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Archive for November, 2009

How I Support the Troops

Posted by Connor on November 27th, 2009

photo credit: rcvernors Drive around town for a few minutes, and chances are you’ll encounter a car emblazoned with a bumper sticker or magnet that encourages you to “Support Our Troops”. With almost 1.4 million active duty soldiers and close to the same number in the reserves, tens of millions of Americans are connected to [...]

Constitutional Superficiality

Posted by Connor on November 24th, 2009

photo credit: jypsygen The electoral campaigns for 2010 will likely be saturated with fiery conservative rhetoric, grassroots organizing, and a widespread and categorical rejection of the policies and programs enacted by the Obama administration. Candidates of all stripes are putting themselves forward to scoop up vulnerable seats, and if they know anything about the discontent [...]

The Civic Duty of the Latter-day Saints

Posted by Connor on November 19th, 2009

The following is the text of a lecture I gave last night to the Young Americans for Liberty chapter at Utah Valley University: Throughout the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, those who have been sustained as its leaders have repeatedly spoken out on political matters. This has occurred not so [...]

A Letter to the Treasury from the LDS First Presidency in 1941

Posted by Connor on November 16th, 2009

Warning: long post ahead! For several years I have been citing a quote in various posts, emails, discussions, and other settings, allegedly from the First Presidency in 1941. This quote is both potent and largely unprecedented, and its implications are especially interesting. The quote is as follows: The Church as a Church does not believe [...]

The Fall of the Wall

Posted by Connor on November 10th, 2009

photo credit: ruishidalong Yesterday marked two decades since the Berlin Wall came crashing down. As a visual representation of the larger “Iron Curtain”, Berlin’s wall served as a symbol of the separation of and forced isolation by the Eastern Bloc. In the minds of people throughout the world, its slow and eventual removal was not [...]

Do We Really Want an NSA Data Center in Utah?

Posted by Connor on November 6th, 2009

The following is an op-ed I wrote that was published in the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday (my submission is below; the Trib edited it slightly for publication): Along with the recent announcement of the NSA data center to be built near Lehi came numerous praises of the jobs it would bring to Utah. Governor Herbert [...]

Special Interests

Posted by Connor on November 5th, 2009

photo credit: jobsinlobbying.com In over two hundred speeches given between 2002 and 2009, President Obama has referenced “special interests” 212 times. This near 1:1 ratio shows a continual concern (if only a verbalized one) for the influence of these allegedly nefarious groups of lobbyists. Mr. Obama is not alone in his derision of the powerful [...]

The Improper Price of Proposition 8

Posted by Connor on November 1st, 2009

photo credit: nathanielperales A recent article by the Heritage Foundation provides an exhaustive and compelling list of instances in which supporters of California’s recent Proposition 8 were targeted, harassed, and violently abused by individuals in the opposing camp. While certainly not complete in its documentation of every such occurrence, it nevertheless paints a picture of [...]

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