What can I possibly say about our privileged and packed corporate over class we’ve all felt but never seen the likes of. I have no proof of malfeasances or leading actors for this play, nor can I find a hero for the cause of breaking up this monopoly of our time.
Where is our Huey […]
Thanks to Larry Bergan, our newest author, for posting this gem.
You MUST listen to this: (click the audio button below)
Even Doug Wright seemed a little uncomfortable with Sean while trying to moderate a discussion with Rocky and Sean concerning the details of a debate being scheduled this May.
Sean Hannity was at his most combative. In […]
Maybe our political leaders hope the new Japanese discovery that removes pollutants from our air will save the people of the Wasatch Front from doom. It’s a good thing Gov. Huntsman is listening to the new Utah Physicians For a Healthy Environment, a new group of doctors formed to address our air crisis. They all […]
The Guantanamo kangaroo court has sentenced Australian David Hicks, the first defendant convicted at a U.S. war-crimes trial since the aftermath of World War II.
Hicks faces a prison sentence of up to seven years under a plea agreement revealed today that also requires Hicks to drop any claims of mistreatment by the U.S. government since […]
Over at Washington Monthly, they had a post up that I’ve been pondering for days - Meta Screw-Up. Their post is largely a quote from another post:
In the last couple of weeks, even in the minds of the lawmakers tasked with oversight, the administration’s scandals and screw-ups have started to blur together into […]
I can’t help but feel optimistic about all this commotion over Cheney’s impending visit to Provo. There hasn’t been this much turmoil since Sean Hannity was flown in to impose himself on Michael Moore’s “slacker” tour before the 2004 election of John Kerry. It’s hard to find any information on why Hannity was never invited […]
This may be the week that history records was the turning point. Our Congress finally found the courage to take action, to try to limit the damage the Bush administration is causing. In Iraq, it was just another typical, horrifying week. Note: a number of reported assassinations and murders in Iraq are […]
Over at tpm, JMM has a post with a picture of Kyle Sampson who is apparently deeply involved in the prosecutor purge - the photo is courtesy of the BYU Alumni Association. Hm . . . BYU produced a sanctimonious tight ass who abused his position for partisan political purposes. Color me surprised. […]
An article in the LA Times has me thinking about fear and danger (hat tip to Washington Monthly).
LJ Williamson muses on the irrational, ravening fear that many parents have of sexual predators. She writes:
Although statistics show that rates of child abduction and sexual abuse have marched steadily downward since the early 1990s, fear of these crimes […]
OK- consider this a speed bump on the road to Utopia. I’m against climbing Mount Everest. All the hype, excitement and glory heaped by local corporate media upon the Sherpas who now live in Utah as they prepare to “conquer” Everest yet again- one of them for the 17th time- show how ridiculous, destructive and […]
James Dobson, the biggest shark in the fundie food chain, is sticking his fingers into the Republican presidential primary. Based on this article in US News, I’m guessing Dobson has decided he wants Gingrich for President. He has snubbed Fred Thompson, put the kibosh on Romney for his Mormonism, ignored Giuliani and has a less […]
I posted about this earlier. But last night discovered that after the interview in which Rocky Anderson thoroughly spanked O’Rielly for his ignorance of the Constitution, O’Reilly engaged Andrew Napolitano, a thoroughly discredited (by the National Review nonetheless) former TV Judge, to further misinform the American people while providing O’Reilly some much needed moral […]
Sunday, the Tribune ran this article about declining support in Utah for the Iraq war. Highlights:
Jeffrey Jones wasn’t surprised to see that a two-year compilation of Gallup polls showed American Mormons, more than any other religious group over that period, believed the United States was right to invade Iraq.
A January poll by The Salt Lake […]
This pretty much says it all. I’ll donate $100 to my friends at A Soldiers Perspective if they top post it.
New Rule - Traitors Can’t Question My Patriotism
Ken, Please gather your wife and listen to this together tomorrow (FHE).
kos:
How can an ideology that holds as a truism that government can’twork, work? If Republicans ran the country smoothly and ably, it would lay waste to their claims that government is the enemy and can’t make people’s lives better.
In the sickest of ironies - visible even among the brain trust on Utah’s Capitol Hill - even […]
Pastor Dan over at streetprophets is on fire this week!
Check out this post where he points out that conservative theologians who have spent four years offering theological apologetics for the Iraq war are in a tough spot. Money quote:
These people went to war thinking a boy king was their new David. Now they can’t afford […]
Molly Ivins called the Texas the national laboratory for bad government - and with their plan to pay women $500 for their babies, they’re still leading the pack of incredibly bad state government. Utah and North Dakota, however, are rapidly and rabidly competing to take the title of laboratory for bad government.
Utah - as you […]
News is just a bunch of unrelated events and facts unless you have the curiosity and analytical ability to connect facts and determine what it all means. Connecting facts is not just the job of the journalist but the responsible citizen. And some leaders in Utah are finally making the connections in our unfolding environmental […]
Elizabeth Dobbs was a brilliant and demanding instructor and she often explained that to understand a book or poem or piece of writing, you looked for the one loose thread - the one line that jumped out at you - and you started tugging on it - and eventually the whole thing would unravel and […]
Rocky Anderson is on On Point. 11:15 am Monday Martch 26. KCPW is airing it (in between short fund drive). Please also become a KCPW member.
Rocky is laying out the case for impeaching George Bush. He reminded us that Bill O’reilly recently argued with Rocky that impeachment requires a criminal act, which […]
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