Utah Political Blogwire

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• EIGHT MILLION

  —KVNU's For The People

  This is from only one telecom company we have entrusted with our privacy. Are you OK with this?

  At the ISS conference, Soghoian taped astonishing comments by Paul Taylor, Sprint/Nextel’s Manager of Electronic Surveillance. In complaining about the volume of requests that Sprint receives from law enforcement, Taylor noted a [...]

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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 7:17pm EST
  by Tim Carter

• Police Check Points Educational?

  —KVNU's For The People

  Number of comments: 2
  

  Police Check Points: They put us all off. No one likes to be stopped for any reason. But do Police Check Points violate our rights? I don’t think they do. They rain on our parade of privileges maybe, but probably do not move us by the way of Nazi Germany [...]

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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:44pm EST
  by bluto

• Fightin' Words

  —Wasatch Watcher

  McCain on Palin: 'She's irrelevant'<blockquote>[...]"She's irrelevant, but they can't continue to attack her. I'm so proud of her and the work that she's doing," McCain told NBC's David Gregory Sunday. </blockquote>

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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 1:44pm EST
  

• Fightin' Words

  —Wasatch Watcher

  McCain on Palin: 'She's irrelevant'<blockquote>[...]"She's irrelevant, but they can't continue to attack her. I'm so proud of her and the work that she's doing," McCain told NBC's David Gregory Sunday. </blockquote>

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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 1:44pm EST
  

• Fightin' Words

  —The SideTrack

  McCain on Palin: 'She's irrelevant'<blockquote>[...]"She's irrelevant, but they can't continue to attack her. I'm so proud of her and the work that she's doing," McCain told NBC's David Gregory Sunday. </blockquote>

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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 1:44pm EST
  

• Fightin' Words

  —The SideTrack

  McCain on Palin: 'She's irrelevant'<blockquote>[...]"She's irrelevant, but they can't continue to attack her. I'm so proud of her and the work that she's doing," McCain told NBC's David Gregory Sunday. </blockquote>

  Download video via RawReplay.com

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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 1:44pm EST
  

• Reviving the Streetcar Discussion With A Couple of Back-Burner Items

  —Weber County Forum

  Number of comments: 3
  Neck-snapping WCF segue: One gentle reader report that Jon Greiner was a rattled guest this morning on Faux News
  
  Just to keep the conversation going during the ongoing annual December (pre-Christmas) re-meat news lull, we thought we'd take the opportunity to direct our readers to a couple of back-burner' [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 12:15pm EST
  by RudiZink

• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06

  —JM Bell

  Lake Bell … I could watch her in anything … except "Over Her Dead Body." No amount of hotness can make that turd watchable. # Someone put my future plans on a T-Shirt … Curses, foiled again! [bit.ly] # UFO talk on MSNBC – an ET commission in Denver [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 10:10am EST
  by JM Bell

• The Utah Ethics Initiative is Redundant and Should Be Opposed

  —Simple Utah Mormon Politics

  
  At one time, Utah was in dire need of legislative ethics reform. I've written about it on Simple Utah Mormon  Politics more than once.  Out of such a dearth, the Utah Ethics Initiative was born.  Whether or not the impetus came from the recently' [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 10:20pm EST
  

• Dixiecrats and Conserva-Dems

  —One Utah

  I’ve been pondering this for a while and I don’t know that I have any answers. The Conserva-Dems, people like Utah’s Jim Matheson and other Blue Dogs and people like Sens. Max Baucus of Montana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, have been crucial in creating a Democratic majority in Congress. [...]

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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 9:51pm EST
  by Glenden Brown