The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
Despite his recent spelling error, Mitt Romney has clinched the GOP nomination—which we totally called. Of course, the nomination isn’t official quite yet (although it is slightly more official than a few months ago) since no official vote will be taken until the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa. But Romney is going to be [...]
Watch out Fox News – there’s a new media outlet for All Patriot News, All The Time. Two representatives have attempted to nullify the obscure Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 with an amendment buried in the latest Defense Authorization bill. The Smith-Mundt Act enabled the US Government to produce and distribute propaganda internationally, but prevented it from [...]
If you’re a liberal-leaning Mormon and politics come up, you love bringing up Harry Reid. Here we have a Mormon who is not only a Democrat, but he currently holds one of the highest positions in Congress—Senate Majority Leader. You see!? We’re not all uber-conservative Republicans; some of us are somewhat-less-conservative Democrats! For those of you [...]
I hope you didn’t like knowing things about the country you live in. The House voted a few weeks back to eliminate the American Community Survey, a data collection tool performed since the 1790s that creates a detailed portrait of the lives of Americans. Sure, the ACS collects some pretty obscure data, such as flush toilet [...]
With Orrin Hatch actually having to earn the Republican nomination for the first time since his election back in the 70s, there have been talks of public debates. The idea behind these “debates” is to get each of the potential party nominees in one place where questions can be asked by a moderator. The public [...]
Outside of Utah, people have this strange reason for thinking that Mormon’s are weird. Like culty, brainwashed weird. Also weird, as a presidential candidate in America, things like your religion have a strange bearing on your viability as a human being. We all know Mittens can count on the support of his kin-folk (even if [...]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently released a poorly-done video* explaining the organization’s alleged political neutrality. Using a whiteboard animation (even “animation” is a generous term) it discusses what the church means when it says it’s politically neutral—that they don’t officially endorse parties or candidates—as well as what it doesn’t mean when [...]
With all the drama of the Republican Nomination wrapped up (best reality TV since Survivor premiered!), reporters are starting to realize that it’s a long 6 months until November. Matt Taibbi asks in Rolling Stone “Is This the Most Boring Election Ever?”* “…this campaign, relatively speaking, will not be fierce or hotly contested. Instead it’ll [...]
Form of, the same old shit! You can’t really get any more “Washington Insider” than Orrin Hatch. The guy has been in the Senate so long that when he joined Congress, the Seattle Mariners had yet to ever play a game of baseball*. Congressional approval ratings are hovering in the single digits—with a general disdain for [...]
Gary Herbert has appointed Cody Steward, a former lobbyist for the oil and gas industry as his new primary energy adviser. Working to ensure that those in charge of regulating the industry have the best ties to the industry itself, Herbert has replaced Amanda Smith, who will remain at the Department of Environmental Quality, with [...]