One Utah

…with Obama.
This is last segment (part 4) of the Bill O’Reilly, Obama interview in York, PA.
Bill already in love with Barack and falls still deeper throughout until I at the very end, it seemed like Bill wanted to hug him.
Back in the Fox studio, O’Reilly has of course watched on the monitor and [...]

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.
For [...]

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/

For those of you who have suffered through what I shall refer to as “Schooling Church Boy”, you know that I called out Richard Okelberry for his dangerous and ignorant, but earnest and well-written, editorial on Obama’s response to the question the Saddleback Church about when a fetus should have human rights.
Obama’s answer was perfect; [...]

A few years ago, the youth group from my congregation participated with the youth group from the mosque on a service project. At the end of the night, the kids returned to HUCC for debriefing. The Muslim youth later complained they felt it was wrong for boys and girls to sit together in [...]

What are we? 90 days from election day?
Abortion as an issue is not going away for one simple reason: religious conservatives cannot accept that it is legal.
As Pastor Dan says:
there are people who are determined to take that right away, and as McFadden himself points out, are a hair’s breadth of doing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For a long time now, the ridiculous right has been ginning up pointless controversies over claims that religious people have the right to refuse to do their jobs on the basis of their faith.
From Rob Boston, at Talk to Action:
Stories abound in the media of “pro-life pharmacists” who refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions and Muslim [...]