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Mother’s Day began as a protest by women on the savage idiocy of war. “Not with my son, you don’t!” Variants have seen women, according to the Greeks, not having sex with the men until they stopped making war.
Gay Pride Day is upon us. To me, this is the quintessential Family Day.
How, [...]

I AGREE COMPLETELY WITH MARIA RECHSTEINER IN HER FINE LETTER OF MAY 31,”MORMONISM ISN’T EXTREME.” SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, P. A 12. A CULT, AS THEY SAY, IS SOMEONE ELSE’S RELIGON. BUT I’M SURE SHE KNOWS AND DIDN’T HAVE THE SPACE OR TIME TO REMEMBER IN PRINT THAT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE IS STILL [...]

Thomas Friedman, admired by me for several decades (his wife too, and his wife continuing to be right long after Thomas went wrong), has now been consistently wrong about the Middle East since 9/11. He bats a thousand, negatively, in now warning about Iran (Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday May 3l, 2007). The drums [...]

Ed had planned on giving this speech which also appeared as an editorial in Saturday’s Salt Lake Tribune, entitled The time has come for an impeachment tutorial, but instead delivered the kind of impromptu oratory for which he is so loved by his law students and everyone else.
Salt Lake City A28 National Impeachment Day Protest

The impeachment clause of the American Constitution is fashioned upon the English experience with impeachment used frequently as a Rule of Law community emerged in Britain. There, the supremacy of Parliament, especially the House of Commons, was the result. As Parliament came to prevail over Tudor and Stuart monarchical power, Parliament used impeachment [...]

Utah Law Review Volume 1973 (Winter) No. 4, 681-704. Reprinted with permission. Document PDF
Presented to the U.S Senate in 1973.
The genesis of this document was a request by then Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield via Utah Senator Ted Moss to provide a how-to in preparation to for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. It is perhaps [...]

Duke Law Journal Volume 1974 (January) No. 6, 1023-1116. Reprinted with permission. Document PDF
The genesis of this document was a request by the then Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield via Utah Senator Ted Moss to provide a how-to in preparation for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. It is a survey of substantive law of impeachment. [...]

Testimony before the Divine Strake hearings at the Utah State Capitol Jan 24, 2007
If you were to awake tomorrow, with no previous knowledge of the event, to learn that someone had detonated 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil directly under an area of the West where tons of radioactive debris still scars the [...]

In response to Richard Warnick
Just for historical reasons, I’d bet that neither pary will nominate anybody from New York or Massachusetts. Religion is a side issue. BTW, did you watch Senator Harry Reid on ABC News with George Stephanopoulos yesterday? He dealt with the “Mormon question” deftly, like the practiced pol he is.
Yes, but [...]

Realizing the risk to my friend Governor Jon Huntsman by my endorsement of Jon for President of the United States, in 2012, given that most Deseret News readers want my scalp right now, here’s my offer, and bet:
Mitt Romney will end up without a Republican Party nomination for President. That, indeed, may be the [...]

From: Ed B. Firmage
Date: December 16, 2006 2:16:35 AM MST
To: The Deseret News News
Subject: Huntsman, Al Smith, and God
Dear Colleagues,
I thank you for probably violating your own length rules to print my piece on impeachment, No deity involved in this ‘just war’. (print version) I did, really, write the book on this one. [...]

Our Rocky made the cover of Nation magazine.
Having spent several months as Rocky’s interim communications guy, I witnessed up close and personal the viceral, organized and popular sport of Rocky bashing. I can tell you it looks no different from the inside than the outside for the simple reason that both of our major [...]