Why I Support Keeping Our Current Utah State Flag
Op-Ed Submitted During the week of July 16-22, 2023, I spent nearly 30 hours in a homemade booth set up on our driveway. The reason?: To seek signatures of those passing by our home on what’s termed the “Save Utah’s Flag Initiative” as they entered the park across the street for city festivities. Some will […]
Movie Review: The Distinguished Gentleman
Movie Review: The Distinguished Gentleman The Distinguished Gentleman is a movie released in 1992. It features Eddie Murphy as a con man who jumps at the chance to swindle much more money by getting himself elected to Congress. One can only imagine how movie goers felt thirty years ago as they bought a ticket to […]
Can We Safely Ignore the Government?
Can We Safely Ignore the Government? There is no distinctively native American criminal class, save Congress. Mark Twain Tweet Any parent knows you don’t take your eyes off a three-year old. If it seems too quiet around the house, an unsupervised little one may be getting into some sort of trouble. The government is a […]
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.” Daniel Webster Tweet Have you read Farmer Boy to your kids lately? I know a family who reads Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books aloud, over and over. Children and parents alike love stories of […]
Why Can’t Freedom be Free?
Why Can’t Freedom be Free? If you kept a lot of gold coins and cash in your house, would you rest easy at night without a big, heavy safe or a robust alarm system? For the same reason people need to protect their wealth from thieves, freedom can’t be free. A free society creates wealth. […]
How Can We Think for Ourselves?
How Can We Think for Ourselves? “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.” Mark Twain (possibly misattributed) Tweet The news has never been, in the words of Dragnet’s Sergeant Joe Friday, “just the facts, ma’am.” Pretty much everyone has an agenda. How do we sift fact […]
Governor alters public health order, ending gun ban in Albuquerque area
While this is not Utah news specifically the outcome can effect Utah. We will be keeping a close eye on this as it evolves. Read More
Open Doors in Bluff – Tied to the Post by Steve Simpson
https://www.sjrnews.com/tied-post/open-doors
Contestants for Miss Navajo Nation compete in butchering a sheep in under an hour
Keeping traditional skills alive is a part of the competition for Miss Navajo Nation. https://navajotimes.com/reznews/eeaahjigo-dine-bikeyah-proud-of-contestants-running-for-miss-navajo-nation/
Utah-Born Buu Nygren, Navajo Nation President, interviewed on budget, tribal priorities, roads, and the “minions”
Utah’s San Juan County is 50% Navajo, populating reservation towns in the “Utah Strip” and homes throughout the county. President Nygren, who was born in Blanding to a Navajo mother and Vietnamese father, is the youngest president of the Nation to date. In this interview, he shares plans to address concerns about roads, access to […]