How Are You Threatened By Homosexuality?
The Human Rights Campaign has an audio recording of Utah State Senator Chris Buttars saying of homosexual Americans: “They’re probably the greatest threat to America going down I know of.” I’m not...
View ArticleSenate Quietly and Unanimously Passes Legislation Preventing Changes to FISA...
Last June, the U.S. Senate was poised to pass the FISA Amendments Act (full text here) — a bill that made permanent the warrantless surveillance system enacted by 2007’s Protect America Act, adding on...
View ArticleKissing Against the Law In Salt Lake City
If you visit Salt Lake City, make sure that you don’t get too friendly. It turns out that public displays of affection are against the law there, at least for certain people. Last week, a young couple...
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What the Federal Government Is Doing in Utah
People of a libertarian bent often ask “What has the federal government ever done for you?” Well, in the case of Utah, here’s one thing that the federal government is doing: While the free market is...
View ArticleOil Spills Continue
The Deepwater Horizon drill site in the Gulf of Mexico, which spewed untold barrels of crude oil earlier this year, has finally been permanently plugged. So, has the oil spill crisis stopped? Not by a...
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Jason Buck Campaigns For A Tiny, Tiny Vision Of Life
In the “Issues” section of the congressional campaign web site of Utah Republican Jason Buck, there’s an entire subsection devoted to “Life, Family, and Marriage”. That should cover an awful lot of...
View ArticleBoy Scouts Of America Won't Even Allow Gays To Help From A Distance
The Boy Scouts of America has justified its policy of discrimination, excluding homosexual boys and adults from membership and leadership in their organization, by saying that Boy Scouts would be...
View ArticleKnow of a nifty Liberal Utah Group or News Source? Tell Me About It!
For a while now, we’ve been maintaining a list of liberal social movement organizations and news sources for Utah and Utahns. It’s a pretty conservative state, all right, but the last time we looked a...
View ArticleHowling Mad Dan Newhouse Brings Back An Old Scapegoat
Last week, Dan Newhouse, a Republican from Washington, introduced H.R. 1985, a bill that would prohibit gray wolves in Washington, Oregon, and Utah from receiving the protections as individuals of an...
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Members Of Congress Urge Building A Moon Base To Enrich Businesses In Their...
“What Washington needs is a long-term plan to control spending,” says Congressman Bill Posey. Bill Posey’s idea of controlling spending was revealed this week when he introduced H.R. 2036, legislation...
View ArticleReport: Charter Schools Waste and Fail across 12 States
Yesterday, the Center for Media and Democracy released a new report on the publicly-funded, privately-run and deregulated entities known as “charter schools.” The theory behind charter schools was that...
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Defending Donald Trump, Bob Parker Says Hitler Wasn’t All That Bad
There’s an odd reality-distorting field that surrounds supporters of Donald Trump’s Republican campaign for President. They’re able to make wildly divergent claims of truth without fretting about the...
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1.58 Trillion Dollars and 20 Years Later F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Still...
Yesterday on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Orrin Hatch stood up to give a speech of support for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Why would he make the special effort to do this? Well, there are 10...
View ArticleCan A One-Issue Candidate Change Washington D.C. By Losing?
Bill Barron will give voters in Utah only one reason to elect him the United States Senate: He promotes himself as a candidate for those who want the federal government to take strong action to...
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