Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1264

Democrats and impeachment

    All my news and facts come from Sean Hannity and Fox News, of course, so I was fascinated when Sean conducted this “CNN” poll:   It seems that 13% of those surveyed who are members of the Fox News affiliate called the Democratic Party favor the impeachment of Barack Obama:   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/...   [Read More...]

“Constantine’s influence can scarcely be measured”

    Today’s biweekly Hamblin/Peterson column in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“Epic fail, Dan. Epic fail.”

    “Everybody Wang Chung” has just now responded, after a fashion, to my post the other day about “Anonymous Slander on the Web.”  (Somebody on his own board had directly asked him for his reaction to what I had written about him, and I suppose he realized that he couldn’t simply ignore the request and [Read More...]

Timely counsel from Abraham Lincoln

Blood Needed

    If you’re along the Wasatch Front, and especially if you’re in the Salt Lake Valley:   There seems, for some reason, to be an exceptionally great need right now in the Salt Lake City area for blood.   ARUP Blood Services (which is the sole provider of blood to patients at the Huntsman Cancer [Read More...]

“Understanding Nephi with the Help of Noah Webster”

      It’s Friday!   So, naturally, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published a new article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/unde...   And, while we’re at it, Kristine Wardle Frederickson has joined The Interpreter Foundation as a contributing editor:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/auth...   And Matthew Bowen has joined our Board of Editors:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/auth...    

Free Shaneen Allen! (She crossed the Delaware, not the Rubicon.)

      Now, here’s an outrage:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   You can drop a note to Governor Chris Christie here.    

It’s just a few of us loons who see a problem.

    As has been previously observed by an incisive pair of critics, I obtain virtually all of my news and political “facts” from Sean Hannity and Fox News.   Above is the cover for Sean Hannity’s latest lead story in Fox-controlled Time Magazine.  Typical fringe Tea-Party wack-job paranoia and anti-Obama racism from a typical tabloid [Read More...]

Let that be a lesson to ye, Dan-o!

    Read your emails.   I know.  If, like me, you get lots and lots of them, it can be deucedly hard to keep up.   But I lost three or four blog posts last night.  They simply disappeared.  Vanished.  And, since I compose them on the site itself, rather than transferring them from [Read More...]

“Trek by Mormon pioneers helped create identity”

      A Pioneer Day column from three years ago:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/70...