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City Weekly asks: Is John Swallow offering access to the Attorney General in return for donations?

June 1, 2012 by

“Now, this is kind of confidential, but when I’m the attorney general, I will try to restructure it so Consumer Protection is under the AG [office] and the attorney general has more authority over those investigations. In fact—complete authority over that,” Swallow is heard telling telemarketing-business owner Aaron Christner in an April 7 phone conversation.

This is all the more disturbing because Swallow is making this statement to a member of an industry–companies involved in online-business opportunities and Internet marketing–that has collectively donated $82,284 to his campaign. [cont…]

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Exaggerated Claims: Swallow at Supreme Court to “ensure” unconstitutionality of Obamacare?

May 30, 2012 by

In short, the email walks through a loose timeline for the Affordable Care Act (also known as “Obamacare” more colloquially), putting Swallow at each crossroad of the legal battle. But for him, and Utah, Obamacare might not have made it before the Supreme Court.

Except that isn’t quite how it happened. We’ve already learned that Idaho had passed a law that gave standing to challenge Obamacare, and that Utah jumped on board. Sincerely, of course, but not necessarily crucial to the fight against the Affordable Care Act. It was important politically, but not really legally.

Now, Swallow’s campaign is claiming that he was at the Supreme Court to “ensure” the law was found unconstitutional. It’s a claim that stretches the truth. [Cont…]

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Words to avoid? Not just the four letter type.

May 30, 2012 by

While I’ve long since decided that our society is becoming much more like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than George Orwell’s 1984, there is something Orwellian about recent news that the watchful eye of the American security and intelligence community is surveying our electronic communications (read: the internet) of Americans for certain words and phrases. In an effort to avoid terrorist attacks (I assume), the smart guys at the Department of Homeland Security have come up with a list of words and phrases that they scan the internet to alert them to potential events that may threaten the US. [cont…]

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ICYMI: Post on KSL today–“Obama plays politics with same-sex marriage”

May 15, 2012 by

With polls showing public opinion shifting in favor of gay marriage at the same time as his opponent gains on the economy, Obama put his finger in the wind and timed his announcement on gay marriage to make maximum impact.

It’s not leadership. It’s polling. And polling says that Obama is losing on the economy but could galvanize support of the liberal base. It’s a lot easier than talking about the dismal job situations of 20.1 million people, and it keeps Romney out of headlines for another month. [cont…]

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Before you eat another french fry… [infographic]

May 11, 2012 by

Before you eat another french fry, think about this:

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What do running guns and running up a tab have in common?

April 17, 2012 by

We’ve all got our panties up in a bunch over the waste of tax dollars by the General Services Administration in a lavish Las Vegas conference, and it has started to result in resignations. That’s only over wasted tax payer money, though. In the Department of Justice’s failed “Fast and Furious” operation, guns went over the border to Mexican drug lords and killed a US agent. Why aren’t we seeing resignations there? [cont…]

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Obamacare before the Supreme Court: “The Emperor Has No Clothes!”

March 29, 2012 by

In a case of “the Emperor has no clothes,” the justices played the part of the skeptic to the Obama Administration’s protestations of Obamacare’s constitutionality. With the oral arguments on constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act over, let’s take a look back at the reactions to the arguments: [cont…]

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