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So Long…It’s Been A Good Ride

Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenager, is being used by people with an agenda. Society should fight battles for our children, not on their backs.

Greta Thunberg is a political pawn

Christine Flowers - October 5, 2019

The religious persecution of Christians in foreign countries includes being “beaten, tortured, beheaded, crucified, raped, imprisoned or enslaved.”

Trump calls on all nations to end religious persecution

Guest Contributor - October 3, 2019

Hunter Biden's involvement with a Ukrainian energy company is the real scandal. It's nepotistic crony capitalism, and it reeks.

Democrats hoisted on their own transcript

Michael Shannon - October 2, 2019

Bears Ears holds great importance to our native people. We should stand with them, support them, respect them as they fight to hold onto their culture.

We must restore Bears Ears National Monument

Ed Kociela - October 1, 2019

Facebook had the good business sense to acknowledge that it has been biased against conservatives and has taken steps to ameliorate the problem.

Facebook addresses its anti-conservative bias

Howard Sierer - September 29, 2019

Does removing the $700 million pumped storage project from the Lake Powell Pipeline really reduce the cost of this risky project?

State of Utah, Washington County work new angles to secure Lake...

Lisa Rutherford - September 29, 2019

The lessons of the Scandinavian countries is to keep the government out of managing the economy — thus away from socialism.

Scandinavian countries are not socialist?

Harold Pease - September 26, 2019

Policymakers can change Social Security's benefit formula to reflect shifting conditions. They can cut benefits anytime, and they've done so many times.

Social Security’s looming shortfall

Tom Purcell - September 25, 2019

A high school cheerleading squad was recently put on probation for posing with a pro-Donald Trump banner before a football game.

Make America sane again

Ed Kociela - September 24, 2019

The New Deal prolonged the Great Depression it was meant to end. Almost a century later, the Green New Deal would prove just as counterproductive.

Green New Deal would fail, just like the original New Deal

Guest Contributor - September 23, 2019

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