Marriage Can Save the Nation
The banter and jostling of a happy family around the dinner table does more than create well-adjusted people, it can lift a slumping nation. The power of traditional, intact families to strengthen the country is often overlooked. Stable homes with traditional marriages of father, mother and children are powerful tonics for what ails any culture. […]
Liberty Depends On Free, Unbiased Media
The term “yellow journalism” refers to sensational or exaggerated news reporting that inflames emotions. It can also refer to media coverage that subverts freedom principles. Some of today’s news fits this description. You can’t keep liberty without accurate information. With false reporting, good seems bad and bad gains favor. You don’t know who to vote […]
Conspiracies and Climate Change: Hopelessness vs Hope
Say “conspiracy theory” and you kill dissenting opinions. Concerning climate change, however, you either slumber or choose your conspiracy. On one hand, there is impending global destruction that demands world government, resource rationing and severe population reduction. On the other hand are accusations of bogus science and scare tactics. You choose between the depression of […]
Federalization of Water
August 14, 2014 8:00 am • Margaret Dayton Senate Deliberations In 1877, to support development in the western states, Congress passed the Desert Land Act, effectively giving jurisdiction for the allocation and management of water resources exclusively to the states. Thus — by statute and tradition — the federal government and its various agencies have […]
The Travesty of Our Broken Immigration System
Marguerite has lived the immigration process and her story spotlights the travesty taking place on our southern border. Marguerite married Robert, her American sweetheart, in her native Canada. When their son was 5 months old they left Canada for Robert’s new job in Idaho. Leaving behind her five children from a previous marriage, Marguerite and […]
The Emperor’s New Climate
Hans Christian Anderson’s fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes has a modern application. You will remember that charlatans convinced the king that their nothings were really fine apparel. As the king paraded the boulevard before his subjects, only one little boy had the temerity to ask, “Mommy, why is the emperor nude?” Enter climate change, […]
Vices, Crimes and Protecting Parenthood
Last week’s Red and Blue column in the Daily Herald asked, “Is parenting being criminalized in America?” It is. The right of parents to determine the best interests of their children increasingly is being questioned by the courts and the police. Utah’s family-first philosophy, strong religious base and higher that average birth rate make us […]
The Road to Common Core: One Way or the Highway
Opposition continues to build toward Common Core, the behemoth, pseudo state education program tucked quietly into the federal government’s hip pocket. People are waking up, and big names in the freedom movement have joined the charge. On Tuesday, July 22, at the Provo Towne Center’s Cinemark 16 Theater, Glenn Beck presented “We will Not Conform”, […]
Samuel Adams: the Fire of American Freedom
A central driving force exists in every movement. The force for independence in colonial America was centered in Samuel Adams of Boston, known as the Fire of the American Revolution. The break with Great Britain that created the United States of America first began 250 years ago. Samuel Adams manned the rostrum of Boston’s Faneuil […]
Patterns on the Yellow Brick Road
The contention between our two major political parties is gnawing at the nation’s nerves. Politics doesn’t have to get ugly and political parties need not become enemies. Unfortunately, they usually do. That’s one of life’s mean little tricks. IThe Founders intended that there be no political parties to create mischief and mayhem on the national […]
