Lawyers for former state Senate majority leader Sheldon Killpack argued before a judge that evidence from a traffic stop that proved he was legally drunk should be tossed because the state trooper did not have legal cause to pull him over in the first place. Killpack pushed for some of the DUI laws that he is now trying to dodge.

Back in the game. Mitt Romney, savior of Utah's 2002 Olympic games, appears to be in better position than Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee or any other Republican to defeat President Barack Obama in 2012. Mitt trails the president by just two points in a national poll.

Oily ducks too? A Canadian energy startup told the Utah Division of Oil, Gas & Mining it can extract petroleum from oil sands in eastern Utah and leave behind an environment as clean as a beach. It might not be the best argument considering BP's impact on Louisiana beaches.

Anybody got a Hillbilly-to-English dictionary? After seeing the linguistic quality of the emails attacking Gary Herbert for his firing of two women who released The List of purported illegal immigrants, some Utah Latinos are saying that right-wing nativists should drop their drive for "English-only" laws and go for a Broken English-only law. Sample: "[Y]our one sorry governor and unAmerican,you should be empeached or step down-now depoart these law breaking illegals now.”