State of the Union Response

I did not watch the state of the Union address last night due to work and some homework, however I did catch the GOP's response to the state of the Union. I thought it was well thought out and eye-opening. The U.S. government has outspent their own budget by 3 trillion dollars over the past two years. That is extremely frustrating. I think both sides are to blame here, although democrats more so. It's time for Congress to make some hard decisions and start cutting the spending or increasing taxes or both. It's time to address the huge problems medicare and social security are going to cause as the baby boomers start retiring. I haven't seen that out of Pres. Obama so far, so I'll be carefully watching who the GOP decides to put out there for 2012. Why not the guy who gave the GOP speech last night? I'd like that guy to be president right about now.

And for those who think I'm a hardcore liberal, I'm not. I'll vote for whoever will be responsible with taxpayer dollars (and borrowed dollars for that matter), and right now I haven't seen that out of either party.

I also wanted to post this NBC news story about the CBO's projection of the direction the deficit is heading. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41276533/ns/politics-capitol_hill

Pro Choice Horror

Abortion "Doctor" Kermit Gosnell has been just been indicted for unspeakable, atrocious and horrific crimes. From the grand jury report:

"Gosnell regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy -- and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels -- and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths . . .

With the change of administration from (pro-life Democratic) Gov. Casey to Gov. Ridge, government health officials concluded that inspections would be 'putting a barrier up to women' seeking abortions. Better to leave clinics to do as they pleased, even though, as Gosnell proved, that meant both women and babies would pay."

This is truly sick and disturbing. Have Roe v. Wade and hard-charging pro choice lawmakers really numbed some people to this point of blatant and callous disregard to human life?Thoughts?

Utah Liberty

It's been a while since I've posted on this blog, and it looks like it's been a while since anyone has even looked at it. But I really wanted your input on a blog post I wrote recently.

I started a website called UtahLiberty.org back in September, intended to promote libertarianism in our grand state. I wrote a post in November entitled Why You Don't Actually Believe in Free Markets. It was based on a conversation I had with a conservative friend of mine. Within hours it had been visited a couple thousand times and was shared on Twitter and Facebook by many people. There were a lot of good comments on it.

I wanted to see what you all thought of it since this is generally a conservative crowd but also an intelligent crowd. Show no mercy.