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Good job, Democrats. You simply ran better campaigns than Republicans did and managed to run some middle-of-the-road candidates that sucked up Republican votes. Not only that, you got both houses of Congress and the White House, ensuring that you should...
Voters in three states had the chance to vote on amendments to their state's constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Voters in all three states said "yes" to traditional marriage, Florida by a significant 62-38...
Separation of church and state is one of those concepts that is discussed frequently and understood infrequently. Despite ample evidence to the contrary, it has mutated to mean that any and all religious sentiment in the sphere of governance is...
I've been putting off writing anything about California's Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment to define marriage as one man and one woman. Not only have many other people on both sides, within and without the church, been sharing their...
Reading and watching postmortems of the credit market freeze have been very enlightening. At the core of the problem is a lack of confidence and trust in those handing out credit ratings, the people who said that big bundles of...
Here's a neat tip: in Utah, you can take time off of work to vote and be paid for it. Per Utah Code Section 20A-3-103, you can notify your employer in advance to take two paid hours for voting at...
I'm honestly pretty disgusted with the attitudes surrounding the recently-passed bank bailout bill. Both Obama and McCain called for action now and blame later. The problem is that they are asking for us to get behind the solution before identifying...
This is the last post in a continuing series of candidate and issue endorsements for the 2008 election cycle.
This is a continuing series of candidate and issue endorsements for the 2008 election cycle. It seems that not an election can go by without a new bond issue on our ballot. I personally object to bonds unless we are...
This is a continuing series of candidate and issue endorsements for the 2008 election cycle. Salt Lake County Mayor This is the only three-way race in the county offices on my ballot with incumbent Peter Corroon (D) facing off against...
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