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Last night was the annual meeting of the Coalition of Religious Communities (CORC).  The Coalition represents 20+ denominations thoughout Utah.  Members of CORC work on a broad array of social justice issues, primarily issues of economic justice - although we were also one of the leading groups supporting effective hate crimes legislation.  CORC’s leadership is drawn […]

This moment in the political history of the United States is profound and unique for many reasons. A bankrupt and immoral administration is paving the way for a new administration to be led by (a) a warrior intending to carry out his predecessor’s agenda, more competently, but especially then with more disastrous consequences for the […]

I’ve just heard the finest sermon or speech I’ve ever heard in my life, given by The Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I’m old enough to have heard great speakers. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt after a shaky start in that venue; Hugh B. Brown, Harry Truman standing on the platform of the caboose in […]

Let me simply say that we are now exactly in a perfect storm, where United States v. Reynolds meet Loving v. Virginia meet Lawrence v. Texas meet “Sarah” v. …well, we’re not quite sure who. Sarah v. Texas? Sarah v. United States? If Lawrence is to gay and lesbian brothers and sisters; […]

Bruce Wilson argues that the new, improved Washington County Growth & Conservation Bill (PDF), co-sponsored by Rep. Jim Matheson and Senator Bob Bennett, is a triumph of grass roots activism. On the other hand, the executive director of Citizens for Dixie’s Future, Paul Van Dam, thinks the bill falls short of what the Vision […]

By way of full disclosure:
I am a descendant of James Stephens Brown , Mormon pioneer and polygamist (not to be confused with his uncle, Captain James S. Brown of the Mormon Battalion, though both served in the Mormon Battalion). His life’s story was published by the Deseret News, as The Life of Pioneer after […]

The debacle of the clash of civilizations in the Texas raids upon the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints continues past the point of severe justice. Whatever Samuel Huntington thinks, no one wins such wars.
Savagery exists now, played out with the goading of the news media, in 24/7 mode, driven to make news of the most lurid […]

I hope that folks will come out for the Human Rights Torch Relay Rally
Sunday, April 20, 10am – Peace Walk followed by Rally
City County Building at Washington Square400 South State Street, Salt Lake City
The Human Rights Torch Relay is an international campaign that seeks to bring an end to all human rights abuses against […]

Update: The original title was “Gun Advocates Lie People Die“.
So,… Alan Korwin did not exactly fib. He repeated a claim supposedly made by professor Gary Kleck. A claim which no one can produce.

I DID however find something else Gary Kleck said:
“..less than 2% of fatal gun accidents occur during defensive gun use.” source
That means that […]

The massive raid upon a polygamist compound in Texas is one of the major violations of human rights in this country. This atrocity, shocking in its initial sweep, hugely over-broad , of children and their parents, gets worse day by day. Now, the pitiful last means of parents to communicate with their […]

For Ken and all the other non-scientists afraid to face the challenge of reality.

Download The People Have Spoken
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This is pretty unprecedented. No president in modern times is so widely hated by Americans.
Few media are reporting this landmark event. Here are a few you can trust.
ThinkProgress, HuffintonPost

I note that John McCain’s brief (three hour) trip allowed only a short version of his “speech,” given now for three years, raking in half a million dollars for the campaign, and a long talk with Steve Creamer, owner-head of the only private nuclear dump in the United States, and the only company with the […]

There seem to be a few folks left on the planet who cannot accept the science of climate change. None of them are scientists except for the ones being paid by Exxon.
I’m thinking OneUtah should build a record of this debate for the benefit of Anthropologists, Sociologists and writers who, fifty years from now, […]

I am the first to admit, I have finally lost my marbles over the idiocy of the male gender of (my gender) our species. To wit, Bush and the few millions of U.S educated - supposedly - Americans.
Sign the damn petition if only to show these criminally stupid people that WE are many more […]

Yesterday Bush booted CENTCOM Commander Admiral Fallon for refusing to assist in the distruction of American and The World. Today, we have already forgotten, thanks in part to Dick4brains Spitzer.
Does this man look like a traitor? Where is Sean Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, George Will, or that Daddy’s girl William (Wanker) Kristol? What […]

Because we also hire mercenaries and hundreds of others like Blackwater to help us kill more, better, faster - because we are no longer the beacon of liberty and human rights in the world - because we have become a nation of evil and stupid people…the world did something.
They are The Elders. (I’m pretty sure […]

That these people stop only before using racist epithets, is evidence that grace in America hangs only by a thread. Perhaps it is thanks to the relatively recent memory of Hitler and Jim Crow that there remains some semblance of civility in our public discourse.
But even the casual listener can hear the language of […]

With time to enshrine their bigotry in law running short, our state legislators are getting worried they won’t be able to tell gay folks “You suck.”
SB299 (sub one or two I don’t remember which) is trundling its way through the state legislature. In what looks like a straight party line vote, the […]

I’ve been trying to write an appropriately sarcastic and ironic response to our state legislators opposition to the IB program. It’s almost impossible to satire someone who does not know the difference between “socialization” and “socialism.” It’s equally difficult deploying sarcasm in response to someone who thinks the any positive mention of the […]