http://www.commonsenseforutah.com And you thought there wasn't any. Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:17:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the movies Office Space and Superman 3, computer geeks siphon off millions of dollars by shifting fractions of pennies unused during payroll into their paycheck. It's an unrealistic idea to think that the company would not notice large sums of money moving somewhere it didn't before. Our strategy when we ... http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2008/03/13/the-silent-villainy-of-wal-mart/ The website http://goooh.com/ proposes a system of replacing our current, career, Representatives with common people who nominate themselves and then are selected by their local GOOOH members to run against the current Rep. It's not a political party because the chosen GOOOH member will reflect local community values. A hard line ... http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2008/03/01/get-out-of-our-house/ Great Video about a fight to turn a failing high school into a charter school. The rhetoric from the teachers union is abominable. http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2008/02/19/education-revolt-in-watts/ Your government is subsidizing corn ethanol production. The net effect of this is: Your gas costs more Ethanol is more expensive than regular gasoline and it doesn't burn as well. That means you get less MPG so you fill up more often. Your food costs more Corn is now in high demand. Corn ... http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2008/02/08/this-is-your-government/ Whoever wins the Utah primary will take 100% of the delegates. As much as I would hate not voting for Paul, I just don't see the point when Romney is gonna win Utah easily. So many of the GOP primaries are winner take all that it's hard for someone like ... http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2008/02/02/i-might-vote-for-obama-instead-of-paul/ The War on, well, Everything, is a bust. The War on Terror incites terrorism and, by it's very existence and the politics behinds it, makes people afraid. I would say the Department of Homeland Security with it's ridiculous color coded alert system has fomented more terror than Osama Bin Laden. Osama ... http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2008/01/21/vote-for-freedom/ I just want to speculate a bit. Imagine Ron Paul hangs around deep into the primary season. Huckabee, Thompson and Guiliani are gone and it's just Romney, Mccain and Paul left. Ron gets invited to all the debates and he's pulling in @20% in the primaries in a much less split ... http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2008/01/15/ron-paul-political-animal/ Stop being afraid Synopsis: Terrorism doesn't work if we're not, you know, terrorized. I live is absolute zero fear of a terrorist attack. By reacting the way we have we folded like a house of cards to terrorists demands. What demands you ask? Be afraid. Be terrorized. Worry, worry, worry. Since 9/11 ... http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2007/12/18/defeat-terrorism/ The story goes that the candy cane was created as a symbol of Jesus. It's a really nice story but it isn't true. I find no fault in the spread of the story among well meaning people but I wonder who made this up and spread it around? How much of actual, ... http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2007/12/06/the-candy-cane-story/ http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/11/14/treating-successful-taxpayers-like-pinatas/ Synopsis: We're heading towards a point where most people do not pay federal taxes at all. That could lead to a situation where non-payers consistently vote to remain non-paying and continue to leech from the payers. http://www.commonsenseforutah.com/2007/11/14/treating-taxpayers-like-pinatas/