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Today president-elect Barack Obama announced:
. . . retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki as his nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, bringing to his Cabinet a career military officer best known for running afoul of the Bush administration by questioning the Pentagon’s Iraq war strategy.
When Shinseki told us his honest estimation of [...]

Who caused the great crash of 2008?
In addition to all the people who were screaming ‘Free Markets’ and warning against socialism…
Lee Sustar analyzes the roots of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression–and shows why Marxism offers the best way of understanding what went wrong. {Snip}
TO UNDERSTAND the dynamics of today’s crisis, it’s helpful [...]

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A group that supports the stand The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints took on California’s Proposition 8 took out a full-page ad in today’s New York Times.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty placed the ad, which is titled “No Mob Veto.” [snip]
The ad says what began as “demonstrations” against [...]

The good folks at the Lt. Governor’s office have made available a detailed spreadsheet with election results. I’ve spent some time crunching those numbers, focusing on the legislative races.
Approximately half our state Senators were up for re-election. There were 463,188 votes case in those races; Democratic candidates received 35% of those votes, Republicans [...]

…this video will have been around the world today if not already.
Its a very executed viral ad for JC Penney Jewelry.
It also makes fun of men for being too stupid to fully accept and surrender to the *real* needs of women (material gestures) - as if for our own good.
I’m not sure what I think. [...]

Barney says: “I knew what to expect, but I never get invited to National Security Council meetings.”
From the Associated Press:
In a speech he was giving later Friday about his Middle East policies, Bush said …his Middle East policies — which have not always been popular and have not always gone according to plan — in [...]

Turns out that some people can read the writing on the wall. Maybe it isn’t just the LDS church seeing problems from gay bashing…
Two Daddies?
Notice that this isn’t some “bleeding heart liberal” posting this, no, he is a fairly influential member of the RNC. Note especially this graph from another blog.
The future looks [...]

Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean of Canada agreed to suspend (prorogue) Parliament until January 26.
Of the options on the table, this seems the most cautious but also the most democratic. This decision allows all the parties, as well as the voters, to take a deep breath. It also seems fairly shrewd - [...]

Nuclear (or perhaps nu-cu-ler) weapons are one of the most bizarre things ever made.

A weapon that transforms the most basic building blocks of matter into the most destructive of weapons. Thought up by a pacifist. Built to halt Nazi Germany, but not finished in time to be used on them. Used on [...]

Odetta, folksinger and civil rights activist, has died at the age of 77.
Some of our OneUtah readers may not be familiar with the trio of artists in this video, each with remarkable singing careers individually, together to perform a haunting arrangement of Janis Ian’s Hymn.
Janis Ian
Phoebe Snow
Odetta
A tribute to Odetta on our Late Night Club [...]

…if you don’t like them just ask, I have others. -Groucho Marx
We have had a few posts on ethics of late, and it is in fact one of the category tags for posts. Since I have a bit of interest in the area I thought I would see if we can start a [...]

I’m fascinated by the political turmoil in Canada.
Watching it play out is a living, breathing lesson in parliamentary democracy, but also, as odd as it may seem, in the maturity of the polity and the people. This not entirely uncharted territory for Canada as there have been instances in the past where [...]