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Chamber Hosts Mayoral Debate
The Salt Lake Chamber is hosting a SLC mayoral debate next Monday at 7:30 a.m. at the new Junior Achievement City at The Gateway. Nadine Wimmer will moderate, and a panel of business leaders will assist in the questioning. For more info and to register, click here.
Washington Watch
Cannon: Summit Agreement Fears
Rep. Chris Cannon says of fears that Pres. Bush's summit with the leaders of Canada and Mexico may be another step along the way toward a European Union-style super-government: "Any time you're talking with another country about how you do things, by nature you're giving up sovereignty. ... If we're going to enter into agreements, they ought to be part of a ratifiable process. You want the Senate involved in ratifying them" (Washington Times).
UEA To Get $3 Million?
A website called the Education Intelligence Agency says the National Education Association is likely to send $3 million to Utah for the Utah Education Association to use in its campaign against education vouchers in Utah. See the second item in the EIA Communique and more information about EIA.
Today in Political History
August 21, 1858: U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas hold the first of seven debates in Ottawa, Ill. (Source: NBC5)
August 21, 1959: The state of Hawaii is admitted to the Union. (Source: Perspicuity)
Wise Words
“Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?”
-- Coleman Cox (Source: Quote Garden)
Communications Tip
Don’t Be Shifty-Eyed
“I know a person who is very competent in her job. However, when she speaks to individuals or groups, she does so with her eyes shut. When she opens them periodically, she stares off in a direction away from the listener. She is perceived as incompetent by those with whom she consults. One technique to help with this is to consciously look into one of the listener’s eyes and then move to the other. Going back and forth between the two (and I hope they only have two) makes your eyes appear to sparkle. Another trick is to imagine a letter ‘T’ on the listener’s face with the cross bar being an imaginary line across the eye brows and the vertical line coming down the center of the nose. Keep your eyes scanning that ‘T’ zone.” (Source: Open Loops’ Ten Ways to Improve Communications Skills)
National Politics
Best Stories From . . .
-- Bloomberg: "Senator Hillary Clinton warned Democrats not to 'oversell' plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, setting a cautious tone on the war that was echoed by the party's two other leading presidential candidates [in Sunday's debate]."
-- The Politico: "Barack Obama came under repeated attack from his Democratic White House rivals at the ABC News debate in Iowa on Sunday morning, as moderator George Stephanopoulos pressed them on the question of the Illinois senator's relative lack of experience."
-- Washington Post: Columnist Howard Kurtz says the legend of Karl Rove -- in which he is "either a political giant, shrewdly plotting a series of victories during the Bush presidency, or a nation-wrecker, sowing the seeds of division to boost the GOP" -- may have been the creation of "an unspoken conspiracy of journalists" who inflated Rove's importance because it made for a better narrative.
-- Wall Street Journal: Americans for Fair Taxation, a group that wants to replace the federal income tax with a national sales tax, "is spending freely to tap a building anti-Washington mood and hoping to influence both who gets picked as the nation's next leaders and what their agenda will be. As the group demonstrated recently by its prominence at Iowa Republicans' much-watched presidential straw poll, it is gaining steam among the conservatives who dominate the party's nominating process -- and by extension with some candidates struggling to gain traction."
Lighter Side
A University of Chicago student fell asleep in a class taught by Milton Friedman. An angry Friedman came over to the student’s desk, pounded on it, and demanded an answer to a question he had just posed to the class. The awakened student said, “I’m sorry, professor. I missed the question, but the answer is obvious: increase the money supply.” (The Economist’s Joke Book by Jeff Thredgold) |
