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Although there’s plenty of competition, blogger and Fox News talking-head Michelle Malkin may be the champion when it comes to shrill, hyperbolic, divisive and intemperate right-wing rhetoric. As you may or may not know, she is now in the thick of a campaign by warbloggers to discredit the Associated Press (AP) for allegedly siding [...]

I’m hearing rumors that House Speaker Greg Curtis (reelected last month 20 votes!) is playing games with the state sales tax on food.  I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.
Here’s the background:  In Utah, there are three separate sales taxes - State, County, and City.  Each component supports different government entities.  For instance, in Salt Lake City [...]

From Dick Cheney’s pepper spray to Mark Foley’s instant messages.
By John Dickerson
Listen to the MP3 audio version of this story here.

1. Cheney’s Got a Gun
2. Blogger Power!
3. George of the Bungle
4. Foley: The Final Insult
5. Rummy Felled

Some years ago, an ex and I were in Las Vegas; as we walked down the Strip, we were able to take as many of the ads, cards, pamphlets and “newspapers” we wanted.  All of them were advertising for sex workers.  Literally, a credit and a phone call would have been enough to purchase the [...]

Beginning in July 2005, Congress has required the Department of Defense (DOD) to issue quarterly reports on Measuring Security and Stability in Iraq as a condition for further appropriations. The National Priorities Project estimates that more than $351.4 billion has been spent on the Iraq war and occupation so far. As you might [...]

That the story of the Christian Savior was inherited is well-established fact. That few know it or talk about is is understandable.
Caution: The following may challenge blind faith.
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Thanks to Norm at One Good Move
As Christianity moved through the near East and into Europe and the extended Roman Empire, the Jesus narratives had [...]

Ed Firmage’s piece below raised the concept of Just War.  The term “just war” is often used in a very casual way, but there is in fact a historic and widely known set of principles that determine just war.  I suspect Ed Firmage knows these principles, but many people may not - they are grounded [...]

Realizing the risk to my friend Governor Jon Huntsman by my endorsement of Jon for President of the United States, in 2012, given that most Deseret News readers want my scalp right now, here’s my offer, and bet:
Mitt Romney will end up without a Republican Party nomination for President. That, indeed, may be the [...]

A while back there was much hub-bub over the Madonna Britney Spears kiss at some awards show. Some people declared Madonna was passing the torch to Britney, crowning her the inheritor of Madonna’s throne as Pop Music Goddess. 
Madonna, whatever else you say about her, has managed since about 1981 to invent and reinvent herself to [...]

From: Ed B. Firmage
Date: December 16, 2006 2:16:35 AM MST
To: The Deseret News News
Subject: Huntsman, Al Smith, and God
Dear Colleagues,
I thank you for probably violating your own length rules to print my piece on impeachment, No deity involved in this ‘just war’. (print version) I did, really, write the book on this one. [...]

The writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum is a 700-year-old legal proceeding in which an individual held in custody can challenge the propriety of that custody under the law. The prisoner, or some other person on his behalf (for example, where the prisoner is being held incommunicado), may petition the court or an individual judge [...]