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Joe Cannon is using his post as Editor of the D-News to whine and cry and carry on about how those mean secularists are silencing sweet as angel cake Christians. I felt more gorge rising as I read the whole piece. Cannon’s thesis is simply this:
The secularists allow that [...]
These are folks who were still lined up in Ohio after midnight for Sarah Palin’s book signing. These people are 20-percenters. They are tribalist, uninterested in facts, generally ignorant, uninformed Americans. The type the Founding Fathers warned us about. They are bad Americans all.
[...]An important cautionary tale from the Onion.
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
NOVEMBER 14, 2009 | ISSUE 45•46
ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he [...]
At One News Now – the house organ of the arch-conservative group American Family Association – they published an article by Marcia Segelstein in which she declared:
Listen up, parents. The goal of sex education is not to prevent unwanted pregnancies and diseases. The goal is to promote sexual freedom.
Segelstein’s [...]
Barack Obama is being besieged from all sides about his pending decision on what to do about an undeclared war. I don’t know why this should be his decision alone. If conservatives in congress still have ants in their pants for war, as they did when Lyndon Johnson was president, [...]
Charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo
Via HuffPo’s Ryan Grim, Glenn Greenwald and Daily Kos.
In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee [...]
Its true! One of our regulars here at OneUtah provided free legal services to the prisoners in Guantanamo. See if you can guess who?
Apparently AG Eric Holder’s firm also represented these terrorists, and that pretty much proves that Obama IS effectively, Al Quaida.
Here’s proof.
Its true! One of our regulars here at OneUtah provided free legal services to the prisoners in Guantanamo. See if you can guess who.
Apparently AG Eric Holder’s firm also represented these terrorists, and that pretty much proves that Obama IS effectively, Al Quaida.
Here’s proof.
Representative Craig Frank has a blog post with a big headline:
Repeal of 1% Restaurant Tax Receives Unanimous Approval
Repealing a tax should be popular right about now. Especially since Senator Howard Stephenson and others are proposing to raise the sales tax on food.
Unfortunately, repealing this tax isn’t as pretty as [...]
NOM* the National Organization for against Marriage, really knows their morality. So they quietly dumped their newly disgraced vapid spokesmodel.
Carrie Prejean, the decrowned Miss California and darling of the Christian right, appears to have been scrubbed from the National Organization for Marriage website. The move comes [...]
This is getting depressing. I’ll let Rachel Maddow take it, she’s always upbeat even when the chips are down.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
It’s as if Congress is determined to make us all sorry we ever asked for health [...]
Something the 'Baggers can never explain is the odd timing of their "movement."So, here’s my thing: When I wrote this post originally I was in a foul mood. I should know better than that but apparently I don’t. I’ve made some adjustments. If you read the original post, and read this updated version , you’ll see the wonders of being reminded to [...]
I’ve been avidly following the debate in the D-News Letters to the Editor section about sex education. The debate has actually been surprising – a large number of persons have supported sex education.
An intriguing theme emerged among those opposing sexuality education – the “teaching morals” argument. Boiled down to its [...]
The following a response to Republican Todd Weiler's Davis County Clipper column titled, Is rising disbelief over global warming alarming or good?, was submitted by Davis County Democrat, Bob Van Velkinburgh. 
If you have not had your head buried in the sand you have likely noticed that Chris Buttars has been going all out to win the “ignorant homophobe of the decade” award. He is a veritable quote mine:
In interviews, Buttars says that gays and lesbians [...]
In response to Ken Bingham’s loving concern that The African Prince has “demeaned” POTUS by “groveling” to foreign leaders; Not to worry Ken, even Republican presidents understand the idea of showing respect to others as well as their culture and public status.
Even people who live on farms understand this concept. [...]
From Towleroad:
A 2005 amendment banning same-sex marriage in the Texas may have inadvertently banned all marriages, says Houston attorney Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a candidate for attorney general [snip]
“The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by voters, declares that “marriage in this state shall consist only of the [...]
"A 60-year-old Port Huron woman threatened to take a" [...]
Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) have each been targeted by the opposition to join a Republican filibuster. If that happens, health insurance reform will not move forward.
We can't sit on the sidelines while this political drama unfolds. And right' [...]
They'll just take any famous person. Issues and message never mattered. Not since GOPAC developed the campaign in a box.
Balloon Boy. Octomom. The FreeCreditReport.com' [...]
They'll just take any famous person. Issues and message never mattered. Not since GOPAC developed the campaign in a box.
Balloon Boy. Octomom. The FreeCreditReport.com' [...]
I can only hope that my kids end up this precocious. I’d be very proud.
From Salon:
On Monday, Oct. 5, at an elementary school in Washington County, Ark., Will Phillips, a precocious 10-year-old who had been promoted from third to fifth grade, refused to join his class in standing and [...]
Usually when we refer to Howard Stephenson’s Utah Taxpayers Association it is to point out how they don’t represent the interests of middle-income families. But we, too, were surprised by Gov. Gary Herbert’s nomination of Michael Cragun to the Utah State Tax Commission for many of the reasons that the [...]
A group of Republican senators, including Utah's Bob Bennett, filed a bill Tuesday to stop the Treasury Department from extending the Troubled Asset Relief Program for another 10 months.
Via Think Progress:
Last night on Faux News, the network’s top legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano explained the system of justice laid down by the U.S. Constitution– and how it applies to trials of accused terrorists. Host Bill O’Reilly then rejected the Constitution in favor of military tribunals.
Napolitano: There was [...]
Via Political Wire:
I’ve been thinking back over the many debates that took place here at OneUtah and elsewhere during the fight over California’s Prop 8. An argument I heard over and over from church members supporting Prop 8 was that legal precedents that applied in racial, sex, and religious [...]
You know what grinds my gears while I can't sleep at night? People who state false or misleading things that they KNOW are false and misleading, but apparently it is their job to that in DC. I can understand a dumb congresscritter or Sarah Palin making such statement because [...]
You ever get that “not so fresh feeling?”
I’ve got it now …
I have to ask again – Why is protesting a war un-American, but preaching and advocating for the overthrow of the elected Government of the United States so patriotic? I once again find myself nodding [...]
Democrats have labeled the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) a failure full of broken promises. Many teachers complain bitterly about the emphasis on testing. Principals hate being labeled as failures. Superintendents say it wasn't adequately funded. And many parents just view it as toxic' [...]
Via Media Matters, where they are reading Sarah Palin’s new book so we don’t have to:
From Page 388 of Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life:
We got into this economic mess because of misplaced government interference in the first place. The mortgage crisis that [...]
At heart, I really am a little kid. I know this. I accept it. I embrace it most of the time.
…and right now I am pretty much jumping up and down and chanting “nah nah na nah nah!”
I love watching the homophobes at the Sutherland Institute twist in the wind. [...]
See you, Lou. Don’t let a fact bite you on your ass while you’re wandering the Earth doing “good deeds” for the White Folks.
Share this on del.icio.usDigg this!Share this on RedditBuzz up![...]Yeah, I know he’s not a Republican. I don’t care. Most Dems aren’t protectionist like that.
TPM -
A former Louisiana congressman who famously stashed cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands in bribes in exchange for using his influence to [...]
In an opinion piece published in the Salt Lake Tribune, Provo Republican Representative Chris Herrod makes abundantly clear: 1) no amount of scientific evidence is going to convince him global warming is real; 2) he really isn't all that familiar with the' [...]
The Nation’s Aram Roston has a blockbuster piece explaining how Afghan Taliban groups actually get more funding from U.S. taxpayers than they do from selling opium.
This morning, the Roston article was a topic of discussion on Dylan Ratigan’s MSNBC show.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, [...]
Dear Senator,
I know you’re in a tough spot. It would be bad enough if you only had to get Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche Lincoln on board, but anyone who has to kiss Joe Lieberman’s derriere deserves a congressional medal of honor.
But Harry, you really need to [...]
For the two of you who are Young Dems, read this blog, and don’t subscribe to the YDU email list – take note!
The Young Democrats are taking applications for various board positions for next year. All positions, aside from national committeewoman, last for a year. To apply, click here.
YDU [...]
The majority of the people in the room were stunned to hear Michael Otterson issue an official statement from the LDS Church stating that, officially, the Church had no objection to the Nondiscrimination ordinance being discussed that eventing. To be sure, this statement represented a policy shift within the Church.
It [...]
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[...]According to KSL, Senator Orrin Hatch is calling the present health care bill a “potential disaster”. Of course, our present healthcare system is not a potential disaster. There’s nothing potential about it. It’s a full-on disaster for many people.
The couple in this video made too much money to [...]
Not an exact likeness of Rep. Jim Matheson
It’s time to let Rep. Jim Matheson know what we think of his votes for the poison-pill Stupak Amendment and against the House health insurance reform bill, the America’s Affordable Health Choices [...]
“This is an administration hell-bent toward taking American towards a socialist country," Perry remarked. "And we all don’t need to be afraid to say that because that’s what it is.”
Perry praised tea party activists, who have challenged [...]
Harvard Med School study shows that lack of access to healthcare killed many more U.S. veterans in 2009 than the wars in Afghanistan (155 fatalities) and Iraq (~ 314):
The analysis produced by two Harvard medical researchers estimates that 2,266 US military veterans under the age of 65 died [...]
