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Highlighted ArticleMar 23, 2024•By Karah Brackin at KSL TV
SALT LAKE CITY — Memorial Day weekend is seeing traffic pick up as Utahns get out of school, clock out of work, and fill up the gas tank. The Utah Highway Patrol said law enforcement agencies across the state will be taking on extra shifts to sure drivers are doing what they are supposed to do. Consider yourself warned. “If you don’t see them, they’ll be seeing you,” said UHP Sgt. Andrew Battenfield. Battenfield is one of the dozens of troopers who will be on the roads this holiday weekend. “Don’t expect a warning from a trooper for not wearing your seat belt this weekend,” Battenfield sai
Bootleggers, Baptists, and The Jones Act
Suppose that a freak Atlantic storm pummels the city of Boston, leaving it flooded for days and cut off from services by land and air—trucks cannot reach it and planes cannot land. But a Canadian transport ship happens to be passing by, loaded with fruits and bottled water, en route from Florida to its home port in Halifax.
What should the ship do?
(a) It should divert from its course and deliver emergency supplies to Boston.
(b) It should do nothing and continue its original trajectory.
The correct answer is: (b) Nothing.
In 1920 the United States adopted the Jones Act, requiring that
Who Is To Blame for Cronyism?
Clever humans can be endlessly inventive in corrupting government powers: bribes, kickbacks, nepotism, insider tips, selective enforcement of rules, threats … the list is long.
Cronyism is the practice of using government power to benefit those with special connections—usually politicians and special interests in business, unions, environmental groups, friends, and family members.
For example, the nephew of a politician will receive a subsidy for his business, or two politicians will trade favors that enrich both, the head of an opera association will give free tickets to an opera-loving regul
Whistleblowing and Government Secrets
In his final days in office, President Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning. While in the employ of the US Army, Manning had downloaded tens of thousands of government documents and passed them on to Wikileaks.
Among the leaked documents were many State Department cables, reports on incidents during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as on the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Some documents revealed information that put US diplomacy into disadvantaged negotiating positions and exposed personnel to increased military risk. Some of the more controversial document
Should Politicians Force Diversity at Universities?
By diversity I mean the intellectual kind. Numerous surveys (e.g., here and here) show that university faculties lean left, often far left in humanities departments.
A purely democratic argument says Yes, politicians should force diversity. Government-funded universities are paid for with tax monies, and in a democracy politicians are responsible to their constituents to ensure that their funds are spent appropriately. But biased faculties cannot deliver quality education, especially on important controversial issues about which students need to hear and weigh all sides of the arguments. There
Trump’s Corruption Mandate
Donald Trump’s astonishing election victory was in part a backlash against increasingly corrupt American politics.
Transparency International publishes an annual Corruption Perceptions Index, ranking all nations from most to least clean in their political conduct. The United States entered the twenty-first century by falling out of the top ten. Scandinavian nations such as Finland, Denmark, and Sweden along with Commonwealth nations such as New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom dominated the top spots, while the USA was ranked fourteenth.
Since then the USA has declined further in the In
Political protest in a \post-fact era\""
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts” (Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
A protester was shot at the University of Washington during a clash between rival factions — one faction physically blocking an audience from hearing a speech, the other faction seeking to hear a rabble-rousing orator.
The orator was Milo Yiannopoulos, a leading spokesman for the alt-right movement, a revitalized and muscularized version of nationalist and populist politics long submerged in American politics.
Outside the auditorium, blocs of red-wearing Trump supporters and black-wearing an