One Utah

What a pleasant surprise to wake up to. Arguably one of the most shameless and despicable Republicans in modern history has been unceremoniously sent packing.
We’ve done our best over the years to hurt soon-to-be-FORMER Congressman Chris Cannon, but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine Utah republicans would do the deed themselves.
But did [...]

It’s been a fun week already at the Trib’s discussion boards thanks to Zach Maxfield of Logan who wrote that Mormons aren’t homophobes, they just love gay people so much they want them to become straight people. Okay, I’m paraphrasing. Zach’s exact words were:
[God] counsels us to never condone or accept evil behavior. Homosexual acts [...]

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 [...]

It’s almost impossible to make fun of Chris Buttars - given his level of obvious stupidity, irony, sarcasm and satire fall short of the embarrassing reality of this bigoted little man who likes the rush of power he feels when people call him “Senator.”
In Buttars latest move to become the poster boy for bigots, he [...]

What’s left to say about the disaster that is Crandall Canyon? The federal government and a strident, political mine owner tell us they know what they’re doing. They refuse help from a highly-trained, unionized mine rescue team. They ignore reports showing continuous, human-induced seismic activity in the mountain. Now, after more than a week of [...]

Listening to Crandall Canyon mine owner Robert Murray on TV the other day, I heard him but saw only rainbows, twinkling stars and happy children playing outside in the middle of January. Here was the operator of a notorious facility in a notorious industry not pulling the community together and giving us the truth about [...]

Let me begin by saying I apologize. I’ve been gone promoting my new movie, hob-nobbing with Hollywood bigshots and lowlifes, and basking in the human-induced tanning machine that is southern California for a while (note driving with the top down and AC off to prevent damage to ozone-layer but lack of hands-free cell headset to [...]

Via Talking Points Memo: Rep. Chris Cannon explains why he thinks the Scooter Libby case completes the task left undone by the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, i.e. proving that there are serious penalties for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Go to the link above for a brief but thoroughly nonsensical clip.

UPDATE: Aramis on Wasatch [...]

What with yesterday’s Chris Cannon blogconference, there has been some talk about bloggers looking for chances to do some first-hand reporting.
What do you know, a blogger from Berkeley, California is leading the way. Take a look at Jane Stillwater’s Web Log. Jane is a 64-year-old grandmother who got herself accredited with [...]

Tom Grover of KVNU for The People just called and sent this to me asking if I would go in his stead. I hadn’t been invited oddly enough. As founder of the most popular political blog in Utah, one would think…
But then again, Chris Cannon will be there. One can only assume he’d prefer [...]

Having been a journalist for more than thirty years, I’m used to politicians lying to me: either to make themselves sound better or denegrate their opponent. But Rep. Chris Cannon and Sen. Orrin Hatch have taken falsehood and inaccuracy to a new, pathological level.
Hatch, seen here claiming he discovered Great Salt Lake, either fibbed or [...]