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The Los Angeles Times recently had an insightful article about what $200-a-barrel oil and $7 a gallon gasoline would do to America.

With every penny hike in the price of gas costing American consumers about $1 billion a year, sharply higher pump prices would lead to “significant bankruptcies and store closings,” said Scott Hoyt, director of [...]

The bottom line: We live in a complex society that requires intelligent planning, foresight and effective government to mediate between competing private interests and to organize and manage the infrastructure. The basic infrastructure needed to operate a modern city is mind-bogglingly complex - a series of interconnected systems that require constant maintenance, upgrades changes [...]

It’s easy to be impressed by the bible if you’ve never read Shakespeare or Milton. It’s easy to be impressed by the bible if you’ve never read Spenser or Whitman. Hell, compare the majority of the Psalms to Dickinson or Shelley or Tennyson and you can’t help but wonder why God was such [...]

I’m not in the habit of quoting at length from other blogs, but I haven’t got the ability to say this any better. The following is straight from CTuttle on the excellent site Main and Central.
“I’d like to indulge in a little exercise, let’s take a gander at several news reports on the same [...]

About a month ago, I wrote about my experiences seeing a doctor on the weekend - that clinics covered by my insurance were no where near my house and so forth. The saga of that visit has at long last moved towards its final act.
My insurance requires that all claims be submitted by the [...]

On June 26th the Supreme Court upheld the personal right to keep and bear arms. What are the consequences, if any, for Utah and the rest of the country?

Thursday, channel 501 showed the 1984 film The Killing Fields. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s based on the experiences of NY Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and Cambodian reporter Dith Pran in Cambodia in the 1970s; Pran was captured by the Khmer Rouge and spent years living and laboring in their camps before [...]

The northern city of Mosul is the second-largest in Iraq (Basra is a close third). Despite the scarcity of news from Iraq lately, you may have heard about the launching of a long-delayed offensive last month to regain control of the ruined city of nearly 2 million people for Nouri al-Maliki’s Green Zone government. [...]

Only 15 senators voted to block the FISA bill: Biden (D-DE) - Boxer (D-CA) - Brown (D-OH) - Cantwell (D-WA) - Dodd (D-CT) - Durbin (D-IL) - Feingold (D-WI) - Harkin (D-IA) - Kerry (D-MA) - Lautenberg (D-NJ) - Leahy (D-VT) - Menendez (D-NJ) - Sanders (I-VT) - Schumer (D-NY) - Wyden (D-OR). Senators Clinton, [...]

From the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen:
“In the last six or seven months, we have a put a tremendous amount of focus on Afghanistan, and I think rightfully so,” he said. “It is an economy-of-force campaign, and by definition, that means we don’t have enough forces [...]

Friends, let us suppose you are in the employ of a very wealthy and very successful investor. Think Warren Buffett or the late John Beresford Tipton. Further suppose that you are asked by your employer to design a new investment fund that will be and will be seen to be socially useful. [...]

Hi Folks,
I’m off to a remote island in the Atlantic without power (or Internet) for 10 days. Larry, I’ve made you an admin too.
In my absence please try to maintain a level of antagonism and indignation commensurate with the high crimes, many misdemeanors and treason toward the administration and the few sick people who [...]