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Social Security, Medicare are going broke; so what's new?

5/31/2013

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Apparently, the latest sobering report from the Social Security and Medicare trustees can be viewed more ways than one.

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Reagan’s Moscow speech — do we still value freedom?

5/29/2013

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Some speeches are worth revisiting from time to time, just to see if the principles they espouse still hold true.

Twenty-five years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan, in a friendly and inviting way, lectured

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'A la carte' cable TV — is it inevitable?

5/28/2013

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When it comes to live world news, Al Jazeera is about all you can get these days without cable.

Cable TV companies like to talk about how aggressive market forces are leading to big changes in the way

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Americans and morals — a changing picture, sort of

5/24/2013

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Americans think it’s OK to have gay or lesbian relations, but even more of them think it’s OK to have a baby outside of marriage. Polygamy, however, is

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On Memorial Day, look beyond the fog of war

5/22/2013

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A B-17 at Salt Lake Airport No. 2

The fog of war often clouds our senses.

On Aug. 17, 1943, Nazi forces shot down 60 American B-17 “flying fortresses” during raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt, Germany.

It was soon understood that the raid, at least on Schweinfurt, which was supposed to cripple the Germans’ aircraft manufacturing plants, had been a failure,

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Butt dialing — cops' best friend

5/21/2013

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Two guys in Fresno made headlines this week when one of them accidentally "pocket dialed" 911 while they allegedly were breaking into a car to steal prescription drugs and other things.
An alert dispatcher stayed on the line and listened to the crime in progress, zoomed in on the phone's location and sent a squad car out to catch the startled criminals.
Apparently, this isn't a rare, quirky thing. It happens a lot. The second video below reports that one-third of calls to

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A convention hotel is less likely than ever for SLC

5/20/2013

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Two new hotels have been announced for downtown Salt Lake City. You don’t need a hearing aid to catch wind of the howls that this will make it even harder for Utah’s capital city to get the large convention center hotel it needs.

Those howls are correct. A convention center hotel is a more remote possibility

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Obama's scandals may finally generate outrage

5/15/2013

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To the roughly 40 percent of Americans who told pollsters recently they would be willing to sacrifice freedoms in exchange for greater security, the past week has provided a taste of what they could expect.

Power has a natural tendency to confuse legitimate threats to the institution with threats to its own power. And the field glasses it uses to identify those threats aren’t necessarily trained only outside its borders.

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Obama's Justice Department fights war on media leaks

5/13/2013

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The Obama administration has brought more cases against current or former government employees suspected of leaking classified information than all previous presidents combined.

It isn’t even close. The New York Times first reported that statistic more than a year ago, well before the end of the president’s first term.

Now we learn that the Justice Department has secretly grabbed two months worth of telephone records from more than 20 separate Associated Press phone lines. The idea, apparently, was to find out who leaked information to the

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Top 10 things not to say on Mothers' Day

5/10/2013

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1. I hope you did extra laundry last night so you could have a day off today. By the way, where is my blue shirt?

2. Let’s hurry and open your presents so I can watch the game.

3. I’m glad you like it. You know, it was hard to find a hat that would look good with your gray hair.

4. Boy, I sure wish someone would give me a special day.

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Social Security, Medicare are going broke; so what's new?

Reagan’s Moscow speech — do we still value freedom?

'A la carte' cable TV — is it inevitable?

Americans and morals — a changing picture, sort of

On Memorial Day, look beyond the fog of war

Butt dialing — cops' best friend

A convention hotel is less likely than ever for SLC

Obama's scandals may finally generate outrage

Obama's Justice Department fights war on media leaks

Top 10 things not to say on Mothers' Day

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