One Utah

Most assuredly, this is just the beginning. Is this Paul Mero’s idea of conservatism?

From: November 20, 2008
Willacy County district attorney, Juan Angel Guerra. He leaves office on December 31st.
A Texas judge has set an arraignment date for Friday (11/21) for Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They were indicted this [...]

I know nothing about this story except what I read on KSL.com. Certainly of interest.
President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.
The indictment returned [...]

There’s been a great deal of talk about corruption in politics. The last 8 years have seen a truly shocking level of corruption in government - from the Republicans K Street Project, to the Bushies’ endless politicizing of every aspect of government starting with no bid contracts for any firm connected to the Administration [...]

This post is part three in my series on good and evil.
In The Lucifer Effect Philip Zimbardo explores the way in which situational factors play a role in individual behaviors. 
Zimbardo sums up his argument:
“Bad systems” create “bad situations” create “bad apples” create “bad behaviors” even in good people.
The point of course is simple - I [...]

Seven years later, at least the cable media is beginning to pull their noses out of Bush’s ass and do their job.
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Many scandals ago, with each new one, I would think it couldn’t get any worse. Today I believe we will continue to uncover [...]

Such a sad, pitiful, little man.

Alberto Gonzales might not make it to Utah- or out of Washington alive. But the list of Bush administration flunkees running to Utah to look busy is obvious and somewhat frightening. The Bush “Mod Squad” of Gonzales, Education Secretary Spellings and HHS head and former Utah governor Mike Leavitt, is due to come here Friday [...]

The profound incompetence of the Bush administration, their collective inability to actually do their jobs in anything like an effective way, has extensive implications for the American body politic.  Bill Scher of Liberaloasis had dedicated a great deal of time to pointing out the ways in which the Bush administration has followed the Heritage Foundation’s [...]

For those not absorbed the Prosecutor Purge, America’s New Monica may be a unfamiliar.  The short version:  Monica Goodling, a graduate of Pat Robertson’s Regent University law school and Messiah College (I’m not familiar but I’m guessing it’s a wingnut training ground) has taken the Fifth to prevent implicating herself in illegal activities with regard [...]

Having been a journalist for more than thirty years, I’m used to politicians lying to me: either to make themselves sound better or denegrate their opponent. But Rep. Chris Cannon and Sen. Orrin Hatch have taken falsehood and inaccuracy to a new, pathological level.
Hatch, seen here claiming he discovered Great Salt Lake, either fibbed or [...]

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 [...]