It won’t be the last stop for President Obama’s signature health care bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, but it was a road bump that I’m sure the Obama Administration could have done without. Today, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that the “individual mandate,” which mandates health coverage for most Americans by 2014, […]
Constitutional amendments from the folks who love it most
December 8, 2010 by
Indubitably, during the recent election, one of the major rallying points of Tea Party aligned voters was the US Constitution and its interpretation. Indeed, although the Tea Party started out as primarily a revolt against perceived spending policies of the Obama Administration and the Democratic controlled Congress (for example, the Affordable Health Care for America Act and the […]
Is John Tyner a modern day Rosa Parks?
November 17, 2010 by
Less than ten years after 9/11 made us all afraid to fly, security precautions during pre-flight passenger screenings have pushed Americans to near outrage. The anger stems from proceedures performed by TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, which procedures include x-ray scanners that show naked images of passengers to screeners for the purpose of discovering any weapons or explosive […]
Are you flying this holiday?
November 16, 2010 by
The Utah Compact on Immigration
November 12, 2010 by
If you care about immigration, an interesting thing happened a couple days ago. Some of Utah‘s leaders–religious, political, and secular–joined together to propose an a set of principles on to guid the immigration reform discussion. It is seen as an alternative to recent proposals such as those passed in Arizona and proposed for Utah by […]
Half of life is showing up
October 19, 2010 by
It’s often been said that most of life is showing up (Woody Allen quantified it as “80 percent,” so who am I to argue?). So what does it say about our political candidates who won’t show up? In Utah, the presumed front-runners are not showing up. Complains Douglas Mortensen with Salt Lake’s Rotary Club: For […]
Open Meetings: Shining more sunshine on government
October 18, 2010 by
Image by deltaMike via Flickr Amidst all the talk about what people can do to be more involved in civic affairs, there’s one place that is often forgotten: meetings. Most government business is required to take place or be discussed in what is known as an “open meeting.” The idea is that if discussions take […]
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