Free Republic

Two hundred ninety-five people are presumed dead and the evidence points at Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists, who were boasting earlier today on social media that they’d shot down what they thought was a Ukrainian cargo plane. This wasn’t the only plane crash in Ukraine recently either; U.S. officials blame the others on Russian proxies, so go figure that they’re the prime suspects in today’s horror too. (A separatist leader claims they didn’t do it but nobody believes him.) As Julia Ioffe says, taking down a passenger jet from Amsterdam means that the Ukraine war now has implications for civilians throughout Europe,...

SALT LAKE CITY — KSL 5 News has obtained a draft document that outlines a huge change in how the federal government wants to manage federal land in Utah, and one Utah congressman says it makes him furious.Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, whose office also just received the document, said he's angry because it would put virtually all land management power in the hands of the White House.-SNIP- "They have clearly been dragging their feet, and they don't want to let us know what they're trying to do," Bishop said. He is especially concerned about portions of the document that...