Politics Elevated

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When the TARP bill was first being discussed I made a statement that I would like to repeat about the TARP money:
[T]his should not be used as a windfall by Congress to fund some pet projects.
We have come to the point now where Congress is faced with the question of whether to extend [...]

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The electoral campaigns for 2010 will likely be saturated with fiery conservative rhetoric, grassroots organizing, and a widespread and categorical rejection of the policies and programs enacted by the Obama administration. Candidates of all stripes are putting themselves forward to scoop up vulnerable seats, and if they know anything about the discontent masses [...]

If you didn’t know that the man-made global warming theory was an elaborate hoax, there exists no question about that fact now.  With the uncovering of thousands of e-mails that identify the gyrations that supposed scientists went through to hide real data and to deceive the public, the days of faux scientists promulgating lies about [...]

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Gene Healy wrote about what he called Obama’s phony federalism but what he was really talking about was a relatively universal perspective on federalism:
Not yet a year into his administration, Obama’s record on 10th Amendment issues is already clear: He’ll let the states have their way when their policies please blue team sensibilities [...]

I enjoyed a good chuckle the other day when I came across the Facebook group “1 Million Strong Against our SOCIALIST Fire Departments”
Created to poke fun at conservatives who oppose big-government programs (like health care) on grounds that these programs are socialistic, their slogan is:
“WE MUST STOP THE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF FIRE CARE IN AMERICA [...]

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There are two political cultures that we need to change in order to have a healthy “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” in this country. The first is the culture among the voters as defined by how thy perceive those who hold political office. The second is the [...]

The following is the text of a lecture I gave last night to the Young Americans for Liberty chapter at Utah Valley University:

Throughout the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, those who have been sustained as its leaders have repeatedly spoken out on political matters. This has occurred not so much [...]

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When I read Jay Hutchinson’s post about Why Capital Punishment is wrong I could not sit still without sharing the opposite perspective so that some people can recognize that the issue is not one sided or clear cut. I am not one who believes in excessive punishment and I would not argue that [...]

“Evil rarely comes upon us all at once, and liberty is rarely lost in one stroke.”
Our federal government is out of control. The sprawling government we have today is markedly different from the one bequeathed to us by our Founders, which “was strictly limited in its scope, guaranteed individual liberty, preserved the free market, [...]

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November 9th marked two decades since the Berlin Wall came crashing down. As a visual representation of the larger “Iron Curtain”, Berlin’s wall served as a symbol of the separation of and forced isolation by the Eastern Bloc. In the minds of people throughout the world, its slow and eventual removal was not [...]