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Do you know your local elected officials?

April 2, 2012 by

Lately, I’ve been involved with a campaign that could be classified as “down ticket.” It’s not a for the US Senate or for Congress, Governor or the state legislature. It’s not even for attorney general. It’s the Salt Lake County mayor’s race, and it’s “down” the “ticket” from all of those higher profile races, even if it deals with issues near and dear to all of us.

Indeed, it may deal with stuff that we use a lot more frequently than some of those other races. Libraries? Rec centers? Parks? Snow plows? Mental services? Jails? [cont…]

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Obamacare before the Supreme Court: “The Emperor Has No Clothes!”

March 29, 2012 by

In a case of “the Emperor has no clothes,” the justices played the part of the skeptic to the Obama Administration’s protestations of Obamacare’s constitutionality. With the oral arguments on constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act over, let’s take a look back at the reactions to the arguments: [cont…]

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Huffington Predicts the Demise of Obamacare

March 28, 2012 by

[h/t Aaron Bludworth]                  

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Economics simplified…a lot.

March 27, 2012 by

Brought to you by NPR, three minimalist posters designed by economists.

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McNaughton’s “One Nation Under Socialism” Harms Political Discourse

March 26, 2012 by

I’m embarrassed that the likes of Jon McNaughton are helping raise Utah’s profile nationally. Depicting Barack Obama in terms that are just short of demonic, McNaughton is harming more than hurting. Perhaps the purpose of art is to shock and persuade, but subtlety is lost on McNaughton as he uses art like a 2×4 to hit his viewers over the head with his opinions. Playing on fears and anxieties that are real, McNaughton distracts from the important educational process that is necessary to create an informed public . [cont…]

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Book Review: “Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order” by Charles Hill

March 20, 2012 by

IIn Hill’s eye, fiction is more than just a story. In literature, we see the great ideas and forces that move history worked out, argued, and recorded. The “international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm,” he argues. “[I]t is where the greatest issues of the human condition are played out.” Nothing may come closer to a thesis for his opus. [cont…]

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I doubt Romney has ever approved more of Santorum’s word’s …[video]

March 18, 2012 by

“It’s not the campaign. This is Rick Santorum. I think everybody knows that nobody puts words into my mouth. The words out of my mouth were that, uh, if you want a conservative as the nominee of this party you must vote for Mitt Romney.” Rick Santorum, 2008.

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