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America in Crisis Election 2024 Essays

Election 2024 (#1)

Justice Michael Luttig, retired, and Other Republicans support Harris

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America in Crisis

I Am Pro-Life

I am pro-life. I don’t believe in having an abortion, so I won’t get one. I am almost eighty-one years old, and I would like to live many more years, especially if I can have health, mobility, mental capacity–in short, be as I was at sixty-five. Nice. I am pro-life. I am also pro-life: for […]

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America in Crisis Essays

Hate and Violence

American vice–Un-American, Anti-American

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Liz Cheney and Rachel Maddow

Wow! This is a combination worth listening to.

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Mormon Vocabulary 2

Guide to understanding Mormon terminology.

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America in Crisis Essays

Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices

New York Times guest editorial by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt,
reprinted in Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sept. 2023

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America in Crisis Essays

Saving Democracy

I am posting a copy of a guest editorial written by two professors of government at Harvard University, entitled “Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices.” Please read it carefully. Even though you may have supported Mr. Trump in the past, you have a responsibility to consider and act as a defender of democracy rather than as […]

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Essays Fiction

Public Reading

Update August 18, 2023: 1) The RSVP has been modified to allow for Zoom participation. You will receive the Zoom link via email. 2) A location map has been embedded. I have scheduled a public reading of some of my writings for Tuesday, 12 September 2023 (Please note the NEW DATE), in the Board Room […]

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National Parks of Southwestern Utah and Northern Arizona

Part I Wally and I traveled from Las Vegas to visit Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Grand Canyon National Parks and Lake Powell Reservoir in May 2023. On the map above, Zion National Park is enclosed in a square on the lower left; Bryce Canyon National Park is in the middle of the map. This map […]

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Reform, not Pack, Supreme Court

I recently read a fascinating opinion piece in the New York Times, in which Ezra Klein posits several suggestions made by the commission appointed by President Biden last January or February. The title is “What a Reckoning at the Supreme Court Could Look Like” and appeared in this morning’s copy of the Times. Click the […]