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The Trump Economy

With the 2020 presidential election on the horizon, voters will have a distinct choice: Elect another food stamps politician like Barack Obama or re-elect jobs creator Donald Trump.The numbers don't lie. Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program soared by 70 percent between ...

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

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 ...

Is Mayor de Blasio an Anti-Asian Bigot?

"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 ...

Supreme Court: Be Polite When You Violate Others’ Rights

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 ...

House Republicans need to lend support to ‘Dreamers’

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 ...

Meet the New Judges; Same As the Old Judges

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 ...

Mail-in voting key tool for local election process

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 ...

Christian Baker 1, Officious Bureaucrats 0

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 ...

U.S. needs partners to stop power grabs

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 ...

Smart Homes Are Dumb

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 ...