JM Bell | August 22, 2006
This is yet another perfect example of why Republicans on the hill are going the wrong direction. Racism, bigotry and religious and ethnic discrimination seem to be no small part of being considered a leader in Utah’s Republican Legislators. This from an AP article on in the Deseret Morning News: Sen. Buttars Says Ruling Against [...]
JM Bell | August 17, 2006
* Safavian, Abramoff, DeLay, Cunningham, etc.** etc. and … Cannon? Dirty politics is dirty politics no matter how well rehearsed your excuses are. From the AP wire today: Lawmaker helped brother’s lobby clients TED BRIDIS Associated Press “WASHINGTON – Three times this year, a lobbyist sought help from Rep. Christopher Cannon for his clients and [...]
JM Bell | August 15, 2006
“I’d rather be talking about this than all of the other things that Congress hasn’t done well,” one Republican congressional aide told AFP on condition of anonymity because of possible reprisals. “Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big,” said another White House official, who also spoke on condition of not being named, [...]
JM Bell | August 14, 2006
Just when we think we’ve heard it all…. In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to “grieve”, after which time they want to start taking depositions of the [...]
JM Bell | August 14, 2006
Washington, DC – Today, when asked about “giant loopholes” in our nation’s security, President Bush asked the reporter for the “specific loopholes” they were referring to. [President Bush, 8/14/06] His comments came less than a week after loopholes in our nation’s aviation security became clear when a major terror plot to blow up transatlantic flights [...]
JM Bell | August 14, 2006
On August 14, 1935 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. Today this program is widely considered to be the most successful government program in the United States, lifting literally millions of seniors out of poverty and providing needed benefits to minors that lose one or both of their parents, the [...]
JM Bell | August 14, 2006
I’ve been listening to KSL since I was a little kid. My dad gets a kick out of telling stories of catching my skipping elementary school to sit at home and listen to the news on KSL. He’d catch me because I was always calling in to express my 8 year old’s opinion on the [...]
JM Bell | August 12, 2006
In an attempt to meet their obligations as candidates for public office, several candidates for US Senate attended a debate sponsored by Democratic US Senate candidate Pete Ashdown at the Salt Lake City Main Library today. The only candidate absent or failing to send a a representative to the event was Utah’s incumbent 30 year [...]
JM Bell | August 11, 2006
Yesterday: News Of The “Largest Terror Conspiracy Since 9/11.” “The news this day was dominated by word of the largest terror conspiracy since the 9/11 attacks. British authorities announced they arrested 24 people in a plot to bomb flights to the United States. Various news accounts said the attackers planned to use liquid explosives. They [...]
JM Bell | August 10, 2006
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