Next week, school starts again at Weber State University. In a way, it’s starting again for me, too. When I graduated from Weber State in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in political science, I never dreamed I’d be returning 25 years later as president of this incredible institution. In ...
‘Twas the night before carpet, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring except one very confused cat. While Pa with his backache, And I with my head, had just settled down On a strange makeshift bed. We’d decided to carpet all of our floors, Inside the ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth views warfare through the lens of a cartoonish Macho Man, claiming that military members “are not defenders anymore”; they are “warriors, trained to kill the enemy and break their will.” Directing the war in Iran, he ordered, ”No quarter, no mercy for ...
As a child, my father made me read National Geographic stories and summarize each paragraph with a single written sentence. I would have preferred to watch what my father called the “boob tube,” and it would have been easier for him to let me. Instead, he insisted that I keep reading and ...
Those of you of a certain vintage — who, like me, are close to being fitted for coffins — must be applauding the re-appearance on TV (the INSP channel) of Have Gun - Will Travel (for some reason with a hyphen, not a dash or a comma; let’s call it HGWT). That extraordinarily popular show ...
The Trump Administration 2.0 will be famous for a lot of things. And one of them is the number of “national emergencies” the President has declared. To give you all a short history of the national emergency declaration, the first one was issued by President Woodrow Wilson in February ...
