NATHAN SHUMATE

via Is the Tea Party Racist? Yet anyone who believes that the Tea Party protests are uniquely angry or offensive, or filled with Nazi comparisons and allusions to violence against the President, should take a stroll down memory lane in Bush-Hitlerville — where “Kill Bush” shirts can be purchased alongside bumper stickers with nooses and [...]

I won’t be able to make it, but for those of you in the SLC environs who want to attend, there’s a Zombie Prom on August 14th, with proceeds to benefit juvenile diabetes.

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Every year I try to come up with something to say for Independence Day, and every year I found that what I wrote a few years ago still encapsulates my feelings perfectly.  I could probably tweak a few words here or there each time, refining the rough stone of my sentiments until it becomes polished, [...]

There’s been a rash of minor theft in Sunset, largely because it’s been a suburb with a smalltown feel for so long that too many people leave their car doors unlocked. (That’s still better than the rural community where my wife grew up; when I first married her, people were still leaving their keys in [...]

There may yet be room to argue that Congress’s enumerated powers impose some limit on its power to tax, particularly when the tax is imposed in an effort to coerce certain behavior or to penalize a failure to act. Were I to wager on the question (which may turn out to be an exercise in [...]