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SALT LAKE CITY — Despite being heralded by his defense team as a poster child for civil disobedience in the same vein of historical figures like Gandhi or Rosa Parks, a judge on Tuesday rejected any such comparison for Tim DeChristopher and said the rule of law must prevail. "I am at a loss to see how we are going to govern ourselves if it is (going to be) by personal point of view," Judge Dee Benson said in delivering DeChristopher's sentence of two years in prison.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The owners of a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation won't know until at least next year whether they'll have to install expensive equipment aimed at clearing the air around places like the Grand Canyon. The U.S. Environmental Protection agency said it will begin consultations with tribes next month on the potential impact of further reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from the Navajo Generating Station near Page. Those consultations and a study from the Interior Department will better help the agency reach a decision that was expected this summer, EPA officials said.

Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah economics major student will be sentenced Tuesday, July 26 for fraudulantly bidding at a Bureau of Land Management Auction more than two years ago. DeChristopher is an environmental, climate change justice activist who posed as a bidder for leases for oil drilling in eastern Utah. He kept bidding and bidding, even though he did not have the cash or the intent to pay for the lease. His whole fraud activity upset the normal procedures of federal government business with the private sector. Those who side with him believe that he is a hero saving...

SALT LAKE CITY — A state Republican delegate behind the effort to repeal Utah's illegal immigration reform bill called drafters of the legislation "traitors" Wednesday. At the same news conference, Brandon Beckham basically demanded the GOP-controlled Utah Legislature repeal HB116 by Sept. 30. The bill would establish a guest worker program for undocumented immigrants in 2013. "Those who drafted this bill are traitors to Utah and they will be held accountable by voters in 2012," he said with Sen. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, and Rep. Chris Herrod, R-Provo, and others standing behind him in the Capitol rotunda. Both lawmakers favor...

BERLIN — The bones of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, have been removed from their grave in a small Bavarian town that had become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. Before dawn Wednesday, workers exhumed Hess's bones from the grave in the Wunsiedel cemetery, then cremated the remains and scattered them secretly in a lake, whose name and location are not being divulged, cemetery administrator Andreas Fabel told The Associated Press.

California, the Golden State is now experiencing an exodus of businesses both large and small as the state ranks 49 or 50 among the states in business friendly, depending on which study or article you read. But the common denominator is taxes, regulations, and litigation make doing business costly and difficult.

"They overdrink because they're thirsty." It seems like everyone is feeling the heat this summer. Human, canine, feline, or even bovine, we're all at the mercy of high temperatures.

Anti-Mormon literature tends to recycle the same themes. Some ministries are using a series of fifty questions, which they believe will help "cultists" like the Mormons. One ministry seems to suggest that such questions are a good way to deceive Latter-day Saints, since the questions "give...them hope that you are genuinely interested in learning more about their religion." This ministry tells its readers what their real intent should be with their Mormon friend: "to get them thinking about things they may have never thought about and researching into the false teachings of their church." Thus, the questions are not sincere...

SALT LAKE CITY — Kody Brown and his four wives filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Utah's law that criminalizes polygamy. In filing the suit, the Browns' attorney Jonathan Turley said the family seeks to live according to its deep-seated religious beliefs and faith and not as "presumptive criminals." "This family looks different than a lot of families in Utah. But it is their family, not your family," Turley said outside the U.S. District Courthouse.

I am just going to get to the point. There is no more money to spend. The wells run dry. The funds are all gone. The safe is empty. The printing presses are making "funny money." We are broke. There is no water in the well. All of the firewater is gone off the reservation. The bank is bust. The thrill is gone. There is no more dimes to put in the jukebox so you don't have to hear that song no more. Paychecks bounced and ricochet. Where's Waldough? No dinero. There is a run on the coins in the...

In Salt Lake City, Utah there is a Home Depot on the corner of 2100 South Street and 300 West Street. The store is in an excellent location right next to Interstate 15. And on the east side of the Home Depot is an employment line. This employment line is the type of line that everybody knows about, but nobody talks about. It is a line full of mostly Hispanic, with a few others mixed in, day laborers. Now mind you yes I did just "racially profile." But not to digress, I will explain this later. If these men had...

I am glad to be able to get on my blog to wish my readers Happy Independence Day here in America. On July 4, 1776 13 colonies of the British Empire in North America decided to politically sever ties with Great Britain and declared independence. These men signing this epistle to King George III knew that they pledged all they had, their lives, families, property, and sacred honor. Being subjects to the Crown and taking the action they did was treason. Yet they did it on ideal that "all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable...

Bear Grylls. British Special Forces man, adrenaline junkie, and survival expert on Discovery Channel's "Man Vs Wild." Bear is a survivor and actually teaches others some basic survival techniques as well as stuff most people may not think of if they were stranded in a desert, jungle, isle of the sea, the arctic or swamp. Bear has had things on the barbie like rattle snakes, mice, skunks, and eaten countless grubs, worms, vegetation, et al.

Apparently thousands turned out for the Gay Pride Parade in Salt Lake City, Utah today. I am not sorry to say I was not among them. Men in speedos, drag, and diesel dykes don't appeal to me. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against these people, just not very accepting of their behind closed doors lifestyle. As a straight white, conservative, Christian male I feel I would be horribly out of place cheering on people with pierced nipples in tights with visible outlines of "packages."

Arizona has got to do what it's Federal Government won't do, secure its border with Mexico. The State of Arizona is building a fence along its border with Mexico. The State government has authorized the public raising of funds to build a fence and a website is set up for the Fence-A-Thon.

Dictator in chief, King Obama the Last and his regime have dealt another blow to the American economy. The EPA says no drilling off the north coast of Alaska. In the article the EPA states that it is protecting a small Native Alaskan village of 245 or so people. What if those people wanted jobs? There could have been an economic boom for those people with the influx of workers from outside Alaska and I am almost sure jobs on the rigs for natives, well paying jobs. It beats chasing whales, polar bear, and clubbing seals for food.

An Anchorage police officer who took on a false identity that masked his Mexican citizenship has been arrested and charged with passport fraud, federal officials said today. At a news conference Friday, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said that patrolman Rafael Espinoza, on the Anchorage police force for about six years, was really Rafael Mora-Lopez, a Mexican national working in the United States illegally.

NewsCore) - VANCOUVER -- A Canadian comic has been ordered to pay CA$15,000 (US$15,745) to a woman he taunted along with her same-sex partner during a show in a Vancouver restaurant three years ago, the Vancouver Sun reported Thursday.

Celebration of Earth Day is important to so many people, especially on the left. I believe that Earth Day should be celebrated in my own way. I feel that pictures best show how great our planet is and the great resources that come from it. The Morton Salt Company mine in Utah's west desert is a great example of beauty. Notice the mounds of salt behind the plant. Salt to grace tables, go on roadways in winter, keep ice off of driveways, provide traction for walkways and many other uses. Morton extracts salt from the land surrounding the Great Salt...

Debates over how peaceful Islam have been going on ever since I can remember, and especially since September 11, 2001. Pastor Terry Jones and his congregation held a trial for the Koran, found it guilty and burned it. Next he is going to put Mohammad on trial. Pastor Jones and his followers are nuts. They have the right though to burn the Koran in America or any religious book, though to do so is twisted and wrong. But there is something more sick, twisted, wrong and an abomination. It is Radical Islam. Radical Islam practiced heavily in North Africa, The...