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    Publishers Perspective: Life Is Full Of Challenges

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    Publishing On My Own Now

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    So Long…It’s Been A Good Ride

    Elizabeth Warren’s healthcare crusade plays right into Donald Trump's hands, because it is socialistic.

    How to lose the 2020 election, by Elizabeth Warren

    Dick Polman - November 11, 2019
    Today’s smug liberals on the secular left are sure that their views on morality and religion are the only ones deserving respect.

    The secular Left, morality, and religion

    Howard Sierer - November 10, 2019
    Who cares if our national debt of dollar bills stacked atop one another can go to the moon and back so long as the new slaves pay for it?

    Debt is slavery: National debt soars to over $23 trillion

    Harold Pease - November 7, 2019
    Does Mitt Romney believe he is the one to fulfill the White Horse Prophecy, or is he just voicing the stirrings of his conscience?

    Mitt Romney and the White Horse Prophecy

    Ed Kociela - November 5, 2019
    Utah’s teens don’t need e-cigarettes, nicotine, or THC. It’s time to stop glamorizing e-cigarettes and treat them as the drug dispensers they are.

    Utah’s kids, nicotine, and marijuana

    Howard Sierer - November 3, 2019
    The Northern Corridor will not solve our transportation problems, but it will create others in an area set aside for preservation.

    Habitat Conservation Plan renewal process must involve citizens

    Lisa Rutherford - November 3, 2019
    Infanticide for profit, now more commonplace than imagined, would never have been tolerated by any generation in American history prior to our own.

    America’s darkest moral practice: infanticide

    Harold Pease - October 31, 2019
    U.S. jobs should go only to citizens or lawful permanent residents, and not to foreign nationals who have no ties, family or otherwise, to America.

    Congress to tech workers: Eat cake

    Michael Shannon - October 30, 2019
    On Sept. 11, 2001, Rudy Giuliani became America’s Mayor when fate tapped him on the shoulder. Today, he is America’s Nightmare.

    Rudy Giuliani: From America’s Mayor to America’s nightmare

    Ed Kociela - October 29, 2019
    So far, the blood and treasure America has spent trying to bring peace to the religious madness of the Middle East has been tragically wasted.

    Madness in the Middle East

    Michael Reagan - October 28, 2019
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