"This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms. These aren't just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor. These are very specific strategies that are dictated to us by this United Nations program that mayors have signed on to."

Reluctant hero. One of the women accused of distributing The List of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants is reluctant to accept the accolades of right-wingnuts--not to mention potential criminal charges. Teresa Bassett, who is fighting her firing, says through her lawyer that she had nothing to do with compiling or distributing The List.

Clean and sleazy. In a world of pseudo-reality television, it's not surprising the new owners of the Salt Lake's Bar X are saying they will preserve the bar as a "dive." That's a sterilized dive, of course, that serves post-modern cocktails. A new-and-improved Bar-X co-owner explains the Mad Men-meets-Ice Road Truckers concept to the Tribune: “We’re going to keep the name. We’re going to keep the sign. We’re going to keep the feel of the place. But we’ve been cleaning it for a few weeks.”

Confusing Mormons with Zombies, again. Although the United Kingdom was the first place visited by Mormon missionaries, the Brit media has never had a warm feeling (or much understanding) for the LDS. The most recent example is an article in the Express headlined "The Rise of the Mormons."

They are nicknamed The Mormon mafia. Its followers are taking over the corridors of power on Wall street, heading companies in the Forbes 500 and have already made a bid for the White House. “You’ll find Mormons in many board rooms wielding influence and shaping society,” says one leading Mormon businessman. “We’re trained for success.”

This is news? A "Christian restoration" blogger in some hillbilly state, thinking he's stumbled onto something, declares Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch is a "Republican Weenie." If you pretend to love liberty but you are more worried about being re-elected that defending liberty, then you just might be a Republican weenie.

Never say never. GOP Senate candidate Mike Lee tells the Deseret News he'll never compromise his principles. Then Lee explains how he'll compromise his principles -- for things like federal mass transit money. "There may be some federal projects out there sometime which I never would have voted for at the onset, that I might have to consider because not finishing them could create a public nuisance."

Then, he dummies up. Mike Lee is turning down opportunities to debate Democratic opponent Sam Granato as fast as he can. Political scientist Matthew Burbank explains to KCPW: "Debates are places you can make mistakes."

This is name calling? Jake Shannon who is running as a Libertarian against dastardly incumbent Rep. Jason Chaffetz, has coined the term "Tea-O-Cons," and launched it at Chaffetz: In essence, Neo-Cons are pro-war, anti-liberty, anti-accountability, deceptive, and pro-Zionist. Tea-O-Cons are simply Neo-Conservative wolves in Tea Party sheep’s clothing.