Archive for the ‘National Politics’ Category

Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 9:00am

How to Kill our Republic – Part II

In what is, by far, the most disrespectful act I have ever seen towards any President – Representative Joe Wilson’s shouting of “You Lie!” at President Obama as he addressed the nation in the halls of Congress:

This only goes further the point I made in my last post regarding the slow death being brought upon [...]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 5:17pm

Jason Chaffetz is Apparently Unaware of the Constitution

Representative Chaffetz, I really don’t want to keep picking on you, but sometimes you deserve to be called on things.
You see, Representative Chaffetz is co-sponsoring a bill that would restrict birthright citizenship to the children where at least one parent is already a citizen.  In other words the children of illegal immigrants would not be [...]

Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 12:01am

Happy 233rd Birthday America!

American patriotism is not the vanguard of one political philosophy or party, indeed American patriotism can be defined by its utter indefinability.  This is because, like the rest of our nation, patriotism is an amalgamation of many ideas and people with only one defining attribute at its core: the love of the nation that allows [...]

Friday, June 5th, 2009 at 11:49am

Full body scans and Civil Liberties

Never let it be said that I don’t give credit where credit is due. I applaud Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz for his bill banning full body scans as a primary means of airport security. The bill passed the House yesterday but faces tough opposition from his own party members in the Senate.
For those of you [...]

Friday, May 22nd, 2009 at 10:00am

Chaffetz Continues his Hypocrisy – and why Republicans are Falling Apart

So, a short while ago, I wrote a post regarding Representative Jason Chaffetz’s blatant hypocrisy regarding his mantra against big government in community affairs while simultaneously using his power as a member of Congress (read “big government”) to try and overrule D.C.’s recent recognition of gay marriage.
Now, I am not stupid, I know that, in [...]

Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 7:00am

The Hypocrisy of Jason Chaffetz

It should come as no surprise that Jason Chaffetz is opposed to the recent action by Washington DC to recognize gay marriages in the district. After all, being the Republican Representative of one of the most conservative districts in the nation will create results such as this with not so much as a bat of [...]

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 1:07pm

Don’t get too Happy About Spectors’ Switch

So, for the two of you who have not heard, Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania recently switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. The political ramifications of this is that when (not if, conservatives) Al Franken of Minnesota is officially made the Senator from that state, the body will consist of 60 Democrats [...]

Thursday, March 26th, 2009 at 8:52pm

YDA: WTF?!

Many of you know that I am involved with the Young Democrats of Utah – an origination near and dear to my heart. That being said, our parent organization, the Young Democrats of America, are very good at being Democrats – that is loosing everything when there is no plausible way for them to do [...]

Friday, March 6th, 2009 at 8:39pm

The Joys of Pseudo-Security

Working at a helicopter flight school, I often have run-ins with various federal officials – most commonly the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Well today I finally got around to actually taking the TSA security test to make it possible for me to, you know, work at an airport.
What I [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 5:57pm

Bills to Watch: H.J.R. 17 – Joint Resolution Urging Congressional And Presidential Opposition to Federal Bailouts and Promotion of Fiscal…

Yes, the title of this resolution is so long that blogger would not allow me to type the full name out… and, similarly, this resolution is so far off the deep end that I have to wonder if Representative Craig Frank (R – District 57, Cedar Hills) has run out of space in his mind [...]

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