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House Intelligence Committee is not playing politics

No agency or department of the U.S. government has unlimited power, but enforcing and maintaining the limits on power is often easier said than done.One example of this is the fight between House Republicans and top officials at the FBI and Department of Justice over documents that Congress has ...

Thumbs Up

<em>Each week the Standard-Examiner hashes out issues large and small and takes a thumbs-up, thumbs-down stance. Have a thumbs-up or thumbs-down you’d like to give? Email a submission of 100 words or less to jmccabe@standard.net.</em><em>Here’s what ...

Holland Made Utah County Bleed Green

Yes, Utah County is full of blue blood.But in the last 10 years, some of that spirit has transferred as Utah Valley University transformed from a state college to the now-largest university in Utah.The driving force behind this surging growth and school spirit? Matthew Holland.As we approach ...

Time to pull the plug and drain the D.C. swamp

How nice it would be to believe that President Donald Trump’s plan to reorganize the federal government will result in more efficiency and less bureaucratic stupidity. Most Americans have had enough exposure to federal agencies to believe an improvement has occurred when they see it, ...

A Fascist Right — or a Hysterical Left?

If Trump's supporters are truly "a basket of deplorables ... racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic" and "irredeemable," as Hillary Clinton described them to an LGBT crowd, is not shunning and shaming the proper way to deal with them?So a growing slice of the American left has ...

The Rise of the Mob

This week, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., issued a clarion call to Democrats outraged at the policies of the Trump administration: It's time for mob action. In the wake of mobs targeting Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Waters explained: ...