Sept. 11, 2001, seems so long ago, in many ways. A whole generation of Americans has no personal recollection of that tragic day.We are being reminded of it once again, by the announcement that some wreckage from Flight 93, no longer needed for purposes such as investigating the tragedy, will ...
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.Here’s what we recommend this week for praise and ...
While legal pundits are busy analyzing the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission handed down on Monday, we mustn't ignore what the <em>truly</em> important judges decided this week.Like eliminating ...
This week, the Supreme Court ruled on the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. That case involved a religious Christian man, Jack Phillips, who decorates cakes for a living. Two men came into his shop one day and demanded that Phillips decorate a cake for their same-sex wedding. Phillips refused. For ...
In the long and bitter fight over immigration reform, Americans have staked out a patch of common ground: They don't believe young foreigners who grew up here should be kicked out, even if they came without permission.This year alone: A Quinnipiac University poll found 73 percent of voters ...
"Though New York City has one of the most segregated schools systems in the country," writes Elizabeth Harris of The New York Times, until now, Mayor Bill de Blasio "was all but silent on the issue."He was "reluctant even to use the word 'segregation.'"Now the notion that the liberal mayor ...
In the closely watched Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the Supreme Court dealt a blow against the small-mindedness that so often characterizes the self-appointed minders of social justice in America.The case involved a Christian baker in Colorado named Jack Phillips, who refused to create a wedding ...
Each election cycle, we hear the reasons as to why people don’t vote: ‘I don’t have time,’ ‘I forgot,’ ‘My vote doesn’t matter anyway.’There should be no excuse this year for Weber County residents to not let their voting voice be heard, as ballots for Utah’s June 26 primary ...
Smart homes are dumb. There, I said it.I'm sure those involved in the nearly $1.5 billion dollar-a-year connected-home technology business in the United States won't be happy with my statement, but I'm sticking to my guns. So-called smart technology is not your friend.I know, I know. There are ...
China's economic and military rise is now generally seen as hostile to the interests of the United States. The problem is complicated, however, by China's clever exploitation of rising nationalist and anti-globalist sentiment in the United States.While the Trump administration has worked to ...
