Utah

Former Utah AG Mark Shurtleff"Aggressive police raids for thee, but not for me"

What do you think? Do you suppose Utah far-far-far-right-wing whackjob Trestin Meacham is any relation to onetime Yankees shortstop Bobby Meacham? Bobby M had his moments in pinstripes, which is more than you can say for his maybe-cousin the nutjob buttwipe."Trestin Meacham . . .

As soon as I had heard there was something big brewing in Utah,the first person to come to mind for an inside scoop was Ryan Combe, a progressive Democrat who ran for Congress last year. He said the day had been "shaping up to be one of the most shocking days in Utah’s political history when around 2pm a ruling from U.S.

Congress' most right-wing Democrat is finally retiringJim Matheson is one of the worst-- if not the worst-- Democrats in Congress.

Religion is a weird thing and I'm not comfortable with government getting involved in even recognizing it as legitimate. If people want to worship a sky god or a rock or ancestors or whatever, they should be free to do that-- unless they harm others and commit crimes. Mormonism is obviously nonsense from start to finish but is it any more ridiculous and any more of a hustler tradition than any other religion? Maybe.Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups, a right-wing Mormon freak who George W.

JoshUtah may be the most right-wing state in the country. The nuts in Texas may be more vicious and dangerous but Utah only gave President Obama 25% of its vote last year-- compared to 41% in Texas, 44% in Mississippi, 46% in Georgia and even 33% in the 4th Reich Idaho. The least red district in the state, UT-04 (home of hopelessly conservative Blue Dog Jim Matheson) has a PVI of R+16.

Chris Stewart's Utah congressional district-- the 2nd-- is gigantic, basically most of the western part of the state and almost half the southern part of the state. But most of the population is in the far northeast corner of the district, the northern part of Salt Lake City, the city's western suburbs and West Valley.

War... but  not as much as McCainBoehner, Cantor and House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Rogers (R-MI) are all backing Obama's flimsy excuses to rush to war against Syria but will they and their Beltway Establishment allies-- who have certainly tossed out the so-called Hastert Rule on this one-- be able to swing the majority of Republicans into Obama's corner?

Mike Lee & Orrin HatchWhat's a Republicano to do?