Simple Utah Mormon Politics

I just did a check on about ten different national news sites. Not one of them any longer has anything about the torture memos on its front page. Rather, the top item on the list is now swine flu hysteria. Swine flu is affecting thousands, but still you'd think that the American news media could juggle more than one important ball at one time. If this weren't the same news media that thinks anything that, for example, Angelina Jolie does is news of the utmost importance, you'd also think that the media could put the swine flu problems in their proper perspective. Have you heard very much in the news about the Obama's release of Bush torture memos lately? Did you know that, due to the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico City, the Mexican economy may be on the verge Not even a swine flu outbreak should be seen as a warrant for a cover-up of the realities of Bush-era torture. of collapse? Did you know that it was recently discovered that virus samples have may gone missi...

How does Sudan get the wherewithal to resettle, torment, and kill its own citizens? A great deal of help is coming from China. Does anybody care? Clear back in 2004 it became clear that China was enabling the Darfur genocide . Although most Western oil companies have withdrawn from Sudan under pressure from human rights organizations, Chinese companies have turned a blind eye to the brutal way in which Sudan forced 200,000 to 300,000 of its citizens from oil-rich lands without compensation. Nor have these companies shown concern that Sudan uses oil revenue to purchase arms for its wars against its black African population. Oil provides revenue. Revenue can be used to purchase weapons. Weapons can be used by a government to kill its own people. But who would sell weapons to Sudan, knowing full well what they'll try to do with them? You've got three seconds to answer. China? Very good! Go to the head of the class! (If you said Russia, you're correct as well.) In a 24-p...