Fiscal Responsibility
Over the past month I’ve watched the Utah legislature deal with the pressing issues of the day: telling the federal government not to protect our environmental heritage, creating a holiday for John M. Browning, expressing its dismay for the 17th amendment and insulting the intelligence of Utah voters, and incurring huge legal expenses to fight [...]
More Stupidity From Sutherland…
Ah, the Sutherland Institute, Utah’s very own neoconservative nightmare. In their latest move they’ve decided to premier an independent film, Not Evil Just Wrong, which highlights nine “significant errors” in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. This is apparently an attempt to convince the world that global warming isn’t really a problem and that attempts to [...]
What Is Independence?
Over the weekend America celebrated Independence Day with barbeques, parades, carnivals, and fireworks. What, however, does Independence Day really mean to us as a people? The textbook answer is simple: it is a remembrance of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. The day that Americans agreed to a document declaring their [...]
Another Ride on The Pork Parade
Utah’s First District Congressman, Rob Bishop, has requested $6.5 billion in appropriations earmarks, 95% of which are for current or past campaign donors, reports Lee Davidson in the Deseret News. When I see things like this I’m forced to ask myself how someone that espouses “conservative” fiscal values can justify such spending requests. We’ve all [...]
More on the Bailout….
I know, it’s kind of an topic, but as we progress farther into this economic decline I have to ask myself exactly what the hell it is that our government is doing. I understand the economic stimulus package and I’m OK with it. I think there will be a great deal of waste and abuse, [...]
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