One Utah

Author’s Note: I’m about to go on a much-needed July 24th holiday (no cheering from the fascist fan club, please). But I didn’t want to disappear without an appropriate parting gift. So here it is. Lass’t ’s schmecken
The Right has a double-barreled shotgun up its ass. In chamber one is anger over out-of-control immigration. Chris [...]

According to Paul “Sorry-ma’am-this-is-my-job-someone’s-got-to-do-it” Mero, chief of Utah’s conservative Sutherland Institute, the state has a vested interest in your sex organs. Your children, you see, are the state’s means of production, and your sex organs, being the means of producing the means, are therefore a national asset subject to oversight. Lots of oversight. The more [...]

Thanks Leo for the tip. Personally, I see no place for pure libertarianism on this planet. Its light began to fade when the transcontinental railroad opened.
Nevertheless, this article speaks to the danger of the current Republican response to the SCOTUS case. Bad decision they say…as would have Hitler.
From the Future of Freedom [...]

Update: Plunderbund who broke this story is reporting that the manufacturer is refusing to make the sockpuppet.
Once again, pretty much everyone on the planet has been reminded that unrestrained racism is alive and well in Utah.
Introducing the Sock MonkeyObama. Brought to you by:
David J. Lawson and Elizabeth A. Lawson
8821 South Deep Creek Drive
West [...]

The corporate media circus exposed via BradBlog in all it’s commercialized glory. Don’t miss “Lapdogs Of The Corporate Press!“

I think we are reaching a nadir in the American consciousness. There are so many indicators both large and small. The surprising populist movement lead by Barack Obama is an obvious one. The changing language and focal points of the Right-Wing are another. Almost no one is left in the media nor in politics [...]

In Harper’s, Scott Horton writes about The Great Guantanamo Puppet Theater. The problem with the military commission trials is that they are really political tribunals controlled by Vice President Dick Cheney. The trials of six “high-value detainees” linked to the attacks on 9/11 are timed to coincide with the 2008 election, and the [...]

I am so pleased with my response to Ken on McCain, I thought I would top post it if only to shake things up around here.
What you are seeing Ken is Republican Buyer’s Remorse for Bush. You see, Bush — being the worst fuckup in the history of America — has virtually ended any chance [...]

Ever wonder what kind of people still support the illegal occupation of Iraq and why?
Excepting, of course, the obvious shills for the military industrial complex, there remain a few naive folk who think themselves patriots and who can’t seem to figure out they have been lied to, betrayed, and otherwise taken for fools.
Despite the fact [...]

Bush League War Drums Beating Louder on Iran
By Ray McGovern
t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Friday 24 August 2007
It is as though I’m back as an analyst at the CIA, trying to estimate the chances of an attack [...]

The term “flip flop” as we know it has been redefined. Graham is repeating almost word for word the Democrats argument against the suspension of Habeas Corpus, torture and military tribunals all of which he (and Jim matheson) voted for.
Lyndsay Graham (R-GA) Flip Flop
What now Ken B? You’ve been defending this guy’s positions for years. [...]