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www.pennypressnv.com The Penny Press is published weekly by Penny Credits: Far West Radio LLC All Contents © Penny Press 2015 Publisher and Editor: Contributing Editors: Press Fred Weinberg Floyd Brown Al Thomas Letters to the Editor are encouraged. They should be Doug French Chuck Muth emailed to: [email protected] No unsigned or Logotype unverifiable letters will be printed. Pointedlymad John Getter Pat Choate licensed from: Ron Knecht Byron Bergeron 775-461-1515 eFax: 201-304-0355 Rich Gast Penny Press NEVADA USA 16 PAGES VOLUME 12 NUMBER 38 MAY 28, 2015 Which Lawmakers Can The Guv Bribe? By VICTOR JOECKS Stephen Silberkraus also appears 1990s, all tax increases require pressure will still be put on some Special to the Penny Press to still be considering whether two-thirds approval in each of the and promises will be made to others. he wants to support Sandoval’s Legislature’s two chambers — the Those most likely to have their arms Whether Gov. Brian Sandoval largest-tax-hike-in-history plan, or Senate and the Assembly. Now that twisted are David Gardner, James gets to impose the largest vote in favor of taxpayers who the state Senate has already passed Oscarson and Victoria Seaman. tax increase in state history on are adamantly opposed to such tax over $1.3 billion in tax hikes, the It’s important to note the Nevadans is going to come down increases. Assembly is taxpayers’ last chance differences between the current tax Each of those lawmakers is to stop the largest increase in state plans. After O’Neill publicly stated aware of the hundreds of millions history. his opposition to the governor’s Commentary of dollars in waste that Sandoval’s Twelve Assembly members first gross-receipts tax scheme, budget contains. They’ve also have announced their support of the SB252, that plan died. demonstrated enough personal Knecht/Wheeler alternative budget So Sandoval is now pushing for to whether he can induce a handful courage to withstand the kind that requires no new taxes. a $1.5 billion tax hike that includes of lawmakers, who are currently on of political pressure that’s being They are: , Vicki a modified version of AB464 the fence, to go with him. applied. Dooling, John Ellison, Michele combined with SB483, which That’s what the latest Nevada So far, they have not yet Fiore, David Gardner, Brent Jones, makes the so-called “sunset” taxes Policy Research Institute’s whip publicly announced opposition to John Moore, James Oscarson, permanent and raises the cigarette count reveals. the largest tax increase in Nevada Victoria Seaman, Shelly Shelton, tax by $1 a pack. The lawmakers believed to history. Those five are, however, Robin Titus and . Neither Nelson, O’Neill or be on the fence about tax hikes the most likely to do so. Ira Hansen has also made known Trowbridge have taken public are Assemblymen Erv Nelson, Because of the Gibbons tax- his opposition to $1.3 billion in tax positions regarding the size, if P.K. O’Neill, Glenn Trowbridge restraint amendment voters added hikes. any, of a tax increase they would and Chris Edwards. Assemblyman to the Nevada Constitution in the That’s 13 “no” votes, although support. Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly RON KNECHT PAGE 5 Voice Of Nevada FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Penny Wisdom ROBERT RINGER PAGE 7 Inside: MICHAEL BARTON PAGE 9 We do not know how to build ANDY MATTHEWS PAGE 10 Nevada Lawmakers nations any more than we know how to fix English- MATT BARBER PAGE 11 Feckless Thugs speaking home grown CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 Detroit. See Editorial Page 6 —George Will THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 4 What Votes Are For Sale? Continued from page 3 If you want to prevent a bigger burden on Nevada taxpayers, call and So far, however, Silberbraus has given no public indication that he will email these lawmakers and politely ask them to publicly oppose these tax oppose the largest tax increase in state history — while Assemblyman Pat increases: Hickey has been saying that Siblerkraus has already joined Sandoval’s Assemblyman Erv Nelson, [email protected], 775-684- “team.” 8833 Taxpayers wishing to remind Silberkraus of his desire to look for Assemblyman P.K. O’Neill, [email protected], 775-684- alternatives to tax increases can contact him at Stephen.Silberkraus@asm. 8825 state.nv.us, 775-684-8855. Assemblyman Glenn Trowbridge, [email protected]. That leaves seven Assembly Republicans thought likely to support nv.us, 775-684-8505 Sandoval’s $1.5 billion tax hikes: Paul Anderson, Derek Armstrong, On Friday, Assemblyman Chris Edwards called for $1.5 billion in Speaker John Hambrick, Pat Hickey, Randy Kirner, Lynn Stewart and reductions to Sandoval’s proposed education spending increases. On Melissa Woodbury. Saturday, as lawmakers on the legislature’s money committees closed the Some of those lawmakers — like Kirner, with his AB182 and AB190 education budgets, Edwards voted against some of the wasteful spending — have worked very hard on needed reforms. Since Sandoval must he’d highlighted. depend on the votes of those seven to pass his tax increases, Kirner, Legislative leadership is trying to ignore Edwards’ hard work, and will Hickey and other legislators in that group have remarkable leverage to — unless Edwards forces their hand by opposing tax increases — shelve demand reforms — should they choose to do so. his proposals. Currently, Sandoval shows no interest in compromise or in passing Taxpayers wishing to thank Edwards for identifying waste and many seriously needed reforms. politely encourage him to stand strong against tax increases can contact Nevadans, therefore, need to encourage the five lawmakers listed him at [email protected], 775-684-8857. above to get off the fence and stand tall. During his campaign, Stephen Silberkraus said, “Instead of always Victor Joecks is executive vice president of the Nevada Policy Research looking to raise taxes, we must work on growing our economy, and in Institute, a non-partisan, free-market think tank. For more visit http://npri. doing so create a more sustainable system for our state in the long term.” org.

www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 5 Commentary: Ron Knecht utility ratemaking to support “life- reaction to it made glaringly obvious destructive policies proposed Confessions of line” electric rates. Life-line means the extent to which the consumer by Obama’s appointees. Those that monthly customer charges and and environmental movements had activists have achieved their real modest usage levels are priced low to degenerated and to which other goal by co-opting government A Former Liberal help poor people, with higher usage such causes eventually fall, as I’ll and large corporations to become levels priced higher to encourage explain. While such special-interest institutionalized in jobs that pay them In the 1970s, I was an conservation. movements always couch their well for promoting their ideology environmental and consumer activist, I presented the logic and finely rhetoric and demands under fairness, and politicking. all-purpose liberal Democrat, and a balanced details to the convention’s justice, legitimate grievance and America’s air, water and landfills founding director of Illinois’ Naderite energy and utilities session: a $3.50 the public interest, eventually they are, overall, cleaner today than 40 / Alinskyite radic-lib umbrella monthly customer charge and become driven more by selfishness, years ago. However, enviros obscure organization that harbored some of seasonal rates of a few cents per ignorance, envy and greed to preying those key facts by always making Barack Obama’s fellow community kilowatt-hour (kwhr) for the first 400 upon the public interest. new policy demands for two reasons. organizers. kwhr each month. Then lightning As a university energy research For some zealots, environmentalism Fortunately for me, I continued to struck. engineer, I encountered a full is a bizarre religion that sees mankind read, learn and grow; got over statist The founding director from range of environmentalism and as a despoiler, and to varying degrees liberalism; and now oppose it due to the United Auto Workers, who limits-to-growth theory, literature, they want to roll back civilization to the grim benighted future it holds for didn’t know anything about energy research and dogma. I learned that restore wilderness. For the larger our children. Unfortunately for the economics or ratemaking but a lot commercial and industrial practices fraction, most advocates and those world, many of my fellow Boomers about radic-lib street organizing, back then often produced unduly with jobs in the enviro industries, and younger folks they’ve influenced erupted: “I don’t know or care about high “negative externalities” such as admitting such facts would mean still peddle it aggressively. any of that! Let’s just give everybody pollution -- the founding legitimate that most of them should get jobs The opening of my eyes and 1000 kwhr a month at two cents and insight of environmentalism. that deliver enough real value to my recovery from it began at our zero customer charge! Screw the Thus, completely unfettered others to earn revenues in market founding convention, for which I utilities!” markets don’t always maximize competition, instead of getting paid developed a proposal based on my His demagoguery and the aggregate human wellbeing and for their politics. expertise in energy economics and fairness (the primary public interests), After their early and just and some legislation, regulation and successes, such movements, seeking other public intervention is justified. gravy trains to support their adherents, Similar observations originally degenerate to being special interests motivated policy in education, civil with ever more extreme demands, Tips Of Our Cap rights, public health and safety, and as predatory upon the general public even labor and other markets. interest as politicians, judges and So, the early proposals of such bureaucrats will let them be. Often, and groups are often reasonable and get they quickly get big enough to offer adopted -- witness the regulation of sufficient job opportunities and air and water pollution in the 1970s. campaign contributions to folks in Bronx Cheers But as that convention showed, true government to co-opt it. believers cannot be satisfied by These special interests, plus mere reasonable reforms, and all others seeking to increase public The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: such movements invite hijacking by spending and taxes, have continually U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon who issued a ruling from the bench that essentially gutted the Federal political hustlers seeking a cause increased the deadweight burden on government’s case against wealthy Malaysian businessman Paul Phua because of government miscon- to ride. For example, essential our economy. So, our children face a duct. Defense lawyer David Chesnoff said Gordon’s ruling means prosecutors are now barred from using principles of equal rights before future of very slow economic growth evidence FBI agents seized from three Caesars Palace villas during a July 9 raid. “This squarely sends the government yield to racial, ethnic and reduced opportunity, social message that illegal searches will not be tolerated in the district of Nevada,” said Chesnoff. and gender spoils systems. Child mobility and human flourishing. Our The Nevada Supreme Court which has declined to involve itself a legal dispute over controversial plans labor laws are necessary, but labor only hope is to greatly roll back to pipe groundwater to Las Vegas from across eastern Nevada. In an unpublished order, the court said it bosses really want union shops so the huge accumulated public-sector would not review several key technical questions raised by a 2013 ruling by Senior District Judge Robert they can wield great political power excesses. Estes that effectively stripped the Southern Nevada Water Authority of water rights for its proposed pipe- and get paid like corporate moguls. line in Lincoln and White Pine counties. Booyah! Similarly, reasonable consumer RON KNECHT and environmental demands have The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer metastasized into the extreme, And A Bouquet of Weeds To: The which passed a bill allowing Uber and Lyft to operate in Nevada but added a 3% tax to rides. That is the total equivalent of failing to grow or even strap on a pair. For years, this state has catered to the taxi industry for no discernable reason except juice. Faced with reality, they bowed to technology but not before sticking all of us with a 3% tax that made it palatable. Shame on them. www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 6

From The Publisher...OPINION Some Nevada Legislators Would Be Trading Up To Be Called Feckless Thugs Somewhere during the 2001 season of the TV show the unions. But not anything else. West Wing, President Bartlett’s personal secretary, Mrs. Landingham, dies in a traffic accident, hit by a drunk driver There are elected legislators in the building on Carson while she was driving home the first new car she ever Street who would be trading up to be called feckless thugs. bought. They lie at the drop of a hat and justify it by telling people Martin Sheen, playing the President, asks for a minute privately that this is the way laws are made. That laws alone before leaving the National Cathedral after the are like sausage. Nobody should actually see them being funeral service, lights a cigarette, grinds it out on the made. marble floor, looks up in the ceiling and asks God “have I displeased you, you feckless thug?”. Well, that’s a bunch of crap.

If we were to write a similar scene today, it might be the That may be the way it is but that’s NOT the way it should taxpayers of Nevada talking to what passes for leadership be. I’d be willing to bet that if you gave each legislator a in the state’s legislature. pop quiz on the specifics of each bill they voted on, three quarters of them—and I mean in BOTH parties—would fail. Because feckless and thug are good words to describe that so called leadership. But they are not solely to blame.

“Lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible,” We are as well. is the definition of the word and, applied to the 2015 legislative session, it fits like a glove—albeit without the We let it happen. We elect these people without the drama of an Aaron Sorkin TV show. If our schools are in slightest question of their real world experience. Or, their bad shape and you are looking for someone to blame, look willingness to actually read the bills they are voting on. at the legislature—and the Governor. Perhaps the answer is to give each candidate a pop quiz. The Governor has this whacked out idea that he can pump even more money into our failing school system and it will Make them write a bill on a specific subject while we make a difference. watch—no staff allowed—and make them tell us why it would work. If they can sell you the bill, maybe they will Never mind that it has been tried before and failed earn your vote. miserably. Frankly, I almost don’t care about their politics. I care about It’s the same kind of nonsense as Barack Obama tried with their honesty and their ability to articulate their beliefs. I the healthcare system. His ludicrous idea was that if we once gave Joe Neal a $500 campaign contribution when he just insure everybody, it would fix a broken system. Oh, ran for Governor. His politics are 180 degrees the opposite his language was more flowery and he gave lip service to of mine. But he spent a virtual adult lifetime as a legislator “bendng the cost curve”. and was just as broke on his last day as he was his first.

But the only thing fixed was the balance sheets of the We need more of that and less of the crap now causing the health insurance companies whose lobbyists wrote the bill. stench which is emanating from all 50 state capitals and Predictably, the system still stinks on ice. Washington DC.

Pumping more money into a failing education system will FRED WEINBERG fix the balance sheets of the teachers and administrators THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 7 Commentary: Robert Ringer with an intent to do harm. On Demanding Dignity Insults, on the other hand, come under the protection of free speech, and are subject to individual interpretation, at that. The road to a society In case you hadn’t noticed, dignity is a rare commodity in our decadent, where racism, to use the most common example, is minimized is paved morally degenerate world of the new millennium. We see confirmation of not with coercion, but self-respect. It is self-respect that leads to dignity. this all around us in such phenomena as: How does one acquire self-respect? Through personal virtuosity. In • Talk shows that feature tragic people emotionally and other words, dignity is derived from within. And from self-respect flows psychologically disrobing themselves in public while sharing their the respect of others —as a natural consequence. most intimate secrets with millions of lobotomized strangers. Put another way, whereas civility has to do with how you treat others, • Attorneys who routinely advertise on radio, television, and dignity has to do with how you treat yourself. Sorry, activist sociopaths, billboards, urging prospects to demand their “rights” through legal but you don’t have a right to be treated with dignity. You do, however, action, though not that many years ago such tacky solicitations have a right to possess dignity. would have resulted in an attorney’s being blackballed by his Demanding dignity from others is the ultimate self-delusion. If being profession. treated with dignity is genuinely important to you, the most efficient • A tidal wave of verbal sloth. The “F word” has long been the in way to bring that about is toact in dignified ways. And, happily, that’s word, especially among teenagers. Worse, news commentators on something over which you have complete control. the major networks routinely use incorrect words and phrases such Also, make it a point never to use the shopworn excuse that as “very unique” (unique means “one of a kind”), “irregardless” “everybody’s doing it” to rationalize undignified actions. Respectable (no such word), and “he is a man thatalways finishes first” (who people who are focused on improving their lives aren’t “doing it,” whatever always finishes first). “it” may happen to be at any given point in time, for the pragmatic reason • And, of course, the word like is inserted in front of virtually that undignified actions simply are not in their best interest. every sentence, as in, “Like … I mean … what’s a Valley Girl (or Always remember that dignity is about you, not society. You can Caroline Kennedy) supposed to do?” wear your hair purple, put a diamond-studded earring in your nose, and • Doctors and other professionals who wear casual clothes, even have a snake tattoo burned into your forehead, but no one has to hire you blue jeans, to the office. or do business with you. (Although, sadly, our society is moving in that • Role-model, multimillionaire athletes who, while not busy beating direction.) Further, if you decide to go this route, I highly recommend that their wives and girlfriends or committing a variety of other felonies, you not relocate to Singapore, where caning is a national pastime. fill mind-dulling interviews with such intellectual comments The good news is that in spite of how decadent the world around you as, “C’mon, man,” “That’s what it’s all about,” and “We got the may be, you always have the option of rising above it and commanding greatest fans in the world.” (Yuk!) (not demanding) the admiration and respect of others through your words • Millions of people who surrender their individuality and throw in and actions. Free will is a great invention. Use it. their lots with political-action groups who demand their “rights” ROBERT RINGER (i.e., insist that the government fulfill their desires at the expense Robert Ringer (© 2015)is a New York Times #1 bestselling author who has of others). appeared on numerous national radio and television shows, including The Which brings me to a fundamental misconception about dignity in our Tonight Show, Today, The Dennis Miller Show, Good Morning America, age of expanded rights. Political-action groups love to babble about the ABC Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, as well as Fox News and Fox need to force everyone to treat this or that group of people with dignity, Business. To sign up for a free subscription to his mind-expanding daily as though dignity were a right. But dignity is no more a right than love or insights, visit www.robertringer.com. friendship. You should never allow yourself to get caught in the Dignity Trap, especially when it’s used as an excuse for failure (as in “victimization”), because the reality is that no one can be forced to treat you with dignity. Through a variety of applied pressures, someone might feel that it’s in his best interest to pretend to treat you with dignity, but such false dignity breeds only resentment. So-called political correctness is a perfect example of this, so much so that, through ridiculous overuse, it has evolved from resentment into comedy. When a concept is no longer taken seriously, where’s the dignity? Sadly, America has long been in the throes of a politically correct intellectual dark ages. Political correctness advocates now claim that more than 1 million college students have been victims of “ethnic violence” — which includes insults! (Can you imagine a blogger claiming that some of his readers’ nasty comments about him are a form of violence?) While many call it political correctness, I choose to call itinsanity. If violence now includes insults — insults that are defined by campus radicals of the 1960s who now control the centers of higher education — then all my dictionaries are outdated. Violence is the use of physical force THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 8 Call toll-free: 1-800-950-1603

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Prescription price comparison above is valid as of November 1, 2013. All trade-mark (TM) rights associated with the brand name products in this ad belong to their respective owners. *Generic drugs are carefully regulated medications that have the same active ingredients as the original brand name drug, but are generally cheaper in price. Generic equivalents are equal to their "brand" counterparts in Active Ingredients, Dosage, Safety, Strength, Quality, Performance and Intended use. It may vary in colour, shape, size, cost and appearance. THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 9 Commentary: Michael Barton The EPA itself concedes that the compliance will cost upwards of $15 New Ozone Regulations Will billion a year. And that might be an understatement. A study by the National Devastate the American Economy Association of Manufacturers found that this ozone regulation would cut U.S. GDP by $1.7 trillion from 2017 to 2040, or about $140 billion a Ever wonder what ozone smells like? According to Smithsonian year. Researchers also found that it would destroy nearly 1.4 million jobs Magazine, it’s “the sweet, fresh, powerfully evocative smell of fresh rain.” annually. That familiar scent is a combination of plant oils, bacteria, and ozone. Already, the average manufacturer pays about $35,000 in regulatory But when highly concentrated, it can actually be a pollutant. That’s why compliance costs per employee per year. These added costs would be a the United States has been working to reduce “ground level” ozone for huge new hit. decades. These cost upticks will also discourage future investments. According But the Environmental Protection Agency refuses to write to the American Chemistry Council, 211 shale-related energy projects, implementation guidelines for its last ozone regulations, which it released totaling $135 billion in capital investment, would likely get shuttered if in 2008. And instead of clarifying what actions it expects states to follow, these new ozone standards are implemented. the EPA has introduced new regulations that could permanently handicap Even President Obama has acknowledged that the ozone standards American businesses and undercut the country’s incremental economic can go too far. In 2011, he halted the EPA from pushing forward new recovery. emissions rules that would have cost the country $90 billion per year. Strange that the EPA has time to write more regulations on ground These new rules would choke this industry and throw thousands -- if ozone but not the time to implement existing regulations on the exact not millions -- of jobs into jeopardy. same matter. What’s more, these ozone rules are unnecessary. The quality of the air Major precursors of ozone production are industrial emissions, Americans breathe has been steadily improving over the past 30 years. electrical providers, vehicle emissions, gasoline vapors, and chemical Indeed, since just 2000, lower ozone levels have improved air quality by solvents. Ozone molecules close to the earth’s surface can contribute to 18 percent. And carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides emissions have smog and can cause serious health problems, chiefly lung damage. dropped 42 percent and 41 percent, respectively. Ozone emissions are notoriously difficult to control. Indeed, the These new ozone regulations are gratuitous and will cost American United States is still struggling to lower emissions to meet the ozone jobs. For the economy’s sake, they need to be shelved at once. And doing standard the EPA put in place in 2008. so may afford the EPA some time to implement existing ozone regulations However, the EPA is determined to curb ozone emissions still further that are overdue by seven years and counting. before even knowing the results of the 2008 regulations that await MICHAEL JAMES BARTON implementation. The agency recently proposed new regulations that Michael James Barton is the Energy Advisor at ARTIS Research and would lower the amount of ozone permitted in ground-level air from 75 speaks around the country on energy and energy security matters. He parts per billion (ppb) down to between 65 ppb to 70 ppb. previously served as the deputy director of Middle East policy at the The cost of this rule change to energy producers will be astronomical. Pentagon. THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 10 Commentary: Andy Matthews The intellectual case against this tax hike has been made clearly and Please Act Like Republicans consistently by a number of people, including many of your legislative colleagues and, yes, those of us at the Nevada Policy Research Institute. Dear Assemblymen Nelson, O’Neill, Trowbridge, Edwards and I won’t rehash those arguments here, because I know you’ve heard them Silberkraus: enough times already. All that’s left for you to do now is choose. Sometime in the next few days, you will make your most important Twelve years ago, 15 courageous Assembly members did indeed stand decision of the 2015 Nevada Legislative Session. Given that you are all strong against the governor’s tax push. They earned the nickname “The up for reelection next year, and are not guaranteed to be back for future Fearless Fifteen,” and today they are remembered as taxpayer heroes for sessions, it may well be the most important decision of each of your sticking to their principles in the face of enormous pressure — pressure legislative careers. that was every bit as strong as what you face today. That decision will be whether to support the largest tax hike in the And now, it’s your turn. You have the opportunity to decide how it is history of the State of Nevada. that you’ll be remembered. As my colleague Victor Joecks noted earlier this week (see page 3), I don’t have to tell you that if you choose to give in to the pressure you five represent the crucial votes that will determine the outcome of the and support this tax increase, you’ll invite a good deal of criticism from most important policy battle of the year. Gov. Brian Sandoval and his top me and my NPRI colleagues. You’ll be panned on talk radio, you’ll get legislative ally, Sen. Michael Roberson, are leading the charge to saddle ripped by conservative grassroots leaders, and you’ll get a lot of angry hard-working Nevadans with $1.5 billion in new taxes. If they succeed, calls and emails from voters in your districts. Call it a hunch, but I have a they will have truly made history — by using historic levels of Republican feeling that a Mr. Chuck Muth might have a few words to say about your power in Carson City to implement the largest tax increase our state has decision as well. ever seen. But don’t oppose this tax hike to appease any of us. Do it because I’m asking you to make sure they don’t succeed. you want to stand for something you know is important. Do it because The pressure you’re under to support the tax hike is significant. Don’t you know that the principles that led you to seek public office in the first think I don’t recognize and appreciate that. Both Gov. Sandoval and Sen. place are as true today as they were back then. Do it because you know Roberson are Republicans who ran for reelection in 2014 on promises that Nevadans deserve better than the same policies that have failed us for to keep taxes low and promote fiscal discipline. Both have broken their decades. promises and, even as I write this, they are no doubt pressuring all of you Do it because you know in your heart that it’s the right thing to do for to go back on the pledges you’ve made to your own constituents. The our great state and its great people. spotlight is on the five of you, and you’re no doubt feeling a lot of heat. ANDY MATTHEWS The reason I understand what it is you’re going through today is that Andy Matthews is the President of the Nevada Policy Research Institute we’ve been here before. Back in 2003, another Republican governor was pushing a massive tax-hike proposal. As is the case today, the final battlefield was the state Assembly, and the question then, as now, was whether 15 Assembly members — the number needed under the Nevada Constitution to prevent any tax increase — would stand strong against the governor’s efforts. As you consider the choice before you, I want each of you to ask yourself a question: If this is indeed the decision that will define your political legacy, what do you want that legacy to be? How do you want to be remembered? I want you to think back to the point when you first decided to pursue a political career, and when you decided to do so as a member of the major party that, historically at least, has stood for limited, responsible government. Why did you make the decisions you did? What was it that motivated you to enter public service? What were the principles and ideals that inspired you, and what was it that you wanted to accomplish during your time in office? If someone — perhaps a constituent of yours — were to have told you back then that the fate of the largest tax increase in state history would soon be in your hands, what would you have told that person you would do? What would you have told yourself? THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 11 Commentary: Matt Barber themselves as homosexual or bisexual, we can infer that homosexual or ‘Be Prepared’: ‘Gay’ Men bisexual men are approximately 10 times more likely to molest children than heterosexual men.” This makes perfect sense when coupled with another 2001 study in the with Boy Scouts in Tents same peer-reviewed publication. It found that nearly half of all “gay”-identified men who participated in research were molested by a homosexual pedophile as I said it was coming. Many of us did. Two years ago this week the Boy Scouts boys: “46 percent of homosexual men and 22 percent of homosexual women of America voted to welcome into its ranks “open and avowed” homosexuality reported having been molested by a person of the same gender. This contrasts (boy-on-boy sexual attraction and behavior), thereby disavowing the “morally to only 7 percent of heterosexual men and 1 percent of heterosexual women straight” Scout Oath its members are sworn to uphold. reporting having been molested by a person of the same gender.” Shortly thereafter I warned, “In so doing, the [Boy Scouts of America (View this shocking hidden-camera footage of “gay” men admitting that (BSA)] effectively waived the only legal defense it once had to preclude openly they weren’t “born that way,” but that they were “made that way” through homosexual Scout leaders and gender-confused girls from its ranks: religious childhood sexual assault.) and moral conviction. It’s only a matter of time until the BSA is forced to The connection between homosexual abuse and “gay identity” is capitulate to sexual extremists’ political demands and allow homosexual adults undeniable. Although clearly not all “gay”-identified men and women abuse – men who define their identity based upon carnal appetites for other males – children, or were abused as children, the verifiable reality is that an alarmingly to take your boys on overnight camping trips.” high percentage of them do and were. As with most forms of abuse, the cycle It’s happened. On Thursday BSA President Robert Gates announced that the is both circular and vicious. “Born that way?” Not so much. “Made that way?” organization’s unconditional surrender to the homofascist left is forthcoming Sadly, it appears so. and that the BSA will soon invite men who have sex with males (MSM) Yet the BSA will not let facts get in the way of its extremist sexual agenda. to become troop leaders. “The status quo in our movement’s membership “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,” Gates standards cannot be sustained,” Gates disingenuously claimed, indicating that said on Thursday. to maintain the BSA’s century-old proscription on “out” homosexual men Absolute garbage. This is not the world as it is. This is a world of the would spell “the end of us as a national movement.” secular left’s making. I will again predict here that the BSA will soon open its This, of course, is hyperbolic nonsense and simply reflects a continuation ranks to sexually confused girls. Earlier this month the Girl Scouts of America of Gates’ long-standing pro-homosexual activism. While serving as secretary similarly announced that it will allow boys pretending to be girls to join its of defense he both advocated for and oversaw the implementation of ranks. the full repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. This has Parents, you’ve been warned. If you leave your children in the Boy or Girls effectively homosexualized the U.S. military, resulting in rampant anti- Scouts of America, anything that might happen is on your head. Christian discrimination and an explosion (a 33 percent spike) in male-on-male Dr. Brown agrees: “Given the new direction of the Boy Scouts, Brown homosexual assaults. Does any honest, sane, thinking person imagine that a urges parents to seek out an alternative,” reports WND. comparable increase in homosexual assault will not befall the Boy Scouts? Urged Brown: “Now would be a great time to find out more about the Michael Brown, Ph.D., is an expert on both homosexual activism and the Christian boy scouts alternative, Trail Life USA.” disordered behaviors that define the homosexual lifestyle. He is author of such Indeed, Trail Life’s Membership Standards state, without equivocation, books as, “Can You Be Gay and Christian?” and the upcoming “Outlasting the “The basis for the program’s ethical and moral standards are found in the Gay Revolution: Where Homosexual Activism Is Really Going and How to Bible. In terms of sexual identification and behavior, we affirm that any sexual Turn the Tide.” activity outside the context of the covenant of marriage between one man and In an interview with WND, Dr. Brown said that he “believes if the Boy one woman is sinful before God and therefore inconsistent with the values and Scouts accept openly homosexual leaders, they will cease to be a positive principles of the program. moral force in the lives of American boys.” “Within these limits, we grant membership to adults and youth who do not Stated Brown: “This opens the door for sexual predators, a real danger, engage in or promote sexual immorality of any kind, or engage in behavior that and it opens the door for gay boys to be flirting with straight boys under the would become a distraction to the mission of the program.” auspices of the Boy Scouts.” Trail Life’s chairman, John Stemberger, says his organization is “saddened” The BSA has already been plagued by a long history of man-on-boy by Gates’ announcement. homosexual assaults perpetrated by closeted Scout leaders. The shocking “It is tragic that the BSA is willing to risk the safety and security of its extent of the abuse has only recently been exposed as the BSA has worked boys because of peer pressure from activists groups,” he said. “Trail Life USA hard to cover up the scandal. remains committed to timeless Christian values.” Parents, the BSA is about to place political correctness above your child’s And the BSA remains committed to child-endangerment and extremist safety to a level unprecedented in the once-honorable organization’s long and sexual activism. storied history. This is not an opinion. It’s an empirical, quantifiable certainty. MATT BARBER Consider, for instance, a study published in the left-leaning Archives of Matt Barber is founder and editor-in chief of BarbWire.com. He is an author, Sexual Behavior, of over 200 convicted pedophiles. It found that “86 percent columnist, cultural analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.” law. Having retired as an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer, Matt This demonstrates, as observes Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council: has taken his fight from the ring to the culture war. (Follow Matt on Twitter:@ “Since almost 30 percent of child sexual abuse is committed by homosexual jmattbarber). or bisexual men (one-third male-on-male abuse times 86 percent identifying as homosexual or bisexual), but less than 3 percent of American men identify www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 12 THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 13

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Commentary: Chuck Muth Every week in Nevada, Fooled You Again, Charlie Brown Republicans someone is trying to

Before there was SpongeBob SquarePants, us old geezers marveled screw us. at what a knucklehead Charlie Brown was for falling for the ol’ yank- the-football-away-at-the-last-minute trick perpetrated by that little tyrant, Lucy. I mean, how can somebody be so dumb as to fall for the same trick over and over and over again, right? With that in mind, meet Nevada’s Charlie Brown Republicans. Most of the time, we Year after year after painful year, GOP legislators paint themselves into the same box. First they go along with the Lucy Democrats and elected that someone. approve all the various state budgets – always with generous increases in them – only later to find out they don’t have enough money to pay for all the additional spending. Boom! Another tax hike. That’s not how it works in real life, is it? No. You get a paycheck. Out of that paycheck you fund your essential That's why we conserva- living expenses - rent, electric bill, water, phone, food, insurance, etc. Whatever’s left over is used for non-essential discretionary spending - a ball game, a movie, some new clothes, happy hour on Friday, dinner out tives NEED a WEEKLY with friends, etc. As such, your personal budget is balanced. voice. But let’s say you want to buy a brand new car. What do you do? Do you take out the loan and then go to your boss and say, “Hey, I bought a new car so you have to give me a $200 raise so I can make the monthly payment”? Or do you cut $200 out of your non-essential spending and live within your means? Well, that’s EXACTLY what Republican legislators in Carson City That's why the Penny Press SHOULD be doing. The Economic Forum has determined that Nevada’s government will have $6.15 billion to spend over the next two years. Unfortunately, Gov. has made sticking up Sandoval wants to spend more than a billion dollars over and above that figure and has proposed all manner of tax hikes to pay for it. Fine, that’s his prerogative. But legislators should be bringing up for us little guys a whole and voting on his proposed tax hikes FIRST. If any or all of them are approved, THEN legislators can spend it. In other words, you spend your new Nevada tradition. “raise” AFTER you get it, not before. On the other hand, if the proposed tax hikes are shot down (as they should be), then legislators will be forced to spend only the allowance taxpayers have already given them. I mean, it’s simple fiscal common sense. Penny Press Now it’s one thing for Republicans to be forced into doing it backwards when the Lucy Democrats are in charge. But what’s their excuse now? They have complete control of the government – the State Assembly, the 775-461-1515 State Senate and the Governor’s office. Alas, these Charlie Brown Republicans are falling for it again. eFax 201-304-0355 Spending money before they have it. They don’t call the GOP the Stupid Party for nothing. CHUCK MUTH [email protected] (Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach and the publisher of www. NevadaNewsandViews.com. He personally blogs at www.MuthsTruths. pennypressnv.com com) THE PENNY PRESS,MAY 28, 2015 PAGE 15

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