One Utah

With all the stock phrases generated by politicians trying to sound like they understand what’s happening halfway around the world in Iraq, do we need another one? Yes, if it describes a viable strategy. Today the Center for American Progress released a well-thought-out report: Strategic Reset: Reclaiming Control of U.S. Security in the [...]

Biological Weapons Research and Development Pose Risks Worldwide
Article by Steve Erickson
At a remote, secretive desert base 75 miles west of Salt Lake City, the Army plans to renovate an historic cold war laboratory to expand dramatically its biological warfare testing.
The US Army proposes to completely rehab the drab Baker Laboratory, a centerpiece of the Dugway [...]

Okay, that’s headline is so tacky I couldn’t resist.
On friday night, a friend and I donned our Ralph Becker For Mayor t-shirts, grabbed our free tickets and headed for the arts festival.  We arrived about 6:30 and were then until almost 11.  In that time, we ran into other folks in their bright yellow Becker [...]

According to an article in the Boston Globe, presidential candidate Willard (Mitt) Romney enjoyed five years of draft deferments as a student and while serving a church mission in France. But he “longed…to actually be in Vietnam.” When his deferments were up, he drew a high draft lottery number and escaped being drafted. [...]

As of this writing, 4560 comments adorn the ThinkProgress’ release of a “first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives.”
From HuffPost:
found that 91 percent of weekday talk formats [...]

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Last night I attended the Utah Arts Festival with a friend as two of Becker’s Bumblebees (more on this later!).
When we first arrived at about 6:15 or so the crowd was a bit thin but lively and fun. As the sun sank lower in the sky, the crowd grew amazingly. By [...]

Just a few years ago, America was revered for it’s constitution. The Republicans and weak Democrats have served to prove that we were overly prideful of our heritage. If the checks and balances we have been bragging about for hundreds of years could be weakened by the greedy in just a couple of decades and [...]

By almost any measure of social pathology, the biggest problems are among the strongly Republican and culturally conservative states.
A recent Commonwealth report found that found that southern States dominate the bottom of the rankings in terms of health care - Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisianna, Nevada, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma are [...]

…actually, just active members of the State Party.
Hello Fellow Democrats,
I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for simply being among the approx 5% of our species who “act” outside of self-interest. In this case to have identified yourself as a Democrat in Utah. An act for which there can [...]

The folks at Trojan Condoms have a new commercial out - view it here - that has garnered responses that highlight America’s deep ambivalence about sexuality.
At the Trojan Evolve website, they include a series of stats that back up the assertion that America is not a sexually healthy nation - rates of unintended pregnancy, STI [...]

For years now, the United States government has been going through a largely unacknowledged constitutional crisis. The Bush administration has taken a radical turn, based on the theory of the “unitary executive” under which the country is governed much the same as a banana republic. Congress has abdicated its duty to oversee the [...]