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Playing chicken with religious liberty
TweetHopefully many readers have been to Chick-fil-A recently. After the company’s president expressed his belief that marriage is the union of a husband and wife, four big town mayors have threatened...
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The fundamental problem with 'anti-discrimination' ordinances
TweetWhen we strip away all the back-and-forth between opposing opinions, anti-discrimination ordinances designed to protect homosexuals in the workplace and housing boil down to one thing: Sexual...
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How Utah’s universities are exploring digital learning potential
TweetWe have blogged regularly here about the many ways that digital learning is improving public education across the country by creating educational opportunities customized to the needs of...
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Helen Gurley Brown and the American family
TweetHelen Gurley Brown in 1964. Helen Gurley Brown’s death last week was followed by a number of laudatory stories about her trail-blazing career at Cosmopolitan magazine. Undoubtedly she was...
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Mobbing Hobby Lobby
TweetRemember the Chick-fil-A controversy? Now it looks like some progressives are put out that Hobby Lobby is challenging the great wisdom of Obamacare. Fox News says: A Christian-owned chain of hobby...
View ArticleVideo: Digital learning shakes up the factory model
Tweet One of the main problems with traditional education is the factory model it uses for grouping and advancing students through grade levels. This model leaves little room for individualization,...
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Sutherland giveaway: Win tickets to see O'Reilly and Miller
TweetBill O’Reilly and Dennis Miller are coming to Salt Lake on Dec. 8, and we’ve got tickets! Sign up here to enter to win two tickets to their Bolder and Fresher Tour 2012. Bill O’Reilly, godfather...
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2013 Sutherland Institute Legislative Policy Conference
TweetJoin Utah’s decision-makers as they engage in robust dialogue about pressing issues facing the 2013 Utah State Legislature. Click the image below to register for the 2013 Sutherland Institute...
View ArticleSeason’s greetings
TweetWe’d like to wish you a merry and peaceful Christmas and New Year. Look for our blog posts to resume starting Jan. 3. – Sutherland Institute staff
View Article2013 Legislature video: Buzzing around the Capitol
TweetHere’s a fun one-minute time lapse of what goes on inside and outside the Utah Senate and House Chambers during the session — set to Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee”!...
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The Iron Lady’s legacy
TweetThe legendary Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of Britain, has died at age 87. The Iron Lady led Britain through the 1980s, bringing unions to heel, producing a dramatic turnaround in the...
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Is America’s high unemployment ‘the new normal’?
TweetThe most recent recession has created a difficult, if not dire, employment problem for millions of Americans, and thousands of Utahns. As an illustration, after the national unemployment rate fell...
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9/11 and your shoes
Tweet“Look down at your shoes. Could you break into a run in those if you needed to?” So begins a post at The Foundry reflecting on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Click here to read it. As it...
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How Obamacare is hurting its supposed beneficiaries in Utah
TweetOne of the many bitter ironies relating to the creation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is how it is hurting many of the people it was supposed to help. A new...
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How Judge Shelby got the 14th Amendment wrong
Tweet This post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution has been at the epicenter of most...
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In politics, where there’s a stink … there’s probably a rotting fish
Tweet This post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. Embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s scandal provides a wonderful case study in...
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Count My Vote will put decisions in hands of fat cats
Tweet This post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. During a Sutherland Institute panel last week at the state Capitol discussing the Count My...
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Put burden of proof on those who would liberalize liquor laws
Tweet This post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. Last year, a scholarly paper was presented at the Alcohol Policy 16 Conference explaining how...
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Quick to judge, quick to condemn, and short on humor
Tweet This post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. When Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman went on his post-championship game rant...
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‘A Defense of Utah’s “Zion Curtain”’
TweetAlthough it is roundly mocked in the media and elsewhere, the so-called “Zion curtain” required in Utah restaurants helps prevent alcohol-related disasters and improve public safety. It does this...
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