Terms were set last March to use Las Vegas casinos for the Democratic Caucus’ this Saturday. Now that the Cullinary Workers Union has endorsed Obama, there is a lawsuit over whether or not the casinos should be used for the caucus. Read about it at a blog here http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/ralstons-flash/2008/jan/14/bill-clinton-criticizes–large-precincts/ and on the washington post site here […]
I thought this article was really interesting and frustrating. In short:
1) The U.S. Intelligence Chief calls waterboarding torture.
2) We are reminded that Attorney General Mukasey won’t say whether waterboarding is torture or not.
3) The CIA has destroyed videotapes showing Al Qaeda members being tortured.
4) The House has passed a bill banning the CIA from using […]
If you’re interested, there’s teleconference with Mohammed Yunus (involved in micro-credit) on campus this Saturday. Here’s the details:
The next teleconference meeting of the Central Utah chapter of Results will be held in room 2198 JFSB on BYU campus at noon on Saturday, January 12th. I’m excited to let you know that the speaker will […]
Who is everyone rooting for? Leave a comment with your favorite candidate and we can take our own BYU Dems straw poll. Personally, I’m undecided between Hillary and Obama, so if you have any good arguments on either side I’d love to hear them.
-Diane
(PS. I have to disagree with Mr. Moore. This election season I’m […]
CCRJustice.org is sending the President over 37,000 copies of the Constitution for Christmas. This is an excerpt they had on their website:
Dear President Bush:
Enclosed please find a copy of the U.S. Constitution. I wish you’d make some time in your busy schedule to read it.
I would have hoped that you’d be pretty familiar with it […]
It seems Mitt’s candidacy is bringing out all the anti-Mormon bashing. I don’t know if you guys have seen this windbag (Lawrence O’Donnell) on the MacLaughlin group, but here’s a link to the video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aWjIpkxcak
Apparently, we are all pro-slavery, racsist, polygamous idiots. News to me!
(As a side note, in studying Joseph Smith’s candidacy […]
I’m no fan of Mitt Romney, let’s be clear. But there was an article in the New York Times that was misleading about the LDS faith which I found to be ignorant and somewhat offensive. Check it out and write the Times if you feel so inclined.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/opinion/09dowd.html?ex=1354942800&en=dfeb0333e2e18d47&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Email to publisher@nytimes.com and president@nytimes.com if you so choose. Here’s what […]
Even with the troop casualties declining since the summer, this has been the deadliest year in the Iraq War thus far.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/iraq/2003998364_iraq07.html
Randal
By Tony Peyser
“Asked about new intel that Iraq Iran halted its development of a nuclear bomb four years ago, President Bush said, “The reason why it’s a warning signal is they could restart it.” OK … so … shouldn’t we be worried that the leader of the free world is still drinking? Yeah, Bush did […]
