Last week, the same church that propelled a campaign prohibiting gay marriage in California came out in support of a statute in Salt Lake City that would protect the GLBT community from discrimination in housing and employment. Before the Salt Lake City Council unanimously approved the measure to a standing ovation, the LDS Church sent [...]

This is something we’ve wanted to do for awhile, but have failed to find time for — until today. We hope you enjoy this Rhombus podcast, the first of the many we hope will follow. While this inaugural installment centers on politics, we hope to offer podcasts on many different topics featuring our various contributors [...]

The Great Health Care Debate has produced enough bantering material over the last few months that it seems pretty trite to write yet another piece on the subject. As health care reform rounds more corners in Congress, though, here is yet another opinion on the matter, specifically the hope that somehow, some way, the public [...]

KBR, a company controlled by defense contractor Halliburton, has become well-known over the past few weeks. The reputation it has gained is not a positive one, though. On July 28, 2005, one of their employees by the name of Jamie Leigh Jones was drugged and gang raped while on assignment in Iraq. Jones began working [...]

Last week the ugly specter of racism appeared once again when Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell denied a marriage license to a couple simply for being interracial. While the incident must have been painful for the couple, it also points out more broadly that we have not yet completely extricated bigotry from our [...]

Well, now that everyone has returned to their separate corners, let’s just have a little chat. So Obama won the Nobel Peace prize: woop-dee-doo! He’s joining the illustrious company of our greatest contemporary minds, such as Albert Gore, the father of the World Wide Web, and Jimmy Carter, the modern straw man himself. I’m so [...]

This past week Gov. Gary Herbert met with gay rights groups Equality Utah and Foundation for Reconciliation. The meeting came at the organizations’ request after Herbert stated that homosexuals should not receive the same legal protection as people get based on race, religion, or gender. Right now in the state of Utah, you can be [...]

In the time following the recent General Conference of the LDS Church, I’ve had a brief moment to reflect on the question of faith and public reason. Although there has been great debate concerning the relationship between these two tools of society, there remains a great divide over which many dispute the issue from either [...]

The war in Afghanistan is not quite the Vietnam War, but there are some similarities that are worth considering, especially right now. Depending on some of the decisions that are going to be made in the near future, the Afghanistan occupation could become another long-term, unconventional conflict with no easy exit option, much like its [...]

Have you heard about ACORN? No? Hm. Everybody these days grows up indoctrinated in the virtues and heroism of reporters. We see movies that show us how brave and important they are — they expose corruption, help society become aware of problems and shed light on momentous events. They bring us the Truth. If it’s [...]