(14)Week of April 6, 2008

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Thousands of Flights Cancelled: Who’s to Blame?

HIGHLAND, UT | 10 April 2008 | It is a scene straight out of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. People standing around waiting to get home. Government officials demanding action. Regulators inspecting shoddy work from ambivalent workers. Chaos everywhere. And no one willing to take responsibility. Only it isn’t the train, it’s the airline industry. It has nearly 200,000 people […]

10Apr2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Does it pay to be unproductive?

MAPLETON, UT | 10 April 2008 | In the current climate of rising commodity prices, there is a change sweeping over the American heartland. After years of leaving large tracts of land unused in exchange for government handouts, thousands of farmers are clearing the overgrowth and planting crops again. What opponents of the policies of […]

10Apr2008 | Israel Curtis | 0 comments | Continued
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Innovation Spurs Economic Growth

By K. Quinn Kyler, Guest Author 
PROVO, UT | 9 April 2008 | Many would have you believe that the economy is stimulated by plans created by the government, such as the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, which was signed on February 13 by President Bush.  This is a two-year 168-billion-dollar stimulus package.  Is this what stimulates […]

9Apr2008 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Violence on the Olympic Trail

HIGHLAND, UT | 9 April 2008 | China’s history of violence upon its own people and those in surrounding areas is widely criticized. Tibetan protests last month turned riotous and deadly as Chinese forces attempted to quell the uprising. Protestors around the world seek to use this year’s Olympic events as leverage to urge China […]

9Apr2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued
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Bureau of the Brain-Dead

MAPLETON, UT | 7 April 2008 | There is a little-known disease that afflicts a special segment of any population. It is very contagious, but it seems to manifest itself most frequently when the carrier is either elected to public office or is appointed to a government department. The most severe cases are witnessed in […]

8Apr2008 | Israel Curtis | 1 comment | Continued
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Scientists Able to Shrink World

HIGHLAND, UT | 7 April 2008 | Scientists have found a way to make this great big world of ours much smaller: “The Grid” as they are calling it is a device which makes the quick speeds of broadband Internet communication pale in comparison. Jonathan Leake, science editor of British Times Online, reported Sunday that […]

7Apr2008 | Jason K. Vaughn | 0 comments | Continued