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How to get the president interested in dealing with foreign crises

“The Passing Parade: Observations on People and Culture”

    An interesting “insider” account of an element of twentieth-century Mormon intellectual history, now up on the blog of The Interpreter Foundation:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-...    

Obama’s second term: Even worse than Romney had expected

    http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/16982...   In related news, Jimmy Fallon mocks Obama’s golfing:   http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV...    

“Alexander the Great wasn’t content to be merely human”

    This week’s Saturday Hamblin/Peterson column in Salt Lake City’s Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Bountiful, Utah  

Another significant day for the family

    There are few things that compare with being in the temple, with family and friends, for an ordinance that carries eternal significance.   Our niece was just married this morning in the Bountiful Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.   May they be happy and faithful — to God, [Read More...]

Tee time!

    As has been pointed out by at least two astute observers, I get all of my news and views from Sean Hannity and Fox News.   Here’s a sampling of Sean’s comments about Mr. Obama’s latest rounds of golf — uttered and written under various pseudonyms at various Fox News outlets (like the New York Times):   [Read More...]

Friday, at the end of BYU Education Week

    Well, I’ve just finished Education Week for 2014, with the fourth lecture in my series on the resurrection of Jesus — this one entitled “The Witness of the Restoration.”   It went reasonably well.  The whole series went fairly well, I would judge, although there are definitely areas where I should have done better.  I [Read More...]

The ongoing crisis forces the president to return, briefly, from his vacation

    He came back for a day or two.   Now he’s apparently on vacation again.    

“The Sibling Scandals of the Resurrection”

    With today’s publication, marking the one hundred and eighth (108th) consecutive week in which at least one article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 11 of the journal is now complete:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-...   Volume 12 will begin to appear next Friday.   Count on it.    

“How to Shrink Your Church in One Easy Step”

    Every major American church that has taken steps towards liberalization on sexual issues has seen a sharp decline in membership:   http://thefederalist.com/2014/08/21/h...