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Hobby Lobby's flesh-and-blood owners score a win

6/27/2013

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The Obama administration says employees of any company are “Autonomous human beings with rights and beliefs of their own.”

Interestingly, the administration makes no mention of the men and women who own such companies; whose money and reputations are risked on their success; and whose dreams and sense of character may be tied to


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Oppose gay marriage? You must be a hate-filled bigot

6/26/2013

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In today’s world, you don’t have to search too hard to find examples of how supporters of traditional marriage are being treated as “unhinged members of a wild-eyed lynch mob,” to use the words of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Here are just a few recent examples:


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What Miss Utah USA should have said

6/19/2013

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The real meaning of the Information Age seems to lie in the speed with which the entire world can laugh at mistakes made in public.

I didn’t watch the Miss Universe USA pageant last weekend, but I had barely started my Monday when the answer Marissa Powell, Miss Utah, gave to a question about


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Miss Utah USA — P.T. Barnum would admire her

6/17/2013

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P.T. Barnum started it. He knew a sucker was born every minute, but he had no idea how many suckers could be lured by a parade of pretty girls.

Or maybe he did have an idea, and he was just born a bit too soon.

Barnum’s first beauty pageant in 1854 didn’t get too


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Syria's conflict — welcome back to the Cold War

6/14/2013

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If you thought the Cold War was over, think again. It appears to be rearing its ugly head again in Syria.

The European Union decided to lift its embargo on sending weapons to the rebels fighting the regime of Bashar al Assad. This came not long after the United


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Snowden raises some old questions once again

6/12/2013

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“Under our present laws, the only way that such holocausts can be prevented is to anticipate them through the medium of espionage, to be followed by prompt and drastic police action...”

The annual report of the New York City Police Department, dated 1920, makes for interesting reading in light of Edward J. Snowden’s decision to betray his


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NSA is tracking your phone calls? Are you really surprised?

6/7/2013

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The government has records of our phone calls?

Please tell me you’re not surprised.

I’ll never forget one election night, in the early 2000s, when Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch cornered me at Republican campaign headquarters and gave me a stern lecture about my opposition to parts of the Patriot Act.


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Airport security, TSA, could use some common sense

6/5/2013

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I doubt many parents out there haven’t been beaten with a plastic baseball bat a time or two, usually after misjudging the age appropriateness of organized sports in the back yard.

Not only do they live through these encounters, they quickly learn that


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DNA samples from suspects and Scalia's rant

6/3/2013

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In the old days — really old days before fingerprints could easily be captured — it was common for police to require suspects to give up their shoes. These were then used to measure whether they fit the footprints found at a


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    Jay Evensen is the Senior Editorial Columnist of the Deseret News. He has nearly 40 years experience as a reporter, editor and editorial writer in Oklahoma, New York City, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. He also has been an adjunct journalism professor at Brigham Young and Weber State universities.

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