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Family, teachers remember Powell boys at Washington funeral

Roger E. Carrier

Set up state 'drug' stores and end the cartels

Last updated Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 2:37pm

I plead for sanity and an end to the unwinnable war on drugs! This so-called "war" is funding the cartels and gangs, and their greatest nightmare is the legalization of drugs in the United States.

Keep all the drug laws we now have, but have state-owned stores like liquor stores where addicts could buy a week's supply of drugs that do not lead to violent behavior. They would sign a legal waver and watch three-minute video about getting help for addiction.

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Keep crosses on churches, in cemeteries

Roger E. Carrier Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 3:43pm

(UNEDITED) Forty years ago, I took the bus from Salt Lake City to Buenos Aires, Argentina. It took three months, and along the way, I saw tens-of-thousands of roadside crosses. At different times, they drew out the emotions of curiosity, sadness at someone's loss, and alarm when the bus driver steered us over narrow mountain roads for eighteen-hours.

I love Latin culture. I've been to Mexico and Central America many times and speak a little Spanish, and I find it ironic that the people most opposed to immigrants are now adopting the signature Latin custom of putting up crosses at the side of the road. This was never a practice in the America of the 1950s and 60's.

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Koran burning illustrates disgraceful bigotry

Roger E. Carrier

Last updated Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 12:01pm

(UNEDITED)In a line derived from a comment by St. Thomas Aquinas, someone said, "Beware of the one-book man." The Rev. Terry Jones, an alleged Christian who wants to burn the Koran, is not even a half-book man. He's memorized some of the Bible but not one of the most important lines--"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

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