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By:  Kevin Trainor/Managing Editor The longest serving Repub senator of all time, Orrin Hatch, has announced his retirement.  More to the point Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) read the polls.  He would win re-election at 84, no doubt, but he knows the turnout would be uninspired.  Utah is a peculiar state politically, and otherwise.  After decades going into the 1890’s it was a U.S. Territory.  Utah leadership, read Mormon Church, had been a largely polygamous entity.  In order to be granted statehood the United States Government had insisted it drop its multiple wives way before it could be admitted to the Union.  Miraculously, the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints received a message from God that it should abandon the practice.  In 1896 it was admitted as a state. Currently, the state that leads the nation in use of anti-depressants has already crowned a successor to Hatch.  Welcome Mitt Romney. Why ...

By:  Kevin Trainor/Managing Editor Doug Jones is now a United States Senator.  Much of the Republican agenda in the senate dealt a serious blow by the new senator from the Heart of Dixie.  51-49, and the Repubs in ‘bama have nobody to blame but themselves.  Of course, Mr. Jones will be up for re-election to win his own full-term outright in 2020.  Enjoy your time, sir, and no need to purchase a house in the D.C. area.  I can tell you the Republican candidate is already being assembled in a laboratory outside Montgomery.  Eagle Scout: check; long, happy marriage, check; photogenic, adorable kids, check; banned from a mall? Nope.  So this is the time to do something different.  A unique window for Senator Jones (D-AL), to break the mold, and be a light on the Hill of independence, clear thought, and shoot from the hip honesty.  Have a tirade, a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington moment.  Swear a little bit.  Have fun. Already, how...