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Washington’s Advice Rejected by both Parties

By Harold Pease, Ph. D

Avoiding national debt was one of George Washington’s greatest admonitions yet neither liberals nor conservatives have paid much attention to it. It would be well to reflect on his advice this President’s Day.

The trillion dollar Republican proposal will raise overall spending caps by about $300 billion over the next two years and will make interest on the debt the largest growing part of the federal budget. This expenditure of the people’s hard-earned taxes purchases nothing—simply vanishes.

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The Diet of Lent

Dear Editor,

February 14th marks the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period before Easter, when Christians abstain from animal foods in remembrance of Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness.

The call to abstain from eating animals is as current as the teaching of evangelical leader Franklin Graham, yet as traditional as the Bible (Genesis 1:29). Methodist founder John Wesley, Salvation Army pioneers William and Catherine Booth, and Seventh-day Adventist Church founder Ellen G. White all followed this higher call.

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Countless Measures

To what lengths would you go to protect a child? Countless measures, of course.

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Don't fix what is not broken. (An open letter to the Utah State Legisl ature for publication.)

Utah State Legislature

Feb. 6, 2018

Dear Utah State Law-Makers,

Like the Philadelphia Eagles motto "We all we got, we all we need." American Eagles like you, me and our fellow US citizens have the Constitution for the United States of America; and the Constitution for the United States of America, as constituted, is all we need to remain American Eagles.