When it’s non-security discretionary spending cuts from the budget. That’s when. Then it’s just not solving the problem. It’s pandering for the press and for constituents. The problem, and all the talk Washington, is the deficit and getting it back to a manageable level. Republicans in an effort to keep campaign promises and reduce the deficit, are […]
Archives for March 2011
A job? or a career?
March 17, 2011 by
I saw this earlier today, and it struck a cord with me: The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. Robert Frost (four time Pulitzer winner) Which are you in: a job or a career? In which do you want to be?
When the LDS Church shows up for a press conference, does it jeopardize tax exempt status?
March 16, 2011 by
I’m expecting an Utah paper editorial separation of church and state any day now. I’d bet dollars for donuts that it’ll be in the Salt Lake Tribune, too. The Deseret News just doesn’t roll that way. Yesterday, the LDS Church openly supported Governor Herbert’s signing of HB 116 by sending Presiding Bishop H. David Burton to […]
No more “third-tier toilet” for you to worry about?
March 15, 2011 by
With the release of U.S. News law school rankings comes a new style of ranking. No longer will school lower than 100 be grouped and unranked together. Yup, that’s right: say goodbye to the term “TTT,” or “third-tier toilet.” Now these schools get individual numerical ratings, instead of being lumped into an undifferentiated “third tier.” […]
Prop 8 Advocates in Court Today: “Let us stand in for elected officials.”
March 15, 2011 by
With California elected officials opting out of defending Proposition 8, the advocates for the successful ballot measure went to court today to argue that they should be allowed to defend it in their place. Their brief, found here, argues that the voter initiative process depends on a legal defense in court. Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog […]
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