I just have a simple question: When WAS America great? Was it great when the explorers and newcomers came over and took the land from the Native Americans? Was it great when the Declaration of Independence provided rights to white men only, excluding women, Native Americans and African ...
My favorite color is periwinkle blue. Well, really it is a combination of periwinkle blue and a dark purple. My daughter loves lime green and orange. Really? I am obviously not letting her decorate anything in our home. I would never choose these colors, but I would never criticize her for such ...
President Joe Biden chose to scrap a bit with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene at the State of the Union — a choice that should remind us of the old saw, "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it." Greene has two modes: heckling and lying. This time, she was doing both by ...
YIMBY sounds nice. YIMBY stands for "Yes in My Backyard." It's a positive-sounding rejoinder to NIMBY, "Not in My Backyard." The NIMBY label is being used to stigmatize defenders of zoning laws, with the goal of bulldozing the rules. Needless to say, real estate developers are all for YIMBY ...
An open letter to Rob Axson, Utah Republican Party Chairman: I got a text asking for my feelings about the caucus situation, so here are my thoughts. Tuesday last I got another text or two urging me to vote. In order to do so, I was told I had to come at 5pm and stay till 7pm when the voting ...
In the latest volley of policy proposals that seem more rooted in populist rhetoric than economic knowledge, President Joe Biden's budget plan to hike the corporate income tax rate from 21% to 28% strikes me as particularly misguided. This move, ostensibly aimed at ensuring a "fair share" of ...
There’s a big elephant in the room occupied by those of us Americans whose mascot happens to be that animal. That big elephant is the question of the 2020 presidential election: Was it really rigged with fraud? Or was in fact fair and square? With one exception, our Utah congressional ...
Accepting the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Robert Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy dedicated his Oscar to "the peacemakers" in our post-atomic bomb world. That struck a chord close to home. My mother wrote the book on women peacemakers. An Austrian aristocratic novelist. A Guatemalan ...
I have never been a faithful watcher of the “State of the Union” broadcasts. This year, because of the state of our democracy, I tuned in. I believe that President Biden did a fairly good job, despite the constant interruptions. I stayed for the Republican response from Senator Katie Britt ...
I have two thoughts about the presidential primary we just had. First, on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024, I attended the Republican Caucus. I live in voting district Ogden 26. From my time as a poll worker around the start of 21st Century I know there are roughly 350 registered voters who live in ...
