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Mero Moment: Bullies and Discipline

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What the Republican Party needs to champion

TweetThe following post is a transcript of a weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations: There is growing angst in Republican circles over the direction the Republican Party ought to...

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The problem with Agenda 21

TweetThe following post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations: A recent op-ed in The Salt Lake Tribune calls on the Utah Senate to oppose a...

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How religion-free trend affects public policy

Tweet The following post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. A sign on a commercial building in the neighborhood where I live reads, “Interested...

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The push for pot

Tweet The following post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. When Colorado and Washington voters approved ballot initiatives last November to...

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Friends (yes!) in politics

Tweet The following post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. Politics certainly creates strange bedfellows. Over the span of my career I have...

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Obama now lying about his lies

Tweet The following post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. President Obama, Vice President Biden and staff as the House passes the health care...

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Bright, principled Sen. Lee makes the establishment cringe

Tweet There’s a lot of hostility toward Mike Lee from the the Washington and Utah Establishment. (Photo: Hannibal Poenaru) The following post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired...

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Stop sniping about website fiasco – focus on real health care issues

Tweet This post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. I’ve watched with great interest how Obamacare seems to be crumbling right before our eyes....

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Men (and women) behaving badly

TweetThis post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. Do you have a right to behave badly? Most people probably would answer “no” to that question...

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The law that sounds reasonable – but isn’t

Tweet This post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. Partisan activists have used words like tolerance, fairness and equality to gain special...

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A culture of corruption in Utah

Tweet This post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. As the John Swallow scandal reveals more and more culture of corruption within Utah’s...

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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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Here’s how Utah can really level the educational playing field

Tweet This post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. Photo by Anissa Thompson Ten years ago, Sutherland Institute published a powerful analysis of...

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Election solution may be a Pyrrhic victory – Mero Moment, 3/11/14

TweetThis post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. (Scroll down for podcast.) As the legislative version of the Count My Vote initiative is...

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Mero Moment: Social Issues Divide the Parties

Former Alabama Governor George Wallace is famous for saying in 1968 that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats. Today we hear the same thing from libertarians such...

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Mero Moment: Privacy and Bad Behavior

Forty-seven years ago in the Griswold case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment to the Constitution “has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion.” A...

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Mero Moment: Weary of Lies

Like many of you I’m tired of this political season. Mentally tired of all of the lies – yes, lies. I don’t know if it’s possible for a presidential candidate to run for office without lying. Sometimes...

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Mero Moment: ‘Freedom to Marry’

By Paul Mero If you believe that the “freedom to marry” includes any relationship outside of one man and one woman, you don’t understand the meaning of freedom. Most people are at liberty to do a great...

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Mero Moment: Secede over pot and Obamacare? You’re nuts

Did you know that there are public petitions in all 50 states in support of secession? I didn’t, but former presidential candidate Ron Paul knows. He likes the idea that states should secede from the...

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