One Utah

I caught Senator Harry Reid of Nevada on the Ed Schultz show on the Air America radio network. He did a fine interview. I admit my bias up front that Reid is my favorite national politician. He is a left of center Democrat that doesn’t wear his Mormon religion on his sleeve like so many [...]

I’ve run out of time to do a post tonight, so I thought I would use this opportunity to remind everyone that this Saturday marks the 3rd anniversary of the war in Iraq. Events are being planned all over the country including Salt Lake City.
In addition to a peaceful rally in Washington Square there [...]

Not surprisingly, I couldn’t find anything in from a commercial news source but someone at DailyKos said
Just saw this on CNN. Looks like Snowe and Hagel caved! The compromise “Sell Out” creates a new subcommittee to oversee the NSA domestic spying. The NSA program must be approved every 45 days by the [...]

LaVarr Webb’s UtahPolicy.com is easily the most complete one-stop source for all things of political interest in any medium, period. But nevertheless, the icing on that cake is distinctly home-made..

I quote UtahPolicy.com on Feb 21, 2006:

Steven E. Jones, a BYU physics professor who thinks the World Trade Center Building 7 was destroyed by controlled [...]

Why would someone with a good job in the private sector, dependant upon his/her professional reputation (George Washington Law School Professor Jonathan Turley), risk everything to speak out against a sitting president’s abuse of power and sweeping claims of authority?
Nevertheless, people with everything to lose, and nothing to gain are doing it.
These are voices to [...]

In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power — the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad.
His speech — which compares the wiretapping of Martin Luther King to the [...]