As we drove through heavy smoke that seemed to be blowing north from the fire in Draper last night, our girls started asking about firefighters and how we (as a society) support them. It got me thinking about firefighters as a service of government. Although they are every bit as legitimate and important a service [...]

Obi wan Liberali recently asked others if he was considered liberal. Apparently some of his liberal friends thought he was not liberal enough because he is not inflammatory. The discussion that followed in the comments got me thinking about different sites that I have visited and my perceptions. I try to follow sites across the [...]

Two weeks ago I suggested that our tendency as voters is to vote against the subject of any given election. This morning my brain supplied me with a possible explanation as to why that might be. Scott Hinrichs has written on various occasions about the fact that we expect more from our president than could [...]

The fact that Americans have allowed themselves to be led down the rosy path of false economic hopes for a rosy tomorrow - where we can borrow now for anything we want with no thought for the fact that we are paying more by mortgaging our futures all the time - is not surprising. What [...]

Is there anyone who could not support the dream shared by Jess:
it’s my dream that the citizens of our country renew their interest in politics half as much as they love the olympic games. . .
to preserve the posterity of politics in our country, the greatest country in the world, we need to start caring [...]

Yesterday I helped my brother move into his new house (like me, he changed jobs and relocated over the summer). I am looking forward in the next couple of weeks to completing a home sale (this week) and a home purchase (next week) so that he can return the favor (actually, him returning the favor [...]

It seems that our more recent history (the last 50 years) has clouded our perceptions of immigration, integration, and what it means to be an American. Though we still talk about our nation being a melting pot, we seem to be treating those of other ethnicities as if their presence is a handout from those [...]

Herriman is hardly alone in opposing freeway tolls. The most prominent reason they give is wholly predictable - and it is reasonable:
The two-page Herriman statement said the council supports the corridor project, but believes tolls would create a financial burden for residents.
I would love to read the full statement from the city council, but I [...]

I would not try to claim that one good decision can negate a series of very bad choices, but I think that Michael Rodriguez deserves to be acknowledged for his choice to skip an endless series of appeals. Instead he has chosen to pay the only price he can for the crimes he has comitted. [...]

What started as a post about Equality Before the Law grew into a discussion about the role of government in helping our fellow men. That eventually spun of into a discussion about how we can or should mix religion and politics at The Life I am Choosing. Later I ran across Connor’s post about the [...]