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As election returns came in Tuesday night, it was clear that records were being set. Women, who make up 50.7% of the U.S. population, added 5 new members bringing their total to 20% of the U.S. Senate. The second big milestone was reached when Jeff Flake became the 7th Mormon to win a Senate seat. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While Indiana, Missouri, Maine and many other states managed to keep Tea Party nuts at bay, other states weren’t so wise. Nebraska’s Deb Fischer won a senate seat by kow-towing to Tea Party extremists in the Republican primary.
Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, threatened to arrest U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder after voting to hold him in contempt of congress, the first such vote in American history. Mitt Romney, himself, called for Holder to resign. “Either Mr. Holder himself should resign, or the president should ask for his resignation or remove him,” Romney said in December 2011. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mormon Church has always staked out positions among the political far right. In the 1920′s Reed Smoot, the first Mormon senator and the most powerful LDS leader in politics at the time, was good friends with Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. By passing the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, Hoover sent America into the Great Depression. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ezra Taft Benson was the president/prophet of the Mormon Church from 1985-1994. He rose to national prominence when President Dwight Eisenhower picked him to be U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in 1953. Benson was a fanatical anti-communist who eventually came to the conclusion that President Eisenhower was a danger to the country. Benson was part of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While Mormons like to say they’re no crazier than other religions, it’s apparent that when you actually compare them, Mormons have them beat by a mile. Mormons like to shine the light at other religions when they’re questioned, and traditional religions do believe in some pretty outrageous things, but they are distinguished from cults in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again, this writer will tackle the subjects that the mainstream media is too afraid to cover. In this edition, a thorough examination of the conservative movement and some of the gay men behind it will be presented. For the record, I support gay marriage and I’m against people who discriminate against people based on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A seemingly spur of the moment decision sent Mormon president/prophet Thomas Monson over to Germany for the last two weeks. Speculation swirls about what Monson was up to when he vanished for a week in Germany. From Oct. 13 to 20, the 85-year-old Monson, considered a “prophet, seer and revelator” by the Mormon faithful, will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Karl Rove ran cover for Mitt Romney during the Republican primaries. Whenever Gingrich or Santorum or one of the other candidates would get close, Rove would show up on Fox News and shoot them down. Rove was a Romney man from the beginning. It’s no surprise then that Rove has taken the lead when it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Four months before the Muslim world erupted and four Americans were killed in Libya, Mitt Romney was getting ready to respond. In the infamous “I don’t care about 47% of America” video, Romney made some very candid statements about the 1980 Iranian hostage crisis. Here’s a transcript of the relevant passages from the video. Questioner: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The House Oversight Committee held hearings yesterday on the terrorist attack in Libya that killed four Americans. One of the prime witnesses was Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, a site commander who provided security in Tripoli from February to August. The terrorist attack occurred in the city of Benghazi approximately a month after Wood left country. Wood […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If there’s one thing a good Mormon learns early on, is that membership in the church requires complete and blind obedience to church authority. The relationship between church hierarchy and its membership demands disciplined obedience, with harsh sanctions handed out to those who don’t follow the dictates of the LDS hierrachy. As James Coates writes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mitt Romney is hoping his tough talk on China policy will win him votes — but few of his big business donors or fellow Republicans support what he’s saying or believe he’d follow through if elected… there’s fear that Romney’s threat — if actually carried out — could damage the U.S. economy. The Chinese could […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mormons, Mormons everywhere, but not a drop of empathy anywhere. While most of the country celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision making President Obama’s Affordable Care Act constitutional, Mitt Romney’s Mormon surrogates were on a mission of their own. First up was Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah; Lee, a former clerk to Justice Samuel Alito who attended […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mitt Romney doesn’t want to talk about religion. No, not because Mormonism is so controversial, but because religion is at the heart of his campaign, and he wants to keep that fact a secret. Mitt Romney plans to use religion more than any other presidential candidate in history. While most political analysts predicted Romney would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s quite odd that Mitt Romney is running away from his Mormon religion. He doesn’t want anybody to touch the subject with a ten foot pole. Quite odd when you consider that Mormons have gained the reputation for constantly seeking converts. In fact, Romney himself, spent 2 1/2 years in France as a missionary trying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Frank VanderSloot is Mitt Romney’s brother from another mother, a bully only “Mitt the Barber” could love. He’s your prototypical Mormon tough guy, smiling and genial on the outside, ruthless and manipulative on the inside. Whether it’s battling a local newspaper trying to report on a story about Boy Scout molestations, buying up five Idaho radio stations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The scandal plagued 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City needed someone to try and repair Utah’s image. The Salt Lake Organizing Committee had bribed Olympic deciders with scholarships, real estate, jobs, cash, and anything else they could get a hold of, and they turned to Mitt Romney to repair their image. With the help of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In another blow to his election chances, Latinos are distancing themselves from his harsh stance on Immigrant Americans. While stressing the Mormon faith’s historic connection to converting immigrants, Latino Mormons point directly to immigration stories in the Book of Mormon and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ recent statements against policies targeting immigrants. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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