Month: October 2013

Atthe end of the pointless government shutdown that did nothing but damage, Republican representative Tom Rooney of Florida was asked who won in the stand-off. His answer was not the president, the Democrats, or even his own party. The winners, he said, were “the people that managed to raise a lot of money off this.”By ... Read more

Iserved as a missionary in Scotland for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from September of 1987 until September of 1989. For the last five months of my service, that mission was under the direction of Joseph Fielding McConkie, a singularly gifted gospel teacher, a devoted disciple of Christ, a fierce champion of ... Read more

IfI were a rich Democrat, I'd max out my donations to the Mike Lee 2016 campaign.It would be a bargain at twice the price. What Democrat could possibly match Lee's ability to destroy the Republican Party from the inside?I've read a number of statements from Lee's diminishing number of devotees who, while forced to acknowledge ... Read more

SoI haven't written much on this blog of late. My apologies. By way of explanation and not excuse, I thought I'd tell you why.I've been producing a whole lot of content for the Deseret News, including a weekly column that you can find here if you're not reading it at the moment.  My latest column ... Read more