One Utah

Seemingly endlessly litigated and legislated around, the First Amendment reads simply:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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Orac, at Respectful Insolence, has spent a lot of time and pixels on the anti-vaccination crusades being led by a number of people who claim that common vaccines cause autism. Among these folks are some celebrities, some of whom are A-list, some of whom are H-list. Jenny McCarthy is among the most outspoken [...]

I hadn’t heard about this. I’ll bet most Americans haven’t either.

The obvious question is, how many times each day does this happen in American and an innocent man goes to jail?
PLEASE pass this around. It needs to be part of our national psyche.
http://oneutah.org/2008/08/28/police_brutality_in_denverpolice_brutality_in_denver/

Last week, Cameron at Magic Valley Mormon published a post about Safe Sex last week. The core of his argument can be summed up: Condoms don’t make sex 100% safe, therefore sex is never safe and we shouldn’t ever tell anyone it is or can be. Hence he wrote:
We as parents, educators, and [...]

The anti-abortion crowd has been, for a very long time, very quietly anti-contraception. Arguments against contraception range from the ludicrous (use of contraception leads to abortion) to the medically inaccurate (chemical contraception is actually a form of chemical abortion). Since 98% of American women will use contraception during their lives, arguing against it [...]

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 [...]

I didn’t see the exposed the “wardrobe malfunction.” When I heard about it, I didn’t care. Her boob was partly visible on TV for less than a second. Frankly, to me it’s a complete non-issue.
Apparently, however, Janet’s boob is the boob the religious right just can’t let go. They’ve got it [...]

In our society, almost all minority groups face a complicated choice between being fully integrated and between self-segregation. At one time, women’s colleges were the only avenue for women to pursue higher education, same for the historically black colleges. Catholic schools were organized since many public schools openly indoctrinated students into protestantism. [...]

Allegorically speaking, to a political junkie such as myself, C-Span and C-Span 2 are the uncut heroin of political news. If you’re somebody who doesn’t really need to be told what you just saw with your own eyes, C-Span provides the perfect information gathering vehicle to understand what is going on in Washington politics, but [...]

Do we have anything to learn from a 90 year old pandemic?
A first wave influenza swept the world in March 1918. A second, more deadly wave hit in the fall - from September to November. Finally, a third wave hit the world in early 1919. An exact death toll is unknowable but [...]

Before convicted criminal, Republican congressman, Bob Ney went to prison, he pushed the “Help America Vote Act (HAVA)” through congress under the false premise that it would help standardize the way America votes and come into compliance with the Federal Supreme court decision to break precedence and overrule states rights in the 2000 election contest [...]

Men die, but ideas live forever. It sounds nice, anyway and even provides a good storyline for movies like “V for Vendetta”, but centuries ago, pharos histories were removed from stone by vindictive or insecure proprietors of power. An ancient “Freedom of Information Act” would have preserved a much richer understanding of history then we [...]