One Utah

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 [...]

Ever since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, our government has sponsored public opinion polling to find out how Iraqi people view the occupation of thier country. Most poll results are kept secret, except for some that are selectively cited in the congressionally-mandated Department of Defense quarterly reports on Iraq.
Via IraqSlogger, Arlen Parsa offers a [...]

Last year, George Bush bought a ranch in Paraguay. I first heard about this when the twins were in South America last year, but I guess the mainstream press didn’t pick it up because some of my best informed friends still don’t know about it.
Let’s be honest here. Bush has many years left (if he [...]

I got this from the Information Clearing House. Sean Penn takes the Bush Administratoin to task over the Iraq War and War on Terrorism. He has been to Iraq and to Iran - and he’s pissed.
03/25/07 “ICH ” — — Four and a half years ago, I addressed the issue of [...]

I’ve made up my mind. All things considered, its not even close. Across the huge field of candidates for Salt lake City Mayor no one comes close to Ralph in experience, policy, politics and proven track record. (www.RalphBecker.com)
Professionally, Ralph is an environmental lawyer, planner, and manager. People like to work for him.
As [...]