Archive for January, 2006

Larry effectivily erased any progress we might have made since the Winter Olympics

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Larry Miller caught losing temper before speaking at NAACP/MLK luncheon. Keep Utah in the national spotlight.
The story and video posted here includes163 comments (as of this posting) remind us of how the “other world” out there views us.
Larry needs to know that his capitulation to Gail Ruzicka and the vocal, tyrannical, cultural of bigotry [...]

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

The economy is BOOMING! - NOT!
“Why are folks so pessimistic about our boom-boom American economy? Because for most of us, it’s painful to live in.” from Alternet

Vice President Al Gore’s Speech Today - A must read!

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power — the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad.
His speech — which compares the wiretapping of Martin Luther King to the [...]

They’re talking about us again…

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

They talking about us again on one of the largest national blogs
Can’t see this
“A movie theater owned by Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller abruptly changed its screening plans and decided not to show the film “Brokeback Mountain.” The film, an R-rated Western gay romance story, was supposed to open Friday at the [...]

Ed Firmage - Curriculum Vitae

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Edwin B. Firmage
Samuel D. Thurman Professor Emeritus of Law
B.S., Brigham Young University (1960)
M.S., Brigham Young University (1962)
J.D., University of Chicago (1963)
LL.M., University of Chicago (1964)
S.J.D., University of Chicago (1964)

Alito’s Unitary Executive

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

What does Judge Alito’s theory of the “unitary executive” theory have to do with Utah? The Wall Street Journal has an article explaining some of the basis of this radical theory of executive power. This theory of executive power would clearly shield from congressional action former President Clinton’s Grand Staircase National Monument [...]

On Saving The Gov’t

Friday, January 6th, 2006

This post top posted at DailyKos sums up a common sentiment around here.

Authors

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Ed Firmage
Pat Shea
Dan Webster
Dani Eyer
Sue Marquardt
Pamela Atkinson
Mike Keane
Karen Shepard

Synd

Friday, January 6th, 2006

From Wikipedia: The technology of RSS allows Internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds; these are typically sites that change or add content regularly.
Programs called News Aggregators can collect these RSS feeds to allow you to quickly read headlines and stories from many sites all in one place. OneUtah.org does exactly that, [...]

Let Us Prey

Friday, January 6th, 2006

By Joe Conason
 Salon.com Friday 06 January 2005
Jack Abramoff and his deeply religious right-wing cronies express their “biblical worldview” by swindling Indian tribes and bribing legislators. Verily, mysterious are the ways of the Lord.
Now that such whited sepulchers as Newt Gingrich have denounced the betrayal of the Republican revolution and the evils of [...]

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