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 But, then, that's what the Internet ";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2007/01/more-dream-headlines.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116767151946549721http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116767151946549721";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116767151946549721";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:1;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116655829234911541";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-12-19T12:55:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-12-19T12:58:12.370-07:00";s:5:"title";s:31:"Deck Us All With Boston Charlie";s:7:"summary";s:396:"As a seasonal public service, which I learned many years ago from The Kansas City Star, we present the genuine and orginal lyrics to the festive Christmas carol, Deck Us All With Boston Charlie, lyrics by Walt Kelly, music by Traditional (whoever he is).

Deck us all with Boston Charlie
Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/12/deck-us-all-with-boston-charlie.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116655829234911541http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116655829234911541";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116655829234911541";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:2;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116613671910635054";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-12-14T15:51:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-12-14T15:56:09.810-07:00";s:5:"title";s:12:"On the radio";s:7:"summary";s:398:"My column in last Sunday's Tribune, "Our perverse farm policy," is being picked up by a few other newspapers and Web sites around the country. It's about how U.S. government policy encourages vast, unsustainable overproduction of basic grains that the world cannot afford to buy, wrecking prices, the economies of already poor nations and threatening the global environment too boot.

It's a topic ";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/12/on-radio.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116613671910635054http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116613671910635054";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116613671910635054";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:3;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116586408492955306";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-12-11T12:06:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-12-11T12:10:17.083-07:00";s:5:"title";s:24:"Speaking ill of the dead";s:7:"summary";s:399:""They say only the good die young. Generalissimo Francisco Franco was 82. Seems about right."
-- Richard Aregood
Philadelphia Daily News, 1975

 Aregood, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1985, later lamented that the above editorial -- yes, that's the whole thing -- could have done without the last sentence.

 It's a remarkably useful piece, fully applicable to the passing over";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/12/speaking-ill-of-dead.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116586408492955306http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116586408492955306";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116586408492955306";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:4;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116561479810546937";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-12-08T14:52:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-12-08T14:53:18.123-07:00";s:5:"title";s:37:"Not to speak ill of the dead, but ...";s:7:"summary";s:393:"Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the academic and diplomat who won Ronald Reagan's heart by rationalizing the idea that right-wing dictators are good and left-wing dictators are bad, died Thursday. She was 80.

She will be remembered as a leading light of the neo-con movement, which is now well on its way to being fully discredited, and as the first woman to rise high enough in a president's national ";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/12/not-to-speak-ill-of-dead-but.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116561479810546937http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116561479810546937";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116561479810546937";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:5;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116551889498197108";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-12-07T12:13:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-12-07T12:14:55.000-07:00";s:5:"title";s:21:"And another thing ...";s:7:"summary";s:399:"Another key findings of the Iraq Study Group: Those who say the media has made the violence seem worse than it is are wrong. If anything, the amount of bleeding and death that go on in Iraq every day since the U.S. invasion has been grossly underreported, perhaps deliberately, as a way of hiding the degree to which the whole enterprise has been a failure.

The story that nails this is, as so many";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/12/and-another-thing.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116551889498197108http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116551889498197108";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116551889498197108";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:6;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116551763495107644";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-12-07T11:51:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-12-07T11:55:47.103-07:00";s:5:"title";s:17:"Two sets of books";s:7:"summary";s:399:"Apparently, someone gave Rep. Chris Cannon the wrong book.

There is no way that anyone who can read English could have looked at the Iraq Study Group report and come to the same conclusion that Cannon did in commenting on same to The Salt Lake Tribune.

"As I read the report, it says the president is right," he said. "Basically, it says the president is a smart guy."

The report says nothing of ";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/12/two-sets-of-books.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116551763495107644http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116551763495107644";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116551763495107644";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:7;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116536339435534275";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-12-05T17:02:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-12-05T17:03:14.373-07:00";s:5:"title";s:32:"Not new. Not clear. Doesn't fizz";s:7:"summary";s:397:"I will admit to being one of those who cringes when people who should know better pronounce the adjective dealing with the behavior of subatomic particles "nuc-u-lar."

People who should know better include the man with his finger on the button -- President Bush -- and the man who is promising to make himself and much of Utah very rich by cleaning up the leftovers -- EnergySolutions boss Steve ";s:4:"link";s:76:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/12/not-new-not-clear-doesnt-fizz.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116536339435534275http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116536339435534275";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116536339435534275";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:8;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116483903517121821";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-11-29T15:20:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-11-29T15:23:55.190-07:00";s:5:"title";s:28:"You can't make this stuff up";s:7:"summary";s:393:"In an editorial today, The Tribune bemoans the appointment of Dr. Eric Keroack, a "purveyor of pseudoscience," to head the office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that is supposedly dedicated to promoting good information about family planning.

Keroack spent more than a decade as medical director of a way-out nonprofit in Massachusetts called A Woman's Concern. It is an ";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/11/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116483903517121821http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116483903517121821";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116483903517121821";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:9;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116440419069431745";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-11-24T14:31:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-11-24T14:36:30.713-07:00";s:5:"title";s:23:"Stop the Utah land grab";s:7:"summary";s:393:"If Sen. Bob Bennett is successful in grafting his bummer Washington County Growth and Conservation Act onto some worthy piece of legislation in the wee hours of the lame duck Congress, it will be like finding out your teenage son knows how to hot-wire a car. You may admire the skill, but worry about whether there is really a proper use for it.

In the meantime, more voices have lined up in ";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/11/stop-utah-land-grab.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116440419069431745http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116440419069431745";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116440419069431745";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:10;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116439852690480760";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-11-24T13:00:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-11-24T13:02:06.923-07:00";s:5:"title";s:23:"Educational malpractice";s:7:"summary";s:396:"Last week it was my annual pleasure to take part in the clinic for high school newspaper writers and photographers put on at the University of Utah, sponsored by the U. and The Salt Lake Tribune.
 
 Every year, I get the same question. This year, I finally thought of a good way to put the answer.
 
 The question: What do you say to a high school principal or school district superintendent who ";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/11/educational-malpractice.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116439852690480760http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116439852690480760";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116439852690480760";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:11;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116294006459460059";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-11-07T15:50:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-11-07T15:55:29.076-07:00";s:5:"title";s:22:"To hang or not to hang";s:7:"summary";s:399:"This morning's Salt Lake Tribune editorial "Whither Saddam" suggests that actually hanging the fallen dictator of Iraq might not be good strategy for anyone hoping to really govern that country. But, of course, neither would sparing his life. Either action is likely to lead to increased street violence among the various factions and tribes that are already at each other's throats.

Over on Slate,";s:4:"link";s:69:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/11/to-hang-or-not-to-hang.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116294006459460059http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116294006459460059";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116294006459460059";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:12;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116285388624976739";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-11-06T15:56:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-11-06T15:58:06.266-07:00";s:5:"title";s:22:"Bennett's crystal ball";s:7:"summary";s:398:"You may disagree -- as I often do -- with Utah's Sen. Bob Bennett on what government ought to do. But it's hard to disagree with the long-time senator, and son of a senator, when he describes what government does do, and why.
 
Bennett was in to pay a courtesy call on The Tribune's Editorial Board today, and we were interested in how he saw tomorrow's congressional elections turning out. Before ";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/11/bennetts-crystal-ball.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116285388624976739http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116285388624976739";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116285388624976739";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:13;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116260012419519028";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-11-03T17:27:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-11-03T17:28:44.233-07:00";s:5:"title";s:18:"We missed the list";s:7:"summary";s:392:"Depending on your politics, you may be either shocked or pleased that no one from Utah made Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 10 Worst Congressmen.

Maybe that's because our neighbors in Colorado hogged the quota for the Rockies with two:

At No. 6,   Rep. Tom Tancredo, which the Rock 'n' Roll Rag calls "the undisputed king of Republican bigotry,

And No. 10, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, the ";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/11/we-missed-list.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116260012419519028http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116260012419519028";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116260012419519028";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:14;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116251221742045176";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-11-02T17:02:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-11-02T17:03:37.440-07:00";s:5:"title";s:19:"Tragedy, not comedy";s:7:"summary";s:399:"A good Ivy Leaguer like Sen. John Kerry clearly should not have tried to express his displeasure with President Bush's war policies in a joke. 

When Kerry said that people who don't study hard wind up "stuck in Iraq," he clearly meant the administration, not the soldiers. Now, though, the administration's spinners have seized upon Kerry's very ineloquent statements to make it sound as though he ";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/11/tragedy-not-comedy.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116251221742045176http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116251221742045176";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116251221742045176";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:15;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116231373392829367";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-10-31T09:55:00.000-07:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-10-31T14:00:07.976-07:00";s:5:"title";s:26:"Not too late to vote early";s:7:"summary";s:394:"Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert wasn't showing off those cute jammies just to be funny. That TV commercial is a sign of how desperate he and other state and county election officials in Utah are  to get people to take advantage of the various early voting opportunities around the state.

The Diebold touch-screen voting machines are new and will present voters with a learning curve, even those who are ";s:4:"link";s:73:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/10/not-too-late-to-vote-early.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116231373392829367http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116231373392829367";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116231373392829367";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:16;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116197057228546621";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-10-27T11:33:00.000-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-10-27T11:36:12.303-06:00";s:5:"title";s:25:"Time to cram for the test";s:7:"summary";s:397:"For those of you just tuning in, it's Election Season. The general election is Nov. 7, just 11 days from the date of this post. If you haven't been paying attention because you've been too busy watching college football, the World Series or figuring out just what to wear for Halloween, here's some links that can help you cram for your test of citizenship.

The Utah Elections Office has lots of ";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/10/time-to-cram-for-test.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116197057228546621http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116197057228546621";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116197057228546621";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:17;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116120056312738797";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-10-18T13:38:00.000-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-10-18T13:43:45.170-06:00";s:5:"title";s:17:"On second thought";s:7:"summary";s:391:"Asking unanimous consent to revise and extend our remarks:

Adam Ford, the Democrat challenging Utah state Sen. Howard Stephenson for his 11th District seat, was honest and brave enough to revise what he said to The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board after he met with us a few weeks ago. Noting that here gives me a chance to extend what we said in today's editorial endorsing Ford.

In his ";s:4:"link";s:64:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/10/on-second-thought.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116120056312738797http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116120056312738797";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116120056312738797";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:18;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116112101799628143";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-10-17T15:35:00.000-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-10-17T15:36:58.016-06:00";s:5:"title";s:14:"Clear as crude";s:7:"summary";s:398:"The Utah Department of Commerce report on high gasoline prices in Utah -- subject of one of today's Tribune editorials -- reminds me of an old newspaper columnist's dodge: When you can't think of anything to write a column about, you write a column about how there's nothing to write a column about.

The meat of the report is that the only figures anyone has to go on are those posted high in the ";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/10/clear-as-crude.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=116112101799628143http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116112101799628143";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/116112101799628143";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:19;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-116109952481099697";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-10-17T09:33:00.000-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-10-17T09:38:44.826-06:00";s:5:"title";s:32:"International signing statements";s:7:"summary";s:397:"The ink was barely dry on the unanimously passed U.N. Security Council resolution slapping North Korea with sanctions in response to its long-anticipated nuclear weapons test when diplomats and journalists started wondering how strictly those sanctions would be enforced. (Our editorial take: Options are very limited. China has reason to be antsy about any move it makes. Talk. Talk. Talk.) 

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It's even worse than the resurgence of the expression, "It's not rocket science," which seemed to grow in use right after the space shuttle Challenger blew up.

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One: Will people who want to steal the election be able to hack the system to their nefarious ends?

Two: Will people who only want to cast their true and legal ballots be able to understand the dang machines and vote for who they really wanted to vote ";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://blogs.sltrib.com/editorial/2006/10/vote-early-and-carefully.html";s:12:"link_replies";s:115:"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27437625&postID=115972359471302604http://blogs.sltrib.com/rss/editorial.xml";s:9:"link_self";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/115972359471302604";s:9:"link_edit";s:70:"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27437625/posts/default/115972359471302604";s:11:"author_name";s:14:"www.sltrib.com";}i:23;a:10:{s:2:"id";s:58:"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27437625.post-115956163854022196";s:9:"published";s:29:"2006-09-29T14:25:00.000-06:00";s:7:"updated";s:29:"2006-10-01T14:57:21.450-06:00";s:5:"title";s:21:"Credit where it's due";s:7:"summary";s:399:"It has been suggested that singling out Utah's Rep. Jim Matheson for special criticism, as we did in Friday's editorial about the hideous Military Commissions Act that passed Congress this week, was a bit unfair. After all, the other four members of Congress from Utah voted for it, too, as well as enough other Democrats from around the country to make the margin of victory disgustingly clear.

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