The article posted by Larry Beinhart on Alternet this morning is worth a good read. He looks at the economy over the last ten years and realizes that there was no ‘boom’ between ‘03 and ‘07, but that the entire round of economic growth — 37%! — was based on debt, which was driven by [...]
According to the local daily, the “Stop Snitching” movement has come to town. Police report that investigations regarding three recent murders were held up due to a lack of any of the many witnesses coming forward to testify. Cops are frustrated, but suspicious citizens will no longer believe that police are either neutral parties or [...]
If me and readers of the Salt Lake City Tribune knew this two weeks ago, why did it take Texas authorities so long to figure it out? Two words explain it: Willful neglect.
The man named in the search warrant, Dale Barlow, actually lived in Arizona. He contacted authorities immediately after the Texas raid occurred to [...]
The move has the appearance of a class-action child removal. I’ve never heard of anything like that.
Jessica Dixondirector of the child advocacy centerSMU law school
Of course, we condemn child abuse and we don’t stand up for the perpetration of that, [But] what the state has done has offended a pretty wide swath of the American [...]
So we find out that the supposed call from the 16-year-old FLDS ‘victim’ was actually a prank call from a woman in Colorado Springs who has been connected to similar prank calls in Colorado. After careful examination of all of the children involved, not a single substantiated claim was confirmed. But the judge decided that [...]
About the only thing that has held up, of all the accusations against the FLDS that I’ve read, is that when a man breaks the rules, his wives and children are reassigned to another man. I haven’t heard any specific denials of this practice, and have encountered evidence that leads me to believe this probably [...]
Can we call this ‘Eldorado-gate’ yet? The madness with the Mormons in Eldorado continues with new and interesting twists almost daily. First the kids and moms were moved from the decrepit fort to the San Angelo Coliseum (presumably, one without lions). Then all the moms without kids under five-years-old were given the choice of returning [...]
Grits for Breakfast has been very focused on this particular misadventure. See more here.
So here’s where we stand. The laws the sect are accused of violating were expressly created to target their religious practices. The raid was based on a phone call that may turn out to be bogus. No victim has been identified, [...]
Just as an aside, while you’re watching fuel and food prices skyrocket, here’s a note from the Sunnyside Boys:
The decline of the dollar is not entirely a bad thing. If anything will bring manufacturing jobs back to the US, it’s the cheap dollar. That cheap dollar balances trade deficits, as more Asians and Europeans begin [...]
I’m getting this low, thudding migraine that’s starting to curl up the left side of my face. Every time I see the letters FLDS all together, or hear the name “Eldorado” the pain slightly increases. I’m so embarrassed to be a Texan. Why must we elect pretentious, xenophobic, provincial busybodies to the state legislature? Why [...]