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It's not really fashionable to support Rep. Jim Matheson -- he's not enough of a Democrat for us lefties, and right-wingers blindly consider a D after any congressman or -woman's name to be the Mark of the Beast, making Matheson an enemy of freedom, God and all that is good in the world.
Still, it is worthwhile to note that Matheson is the sole member of Utah's congressional delegation who does anything for the poor.
In the year and a half since D.J. Bell was brutally attacked by neighbors, charges have yet to be filed against Bell's assailants.
It's depressing to think that, once Democrats in Congress finally do manage to ram a meaningful health-care reform package past the obstructionists, there is a whole other line of state-level obstructionists waiting to yank affordable insurance out of the hands of the working class.
Spoiler: Magnesium wins, mostly -- even when these "girls" (as they are affectionately/condescendingly referred to by the narrator) bring out the acetylene torches!
Seems the Legislature has got the message that Utah voters are all het up about ethics.
A popular citizens' initiative -- which would establish an independent ethics commission, place an outright ban on lobbyist gifts and, at last, impose some reforms with teeth -- is growing into such a menace it got the honorable folks on the Hill thinking of ways to defuse the threat.
Reed Cowan's documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition could shape up to be one of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's more controversial entries -- if activists have anything to say about it.
A Facebook post by Jacob Whipple provides the details on demonstrations -- called "marches" -- being held at theaters screening the film during the festival -- the number of which has now been limited to a modest six. The demonstrations are intended to draw public attention to the film.
Not that 8:TMP appears to need much promotion.