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R.VanWagoner
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5 days ago

A Big Week in Hypocrisy For Conservative Culture Warriors*

Doublespeak and flat-out contradiction aren’t just a Republican thing, but they have perfected the art of projection. Ménages à Trois with “Don’t Say Gay” Social Conservatives “ . . . you have people who are pushing a social conservative agenda saying there’s too much sex in society, particularly LGBTQ sex…

LGBTQ

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A Big Week in Hypocrisy For Conservative Culture Warriors*
A Big Week in Hypocrisy For Conservative Culture Warriors*
LGBTQ

9 min read


Nov 26

Will A.G. Sean Reyes (R-UT) Finally Be Impeached?*

He Disgraces The State Of Utah, His Office, The Rule of Law, And The Legal Profession It’s hard to fathom that in deep red Utah where zero public and political accountability exists on the right, its Republican-led legislature just might clean up a mess — wreckage in the words of…

Corruption

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Will A.G. Sean Reyes (R-UT) Finally Be Impeached?*
Will A.G. Sean Reyes (R-UT) Finally Be Impeached?*
Corruption

14 min read


Nov 18

Uncle Vermin Died In A Shooting Accident At Church*

A Short Allegory Bibles in one hand and guns in the other, Vermin and the wife, the kids and all the rest gathered at the church house for the celebration. Preacher Michael led the congregation in fervent prayer and rousing song — Onward Christian Soldiers, Marching As To War, With…

Parody

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Uncle Vermin Died In A Shooting Accident At Church*
Uncle Vermin Died In A Shooting Accident At Church*
Parody

3 min read


Nov 12

“I Wish, As A Man, I Didn’t Have To Make This Decision”*

John Curtis (R-UT), on abortion. Curtis is considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat Mitt Romney vacates next year. Conservative states and certain members of Congress, including the new House speaker, are doing everything imaginable to keep women second-class citizens, to prevent them from having bodily autonomy and making…

Women

10 min read

“I Wish, As A Man, I Didn’t Have To Make This Decision”*
“I Wish, As A Man, I Didn’t Have To Make This Decision”*
Women

10 min read


Nov 5

Speaker Mike Johnson: Making America Straight — Or At least Closeted — Again*

Human Rights Campaign’s recent ROUNDUP summarizes Speaker Mike Johnson’s decades-long devotion to merging his extremist visions of religion and government, his sanctimonious dedication to preventing, curtailing, and reversing the expansion of civil and human rights to historically marginalized groups and to dehumanizing LGBTQ+ people, restricting bodily autonomy, undermining democracy and…

LGBTQ

10 min read

Speaker Mike Johnson: Making America Straight — Or At least Closeted — Again*
Speaker Mike Johnson: Making America Straight — Or At least Closeted — Again*
LGBTQ

10 min read


Oct 29

The New Speaker Exudes the Smugness of Fringe Evangelical Certitude*

“The problem is the human heart. It’s not guns.” Mike Johnson (R-LA) One year ago I posted, The Absurdity of Actual Events Is Eclipsing Parody. Parody vanished behind the election of Mike Johnson (R-LA) as House Speaker. The earth is no more than six-thousand years old, humans and dinosaurs roamed…

Congress

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The New Speaker Exudes the Smugness of Fringe Evangelical Certitude*
The New Speaker Exudes the Smugness of Fringe Evangelical Certitude*
Congress

10 min read


Oct 22

A Tyrant Seeks To Exploit “Gaps” In The Constitution*

Thanks to the quality and magnitude of Trump’s corruption and criminality, those “gaps” are being closed. I have tried to think of anything even marginally constructive that came from the Trump presidency, without much success. On September 11, 2022, I posted Trump’s Attempted Destruction of America, In Numbers (“Trump’s Numbers”)…

Crime

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A Tyrant Seeks To Exploit “Gaps” In The Constitution*
A Tyrant Seeks To Exploit “Gaps” In The Constitution*
Crime

13 min read


Oct 15

Atrocities Committed In The Name Of God*

Radicalized Depravity I’ve often wondered whether people who commit atrocities in god’s name would find other grounds to rationalize terrorizing and destroying innocent lives if belief in a supernatural weren’t a thing. …

Israel

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Atrocities Committed In The Name Of God*
Atrocities Committed In The Name Of God*
Israel

8 min read


Oct 9

American (Political) Horror Story: Trump Positions Jordan Two Heartbeats Away*

A fictional but plausible account based on “true” events. I began writing this week’s post as a fictional — albeit plausible — story, based on actual events, of yet another sinister plot Trump would hatch with co-conspirators Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and other select members of the Freedom Caucus after…

Congress

8 min read

American (Political) Horror Story: Trump Positions Jordan Two Heartbeats Away*
American (Political) Horror Story: Trump Positions Jordan Two Heartbeats Away*
Congress

8 min read


Oct 1

What Did Utah AG Sean Reyes Know And When Did He Know It?*

Dominating the local news in Utah since Senator Mitt Romney announced he won’t seek reelection is Tim Ballard, founder of anti-human sex trafficking Operation Underground Railroad (“O.U.R.”). O.U.R. is an organization that raised tens of millions in donations ($42 million in 2021 alone) on its self-credited and -promoted successes and…

Fraud

10 min read

What Did Utah AG Sean Reyes Know And When Did He Know It?*
What Did Utah AG Sean Reyes Know And When Did He Know It?*
Fraud

10 min read

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R.VanWagoner

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Exercising my right not to remain silent. Criminal defense and First Amendment attorney.

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