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Earth Hour. Save the planet. Go green and dark for one hour. Woot! The lights stayed on at my house. Not only were the lights on, but flood lights were on as well. We had one oven, fridge, freezer, computer, TV, and other electrical devices on at the home. We were happy to consume all that coal fired electricity along with a bit of wind power and hydropower tossed into the mix.

How do you spell the crazy Libyan dictator's name? He has been around for years and nobody can seem to agree on a proper English spelling. Some use a "Q" and others use a "K" or a "G." Whatever the spelling the namesake is an embattled terroristic dictator hoping to keep his regime in power. But let us explore possibilities.

KUED and KBYU, the two local PBS stations are having their Spring fund drives again. Again the quality of programs goes down and you see non stop every 15 minute hosts that have come out of the woodwork asking you the viewer to give to public television so they can continue to give us quality programming.

Tim DeChristopher was convicted yesterday of two federal counts related to fraudulently bidding on oil and gas leases auctioned by the Bureau of Land Management. He faces a maximum 10 years in federal prison and fines. Prosecutors have stated that they will not seek the maximum sentence. DeChristopher will be sentenced in June 2011. Tim DeChristopher is a convicted tree hugger who was out to disrupt the legal bidding of land for lease for development of oil and natural gas. Instead of seeking legal avenues to redress his grievances, which we all have as citizens, he chose to disrupt the...

He builds the most magnificent, fantastic, hotels, office buildings, and designs golf courses. He is famous for his casinos and his odd looking hair. But now Donald Trump is considering running as a Republican presidential candidate. He was interviewed by Rush Limbaugh. He states that our adversaries such as China "laugh" at America because of what we are doing as a country. As Trump deals with high level contacts in both business and government globally, I would tend to give him the benefit of the doubt when he states that.

Remember the Terry Schiavo case in which the parents tried to keep their daughter alive, but lost the case in Florida? Now a Canadian Family has received a court order to remove their son's breathing tube. He is currently in a vegetative state, but the court has decided that he has lived long enough. The family is seeking relief in the US health system in Detroit.

President Reagan Centennial: Mr. Gorbachev Tear Down This Wall! In honor of the 100th Birthday of President Ronald Reagan below is one of the great hallmarks of his political legacy and Presidency.

Well it is the weekend of spooks, goblins, ghosts, and freaks. But some of the news coming out of the world around us seems to make me wonder if there are gremlins afoot on All Hallows Eve? A judge has ruled that four year olds can be sued. An 87 year old crack dealer is sentenced to prison. An 84 year old lady drives up the wrong way causing accidents on I-95. But this is not all. A man in England died of a caffeine overdose. A beheading of in Arizona is believed to be tied to the Mexican drug...

BEIJING — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met his Chinese counterpart, Liang Guanglie, in Vietnam on Monday for the first time since the two militaries suspended talks with each other last winter, calling for the two countries to prevent “mistrust, miscalculations and mistakes.”

By Lisa Carricaburu The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 9, 2010 04:01PM Updated 1 hour ago Updated Oct 9, 2010 11:04PM The Lexington, Ky., Herald-Leader in 2004 famously apologized to its readers. In a lengthy front-page clarification, the newspaper said its shortcoming was one of omission 40 years earlier: Publisher Fred Wachs, despite personally supporting desegregation, had actively downplayed the civil rights movement. The paper advised staffers not to report on civil unrest and buried any stories they did produce deep inside. “He didn’t like the idea of some of these rabble-rousers coming in and causing trouble,” his son, Fred...

Amen Ahmed Ali of Bakersfield pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally exporting military equipment, possession of stolen U.S. property and conspiracy to act as an illegal agent for a foreign country.

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices seemed both troubled and divided Wednesday as they questioned whether a small Kansas church could be punished for mounting a protest that many found contemptible outside a military funeral. The high court didn't clearly tip its hand during the hourlong oral arguments in the case pitting the Westboro Baptist Church against a grieving Pennsylvania father. Several justices did, however, hint that the 2006 funeral protest was lawful even if it was obnoxious.

CHICAGO -- Even in President Barack Obama's hometown, they had hoped for more. Obama will be stumping for Senate candidate and basketball buddy Alexi Giannoulias on Thursday in Chicago, a city where every other person crossing the street seems to have a story about descending on Grant Park that historic night of the 2008 election or proudly watching the president take the oath on television. But nearly two years after Obama took office, while the president remains widely popular in the city, his image has slipped a bit as many people wonder where the promised change and jobs are, even...

Atheists and agnostics know more about major world religions than many people of faith, while Mormons can answer more Bible questions than their Catholic and mainline Protestant counterparts. Those are among the somewhat startling conclusions about religious literacy in America the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life drew after surveying 3,412 Americans. Some of the multiple-choice questions were relatively simple: Where was Jesus born and who led the exodus from Egypt? What religion was Mother Teresa, what day does the Jewish Sabbath begin and what is the name of Islam’s holy book? Others were more obscure: What...