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The SideTrack: OFA's Utah County Listening Tour, Saturday

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:56:00 -0500

(h/t UtahDemocrats via Twitter)

Organizing for America:
Organizing for America, the grassroots effort that grew out of the Obama campaign will be holding a listening tour in Provo to hear from members of the community about what issues are of most concern to them and develop a strategy [...]

Wasatch Watcher: OFA's Utah County Listening Tour, Saturday

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:56:00 -0500

KVNU's For The People: The Tea Party

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:21:00 -0500

Number of comments: 1

Florida lawyer makes it official:

A conservative Florida lawyer “has registered an official ‘Tea Party’ with the office of the Secretary of State, and is promising to run candidates against Republicans and Democrats in state and national races,” reports Ben Smith.

Said Frederic O’Neal, the party chairman: “The current system [...]

Sausage Grinder: Monday Cup o' Joe -- Mid-afternoon edition!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:20:00 -0500

• I think there are a couple of ways to look at BYU's exit poll that shows 55 percent of Provo voters still support Bob Bennett. Negative: 55 percent isn't particularly healthy. Positive: It's among Utah's more conservative voters. Negative: General election voters aren't delegates. Positive: [...]

Voice Of Deseret: The Story Of Mia Love: The First Black Mayor Of Saratoga Springs, Utah Says Race Is Not An Issue And She's Never Experienced Racism In Utah

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:13:00 -0500

Mia Love, pictured with her family

In a previous post about the November 2009 Utah local elections, I posed this question about Saratoga Springs' first Black Mayor Mia Love: Would she be a Condolezza Rice, or a Maxine Waters?

According to a' [...]

Utah State Democratic Party: Congressman Bishop launches misleading attack on another Republican boogeyman: Environmentalists

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:40:00 -0500

Congressman Bishop wants you to know environmentalists are receiving billions, that's right billions, of your tax dollars. In an Op-ed published in the Billings Gazette Congressman Bishop points to a report prepared by a Wyoming-based law firm as proof. Sounds terrible,' [...]

The World, According To Me: A Warning To Potential Matheson Challengers

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:25:00 -0500

A few months ago, I got a phone call from a friend I have met through politics. He wanted to ask me a few questions about something.

Specifically, he wanted to know the process for filing as a Democrat to run against Jim Matheson.

I unloaded my knowledge [...]

KVNU's For The People: N. Logan Employee Trespass Complaint May Fail.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:19:49 -0500

The other day CacheValleyDaily.com ran an article titled, “Former NoLo Council candidate files trespassing complaint against city” by Amanda Pierce. The article explained how a man, L. Alan Collins who ran for City council this year in North Logan had filed trespassing charges with police against a city employee [...]

The SideTrack: Health Care Bills and Getting Democrats to the Polls for Matheson in 2010

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:43:00 -0500

Tom Jensen @ Public Policy Polling offers some takeaways from polling in NJ and VA regarding final passage of a health care bill and the effects it would have on Republican and Democratic voters.

In short, the damage is done with Republicans. The debate so far has them [...]

Wasatch Watcher: Health Care Bills and Getting Democrats to the Polls for Matheson in 2010

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:43:00 -0500

THE UTAH AMICUS: My pal Milt has left the convention...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:40:00 -0500

Milton Earl Saathoff 10/10/1923 ~ 11/4/2009 Milton Earl Saathoff, age 86, passed away on November 4, 2009 in Salt Lake City.He was born on October 10, 1923 in Magna, Utah to Stephen James and Susan Ann White Saathoff. Milton graduated from West High School in 1940. [...]

THE UTAH AMICUS: From Andrew McCullough's Blog - The Tea Party Crowd (Really isn't the Tea Party Crowd)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:27:00 -0500

"I attended a "tea party" event this summer in Salt Lake. I had been promised, as Libertarian Party Chair, that I would get to speak. Then they changed their minds; but it was not the simple anti-tax rally that I had hoped it would be. It was filled with the" [...]

The SideTrack: Thank Those Who Supported Health Care Reform

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:21:00 -0500

AFL-CIO has a tool online for sending a quick message of thanks, or disappointment, depending on where you're reading this from:
On Saturday, 220 members of the U.S. House of Representatives showed they are on the side of working families, not big insurance companies, when they voted for' [...]

Wasatch Watcher: Thank Those Who Supported Health Care Reform

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:21:00 -0500

Non-Partisan: Time To Pay Attention

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:17:38 -0500

Last month, in a startling display of backbone, the Utah Radiation Control Board voted to prevent shipments of depleted uranium (DU) to the EnergySolutions facility in Clive, UT. Now the fun begins. EnergySolutions will be bombarded tomorrow’s RCB meeting with the finest legal counsel money can buy. Their claim: the [...]

Pursuit of Liberty: Why Life Imprisonment is Wrong

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:57:58 -0500

photo credit: BlatantNews.com

When I read Jay Hutchinson’s post about Why Capital Punishment is wrong I could not sit still without sharing the opposite perspective so that some people can recognize that the issue is not one sided or clear cut. I am not one [...]

The City Cafe: Utah’s Economic Indicators

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:52:16 -0500

The latest ’stop light’ chart of Utah’s economic indicators, prepared by ULCT economist Doug Macdonald. A few indicators are starting to improve: residential construction is up 4.5% over the last three months and unemployment claims in the state of Utah are starting to slow. [...]

JM Bell: IMHO – Senate will kill Health Reform 60 – 40

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:36:19 -0500

As neat and historical as Saturday’s Health Reform vote was – I don’t think it’s going to make it through the Senate either intact, or even more badly mangled.

Why, you ask?

Because Republicans will continue to lie and soak up lobbyist donations, and Democrats lack the backbone to call them liars [...]

JM Bell: Sen. Al Franken’s first bill – service dogs for veterans – those diabolical Democrats!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:57:29 -0500

I love Al Franken. I want to punch Fox News in the nose for the terrible things they say about him.

Already in his short tenure at the Senate, Franken has made committee hearings bot more entertaining and MORE informative; he’s forced the US Government to stop doing business with companies [...]

Politics Elevated: General Welfare Clause: Did Alexander Hamilton Waffle?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:30:47 -0500

Alexander Hamilton at one point in his political career seemed to have held a very limited view of the federal government’s powers, believing that such things as “agriculture and manufacture” were under the purview of state governments. Not long after taking such a stand, he advocated [...]

Weber County Forum: Spotlight on Today's Most Peculiar Standard-Examiner "Comic" Insert

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0500

Number of comments: 4
A Mark Shurtleff campaign propaganda piece, posing as a tribute to the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution?

By Curmudgeon

In this morning's Standard-Examiner, there is an insert, a comic book treatment of the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, followed by a comic book' [...]

Weber County Forum: Special Notice to the Voters of Ogden's Ward 1

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:25:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
Two days remain to validate twelve Ward 1 provisional ballots

This morning we have a quick heads-up for the voters in Ogden City Ward 1. As everyone knows, council incumbent Jesse Garcia was narrowly edged out by Godfreyite challenger Neil Garner by a preliminary vote tally of [...]

KVNU's For The People: Monday AM Linkage

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:00:34 -0500

- Exploiting foreign threats for domestic political gain.

- Japan plan solar power collection… in space.

- Sarah Palin, Awesome Bogus.

- TSA has it’s own blog to address your (Mr. Chaffetz) travel frustrations.

- TubeRadio: Turn YouTube into your personal jukebox.

- My favorite columnist, Rick Hertzberg, makes [...]

The World, According To Me: GOP Congresscritter Grandstands by Butchering Pledge of Allegiance

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:45:00 -0500

(h/t JM Bell)

Well, can you blame him? After all the pledge was written by a Socialist.

-Bobwww.theworldaccordingtome.us

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The World, According To Me: BYU Profs to Legislature: Global Warming is real

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:57:00 -0500

Why do BYU Professors hate America?

(via KSL)

PROVO, Utah (AP) -- A group of scientists from conservative Brigham Young University has criticized state lawmakers over their recent handling of the climate change issue.

The 18 scientists rebuked legislators in a letter sent Oct. 26, [...]

One Utah: Should Matheson face a primary challenge?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:26:36 -0500

At Open Left, Paul Rosenberg is discussing the idea of strong, progressive primary challenges to the crappy Dems who voted for the Stupak or who voted against the health care reform bill. Utah’s Jim Matheson is one such craptacular Democrat. From Democracy for Utah, we get this provocative passage:

Matheson’s [...]

The World, According To Me: McCoy for Congress?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:08:00 -0500

I realize that this is probably idle chatter, and that he has almost no chance of winning in the general, but I like it (click to enlarge):

The reasons I like it:

1) I have always liked and admired Senator McCoy.
2) It [...]

The World, According To Me: McCoy for Congress?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:08:00 -0500

Simple Utah Mormon Politics: Saving the Constitution Through Provident Living and Civility

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:09:00 -0500

The Constitution will "hang by a thread". It has been prophesied. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will play an instrumental part in saving the Constitution. That has also been foretold.

But how will it be saved? Through provident living and [...]