The right wing folks — from the tea party crazies, to the radio and TV hate mongers, to the obstructionist Republican office holders — are all in a lather lately about budget deficits.EXCUSE ME?Didn’t ya’ll support George W. and his “free market” deregulation (ie. the “Free-for-all market” which became the “Free-fall market”), and his tax … Read more
Lynn M. Hansen, former Reagan-appointed ambassador and recently-returned LDS mission president in Germany, wrote a guest column in the Ogden, Utah Standard-Examiner this past week entitled “Obama, Reid, Pelosi deserve our thanks.” The focus of Hansen’s article is on why health care reform is good and was necessary and I strongly recommend everyone read it, … Read more
Paul Rolly, a columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, reported this past week that Senator Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D, Nevada) was invited to give a fireside talk at an LDS stake center last weekend. Reid agreed to speak about his spiritual awakening and conversion to the Mormon faith. Rolly goes on to report that … Read more
I just heard the most astonishing thing on a radio station that calls itself “Family Values Radio.” Some “conservative” commentator was going on about how “the liberals” never answer or discuss the “issues” that conservatives “lay down.” Instead, he said, “the liberals” just attack the conservative speaker. Liberals, he claimed, avoid discussing issues in favor … Read more
“The mere presense of large sums of money pushes people past their moral limits, making them more likely to lie, cheat and steal.” This comes from a study in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes as reported in the December 2009 issue of Psychology Today (“The Green Monster” p. 17). It is always interesting when … Read more
Republican senator Bob Bennett from Utah has started the TV ads for his 2010 campaign already. Why not? As a member of the Banking, Appropriations, and Rules Committees, he has plenty of corporate money to start his campaign early. Besides, he is terrified about the crazies in his party that don’t think he is “conservative … Read more
With number of lies being told about health care, followed this past week by the ridiculous fear-mongering about the President’s proposed address to America’s school children, even some prominent Republicans are growing disgusted at the Republicans. Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.) who is now the conservative host of the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” recently posted … Read more
The following quotation is used to conclude the book Broken Government (p. 200-201) by John W. Dean. He is quoting an “old friend from the Nixon White House” whom he describes as “a life-long Republican.” The opinion expressed here is very telling and I believe we should all take the advice given. I added the … Read more