In case you missed it, over the weekend, Orrin Hatch claimed that Saddam was in bed with Al Qaida.
“And, more importantly, we’ve stopped a mass murderer in Saddam Hussein. Nobody denies that he was supporting al-Qaida.”
In a clear attack on Democrats, Hatch added, “Well, I shouldn’t say nobody. Nobody with brains.”
Wow. Even coming from someone […]

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Much has been said about the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy ruling against Wal-Mart and requiring it to immediately being providing the emergency contraception drug (aka “morning-after” or “Plan B”). Many folks are arguing that such actions are anti-American, new, and unconstitutional. In fact, the ruling is none of these.
Wal-Mart itself is not being […]

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SB 63, arguably my favorite bill in the Utah Legislature at the moment (admittedly for trivial and selfish reasons), failed to make it out of committee today. The bill, introduced by Dan Eastman, would have removed the requirement for a front license plate on vehicles in Utah - the argument being that the front plate […]

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As you probably have already seen, Exxon Mobile posted a record profit the other day, in the amount of $36.2 Billion for 2005. Given the huge increases in prices at the pump recently, there is considerable outrage over such huge profits. It is understandable, then, that executives at Exxon were trying to keep a low […]

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Today, I took some time out of my busy schedule of, umm, doing important stuff, in order to read up on bills currently being considered in the Utah Legislature. A few I found interesting:
1. One of my personal favorites, S.B. 96, from Rep. Buttars, titled “Public Education - Instruction and Policy Relating to the Origins […]

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Recently, Maryland became the first state to require big companies such as Wal-Mart to contribute a certain percentage (8% in Maryland’s case) of their payroll toward health insurance for their employees. Even though I am not from Maryland, I am personally interested in this for 3 reasons: I think health care is going to be […]

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This past week, I’ve been reading an interesting book - Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.” This may sound like an odd title for a book - we know with certainty that the world is indeed round, and we are barely into the twenty-first century. The book, […]

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Those who know me know that I am not Orrin Hatch’s biggest fan. In fact, I’d go as far as saying I severely dislike the man. He supported destroying PCs of suspected software pirates (even though he pirated software himself - oops!), sponsored the INDUCE Act, supported tightening bankruptcy laws to help “Americans become more […]

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