Last week I met with Rob Miller and Wayne Holland at the Utah Democrats HQ in Salt Lake City to discuss my run for the United States Congress District 1. After much discussion with friends, family, and numerous community members, I have [...]
The Senate Site: Condoning Arrogance, Discrimination, Incompetence, and Graft since September 30, 2005.I hoped that I would not ever have to write this blog, but I always knew that it would happen. Mitt Romney’s campaign for the presidency ended today after he could not overcome two things: first, the reason most Republicans nationally say why they did not support him, his inconsistency [...]
Mormons admit closure of Church College [of New Zealand] will be a loss
“The [...]
Long break from blogging, but I needed to write about a recent news item. It was this front page, above the fold, banner headline story in the most recent Davis County Clipper:
Monday, the idiocy and insanity spouted from people like Sen. Lieberman and neo-conservative think tanks seeped into Utah's bloghive. Mark Towner, long known for his foolishness, repeated the ill-informed idea that we MUST attack/invade Iran.
When I first heard about the American move to' [...]
No one should delude themselves: LA Times columnist Jonah Goldberg tells us the end game for voucher supporters. His column, entitled “Do away with public schools,” also has the subtitle: “Government is inept at running schools.” I ask those in favor of vouchers: is that true in Utah? If [...]
As noted below, Utah's Attorney-General, Mark Shurtleff, has demoted two State Office of Education lawyers because they did not follow lock-step with his support for vouchers no matter what the people of' [...]
Rep. Urquhart made a feeble attempt to appear democratic in his latest post on the voucher saga. It seemed fairly disingenuous. My response follows:
Unfortunately, that cannot happen. You should read Title 20A, Chapter 7 of the code before writing about this; it is pretty clear. [...]
In response to this nonsensical post on KVNU’s blog For the People, I provided this rebuttal.
Craig, who was right in 1976? Carter, who promoted alternative energies like solar, wind, nuclear, etc and proposed an energy independence plan? Or people like Orrin Hatch who opposed him? I [...]
I did not watch or listen to the “debate” last night. Everything about the whole event seemed contrived and pointless. Instead I chose to watch an old movie that pretty much summarized/prophesied what modern politics has turned into, though I had never seen the movie before. In John Ford's
I finally saw the first half of The Mormons and it pretty much sucked. I could not believe how badly it portrayed the history of the Church while doing so well with the present-day aspects. Inaccuracies plagued the two hours, for example: during the extremely brief synopsis of the contents [...]
First of all, I apologize for the formatting problems with the previous post. I hope that it is still readable.
My next response is to the idea that the petition referendum is wrong-headed because it did not challenge both HB 148 and HB 174. Surely the answer to [...]
I will admit, when I wrote this post last week, I was thinking not much would come of it. I was wrong. I have no ill will against the artist as a person or in the quality of his art. As I said in my updated post, I [...]
As with most things at KTVX these days, the Vanocur Group is in a poor state. Today’s episode was merely the (opposite of) icing on the cake. Nobody disagreed with each other except on lobbying; even then, there was no real insight offered as to why things happened at the [...]
I just heard about this on the news and thought we could use it to generate broader media support for Sarah’s struggle. Fox 13 is hosting a “Blog-a-palooza” tonight at the Raw Bean Coffee House in downtown SLC. Now normally I would avoid this event for two reasons: [...]
As I noted before, I believe that there is a bias at the Davis County Clipper. This issue was discussed at the recent Davis County bloggers meeting, where we agreed that the bias was mostly toward elected officials. Because Davis County is currently represented exclusively by Republicans, it is a [...]
As has been noted before, I don’t really care for the Presidential campaign of former Governor Romney. However, Saturday night’s “GOP Cattle Call 2008” on dailykos.com left me disturbed as to why seemingly intelligent people think individuals must abandon personal faith to obtain political office.
Unfortunately, unless he [...]
