinguished by the BLM pursuant Bundy probably decided to let I never gave it much thought. But Not all rights are created equal. to the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act. his cattle graze on BLM, without A grazing right, nor a water right is Consequently, in 1993, with the grazing permits, as he had no a constitutional right. Water rights swipe of a pen the government took options. Fines were accruing at Commentary were acquired when the Homestead Bundy’s grazing rights and ordered $200 dollars a day per head. The Act urged folks to go west to that he reduce his heard from 900 government only needed to wait populate our western border. to only 150 head of cattle using until the fines and fees accrued to the older and more cynical I get, I They were property rights earned the endangered species act and the 1.1 million, a number that exceeded think I know what they meant. If when folks put water resources to desert tortoise as the reason and the value of his cattle and the value you pay for it and you have enough “beneficial use” and yes even today without compensation. He needed of the land to seize his property. political clout she will do just about they run with the land unless stated the property right to graze cattle This strategy is not new. It anything you ask. otherwise in a deed. When you on federal land to make is ranch was proven successful throughout I have read a lot about rancher lose a water right originating on economically viable. The value of western American history by cattle Cliven Bundy lately and it seems federal land adjacent to the ranch his ranch plummeted.. As Dana barons. They used gun hands to cut to me that nobody has gotten it you privately own in fee simple, it Loesch put it, this was plain and off natural resources like the water quite right. That being said Logan greatly reduces your property value. simple a land grab. A land grab feeding small ranches destroying Churchwell and Brandon Darby In fact, it destroys it. You own that that is not over. Mr. Bundy still has the economic viability of the ranch at Brightbart are an exception, right separate and apart from your no grazing rights, no way to sell in order to later buy it on the cheap Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly RON KNECHT PAGE 5 Voice Of Nevada FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Penny Wisdom DOUG FRENCH PAGE 7 Inside: A.F. BRANCO PAGE 9 We can’t have an American Bundy Range War people that violate the law FLOYD BROWN PAGE 10 and then just walk away MATT BARBER PAGE 11 Like 1963 Alabama from it. So it’s not over. CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 —Harry Reid See Editorial Page 6 THE PENNY PRESS,APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 4 Reid, Bundy Ranch Connection Bit of A Stretch, But... Continued from page 3 and expanding their empire. Their gun hands wore masks rode horses in people whose priority is the desert tortoise, the sage grouse, the moapa the dark to destroy fences and irrigation ditches. Today’s unwitting gun dace, the spotted owl or some obscure salamander somewhere out west. hands show up with police dogs, pickup trucks, heavily armed with the Maybe this is the motivation behind reducing the Bunkerville allotment. letters BLM stamped on their chest. That fanaticism even explains the hypocrisy of allowing the feral horse, When the United States was formed, the eastern states owned all the a grazer that presents the same environmental hazard as a cow, to land within their borders and ceded small amounts of land to the federal promulgate while demonizing the cow that is also a grazer. government. Western land was first acquired by the United States via But there is evidence suggesting wrongdoing. And it should not the Louisiana Purchase and some other acquisition with Spain, I can’t be simply dismissed. It’s no secret that Harvey Whittemore and Harry remember the name. The United States then ceded a small percentage of the Reid are friends. It is no secret that in 1998 Reid and then Senator lands to the states within their borders reserving ownership of 84 percent Ensign co-sponsored legislation that re classified federal lands removing of the land within Nevada’s borders. Some say this is unconstitutional, I restrictions on the sale of some federal lands. It is no secret that am not one of them. This is not a state’s rights issue. Whittemore later acquired approximately 10,000 acres of those lands via a If Bundy lived with a scenic river running through his backyard land swap in order to build the Coyote Springs Resort only 53 miles from and Senator Newlands decided to take and divert all his water rights to the Bundy family ranch. It is no secret that local ranchers opposed this. let’s say Fallon, Nevada destroying a cutthroat spawn in order to grow Whittimore was later required to pay for those lands. It is also no secret cantelope melons in the desert, reducing the Truckee River to a mere that the development was opposed by the EPA because of none other than trickle. The government would have had to pay him for his water rights that pesky desert tortoise. In the end the EPA, lawsuits and other obstacles and the decrease in his property value. disappeared and Mr. Whittemore was allowed to proceed with his resort. Every article I read is short on solutions. Here is one. Whether the law An estimated 30 billion dollar resort that originally was to span 43,000 recognizes it or not this is an unconstitutional taking. In lawyer speak it acres, including 160,000 homes, 12 golf courses that most certainly would is called eminent domain or inverse condemnation. The government must have done more damage to the habitat of the desert tortoise than 750 cows. meet constitutional requirements to confiscate your property including Reid and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a paying you for it. But, Bundy cannot seek this remedy. His ownership Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm of grazing rights is not recognized by law. Congress should remedy and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert. O.K. I agree this quickly. Treat grazing rights like water rights. The government it’s a bit of a stretch to believe they want the Bunkerville allotment for this should not be able to destroy the value of your land and extinguish your purpose especially when Senator Reid can simply re classify federal land. livelihood leaving you with nothing. Making them choose between their But this after all Nevada and you know what they say about Nevada, “she fat government pensions and their belief in saving the desert tortoise is the is an old whore. only way to slow their roll. What isn’t a stretch is that Harry Reid knows midterms are approaching The Brietbart column concluded it is a stretch that Harry Reid is and made a phone call to Neil Kornze and postponed the seizure until after or was involved. I tend to agree. It is certainly possible that this is all the election. about environmental fanaticism. Maybe the BLM is being headed by Mr. Bergeron is a defense attorney in Reno.

www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 5 Commentary: Ron Knecht was about 8 percent in 1900.) The despite poor policies of Presidents spiral; if it tries to back off, it may Progressivism’s spending ratio is widely used as Bush 41 and Clinton. precipitate another crash and big the measure of government in our Later, extremely loose monetary recession. grim legacy for lives and businesses; other graphs and credit policies of But wait, there’s more! We now are available that show extreme and Ben Bernanke, acting much have the slowing population growth increases also in taxes, regulation, at the behest of Congress, also that progressives have long desired. nation’s future deficits and debt. helped drive household, financial- It will increasingly cause Social The empirical economic sector and non-financial business Security, Medicare, Medicaid I’m writing this on Tax Day. literature shows that the optimal debt through the roof. The bursting and Obamacare to disintegrate in Two questions: How did we get public-spending level (the level that of the resulting asset bubbles entitlements unsustainability crises into this mess? How bad will things maximizes long-term economic precipitated the Great Recession and war between the generations. get? The answers are grim. growth and thus maximizes the and financial crash, but it did not All that will further slow economic The graph nearby illustrates size of the pie) is about 20 percent solve our excess debt problems. growth. two key facts: 1) our government to 25 percent. So, for over a half- Since 2008, the unprecedented Is it a silver lining that almost has grown substantially faster century this trend increasingly Keynesian spending binge of all these problems will be worse in than our private sector and total has depressed economic growth, Presidents Bush 43 and Obama, other major developed and many economy over the long term and the source of human progress, plus the latter’s mad regulatory emerging economies? No, because more so recently; and 2) its excess flourishing and well-being. orgy, have yielded only our worst that means our growth may decline burden for more than 50 years has In the 1980s, ’s recovery ever. Americans are poorer even further. progressively cut aggregate human efforts to slow the surge of spending today in real terms than in 2007. Before the 18th Century, long- well-being from levels we would and regulation and to reform taxes, For five recovery years, we’ve had term economic growth barely enjoy if it were smaller. plus sound monetary policy by Paul 1 percent annual real per-person above zero meant that most Total public spending grew Volcker, ignited a boom that lasted economic growth, not the normal 3 people’s lot in life was essentially from 26 percent of the economy with only one hiccup until 2000, percent. that of their parents. Subsequently, in 1960 to 36 percent in 2012. (It Things may well get worse. growth fostered by sound economic Government excesses and errors institutions, practices and policies in spending, taxing, deficits, made each generation almost twice debt and regulation continue as well off as its parents — and Tips Of Our Cap mostly unabated. They will cause that’s our expectation now. economic growth to remain very However, 125 years of slow: 1 percent real annual per- progressivism culminating in and person growth is likely the new a six-year blowout means our normal, and we’ve seen all the children should greatly lower recovery we’re going to get. their expectations. The problems Bronx Cheers Worse, the monetary and credit- left to them by statist liberals are allocation gimmicks Bernanke persistent, systemic and subject used to mitigate both Obama’s tax, only to long, painful corrections. The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: spend, borrow and regulate orgy RON KNECHT and the private debt bubbles also are Ron Knecht of Carson City is an Cliven Bundy and his clan. Whether their right or wring from a legal standpoint, they unsustainable. If our government stuck it to the Federal Government exactly where the feds deserved to have it stuck and economist, law school graduate and gave a ray of hope to millions of people who see their government growing so powerful continues to print money wantonly, Nevada higher education Regent. we are beginning to look like the Soviet Union and the White House is beginning to it may foment an awful inflation look like the Kremlin. U.S. Public-sector Spending/GDP Ratio, 1960-2012 Clark County Sheriff and Governor Brian Sandoval for their completely unexpected Includes Federal, State & Local Total Net Spending stands against the actions of the federal thugs last week. They both deserve some new Ron Knecht 21 June 2013, using U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Data found respect even if we don’t usually agree with them. 40%

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Harry Reid, who, instead of taking the government side of the above dispute, should be 25% pushing a bill through the Senate unwinding the BLM’s hegemony over Nevada and the Optimal Level to Maximize Economic Growth: 20% - 25% ridicules notion that you can own 90 per cent of a state’s landmass. He has truly shown 20% he no longer represents the people who sent his sorry butt to Washington so he could own a million dollar condo there. 15% 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 THE PENNY PRESS,APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 6

From The Publisher...OPINION Bunkerville NV The New Birmingham, Alabama I’m 62; Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy is 67. Government started thinking that certain endangered species like the Desert Tortoise were more important than raising the food we eat. So Back in the day of our fathers, that would have made us both senior they told Bundy he could only run 150 head instead of 900 head. In citizens. Today, that only makes us old enough to remember the man Nevada, running 150 head of cattle means you are out of business. who President John F. Kennedy called one of the greatest contributors to the civil rights movement. Bundy declined to accept the new government fiat.

“The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He And this is why we are where we are. helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln,” said Kennedy. (Truth be known the Federal agencies which manage the lands in the Who was Bull Connor? West are mostly populated with radicals who hate human beings on “their” land. It matters little who is in the White House.) He was the police chief of Birmingham, Alabama when the civil rights marchers came to town in 1963 and he used attack dogs and high Now, in any other situation, you would call the cancellation of those pressure firehoses to beat them back in front of the cameras of CBS, grazing allotments a “taking” in constitutional terms and the Bureau of NBC and ABC. Land Management would have to pay Bundy millions.

He also allowed the Ku Klux Klan to beat on the “Freedom Riders” But the government thugs who run 90 per cent of Nevada don’t see it without police interference in front of the cameras of CBS, NBC and that way. ABC. Just like those government officials in Birmingham who thought they He had no idea what the black and white footage of those attacks could make black folks ride at the back of the bus and use “colored” would do to galvanize America into seeing the error of its ways and water fountains. passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Which, for the record, was a co-operative venture of the Republicans and the Northern Democrats. This isn’t a liberal vs. conservative or Republican vs. Democrat argument. It was one of a very few times in America that CBS News did us a public service in its endless pursuit of liberalism. This is an argument about whether or not the Federal Government has the right to simply terminate a century old business because the Fast forward to 2014 in Bunkerville, NV and Bull Connor lives on in Center for Biological Diversity (which is the Southern Poverty Law the form of the Bureau of Land Management’s jack booted thugs who Center of the West and acts like the Ku Klux Klan) comes along and closed over 600,000 acres of range to spend over a million dollars of says it thinks agriculture is not in the best interest of the eco system. our money to round up about 500 cows which were pissing them off. As this is written, the 1,000 or so protesters have won and the jackbooted And, if you think that is hyperbole, here is what Rob Mrowka, from the thugs have left the area. aforementioned Center told Reuters after the Feds caved, gave Bundy back his cattle and slinked away. “The sovereign militias are ruling the They originally set up “first amendment areas” so as to pen in day. Now that this precedent has been set and they’re emboldened by protestors and sent very thuggish “law enforcement” officers with the government’s capitulation, what’s to stop them from applying the Tasers and guns and attack dogs to keep the protestors under control. same tactics and threats elsewhere?” Then, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie—neither of whom have, in the past, indicated that they had Indeed. any testicles—suddenly grew a pair each and stood up to the feds. We appreciate their positions and have new-found respect for them. Think about that for a minute.

After seeing how much this looked like Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, You’ve got the ghost of Bull Connor, together with his sycophants from our guess is that the Obama administration decided it had bigger fish what amounts to today’s Ku Klux Klan out there tasing protestors who to fry and ordered Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to sit on her band of are protesting the BLM’s decision that growing food is not in the best thugs and get them out of the news. interests of the people who eat it.

Because, after a few weeks, the uproar became so big that even CBS Perhaps someday, they’ll talk about that little pissant who runs the BLM News had to pay a little bit of attention. in Nevada the same way they talk about Bull Connor.

Although, we no longer need CBS because, today, you can see the First, however, we’ll have to remember her name. tasers and attack dogs in use on Youtube any time you want. FRED WEINBERG The backstory here is that Bundy’s family has been running cattle in these parts since the 1800s. About 20 years ago, the Federal THE PENNY PRESS,APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 7 Commentary: Doug French Invest in What’s Really Important YOU Choose The Deal! CHOOSE ONE OF THESE GREAT OPTIONS! While the market goes gaga for technology companies, bidding their Promotional Packages Starting At prices to levels assuming constant growth to infinity, I wonder just how Promotional Packages new apps or viewing devices make my life better versus things created Starting At... ADD years ago. mo FOR 12 MONTHS Not eligible for Hopper In a wonderful little book full of big insights, The Great or iPad mini offer HIGH SPEED Stagnation, economist Tyler Cowen says our lives in material terms are Upgrade to not much different than in 1953. The cool stuff we saw on The Jetsons in DISH TODAY! INTERNET the 1960s hasn’t happened. No jetpacks, or living forever, or visiting Mars. AS LOW AS .... “Life is better and we have more stuff,” writes Cowan, “but the pace Join Without of change has slowed down compared to what people saw two or three a Contract! generations ago.” Market bellwethers like Amazon and Netflix are astronomically ✔ NO valued. But these companies do not change our lives fundamentally— Contracts. they only allow us to efficiently buy and watch more STUFF. ✔ NO mo. Credit Check. It’s inventions made between 1880 and 1940 that have really made where available life better. Professor Cowan lists a few important ones: automobiles, ✔ NO Commitment. electricity, household appliances, telephone, mass production, pharmaceuticals, radio, television, and indoor plumbing. Younger readers can’t imagine a world without these things. I can’t either, except for indoor plumbing. Although I grew up living in Abilene, Kansas, with indoor plumbing, I remember visiting great-grandparents OVER 30 PREMIUM MOVIE CHANNELS SAME DAY INSTALLATION IN UP TO 6 ROOMS who did not have modern facilities. Where available. These days you think the world’s going to end if the Internet is slow. For 3 months. CALL TODAY - Offer subject to change based on Imagine having to go in the middle of a cold, windy Kansas night. You premium movie channel availability. INSTALLED TODAY! put on shoes and an overcoat, and tromped out to an uninsulated, rickety outhouse 50 or 100 yards from the residence. In the summer, a different sort of discomfort was associated with the process. NO ONE CAN COMPARE TO DISH! So while I’m awed by the latest gadgets like anyone else and a proud Amazon Prime member, I don’t think Jeff Bezos’ company is life- THE COMPETITION DOESN’T LARGEST CABLE STACK UP PROVIDERS changing enough for the stock to be worth 539 times earnings. As I get Instant commercial skipping feature* older, it is those who designed and created indoor plumbing that I thank YES NO NO The most HD channels YES NO NO each and every night. Lowest all-digital prices nationwide YES NO NO DOUG FRENCH FREE installation in up to 6 rooms YES NO NO * Feature must be enabled by customer.

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There, a federal swat team confronted some protestors , the former Governor of Arkansas and current host of helping Cliven Bundy, a rancher futilely attempting to protect his cattle the show, Huckabee, made headlines this weekend. from capture and slaughter at the hands of faceless Federal bureaucrats. Some say he committed a gaffe, but I’m not so sure. Here’s what Bundy is part of a dying breed of independent cattle ranchers who Huckabee jokingly told the crowd at the New Hampshire Freedom once populated most of the open spaces of the Western United States. His Summit: family harkens back to a simpler time when Americans raised their own “My gosh, I’m beginning to think that there’s more freedom in North food… and before the government had military-style police teams to deal Korea sometimes than there is in the United States. When I go to the with protesters. When I was growing up, that was something you’d see in airport, I have to get into the surrender position, people put hands all over Soviet-ruled countries, not the United States. me, and I have to provide photo ID in a couple of different forms to prove Elsewhere, while the rancher protest was raging in Nevada, Huckabee that I’m not going to terrorize the airplane.” concluded his speech with a call to abolish the most tyrannical of all The comment was a joke intended to create cognitive dissonance in government agencies – the IRS. the audience’s minds. How could anything in America actuallycompare to Huckabee was eloquent as he denounced the IRS’ recent campaign the repression in the world’s only existing Stalinist regime? against conservatives: “The criminal enterprise formerly known as North Korea’s suppression of human rights is legendary. In fact, it’s the Internal Revenue Service… that is able to crush any citizen, any legendary in much the same way that freedom in America once was. Thus, organization. It is the one type of entity in America, where you are guilty Huckabee’s comment was clearly a joke and not intended to be taken until you can prove yourself to be not guilty.” seriously. Huckabee has long advocated a Fair Tax that would end the income Yet, in an eerie way, he was also completely right. tax and shift the country toward a tax on consumption, similar to a sales Moving Back Toward Freedom tax. With such a tax in place, the IRS is no longer necessary. Huckabee and I are similar in age, and during our lifetimes, we’ve I agree with Mike Huckabee wholeheartedly. Abolition of the IRS is seen freedom melting away like the last snow in spring. a reasonable first step that’ll move the needle back toward freedom. But Liberties we once took for granted are long gone, such as walking to time is of the essence – we need to abolish this agency soon, before the an airline gate without much more than a pleasant hello from any security country slips deeper into the morass of tyranny. THE PENNY PRESS,APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 11 Commentary: Matt Barber The email to BarbWire provides more context: Deception: Christian Publisher Sells “An ‘imprint’ in the publishing world is like a mask – the name and logo of the entity may be unique, but the same staff, editors, executives, promoters, are behind the book as are behind those put out by other ‘imprints’ (i.e., Soul for Mammon directly from Multnomah, and wearing that brand/mask). So Multnomah is now consciously trying to hide from NRB [National Religious Broadcasters] WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group is planning to release, through and its members the fact that it is putting out this new project. Insiders its liberal sister imprint Convergent Books, a manuscript paradoxically are reporting threats should they release any such information outside the titled God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex company, but I believe Multnomah authors have a right to see the full picture Relationships. of the company with whom they’re partnering. (Though we should try and Is the Christian world about to suffer through another World Vision protect those who are under threat.)” moment? A 2012 article at Christian Retailing offers further clarity on the The book’s author, Matthew Vines, is a homosexual activist and Bible connection: revisionist known for manipulating Christian terminology to advance the “The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, has counter-Christian homosexualist agenda. announced the launch of Convergent Books, a new Christian imprint. Despite his frequent use of a Christian-like lexicon, Vines surprisingly Random House is the parent company of WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing admits to running an apostate enterprise that he callsThe Reformation Project. Group, comprising WaterBrook Press and Multnomah Books. .. An unabashed denier of Biblical teaching on sexual morality, Vines has “The [Convergent] imprint, based in Colorado Springs, Colo., like publicly acknowledged that his goal is to “reform church teaching on sexual WaterBrook Press and Multnomah Books, will be headed by Stephen W. orientation and gender identity.” The book is scheduled to be published Cobb, president and publisher of Crown’s Christian imprints for the past 11 onApril 22, 2014. years. ... In an email sent to BarbWire.com, a source with unspecified ties to “Cobb told Christian Retailing that he ‘doesn’t see any impact’ from Multnomah wrote the following: Convergent Books on WaterBrook Press and Multnomah Books. ‘They will “With a little help… I recently followed a few breadcrumbs – connected continue to publish with the same mission and scope as before, he said.” some dots – and the picture turned out to be pretty disturbing. I know for So, not only does Convergent have the same head as WaterBrook a fact that there are certain individuals (whistleblowers, if you will) who Multnomah (Steve Cobb), it also has the same body (staffers) and, apparently, believe this information should become public, but there is immense pressure the same everything else. Convergent is simply WaterBrook Multnomah by from within Multnomah Publishers to keep this under wraps, and not allow another name. entities in the NRB Association/Evangelical orbit to learn about it.” Is it any wonder that the company’s Christian employees are upset? Multnomah is a long-trusted name in the world of Christian publishing. Moreover, is it any wonder that WaterBrook Multnomah allegedly wants It is now part of WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group. Over the years them silenced? Convergent’s sole purpose is evidently to both print and make the company has published scores of Biblically orthodox works by authentic tons of money from counter-Biblical books that would otherwise set off a Christ-followers like Randy Alcorn, Kay Arthur and Dr. David Jeremiah. The firestorm if printed under the WaterBrook Multnomah banner. company has also published manuscripts by Mother Teresa. Same company, different mask. WaterBrook Multnomah and the pro-“gay” Convergent are supposedly It’s smoke and mirrors. It’s confusing because it’s designed to be sister imprints with the same parent company, Random House. confusing. It’s intentional – a shell game purposefully calculated to obfuscate But are they really sister imprints? and hide the ball from the Christian community. In truth, it appears that WaterBrook Multnomah and Convergent are It is reasonable to speculate that Multnomah is trying to cover up its effectively one and the same – same head, same staff, same offices, same fast-growing connection to sexual sin activism, and furtively avoid the kind printers and even the same ink. of widespread scandal and Christian backlash that took place after World Only the name has been changed to protect the guilty. Vision abandoned clear Biblical teaching on sexual immorality. World Vision Continued the email: had recently embraced the sodomy-centered and counter-Biblical notion of “A little over a year ago, WaterBrook [Multnomah] announced the so-called “same-sex marriage,” only to quickly reverse course and publicly formation of a new imprint, called Convergent. From this article [in Publishers ask the global Christian community for forgiveness. Weekly] you can see where it’s going: ‘Stated [WaterBrook Multnomah Multnomah appears poised to make the same mistake. president Stephen W. Cobb], “The audience for Convergent Books represents I seem to remember reading something somewhere about this kind of a growing movement of consumers. These readers typically don’t see deception. I don’t know, maybe Steve Cobb can recommend a good book on themselves as either liberal or conservative, evangelical or mainline. Yet the topic. they frame their spiritual journey in Christian terms, and they’re absolutely “Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, passionate about what theologian Brian McLaren has called, ‘the sacred who do their work in darkness and think, ‘Who sees us? Who will know?’” endeavor of loving God and neighbor, stranger, alien, outsider, outcast and Isaiah 29:15 enemy.’” MATT BARBER Publishers Weekly further explained the connection: Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an author, columnist, cultural “The imprint will be based in Colorado Springs, Colo., and headed by analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. Having retired as Stephen W. Cobb, who has been president and publisher of the WaterBrook an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer, Matt has taken his fight from imprint since 2001. With the acquisition of Multnomah Books in 2006, a the ring to the culture war. Multnomah imprint was added to Cobb’s portfolio. …” www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 12

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Commentary: Chuck Muth Every week in Nevada, Tax Day

Last Tuesday was Tax Day. The day working people cough up what they “owe” the federal government. someone is trying to And it was exactly four years ago today that a then-unknown GOP candidate for Nevada state senate, Michael Roberson, with much fanfare, pomp and circumstance, signed – at a tea party rally! - the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising the voters of his district and the citizens of Nevada that, if elected, he would “oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.” screw us. Oppose. And vote against. Any. And all. Efforts to increase taxes. We all took him at his word at the time. We only learned later that his pledge was a bald-faced lie and that his word wasn’t worth donkey spit. But lest some have forgotten, allow me to take today’s solemn occasion to remind folks. In his freshman term as a state senator in 2011, Roberson did keep his word. Most of the time, we Indeed, when Gov. Brian Sandoval infamously broke his own campaign promise not raise taxes OR extend the $620 million worth of “temporary” tax hikes that were passed in 2009 (over then-Gov. Jim Gibbons’ veto) and were supposed to expire in 2011, Roberson criticized the governor and said he should have found another way to balance the budget other than extending the sunsets. elected that someone. Nine short months later, Sandoval bought Roberson’s political soul. Here’s what happened… As it turns out, Roberson was far more power-hungry than anyone realized at the time. As such, he wrested effective control of the Republican Senate Caucus shortly after the end of the 2011 legislative session from lame-duck Minority Leader Mike McGinness, who was being termed out of office. But not satisfied with being the minority leader, Roberson set off on a crusade to become the majority leader – by any means necessary, even if it meant selling out the conservative movement that was so instrumental in getting him elected in the first place. The first thing Roberson did was recruit nothing but moderate candidates for competitive senate races and That's why we conserva- forbade them from signing the same Tax Pledge he signed in 2010. In fact, Roberson endorsed and funded a moderate freshman Republican assemblyman over a veteran conservative assemblyman in a Republican-majority district. So much for William F. Buckley’s admonition to support the most conservative candidate who can win! Then came the multi-million dollar sell-out! tives NEED a WEEKLY In March 2012, Gov. Sandoval announced - without waiting for the new projections from the Economic Forum – that he would once again break his word to the people, businesses and taxpayers of Nevada and propose extending the 2009 “temporary” tax hikes (what have since become collectively known as the “sunsets”) once again in 2013. voice. As remarkable as that betrayal of Sandoval’s campaign promise was, Roberson’s almost immediate public statement of support was an even worse double-kick to the groin. There were always doubts, with good reason, about Sandoval’s conservative bona fides. But Roberson appeared to be solid. What’s up with that? Well, it wasn’t long before we found out. Roberson had “pulled a Judas.” He sold out for money. I don’t remember the exact figure now, but I seem to recall that news stories at the time reported that Sandoval had helped Roberson raise some $800 million to fund Roberson’s effort to not only cement his ascension as minority leader, but possibly wrest control of the Senate from the Democrats and become majority That's why the Penny Press leader. For his own “thirty pieces of silver,” Roberson did, indeed, sell his political soul; selling out the people of Nevada, the conservative movement and the voters of his district in the process. Alas, Roberson’s run-to-the-middle sell-out “strategery” flopped, as two of the moderate candidates has made sticking up Roberson recruited, endorsed and funded up the wazoo to win their GOP primaries went down in flames in the general election – leaving Roberson in the minority. And just as he was bought off to do, Roberson then went into the 2013 session, remained bought off and voted to extend the “sunsets” despite having vocally and adamantly opposed the exact same extension just the legislative session before. for us little guys a whole He was against the sunsets before he was for them. If only that was the end of this sad and sordid story… Not satisfied with simply supporting the $620 million tax hike of the sunsets, Roberson and five of his GOP “Yes” men in the Senate – nicknamed the Dirty Half-Dozen – surprised and stunned the Carson City ruling new Nevada tradition. class (the lobbyists) by proposing a new $600 million tax hike on the mining industry. That wasn’t a tax hike as an alternative to the sunsets. It was in ADDITION to the sunsets! In fact, one week from tomorrow will mark the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Roberson Gang’s new mining tax, the revenue from which would drain into the bottomless pit of our failing government education system. Lovely. Other than the five, unindicted Republican co-conspirators who sponsored the bill – Sens.Mark Hutchison, Ben Kieckhefer, Joe Hardy, Scott Hammond and Greg Brower – no other legislators - not even the tax-crazy Democrats! – hopped onboard this train. Penny Press “We don’t do industry-specific taxes,” conservative Sen. Barbara Cegavske, R-Las Vegas, an opponent of the Dirty Half-Dozen’s effort, told the Las Vegas Sun. “I know he’s using one of his emergency measures for this, but I don’t know what the point is. Leadership isn’t going to let it pass. It’s not going to get a hearing.” Indeed, it was a hopeless, absolutely futile proposal that, as Cegavske predicted, never got out of the gate. 775-461-1515 It was a complete waste of time that accomplished nothing more than undermining the fiscal conservative agenda of the Republican Party. Epic, epic fail. And that’s how Roberson earned the nickname, “Moderate Mike.” eFax 201-304-0355 As we remember today, Tax Day 2014, just how little most working people get for how much they pay in taxes, let’s make a commitment to remind people how Moderate Mike lied to get elected and how he betrayed the very taxpayers he pledged allegiance with on this day in 2010. [email protected] Roberson faces a spirited and credible challenge from conservative Republican Carl Bunce in the GOP primary on June 10, 2014. Political Judgment Day. pennypressnv.com Let’s hope elephants don’t forget. Bring on Conservageddon!

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