The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
Jon McNaughton is still trying to save the world. One shitty painting at a time. Last April we wrote about McNaughton, a Mormon tea bagging ‘artist’ who became popular on the Internet when one of his Jesus paintings, “One Nation Under God,” went viral.* At the time, abortion-loving gay-promoting alcohol-imbibing BYU had decided not to [...]
In his weekly address to the nation, President Obama singled out Utah Senator Mike Lee as an example of obstructionism and pig-headedness when discussing congressional gridlock. “One senator gumming up the whole works for the entire country is certainly not what our founding fathers envisioned,” he said, leaving no questions about whom he was talking [...]
Following December’s disastrous fracturing of the GOP over the payroll tax cut extensions, the GOP held a party meeting for all 242 house members to come up with a unified agenda for 2012. Emerging from the meeting was a consensus between the slightly less crazy main GOP and far right tea party members to generically [...]
The 2012 campaign season is trudging along, dragging America through yet another endless campaign cycle. Once we hit November 2012, we’ll move on to the 2014 elections and forget about all the attack ads, the unbridled money spent by PACs, the endless debates, and the rhetoric. But what people won’t forget is that the GOP [...]
Every year for the past several decades, leaders of the LDS Church have met with leaders of the Utah Legislature before the legislative session begins, to discuss… whoa, wait a minute. I didn’t know this was happening! Did you know this was happening? Hey Earl, [turning to guy sitting behind me in this diner] did [...]
Taking a play from nomination challenger Dan Liljenquist’s book, Orrin Hatch has upped his attacks against public employee pensions. “The public pension crisis plaguing our nation demands a real solution. Over the coming weeks, I will be putting forward ideas to reform public pension programs in a meaningful way that doesn’t leave taxpayers on the [...]
One of our New Year’s Resolutions is to take more credit for stuff we probably didn’t do,* which is why we were so happy to see this in an article by the Salt Lake Tribune: [Kenneth] Wynn, a Mormon, also argued that the so-called Domination Clause in the Utah Constitution prohibits church officials from interfering [...]
Heads are already butting in Salt Lake over proposed 2012 legislation. The SL Chamber of Commerce has been pushing for a state wide housing and employment anti-discrimination law similar to the one passed in Salt Lake City that would add lesbian, gay, and transgender protections to the already protected classes. Naturally, conservative lawmakers from outside [...]
Stop holding your breath, everybody. Mitt Romney finally released his tax returns today. It’s like Christmas came 11 months early!* Romney had been under considerable pressure recently, from both Democrats and his GOP rivals, to release his 2010 tax return. So, he did. All 203 pages of it. Remember when you were required to read [...]
Energy development in Utah has been a favorite “go to” for various groups, particularly those on the right. Developing Domestic Sources of Terrorism-Free Energy™ (or something full of hyperbole) means that punching holes in and scraping away layers of the earth are valid and encouraged methods of business here and in other places in the [...]