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politics

• Being Mormon, politics, the world

  Election fraud comes to Seagull Fountain

  11.02.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I told Tom someone must have heard that I planned to vote FOR the swimming pool General Obligation Bond, so they took my name off the rolls. I was pretty skeeved. I voted in that very same room (at Callie’s school) two years ago, so I know I’m registered to vote here. Maybe Brother X [...]

• politics

  FINALLY, something ickier than a political sex scandal

  02.03.09 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  There have been times in the past several years, what with the Newt and the Spitzer and Gary Condit and Bill (not to mention Sam Adams), that I have despaired of ever reading anything more distasteful and hypocritical than the ever-popular political sex scandal. In the interest of being an adult (whatever that means), I [...]

• politics

  And, lo, the great Mississippi shall turn to blood

  11.15.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  I always think some of the funniest stuff to come out around election time are the “Do you really want to vote for someone crazy enough to want the job?” jokes. Especially this year, I’m just grateful that anyone is willing to take on the job (and the blame) of leading us through recession, war, [...]

• motherhood, politics

  Sarah Palin at the RNC (I feel so horribly betrayed)

  09.03.08 | Permalink | 31 Comments

  At first I was skeptical about Sarah Palin. I even wrote a post called Can a stay-at-home mom be Pro-Palin? And then I watched her speech last week. Why didn’t anyone tell me that a woman can have it all? I feel like everything I’ve ever known about what a woman can be and should [...]

• motherhood, politics

  Can a Stay-at-Home Mom be Pro-Palin? *Updated*

  09.02.08 | Permalink | 53 Comments

  When I was young and naive, I was active in the Young Republicans. We did a phone bank for some terribly important initiative, and we invited our U.S. Representative to the Spanish Fork High School. We canvassed for voter registration, and I enjoyed the American Legion Auxiliary Girls’ State. Politics, in other words, was big. [...]

• blogging, politics

  Sealing Wax and Cabbages, and Why a Recession Might Be the Best Thing for America

  07.10.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I’m guest posting at Politics for Mom today on why a recession might be a good thing. I’d ask you to go over and comment (for the love of everything holy), but, well, I guess that was a solicitation already, wasn’t it? I wanted to thank all you nice people who commented on my Afraid [...]

• commentary, politics

  Hillesha, Baracook, and McArchuleta

  05.14.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Did you vote? I hope so, because tonight at 8 pm, the results of this most protracted primary runoff season will be announced and America will be down to the two major candidates. Will it be Hillesha vs. McArchuleta or Baracook vs. McArchuleta? Will anyone suggest that Hillesha and Baracook combine forces to battle McArchuleta? [...]