The Goates Notes (tm)

January is traditionally the ward conference season in the Church. Mormons do meetings well. We slice and dice our meetings in lots of diffe...

Going into the final week of the 2010 midterm campaign, it was obvious the Republicans were going to win the House of Representatives in sho...

Big news of last week -- Obamacare was struck down and declared unconstitutional by a federal district court judge in Florida.  The suit w...

I've been reading a lot of American history this last year. The Federalist Papers are most revealing, along with other writings of our f...

(l to r) Melanie, Merilee, Emily, Dianne, Allison I am a blessed man.  Much of that has to do with the women in my life who surround me ...