Category: Politics

Stimulus Turns Infrastructure From Main Course to Garnish 3

Stimulus Turns Infrastructure From Main Course to Garnish

There's a lot of talk of President Obama's economic stimulus plan and I've been watching it closely. Our nation definitely needs investments in critical infrastructure like transportation and telecommunication as we see bridges collapse and broadband rankings drop further and...

Mark Towner Threatens to Sue Me… Again 4

Mark Towner Threatens to Sue Me… Again

I think the headline pretty much says it all. After mentioning the previous dust-ups between me and him in my last blog post, Mark decided to threaten to send me "legal service" yet one more time. And do we recall...

Hey Equality Utah? Spam is a bad way to get your message out. Just sayin'. 5

Hey Equality Utah? Spam is a bad way to get your message out. Just sayin'.

Anyone who's been reading the blog for a while knows that I don't much care for spam. Aside from the epic battle with Mark Towner (who has since appropriately faded away into obscurity where he belongs), I've also called out...

For the Love, Please Get Ready for the DTV Switch 3

For the Love, Please Get Ready for the DTV Switch

Apparently 7% of you are woefully unprepared for the switch from analog to digital over-the-air TV signals on February 17, 2009. The easy answer is to get satellite or cable service, but a lot of folks just aren't willing to...

Addressing Myths of Our Health Care System 3

Addressing Myths of Our Health Care System

Jason over at The Sidetrack linked to an interesting article on 5 myths about our health care system. I've already written many times about health care, but I thought I could propose some solutions to the problems that this article...

Gov and Marriage 38

Gov and Marriage

Over the years, I’ve found plenty of areas where I disagree with the libertarian view. Too much of what they propose is pure anarchy, stripping government down far beyond the minimum necessary to function. So it goes with most libertarian...

Don't Go Overboard With Ethics Reform 3

Don't Go Overboard With Ethics Reform

There's an old joke that Congress does two things: nothing and too much. It seems like the Legislature is being asked to model Congress when it comes to taking on ethics reform. I went to a meeting last night sponsored...

A Good Time Had By All 4

A Good Time Had By All

Thanks to everyone who could make it out to the blogger dinner at Squatter's last night. Jason Williams of The Sidetrack and KVNU's For The People, Marshall of Wasatch Watcher and Frank Staheli of Simple Utah Mormon Politics all came...

It's Time to Break Bread Together 1

It's Time to Break Bread Together

Finally happy that the election is over? Want to meet the people behind the keyboards? Then it's time to unplug and make your way to downtown Salt Lake City to break bread with your favorite bloggers and political personalities. The...

Defeated at the Ballot Box, Prop 8 Opponents Seek Redress Through the Courts 3

Defeated at the Ballot Box, Prop 8 Opponents Seek Redress Through the Courts

In what can best be described as the tortured logic of a madman, Prop 8 opponents have filed suit to overturn the will of the voters just one more time by claiming that the constitutional amendment is (wait for it)…...