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I see that Joe Lieberman has at long last completed his transformation into a Republican in everything but name.  Lieberman, only 7 years ago the Democratic nominee for Vice President is apparently coming out in support of John McCain for president.
Within the context of his career and his past behavior, this makes perfect sense.  Lieberman [...]

Over the weekend while I was at the gym, there was a show on TV about hazing. It was so absorbing I did over an hour of cardio so I could see the whole thing.
As part of the show, they discussed recent incidents of hazing in American high schools and colleges. In one incident, a [...]

Like a segment of the population, I trace my ancestry back to before the Revolutionary War - the oldest verified record we have is of a birth in North Carolina in 1750. After that, my ancestors moved west - first to Iowa, then to Utah in 1847. On my mother’s side, it’s a [...]

This “blast from the past” stands as a stark reminder of the chorus corporate controlled media, coordinated talking points and hyperbolic name-calling that manged to shout down anyone who presented reason and fact in the face of the drumbeat to attack Iraq.
This little piece contains all the now classic tactics so shamefully employed against the [...]

Update II: I’ve seen enough. Here’s a video from before the one below. The Pinkerton Rent-a-cops MUST BE PUNISHED!

From this week’s schadenfreude files comes the long suppressed news of Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s (Republican, of course) arrest for lewd behavior in an airport bathroom in Minnesota. He entered a guilty plea.
The residents of the blogistan are, unsurprisingly, all over this story. Craig (R - His Own Private Idaho) is yet [...]

I think that concerns over myspace and online sexual predators have all the hallmarks of a moral panic.
A moral panic is a reaction by a group of people based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace [...]

Karl Rove is leaving the White House. 
This means nothing.  Rove will continue to be on Bush’s speed dial.  Moving him out of the White House means nothing - he will still set policy for this White House - now it just won’t be official.  I’ve long maintained the Rove is the exemplar of a Utah [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I enjoy reading and writing for One Utah. I don’t have as much time to do it as I’d like because I’m usually juggling several projects at my studio, maintaining my own blog and website and developing my business in the Salt Lake area one year after moving here. You encounter many different people (including [...]

I’ve linked to Jeffrey Feldman before - he’s easily one of the smartest writers in the blogosphere.  His May 23rd post, The Double Bind of Iraq may be the most far-reaching analysis I’ve seen of the intractable problem in American politics.
The most damning passage of all from Feldman’s post:
President Bush’s Presidency does not generate power.  [...]