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Legislators a little late worrying they're violating our personal liberty

Charles Trentelman Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 6:47am

Everyone see the telling headline in Sunday’s paper?

It said, better than anything I’ve seen lately, just how out of touch Utah’s lawmakers are.

The headline said “Lawmakers worry about government increasingly violating individual liberty.” The article below it quotes five lawmakers being quite concerned that Utah’s Legislature not do that.

My first thought was, “What cave do these guys live in?” The Utah Legislature has been stomping on individual liberty for decades.

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Something needs to be done to fix the state’s bad air

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 11:38pm

Thursday morning the nice man on NPR said the air pollution index for Weber County was double the federal standard for “this stuff will kill you.”

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Sequester has Rep. Rob Bishop, Rambler agreeing to disagree

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 11, 2013 - 11:11pm

My column Thursday said Rep. Rob Bishop was right. The next day I got a call from Rob telling me all the ways I was wrong.

Some days you can’t win, but Rob made good points so, to be fair, I thought I’d discuss them here.

My column agreed with Rob’s piece in Wednesday’s paper that the coming sequester of federal funds — a mandatory slashing — is bad.

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Scouting and gays: Excluding those who need help the most

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 9, 2013 - 11:22pm

The Boy Scouts of America delayed deciding whether to allow gay Scouts or Scout leaders, which is too bad because the current policies are hurting both scouting and the young men who would be in scouting.

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Guns and cartoons and some praise for weekend donation stories

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 4, 2013 - 11:02pm

The weekend papers were particularly rich in subjects to comment on:

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Lawmakers wanted federal funding cuts, so why aren’t they cheering?

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 11:17am

Utah’s lawmakers have the amazing ability to completely forget their own positions on major issues, to the point that they can contradict themselves without cracking a smile.

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PTSD is not just ruining the lives of returned soldiers

Charlie Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 28, 2013 - 7:04pm

NorahChristine RunningWolf reminded me that a lot more than just military folk suffer from PTSD.

“There are also those of us who have suffered longtime traumatic occurrences. Loud noises make us jumpy, large crowds, yelling and strangers with odd weapons, such as baseball bats.”

And just like soldiers with PTSD, she never knows when some trigger, some upset, will smack her upside the head.

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Money needed to add names to Purple Heart monument

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 11:40pm

“My kids ask me, ‘Why didn’t you duck?’” said Jay Wells, who came home from two years in Vietnam with holes in his skin that God didn’t plan.

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Thousands of vets face a lifelong sentence battling PTSD

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 11:44pm

The guy wandering JC Penney a week ago with an assault rifle slung over his back has been pretty well beat up by now.

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We all need people to look up to, and to be inspired by

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 21, 2013 - 11:27pm

An early episode of the TV show “Northern Exposure” starts out with Chris, the radio guy, talking about poet Walt Whitman being gay.

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A dose of reality makes tough medicine a decade later

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 20, 2013 - 9:28am

I wish I could apologize to my mom about now.

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When did buying a gun become such a political statement?

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 12:20am

A few random thoughts about guns, and then I leave it up to Congress:

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The cost of bad air goes beyond pain and suffering

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 11:44pm

Christmas night, 11:30 p.m., the harried nurse in McKay-Dee Hospital’s emergency room said, “You’re number 229, but since you’re having trouble breathing we may push you up.”

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If you own guns, do it right and get properly trained

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 7, 2013 - 11:57pm

The National Rifle Association says it’s time for law-abiding citizens to get guns and get trained in how to use them. America’s gun culture demands it, they say, and my good friend and fellow columnist Mark Saal said as much on Sunday.

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