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 […]

JASON ALDEAN TRIES THAT (REBELLION) IN A BIG TOWN (NASHVILLE)

JASON ALDEAN TRIES THAT (REBELLION) IN A BIG TOWN (NASHVILLE) You cross that line, it won’t take long… – Jason Aldean from the songTry That in a Small Town By: Lew Moore The other day I was thinking about country lyrics depicting vigilante violence, celebrating lynching and cheering citizens dispensing justice. No, I was not […]

THE SPENCER COX M.O.

A UtahNews Special Report SPENCER COX: “MR. CIVILITY?” Not long ago we were greeted with the news that America’s most “Woke” Republican governor, our own Spencer Cox, was named the new chair of the National Governor’s Association. When asked what he is going to concentrate on as head of the Guvs, he went to his […]

Violent Ambush of Orem City Mayor Dave Young

Daughter of Daily Herald Reporter “Disagrees Better” by Striking and Spitting on Orem City Mayor. Below is video from Sept 19th after a city council meeting showing the alleged attack via Linnea Pugmire on the Orem City Mayor Dave Young and a bystander. Linnea Pugmire goes to strike and spits on the mayor and on […]

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 […]