Yesterday, Harpers magazine published an article by its editor Lewis H. Lapham entitled, The Case for Impeachment-Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush.
As if the Downing Street memos weren’t enough or the hyper-frantic derogatory squeals of Senator Hatch that “Nobody with brains” [would deny the Saddam - al-Qaida connection] in a pathetic example […]
Donna thought she’d be gone three days tops, maybe a week if she decided to go up to Memphis to visit her brother. It would be a little vacation - the hurricanes around Louisiana were always good for that. You crossed your fingers in hopes that the wind wouldn’t blow out too many windows or […]
Advice from friends: America needs to clean up its act
Thad Box
Salt Lake Tribune
America is in moral decline. Most of the world knows it. A recent British Broadcasting Company survey shows that only Iran ranks below us in being trustworthy and honest. Countries most like us, our “natural family,” tell us why.
Great Britain is our mother. […]
This opinion letter from Sunday’s Trib expresses well a basic tenent in the design of our Consitution and the purpose of the Senate.
Letter…
In my 18 largely happy years of living and working in Utah I have yet to be more disappointed with my state than I have been these past 12 months.
With our attacks on […]
Utah State Senator Scott McCoy made history on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday.
After listening to some of the most shameful testimony by Senator Buttars and others, Scott got up unprepared and delivered an absolutly powerful, brillant speech.
Just listen!
Audio Senator Scott McCoy
Link to original full audio.
I personally do not believe this story because well uh, nevermind.
Hey, they were probably both drunk. Thankfully no one died. I just hope in the end, this is the worse thing Cheney has ever done, but I doubt it. Link to article
Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he shot Texas […]
The e-mail reprinted in the post below argues for the indictment of Muslims based on the erroneous suggestion that a list of atrocities committed by Muslims in the name of religion have been met with “No Muslim outrage” (as far as “we” know).
I’d say, any such expression was likely subordinated to Bart Simpson, a sex […]
LaVarr Webb’s UtahPolicy.com is easily the most complete one-stop source for all things of political interest in any medium, period. But nevertheless, the icing on that cake is distinctly home-made..
I quote UtahPolicy.com on Feb 21, 2006:
Steven E. Jones, a BYU physics professor who thinks the World Trade Center Building 7 was destroyed by […]
The Beauty of the Internet
http://grokgov.com is a new and classic example of how the Internet can fill a void heretofore unfilled. The Scooter Libby Indictment is the perfect case.
Breathtaking in complexity and implication, it is nearly impossible to communicate, completely, currently, and simply. The grokgov concept is somewhere between a Newsweek magazine diorama, and Wikipedia.
It […]
Last Friday, I attended the Utah State House Education Committee Hearing on House Bill 393 known as the Public Education Club Amendments – Sponsored by Representative Tilton.
The hearing was PACKED - standing room only as they say. I was so amazed by some of the comments made during public comment period, that I felt compelled […]
by Kurt Gelespie
I first met Kurt when he called Rocky’s office to alert us to Hatch’s hypocracy for taking so much money from the drug companies. He is a walking encyclopedia, a proud Mormon, and a committed Californian. We hope he will post often.
Cliff feel free to post this anywhere if you think […]
A National town hall discussion on spying, secrecy and presidential power on Feb 20, 06
If you missed the live event, archival footage is available at http://www.aclu.org/presidentialpower
A panel of distinguished guests and a live audience to discussed the controversy over illegal NSA spying on Americans in a webcast from George Washington University.
The event was moderated by […]
Thursday’s post “Torture Pros Visit SLC this Sunday” ignited an e-mail exchange which I have re-created here as between Cliff and MightyMan to protect his identity.
Mighty Man also copied me on one of those mean provocative e-mails (posted below) which travel the right-hand lane on the highway of religious extremist.
I don’t know how to respond […]
What could be worse than shooting a “friend” or “aquaintance” in the face?
I didn’t check the Deseret News. No time today. Maybe someone can check and let us know.
Update: Oops. And this one too! Thanks BlueUtah.
“What is so deceptive about the state of mind of the members of a society is the ‘consensual validation’ of their concepts. It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth. Consensual validation […]
A friend of mine, beloved for his eccentric and often passionate however informed views, passed through SLC this week. And on his way south this morning he listened to Doug Wright on KSL do a listener poll (mayoral) between Rocky and city council person Dave Buhler and wrote about it on his blog.
His “take” on […]
Ken, I’ll save a seat for you!
Mayor Rocky Anderson will moderate a panel discussion including experienced government interrogators at The library on Sunday following a screening of Frontlines, “The Torture Question”.
Details in the press release.
Impatient with efforts to close the courts to litigants, the Administration literally fired the first shot in its groundbreaking “No Lawyer Left Standing” initiative.
Vice-President Cheney, hunting on a private lawyer ranch near Kingsville, Texas, bagged an impressive buck (Harry Whittington, UT Law ‘50). Under the new program, hunters may take one white shoe in-house […]
As Bush’s ship continues to sink, we find ourselves right about in the middle of the final phase as predicted in George Lakoff’s book, “Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant.”
Back when Lakoff wrote his “how-to” for democrats to compete with the Bush-republican homerun hitting technique for framing the debate and controlling message, everyone was still […]
In an apparent accident, the most powerful vice president in the history of The United State of America shot another millionaire.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.
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