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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, ...

Immigration issue doesn’t have to be national crisis

In President Trump's mind, there are only two approaches to policing the border — neither of them good."If you're really, really pathetically weak, the country is going to be overrun with millions of people," Trump asserted in a meeting before signing an executive order to stop family ...

Early vote on Palos Verdes development good for all sides in Orem

While we would hope that most voters’ attentions are focused on today’s primary election, some are already putting their sights on the Nov. 6 general election.Last week, the Orem City Council voted to call a special election in November for its February zoning decision on the planned ...

Shame on Washington for Allowing the Immigration Mess to Fester

What was that all about?After months of defending his policy that separated children and parents who illegally enter the U.S., after searing images of crying children being held in chain-link cages were met with howls of worldwide disapproval, President Trump declared, "we want to keep families ...

Limiting screen time important in digital age

The Chicago Tribune on the World Health Organization designating compulsive video gaming as a mental health disorder:The World Health Organization has a lot on its plate these days. Ebola's made a comeback in central Africa. There are still parts of the world where polio has yet to be rubbed ...

The simple act of being decent

Not too long ago, I returned to my parked car and found a sheet of paper on the windshield bearing an expletive-laden message. The anonymous poster had obviously gone to some effort to make these flyers on his home computer -- complete with color cartoon figures and such. It let me know what an ...