One Utah

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 [...]

“We are here to stand up for the unborn, to stand up against the dogs of hate who defend abortion on demand,” Wimmer said. [snip]
The supporters said the cost of the fight will not be an issue. Wimmer said that a group based out of Washington, D.C., which he would not [...]

Almost unnoticed by the news media, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) chaired a Judiciary subcommittee hearing today on “Restoring the Rule of Law.”
The subcommittee heard more than two and a half hours of testimony from the witnesses, who came from all sides of the political spectrum and included former members of Congress, the military and [...]

Question: Who’s afraid of an American woman holding a flower?
Answer: George Bush and police in riot gear.
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h/t Glenn Greenwald

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/

Allow me to begin at the most basic.
Gender identity is broadly defined as one’s sense of one’s self as male or female. Most human beings’ sense of gender identity corresponds to their physical gender. People with vulvas/vaginas identify as female, people with penises identify as male. However, gender is a far more [...]

Like some post-apocalyptic science fiction movie, only real and happening now…

AP News, August 15, 2008:

Individuals arrested at the Democratic National Convention will be processed at an industrial warehouse with chain-link cells topped by razor wire, a facility some have compared to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Groups planning marches, concerts and other events during the [...]

Back during Monica Madness, Edwards said:
“I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.”

I don’t disapprove of sex between unmarried people. I [...]

At “Camp Justice” in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. military is currently conducting the first American war crimes trial since World War II — of Salim Hamdan, a citizen of Yemen and a former driver for Osama bin Laden.
To call this proceeding a kangaroo court would run the risk of insulting marsupials everywhere.
From Glenn [...]

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is an absurd, counter productive policy. At Pam’s House Blend, she’s got some fun video of Elaine Donnelly doing her whackadoodle best to argue in favor of the policy. Donnelly raises the “unit cohesion” argument again and again and Rep. Patrick Murphy smacks it down -asking in essence, “Are [...]

Everyone except a few bloggers has probably forgotten, if they ever knew, that last April Barack Obama made a half-hearted pledge to prosecute at least some of the crimes committed by the Bush administration. In response to a question from a DailyKos blogger, he answered carefully:
What I would want to [...]