“The Supreme Court Is Not a Sufficient Reason to Vote for Trump”   “Where Is the Evidence That Trump Would Defend the Constitution?”     Read more

    From Sports Illustrated:   http://www.campusrush.com/motekiai-langi-byu-cougars-football-400-pounds-1933932789.html       Read more

    This is a great thing, and I wish her well:   http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/06/sport/rio-2016-refugee-team-olympics-syria/index.html     Read more

    We’ve come a long way on this subject since I was young:   http://www.wired.co.uk/article/astronomers-list-best-20-earth-planets   3 And God spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I am the Lord God Almighty, and Endless is my name; for I am without beginning of days or end of years; and is not this endless? . . .    29 And he beheld many lands; and each land was called earth, and there were inhabitants on the face thereof.  30 And it came to pass that Moses called upon God, saying: Tell me, I pray... Read more

    Were you aware that the very first town in the United States to have an entirely female city council serving with a female mayor was in Utah?   I wasn’t, either, until Jill Derr mentioned it on Thursday afternoon at the annual FairMormon conference.  It happened in Kanab, of all places, in 1912.   Here’s a little item about the episode:   http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/statehood_and_the_progressive_era/kanabresidentschosewomentoruntheirowntown1912.html   By the way:   Utah women were granted the right to vote on 12 February... Read more

    You may or may not have heard, but socialism has furnished us with yet another illustrative example of government-induced starvation, now capped off with the introduction of forced-labor camps:   “Venezuela Reaches the End of the Road to Serfdom”   “Only a Presidential Referendum Can Save Venezuela from Its Humanitarian Crisis”   It’s important, though, to keep trying.  The loss of freedom, repeated economic failure, and, sometimes, millions of dead– these mean nothing.  As Comrade Stalin liked to say, if... Read more

    “Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”  (G. K. Chesterton)     Read more

    This week’s Saturday Hamblin-Peterson column has been published (a bit early) by the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865659536/Maya-emblem-glyphs-and-Book-of-Mormon-place-names.html     Read more

    http://reverbpress.com/politics/harvard-republican-club-issues-blistering-non-endorsement-of-trump-breaking-128-year-streak/   Thanks to Bianca Lisonbee for bringing this to my attention.     Read more

    Ben McGuire began this morning’s session with a quite thought-provoking examination of the concept of translation and of its implications, particularly as they relate to the Book of Mormon.  A very rich talk.   There have been some quite good discussions of women’s place in the Church, and of women and the priesthood, at this conference.  Kathryn Shirts continued the discussion with a very good presentation.   (Sorry that I’m being so “summary” with these summaries.  You really... Read more