Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Some Sort of Conservation Law, Perhaps?

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Washington DC: Lots and lots of Starbuckses; I can't recall seeing any taco shops. Utah Valley: No Starbuckses; you can barely throw a...
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Thursday, March 31, 2005

House races to watch

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Courtesy of National Journal .
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

The Idles of March

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Between hoopla over over some sort of madness induced by some sort of ball game (and not to mention the hoopla induced over House Government...

BYUSSR

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This article suggests it's a good thing I decided not to bother voting in BYUSA "elections."
Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Organic Processes vs. Static Endpoints

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This is a line of thought I've been developing for a while, which is hopefully coherent enough to go somewhere by now. As good a startin...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Nibley

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The passing of Hugh Nibley, at age 94, was hardly unexpected. It's difficult to know what to say about him--his life being the source o...
Tuesday, February 15, 2005

It's Good to Be In DC!

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A few observations: Working in a Congressional Office: *It can be pretty overwhelming to be working within sight of (and occasionally within...

What Part of Voluntary Don't You Understand?

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One of the dumbest arguments against Social Security reform that I've seen goes along the lines of "I don't want a personal acc...
Monday, February 14, 2005

Contradictions in an LDS view of politics

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I find that I often have an emotional aversion to LDS politicians that makes it harder in some ways for me to like them compared to non-LDS ...

Social Security Thoughts

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The scope of the Social Security problem is partially masked by the government's accounting practices. Currently, the money that Social ...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Quick Links--Commentary Later

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Dems won't offer a Social Security plan . Condi '08 ? Article on Romney's faith. Disturbing follow-up letters. Cut...
Monday, February 07, 2005

Of Note

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CSED: $85.69 per South Dakota voter. John Fund on the Gubernator's anti-gerrymandering initiative. The Nauvoo Forums dicuss pries...
Saturday, February 05, 2005

Voting

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The sight of Iraqi voters celebrating their new freedom a week ago was inspiring and moving. I wonder if we would not do better to follow t...

Social Security Notes

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To the best I can recall, I have not ever heard anyone of my age cohort say confidently that Social Security is certain to provide for his o...
Saturday, January 29, 2005

Inauguration Report

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*The worst tickets were the "gold" tickets. They were also the fanciest. Evidently the theory was that people would be fooled by t...

Skepticism for Term Limits

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I've always been rather skeptical of the idea of federal Congressional term limits, for various reasons. The Monday edition of Roll Call...

Continuing Revelation

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After seeing this thread on Nauvoo, I decided to do some investigative reporting (or, a bunch of people were going to the Temple and I deci...
Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Social Security Reform

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The President's longstanding desire to meaningfully reform the Social Security system is one of the biggest topics on the political agen...
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The Rules

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Only a matter of months after adding a guest-blogger... Some people get by with "Do unto others..." Congress elaborates a bit, ...

Back In The 'Jams--Blogging From An Undisclosed Location

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...which really isn't all that hard to figure out, for those familiar with the ways of the BYU. 1. I would apologize for not having t...
Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Survived the semester...

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...but too busy enjoying Christmas break to blog (as well as too busy not enjoying the parents' dial-up connection). Hopefully we'l...
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Friday, November 12, 2004

Update Notes

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Main email address has changed to Gmail. Haloscan is toast and Blogger comments enabled. Blogroll in progress.