One Utah

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 [...]

The first line of The Nation article linked below reads, “…even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred…”
That gave me pause to reflect on Paul Mero’s comment this morning, “…and if congressional lefties (and spineless Republicans) would allow the domestic production of oil and gas…”
If career right-wingers are now looking [...]

We Utahns of the more mainstream political persuasion (nationally at least) have a certain affection for Utah’s Sutherland Institute Director Paul Mero. He is after all, exceptionally lovable, friendly and affectionately earnest in his radically conservative positions. Most endearing is his forgiving nature and patience in the face of our, at times, rough edges.

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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 [...]

No. This has been another edition of easy answers to simple questions.

Sunday, the Tribune ran this article about declining support in Utah for the Iraq war.  Highlights:
Jeffrey Jones wasn’t surprised to see that a two-year compilation of Gallup polls showed American Mormons, more than any other religious group over that period, believed the United States was right to invade Iraq.
A January poll by The Salt Lake [...]

This is a re-post from last year in honor of the repeat of last year.
Utah got her first openly gay State Senator several years ago in a mid-term procedure in which delegates-only voted for a young lawyer named Scott McCoy. On that day, something changed in Utah.
But it has not unfortunately dissuaded our state legislature [...]

There is a particularly vile form of diseased scum still smearing their feces across the country. I refer you to the likes of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity, etc.
Gerry Spence spoke about themFriday night here in Salt Lake. Hopefully KCPW will put up the audio of that speech. Here [...]

This letter to the editor in yesterday’s Salt Lake Tribune is a taste of what’s to come from Ed Firmage soon, if not tonight…on this blog
Mero gets us nowhere
Paul Mero’s April 9 column about Kanab’s “natural family” resolution was so filled with ad hominem attacks against his opponents that it was impossible to decipher any [...]

Last Friday, I attended the Utah State House Education Committee Hearing on House Bill 393 known as the Public Education Club Amendments – Sponsored by Representative Tilton.
The hearing was PACKED - standing room only as they say. I was so amazed by some of the comments made during public comment period, that I felt compelled [...]