For decades, it's been considered common knowledge that a college degree was your ticket to a well-paying job. Salary surveys back it up, usually showing substantial wage differences between those with a high school diploma and those holding a bachelor's degree. Despite this, the value of a college degree has been rapidly diminishing and could […]
Filed under: Politics on June 19th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you want to see Americans get angry, just start talking about the price of gas. Or maybe ask a Californian about electricity prices during the blackouts. It seems that we're enormously sensitive to the cost of energy. I myself can remember paying just over a dollar per gallon for gas just over a decade […]
Filed under: Politics on June 17th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Only someone living under a rock wouldn't know about the grave injustices being done to the FLDS in Texas right now. Allow me to summarize for those of you not following the story.
A woman claiming to be a 16-year-old mother named Sarah calls in authorities in Texas to report that her 50-year-old FLDS husband beats […]
Filed under: Politics on April 24th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Something is rotten in the state of Utah. It seems that we can't go a week without some new controversy embroiling the Utah Republican Party. At the heart of it all is a political machine that would make Boss Tweed proud, a system of selection setup to allow the party faithful to anoint their leaders […]
Filed under: Politics on April 23rd, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Given its origins in the heyday of the Industrial Revolution, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that our Prussian-style school systems focus on a one-size-fits-all approach. The order of that day was to mass produce interchangeable cogs for factories, a job description that's becoming less and less common as our economy focuses on more […]
Filed under: Politics on April 7th, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Filed under: Politics, Pictures, Tender Lumplings on April 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now that the candidate filing period has closed, there's a clearer picture of what's going on with House 48, the district I live in. The race has made some headlines as LaVar "Elect Democrats and the Terrorists Win" Christensen has sought to challenge incumbent Sylvia Andersen to get his old seat back after being thoroughly […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah on March 20th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Not that long ago, I read an inspiring article written by Steve Olsen and posted over at The Utah Amicus. While I think he failed to support his thesis statement, the piece itself was a wake-up call to families to start taking charge of their affairs and stop depending on strangers to do it […]
Filed under: Politics, Church on February 19th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I want to extend a special thank you to Lyall Swim and The Sutherland Institute for hosting a blogger's breakfast this week. It's a rare thing indeed to get access to well-known pundits and higher-up elected officials and the conversation with Lt. Gov. Herbert was very enlightening. Here's what I took away from the dialog:
The […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah, Blogging on February 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It's no secret I've been in some high-profile fights with Mark Towner over his spamming ways. Remember the gun-for-hire e-mail he sent from Utahns for Public School? How about the threats to sue me? Maybe his blatant violations of FeedBlitz's ToS and their lack of interest in enforcing it? After all of that, […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah on February 16th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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