One Utah

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 [...]

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is doing whatever it can to help the Bush administration wreck our public lands. Back in February, I wrote:

They can’t be serious…. The federal government has come back to the idea, sensibly abandoned in the early 1980s, of extracting tar sands and oil shale in Utah. These are [...]

Serious problems with vote rigging in Alaska in 2004 (which favored Republicans) were never resolved. This time around the fix is in and puts the smell of rotten fish to shame. I understand Alaska had the largest delta in the country between pre-election polls and final results - as much as 10% in [...]

Excerpted From: The Failed Presidency of George W. Bush:
A Dismal Legacy. –[PART I]
by Rodrigue Tremblay
Sunday, October 19, 2008
International disaster: An Illegal and Immoral War of Aggression

At the center of this fiasco, is the fact thatthe Bush-Cheney administration and its neocon cohort rushed to exploit the 9/11 terrorist attacks and used this as a pretext to [...]

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 [...]

Maybe Reid and Pelosi are smarter than we thought…

The attorneys in the case have said that Connell’s testimony may well lead to the subpoenaing and under-oath questioning of Karl Rove, who, they say, would be unable to use Executive Privilege as an excuse to avoid such a subpoena in a civil RICO case…

I wish Ken [...]

h/t Bradblog
In case there is any doubt that the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen…
After many months and many requests and many challenges from both critics and Mainstream Media types, The St. Petersburg Times reports — and The BRAD BLOG can confirm — that Clint Curtis took a polygraph test on March 3rd, 2005…and passed!
The [...]

The republicans are going to throw a temper tantrum (again) after the election if things don’t go enough in their favor. They are going to shout about Acorns and Voter Fraud. I know this for sure because John McCain brought it up in the last debate with Obama. He said the democrats were going to [...]

A disturbing report. Hate crimes reported in Utah jumped from 35 in 2006 to 55 in 2007. See SL Trib and KSL.
Nationwide, hate crimes reported were down about 1 percent. But in Utah they are up a whopping 80 percent. Some of this may be accounted for by increased willingness to [...]

ABC News interviews two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia. It turns out that yes, the NSA was running surveillance on American citizens who had nothing to do with terrorism. From Brian Ross’ interview with Adrienne Kinne:

ROSS: President Bush has [...]

I finally found what appears to be a thorough list of Republican indictments and convicted felons. Of course the list is huge.
There are so many corrupt and criminal Republicans, that people were becoming bored, or used to it.
Just wait till the Democrats control Justice. I imagine you will see the number [...]

I’m opposed to the death penalty. I make no secret of that. It strikes me as an entirely too flawed and permanent solution that can and is frequently applied to the wrong person. DNA testing has exonerated entirely too many people for me to be comfortable with the death penalty’s continued use; [...]