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Two Three very interesting posts this week about sexuality education.
From Elizabeth Anne Wood’s always informative Sex in the Public Square, her commentary on a proposed law in Texas that would require parents to opt their children into sexuality education.  Under the current Texas law, parents must opt out - the default position results in children receiving sexuality education.  [...]

Yesterday Senator Orrin Hatch stood tall on the Senate floor and joined one other senator, Tom Coburn (R-OK), to cast a “nay” vote on ethics reform. Senator Bob Bennett voted for the bill, but only after inserting amendments catering to special-interest groups. From the New York Times:

The bill (S 1) would ban [...]

62% of American oppose the Iraq war.   Kevin Drum has this to say:
How long did it take before public opinion turned this sharply against the Vietnam War?
(Answer: It’s a trick question. Opposition reached 61% in 1971 but never exceeded that number. The Iraq war is now more unpopular than the Vietnam War ever was.)
The polling data [...]

One of the original grievances that the American colonies had against King George III’s government was its penchant for issuing general search warrants (called Writs of Assistance). A judge would issue a warrant for a general area and crown officers could search any place in that area looking for illegalities without any prior cause or [...]

This is dedicated to the rank & file serving in the US Military.
Thanks R2′
Bush & Cheney have been relentless in their assertions that the Executive Branch is the most powerful of the Branches of Government.  
History tells us otherwise.  There is documented evidence, both implicit and explicit, that indicate that in fact, of all the [...]

One of our more softspoken readers, “ldsnomore” started a small fire with her question, “when did dissent become heresy in our country?”
John of Argghhh! responded, “Good question - as long as we recognize that it didn’t just suddenly materialize when Rove moved into the White House.”
To be satisfied with “it didn’t just suddenly materialize” is, [...]

Thanks to Ed and Part of the Plan for digging this up.
Ed asks, “This is what the fundies and bible-thumpers are all up in arms about. It won’t help his case at all. I wonder how many of Utah’s Religious Right will have second thoughts now?”

Free agency Ed, free agency.
Jeremy has another [...]

Since I haven’t seen it mentioned here on One Utah, let me tell you about the Utah Bloghive. This useful, cleverly-named site aggregates headlines from a collection of 66 Utah blogs (at last count). According to Bloghive creator Bradley Ross of Hot Blava, “I am aggregating blogs written by Utahns and primarily [...]

As we debate with our good friends and Bush-apologists from Argghhh! penetrating through the minutiae, we mustn’t loose site of the elephant hovering over their arguments.
There is no precident in our recent history as a nation of any president being discussed in terms such as “the worse”, or “most hated”, “disaster”, “fiasco” etc.
I raise this [...]

Did anyone else notice that Gov H’s speech on education and health last night could have been taken from the Democratic party candidate’s playbook?
It was interesting to hear him speak of reduced classroom sizes and retaining quality teachers through improved wages. It was interesting to hear him say that basic health care should not be [...]

IraqSlogger closely followed today’s Senate Judiciary Committe hearing on the plight of Iraqi refugees.
“Just when it seemed today’s testimony couldn’t be anymore heartbreaking, Lisa Ramaci-Vincent took the microphone to tell the story of Nour al-Khal. Ramaci-Vincent is the widow of Steven Vincent, the freelance journalist kidnapped, beaten, and killed by insurgents in Basra [...]