READING LIST: March 31st

Mar 31, 2010 No Comments by

Day two of the revamped Rhombus Reading List and we’re still here. We’re cooking with gas now. 1) POLITICS: An intriguing (if more than a bit wishful) article speculating on favorite Mormon homeboy Mitt Romney’s uncanny fitness to oversee the implementation of President Obama’s new health care reform laws — you know, if he ever [...]

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POLITICS: The Saga of Jim Matheson

Mar 30, 2010 No Comments by

Anybody who attended the Utah Democratic Party’s caucuses this week is well aware of the anger that currently exists towards Jim Matheson, Democratic representative for Utah’s 2nd congressional district. He is the only Democrat representing Utah in Washington D.C., which is precisely why he has evoked this anger. The primary reason for the fury is [...]

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POLITICS: Why Democrats Should Use Reconciliation

Mar 05, 2010 No Comments by

At the health care summit last week, nearly every Republican senator and congressman made clear their disapproval of using a process known as reconciliation to pass health care reform. Reconciliation is a process that is used for budgetary reasons in order to circumvent a filibuster and achieve a straight up-or-down vote. It helps needed budgetary [...]

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POLITICS: Incredulous Republican Fear of Debate

Feb 18, 2010 No Comments

There have been plenty of complaints about the health care debate not being transparent enough, and that President Obama and the Democrats have not included the Republicans enough in piecing together legislation for a health care bill. There have been accusations that the president has not kept his word. For example, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz [...]

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POLITICS: Is the Public Option Really Dead?

Dec 23, 2009 No Comments

Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic Party, has bluntly stated that no health care bill is better than the health care bill proposed by the Senate. His reasoning is that the Senate bill is complicated, therefore, making it a target for Republicans. Dean’s opinion is that the House and Senate should scrap the bill [...]

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POLITICS: Obama's Not-So-Radical Agenda

Dec 17, 2009 No Comments

It seems fitting last year’s monumental presidential election gave way to such monumentally heated debates regarding the direction of our country. No president has inherited an economy in such disarray since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 and, while President Barack Obama won the election solidly, supposedly with a mandate for change from the American people, [...]

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POLITICS: The Malt-O-Meal of Health Insurance

Oct 27, 2009 No Comments

The Great Health Care Debate has produced enough bantering material over the last few months that it seems pretty trite to write yet another piece on the subject. As health care reform rounds more corners in Congress, though, here is yet another opinion on the matter, specifically the hope that somehow, some way, the public [...]

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POLITICS: Arizona's Public Option

Sep 22, 2009 No Comments

Critics of health care reform, specifically of the public option, often point fingers at “socialized” countries and complain that they don’t want the government running their lives, both of which are logically unsound. Besides the fact that these “socialized” countries have better health care results for less money, opponents of real reform still refuse to [...]

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POLITICS: My Asphalt Facial Turned Political

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

In a fit of stupidity, I landed myself in the emergency room. It wasn’t how I expected to spend my Tuesday evening, but I guess that’s what I get for longboarding after dark down a gritty canyon trail. I sat in the Provo ER giving my personal information, waiting to be treated for my war [...]

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POLITICS: Health Care Hypocrisy

Sep 02, 2009 No Comments

You might have heard about the possibility of health care reform coming this year. It has been mentioned a couple times in the news. When the health care debate does come up, there is a lot of exaggeration, hyperbole and facts being thrown around in all sorts of ways to back up individuals’ respective opinions. [...]

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