One Utah

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; [...]

From his blog:
1. The government (i.e. taxpayers) gets an equity stake in every Wall Street financial company proportional to the amount of bad debt that company shoves onto the public. So when and if Wall Street shares rise, taxpayers are rewarded for accepting so much risk.
2. Wall Street executives and directors of Wall Street [...]

ILLUSTRATION: Barry Blitt

Palin was elected governor just as the corruption scandal broke, and quickly took the opportunity to proclaim herself a reformer.

From The New Yorker

The oilman at the center of the corruption scandal, Bill Allen, had agreed to testify against Stevens. The two men had once shared ownership of a racehorse, and had counted themselves [...]

Amy Goodman Arrested!
Its time for the law enforcement community to decide of they are going become a community of thugs or respectful civil servants. It takes balls to be a cop. If you are so afraid that you have to man handle women, you should not be a cop. If you’re not [...]

Last night, Bill Moyers interviewed Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power. It’s worth the time to read the whole transcript. In particular I was struck by this exchange - it began with Moyers reading a quote from Bacevich’s book:
BILL MOYERS: I was in the White House, back in the early 60s, [...]

C-Span has finally produced direct links to past programs.
For those of you who like me, are concerned that the spineless dems won’t impeach our president and War Lord, it may be some conciliation to know that he can still be prosecuted for murder.
Bugliosi has laid out the case including venue for any State, County, or [...]

In Mistakes were made (but not by me) , Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson discuss the psychological process of self justification as it relates to initiation.
In particular, they cite a study in which students, to join a conversation, had to go through an initiation process; for one group it was relatively easy, for [...]

During the time leading up to the Bejing Olympics, the Chinese government assured the world that the development of human rights would be strengthened. However the Chinese government continues to restrict its citizens’ fundamental rights, including freedom of expression, freedom of association, and freedom of religion. Labor rights, Children’s rights, Women’s rights, and access to [...]

According to Rocky Anderson, in this radio interview on the Peter B. Collins show, “The New York Times” didn’t even cover last weeks, (albeit disguised), impeachment hearing, and the “Washington Post” published it’s second snarky article by Dana Milbanks about representative John Conyer’s attempts to cast light on the war crimes of the Bush administration [...]