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Actually, it us the US that’s gone crazy. I am sickened by the situation in and around Israel. Hezbollah is crazy, but we are responsible for not doing anything to provide a forum for diplomacy. A simple review of our foreign policy efforts in that part of the Middle East will reflect that.
It’s hard not [...]

A really ugly thing happened that should weigh on the conscience of every American. A little girl was shot as she buried her doll in a pretend funeral.
Syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts wrote several articles about it. The first one was published in the Salt Lake Tribune
An American problem is a buried priority (permalink) - [...]

Excerpt:
There’s A Big Churchgoing Group Seeking Political Power hundreds of committed Christians met recently and tried to map out a strategy to get their values into the political debate.
But these are not the conservative Christian values which have been so influential lately. This is the religious left.
“Jesus called us to love our neighbor, love [...]

Asking the opinion of the executive director of Evergreen International if there is scientific basis for homosexuality is akin to asking a chicken farmer for proof eggs are bad for you.The beguiling nature of the entire article is betrayed in the first sentence ‘the simple “born gay’ theory has faded from the science scene.” You’d [...]

It was bound to happen — Mitt Romney’s evangelical fan club.
I should point out that conventional thinking is that Mitt will be be crucified by the evangelical community as they do not consider Mormons to be real Christians.
On the Why page they say “ a values-based governing strategy will result in a more humane, [...]

A local poll conducted recently puts Pete Ashdown well ahead of Orrin Hatch for US Senate.
The poll asked residents this question:
If the 2006 election for Utah’s U.S. Senate seat were held today, would you vote for Pete Ashdown, the Democrat, or Orrin Hatch, the Republican?
Results:
Ashdown: 50%
Hatch: 36%
Undecided/Illegal Immigrants: 14%
Yipeee! Go Pete! GO!
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If my experience is any indication, there is a new, palatable, and recondite frustration among more than a few Utah Mormons over the Church’s effective alignment with the Republican Party’s priorities and policies.
As anyone with Mormon friends living in Utah knows, we gentiles occasionally and gladly serve as confidants to our Mormon friends [...]

Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal editorial board was on C-Span last night defending his paper’s editorial condemning the New York Times for printing the leaked story about the administration’s surveillance of financial transactions.
While he is unquestionably a brilliant young man who served as Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post at age 28, he is [...]