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Recent Posts:
- Some Random Political Quick Hits
- Today’s GOP: Finding Its Way Outside the Echo Chamber
- John Swallow . . . Quietly Still There . . .
- Some TMI-Type Thoughts on Obamacare and the Last Chance
- Some Thoughts on Moderation in Politics
- On Transformations and Transformative Leaders
- What Does the John Swallow Debacle Say About Utah?
- Brief Thoughts on John Swallow, the Tribune Article, and the Attorney General
- John Roberts and Election 2012
- Sandy Hook.
- Election 2012: Morning After Thoughts on the National Election
- It’s Over, Right? So What?
- From the Past: My Thoughts After the 2008 Election
- Judicial Retention: Utah’s Forgotten Elections
- Partisanship in American Politics — Is it Really Any Worse Today?
- On Corporate Personhood, Balanced Budgets, and Constitutional Amendments
- The Most Significant News of the Last 24 Hours
- Foreign Policy and Election 2012
- It’s Got to be All About Romney’s Lies, Right?
- Fighting the Last War and the Politics of Diminishing Returns
- Yet Another Republican Supporting Ben McAdams for Salt Lake County Mayor
- “You Can’t Be a Good Mormon if”…Gregory Prince, Harry Reid, and Mitt Romney
- Some Follow-up Thoughts on the Significance of the Tenth Amendment and National Government
- Pulling Back the Curtain on My Personal Politics
- A (Relatively) Unbiased Take on Night 1 of DNC 2012
- Thoughts on Nullification: A Response to Thomas Woods
- A Brief Look Back at RNC 2012 and Ahead to the DNC
- Random Thoughts on Paul Ryan, Medicare, and the Left’s Embrace of Voodoo Economics
- Some Thoughts on Bare Feet and Running Shoes
- How Mormons Make Money, or, Mormon, Inc., Part Deux
- Obamacare and Chief Justice Roberts
- Caucus Night is Coming! Let’s Make the Best of It.
- H.B. 351, Opt-Out of Order on White House Rural Council — Rep. Ivory
- Paul Rolly’s Ridiculous Hit Piece on Judge Dee Benson
- Open Political Caucuses – Comparing the Powell and Romero Bills
- S.B. 11, S.B. 21: Department of Environmental Quality Amendments, Sen. Dayton
- H.B. 253 — Voter Registration Amendments, Rep. Powell
- Quick Thoughts on the McAdams Statewide Anti-Discrimination Bill
- Montana Supreme Court Thumbs its Nose at Citizens United, Upholds Montana Law Prohibiting Corporate Contributions
- H.B. 56 — Condominium Amendments, Rep. Litvack
- What Should Be Done About Utah’s Unenforceable Campaign Session Contribution Law?
- Book Review — Plain Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution, by Richard Beeman
- H.B. 49: Firearms Revisions, Rep. Paul Ray
- Utah Supreme Court — “Minor Child” Includes Unborn for Purposes of Wrongful Death Statute
- Dan Liljenquist and State Level Medicaid Reform
- Is SCHIP Constitutional?
- The Seventeenth Amendment — Good Idea, or the Beginning of the End?
- Redistricting in the Courts — Some Thoughts on the Voting Rights Act and Preclearance
- Jon Huntsman – A Case of Style Obscuring the Substance?
- Two Cheers for Law School — Theory v. Practice, Personal Experience, and Some Other Random Thoughts
- Is Utah’s Prohibition of Donations to Legislators During the Legislative Session Constitutional?
- “Anyone But Mitt” Not Going Away — Yet
- D.C. Circuit Upholds Obamacare
- UHA: It’s Unconstitutional for Legislators to Talk to the LDS Church About Liquor Laws
- A Foreign Service Perspective on Jon Huntsman’s Mandarin
- Is the MCAP Act the Republican Version of Obamacare (Federalist-ly Speaking)?
- The Best Character on the Best Show Going
- Frank Bruni, On Jon Huntsman
- Urban vs. Rural and House vs. Senate
- Secrecy and Utah Redistricting 2011
- Utah Redistricting, Some (Probably) Final Comments
- Election 2012 – The Mormon Question . . . Again
- The Latest on Utah Redistricting 2011 and a Plug for the Garber Map
- Utah Redistricting, Part Deux
- Finally Weighing in on Utah Redistricting
- Take that, Ayn Rand: Elizabeth Warren on Taxation and Social Contracts
- Some Thoughts on Obama’s Deficit Plan, Class Warfare, and Equal Protection
- Judge Conner of the Third Circuit District Court Weighs in on Obamacare, in a Judicially Modest Way
- Lessons in American Constitutional History, Post-1787: Volume 2 — Some Thoughts on The Fourteenth Amendment
- Is There Anything to All the Certainty Rhetoric?
- Bachmann — Federal Constitution Prohibits State Insurance Mandates
- Bill Evans: Here’s that Rainy Day
- Book Review: The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
- Lessons in American Constitutional History, Post-1787: Volume 1 – Justice Robert H. Jackson
- Representative Dougall: Charge High Schools for College Remedial Courses
- Democracy, Reason, Aristocracy, and Universities
- So @JonHuntsman Just Blew Up on Twitter
- Enough 14th Amendment Stupidity!
- Briefly, On the Tenth Amendment
- 11th Circuit Strikes Down Obamacare Mandate — But Leaves the Rest Intact
- Site Visits This Year
- Iowa Republican Presidential Debate: Let’s Talk Utah Candidates
- What Does Civility in Politics Look Like, and Where Does it Come From?
- Weighing in on the DeChristopher Sentencing and Civil Disobedience
- Google’s Interpretation of In Re Baby E.Z.
- lit·er·al·ly / litərəlē / Adverb
- Bill Evans on Debt Ceiling Talks – Suicide is Painless?
- Dougall Looking to Eliminate Auto Safety Inspections
- Respecting the Constitution
- Harry Potter and Libertarianism
- Utah Supreme Court Justices Confront Subject Matter Jurisdiction and Legislative Intent in In re: Baby E.Z.
- The Key Question for All Republican Presidential Candidates
- Rex E. Lee on the Constitution
- Ben Lomond Trail Run
- Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Obamacare: Sometimes an Intuition is Just an Intuition
- Golf Politics
- Madison on States Rights, Federal Power, and Ultimate Goals
- Bill Evans — Waltz for Debby
- Huntsman – America from 10,000 Miles and Another Interesting Soundbyte
- Jonathan Swift on Stare Decisis
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