What is it about living creatures that we can never be content with comfort? After all, we spend all of our lives searching for it. But give a person half a chance and you’ll find them struggling on a rock face with every muscle aching in their designer climbing wear. Even animals are not ...

There is that old adage that “life imitates art”. Or is it “art imitates life”? In 1987 Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd starred in the movie “Dragnet”, a spoof of sorts on the 1960s television series. Aykroyd’s character plays the nephew of Joe Friday, the straight-laced, all-business ...

The gender gap, we're informed by some of the best polling analysts in the business, is bigger than ever. Ever, in this case, means since the election of 1980, when men were more willing than women to vote for Ronald Reagan and oust Jimmy Carter. That spurred political journalists to emit ...

In 1976, I was serving as the police chief in Orem. With just a few months on the job, I received a late-night phone call from Lt. Gerald Neilson regarding a potential homicide at a Sinclair gas station. I went to the crime scene and saw a dead young man on the floor of the gas station ...

I recently stopped by a local "Meet the Candidates" night and took a few minutes to get to know some of the people who decided to step forward and run for various offices. It's something I've sought to do often, since there is nothing quite like talking to someone face-to-face to get a sense of ...

"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy ... She might become the dictatress of the world, But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit." — John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the future president John Quincy Adams ...