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  • Buttars Throat?

    —Non-Partisan

    Our friend Buttars is at it again, this time stating that he doesn’t hate gays, he just doesn’t want gays “stuffing it down his throat.”  I would like to know who (specifically) is stuffing what (specifically) down Buttars’ throat.  Even better, I’d love to know what it is (specifically) that [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:42pm EST
    by Bob Henline

  • What I Know About Health Care…

    —Non-Partisan

    The debate over health care reform in America has gotten completely out of hand.  On both sides.  Liberals are claiming that anyone opposing the current proposal is in favor of the status quo, with conservatives claiming that anyone supporting it is in some way a socialist committed to destroying the [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:57am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • Ethics Reform Takes Another Hit In Utah

    —Non-Partisan

    The Utah Legislature sent an ethics reform bill out of committee yesterday, and it’s exactly what one would expect from arguably the most corrupt state legislature in the country:  window dressing. The bill creates an independent commission that meets behind closed doors to sift through ethical complaints.  Those deemed to have [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:38am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • It Really Makes Me Wonder…

    —Non-Partisan

    Yesterday I blogged about America Forever and their inane broadcast fax.  After going through that bit of hate-filled nonsense, I decided that I would pop on over to their website and see what these people are really all about.  It took about 2 seconds of reading their home page to [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:41am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • America Forever: LDS Church Sold Out Its Values

    —Non-Partisan

    Last week the conservative “America Forever” group sent out a fax in which it stated that the LDS Church sold out its values as a matter of political necessity. This fax, presumably sent to some 80,000 people throughout Utah, claims that the LDS Church had no choice but to endorse the [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:14am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • America Forever: LDS Church Sold Out Its Values

    —Non-Partisan

    Last week the conservative “America Forever” group sent out a fax in which it stated that the LDS Church sold out its values as a matter of political necessity. This fax, presumably sent to some 80,000 people throughout Utah, claims that the LDS Church had no choice but to endorse the [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:19am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • Where Has Partisanship Taken Us?

    —Non-Partisan

    “They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:32am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • Veteran’s Day 2009

    —Non-Partisan

    As I drove into work this morning I noticed a few flags flying in front yards, but not many.  Traffic moved on as usual, another normal day for most of us.  More’s the pity, I say.  We celebrate Halloween, we celebrate Valentine’s Day, hell, we party like there’s no tomorrow [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:09am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • Time To Pay Attention

    —Non-Partisan

    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 [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:17am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • Let’s Talk About Ethics - Behind Closed Doors!

    —Non-Partisan

    Yep, our dear friends with the Utah legislature are at it again.  The Deseret News is reporting that Utah’s GOP leadership has come to an agreement regarding campaign contribution limits in its own effort to stall the public ethics reform initiative.   Here’s the best part: At a meeting of the governor’s [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:19am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • A Matter Of Clarification

    —Non-Partisan

    Yesterday I blogged about the voters of Maine and their idiotic decision to repeal the law that allows same-sex marriage in that state.  In that post I made reference to a Justice of the Peace in Louisiana that was forced to resign his post after refusing to perform an interracial [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:18pm EST
    by Bob Henline

  • I Just Don’t Get It

    —Non-Partisan

    One year ago the nation watched as voters in California took to the polls and overturned that state’s same-sex marriage statute after months of fighting, television ads and hateful propaganda.  In a much quieter (at least relative to national media attention) environment, the voters of Maine yesterday did the same [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:59am EST
    by Bob Henline

  • When It Hits Close To Home

    —Non-Partisan

    Several months ago I wrote a column for a local paper in which I argued that Utah’s statutes regarding fleeing the scene of an accident needed to be made more severe.  The point was that under current Utah law if you’ve been drinking it makes legal sense to flee the [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:03am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • Equality: It’s Not A Difficult Concept

    —Non-Partisan

    Salt Lake City is considering ordinances that will prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.  There are already laws on the books that seek to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, sex, creed, color, religion and other characteristics - laws that are necessary and beneficial.  [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:09am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • Stupidity Stampede

    —Non-Partisan

    Yesterday morning I was listening to Radio From Hell on X96, as I generally do on my way into the office.  One of the daily “boner” nominees was the state of Oklahoma in a story so outrageously stupid I had to do some research to confirm it before bringing it [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:29am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • H is for HYPOCRITE!

    —Non-Partisan

    Last week LDS apostle Dallin H. Oaks delivered an address at BYU-Idaho in which he defended the church’s position with regard to same-sex marriage.  In this address he stated: “There is a battle over the meaning of [religious] freedom.  The contest is of eternal importance, and it is your generation that [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 2:39pm EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • Get Ready For Next Year

    —Non-Partisan

    Does anyone remember the fiscal problems of the 2009 legislative session?  2010 isn’t looking any better, and to many observers, it might actually be looking worse.  Utah is in for some pretty horrific budget cuts next year and it’s time to prepare for them now. I’ve got a few suggestions for [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 8:57am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • Governor Herbert Scores Twice!

    —Non-Partisan

    Sometimes it’s difficult to be objective, and again I think I’m going to annoy some of my liberal compadres with this.  But here it is… Utah’s new governor (and gubernatorial candidate) Gary Herbert has made a couple of good moves this week. First, he has stated flatly that he will not [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:29am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • Senator Orrin Hypocrisy

    —Non-Partisan

    Senator Hatch is at it again.  This time he’s sent a letter to President Obama urging the Justice Department to investigate the BCS for alleged violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Look folks, I’m a big fan of college football, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a person that despises the [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 9:17am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • An Unpopular Position

    —Non-Partisan

    Today’s Salt Lake Tribune includes an editorial entitled “The Best Political System Money Can Buy.”  In this piece the Tribune argues that although Utah’s elected offices might not technically be completely for sale, significant donors can at least get themselves a good time share in the Governor’s Office. The piece explains [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 9:47am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • Utah’s RCB Did The Right Thing?

    —Non-Partisan

    Wow, this blew by last week and I missed it.  After failing to pass a moratorium on the disposal of depleted uranium (DU) at the EnergySolutions facility in Clive, UT last month, the Utah Radiation Control Board issued a license amendment requiring that EnergySolutions provide a study demonstrating that the [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:02am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • RID Update

    —Non-Partisan

    Last Friday (Oct. 16, 2009) the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Environment subcommittee held its first hearing regarding HR 515, the Radioactive Import Deterrence (RID) Act.  This legislation, cosponsored by Utah’s Jason Chaffetz (R) and Jim Matheson (D), seeks to ban the importation of foreign nuclear waste. The RID [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 9:02am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • More Stupidity From Sutherland…

    —Non-Partisan

    Ah, the Sutherland Institute, Utah’s very own neoconservative nightmare.  In their latest move they’ve decided to premier an independent film, Not Evil Just Wrong, which highlights nine “significant errors” in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. This is apparently an attempt to convince the world that global warming isn’t really a problem [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:30am EDT
    by Bob Henline

  • 30 US Senators Endorse Rape!

    —Non-Partisan

    You probably didn’t hear it here first, but you’re hearing it now.  Last week the Franken Amendment was added to the Defense Appropriations Bill that prohibits the federal government from doing business with corporations that have rape arbitration clauses in their contracts.  Seems pretty logical, right?  The government shouldn’t support [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:12am EDT
    by Bob Henline
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