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• Woman shot and killed after reported burglary in Salt Lake City

  27-07-2019 23:11
  Police are untangling the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of a woman Saturday morning in Salt Lake City.Officers found the injured woman — who police have not yet publicly identified — when they arrived at the scene of a reported burglary around 7:40 a.m. near 1200 N. Redwood Rd., Sgt. Brandon Shearer said.Medics tried to help the woman. She was soon taken by ambulance to the hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.Shearer said investigators don’t know how or
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Let the caged refugees start new lives in Utah

  27-07-2019 23:00
  Sen. Mike Lee was silent as he peered into a cage stuffed so full that it was impossible for the men inside to lie down.“Forty-four days,” they shouted at Lee and Vice President Mike Pence, meaning how long they had gone without a shower. The stench was so strong the guards wore face masks.Two weeks later, Lee has yet to speak publicly about it. He put out a statement a week after, but it offered no solutions.The daily reports of cruelty at the border — punctuated by the occasi
  
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• Letter: It’s time to reform the Electoral College

  27-07-2019 22:35
  The question isn’t whether the American public would vote for a woman as president. In 2016, a woman beat her male opponent by almost 3 million votes.The question is how much longer will the majority of Americans be willing to leave their vote for president up to the weak spot in the Electoral College, its state-by-state winner-take-all operating system.Under winner-take-all, the closer the margin between winner and loser in a presidential race, the greater the odds of divergence between t
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Lindsey says multiple max-level FAs were interested

  27-07-2019 21:47 via sportspyder.com
  Dennis Lindsey, the Utah Jazz's executive VP of basketball ops, has revealed that multiple max-level free agents were intrigued by the team this offseason....
  
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• Utah Jazz: Lindsey says multiple max-level FAs were interested

  27-07-2019 21:46
  Dennis Lindsey, the Utah Jazz’s executive VP of basketball ops, has revealed that multiple max-level free agents were intrigued by the team this offseason. The casual fans out there and national pundits who don’t often venture out to sleepy Salt Lake City may not know it, but Utah Jazz fans sure do. Their team is […]
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• Utah man accused of robbing same Ogden bank branch twice

  27-07-2019 21:15
  Ogden • A Utah man is accused of robbing the same bank twice.A federal indictment charges 52-year-old Anthony Thomas Murdzak of Logan with robbing a Wells Fargo branch in Ogden on June 4 and June 24, allegedly getting a total of $8,650 from tellers on the two different occasions.According to a complaint filed by an FBI agent, tellers thought it was the same man in both robberies and investigators identified Murdzak through a pickup truck used in both robberies.The complaint also said Murdza
  
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• Russian police arrest more than 1,000 in Moscow protest

  27-07-2019 21:11
  Moscow • Russian police cracked down fiercely Saturday on demonstrators in central Moscow, beating some people and arresting more than 1,000 who were protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow city council. Police also stormed into a TV station broadcasting the protest.Police wrestled with protesters around the mayor's office, sometimes charging into the crowd with their batons raised. State news agencies Tass and RIA-Novosti cited police as saying 1,074 we
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - What’s the next step for Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell?

  27-07-2019 19:26 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell didn’t look like your typical rookie when he arrived to the NBA as a 21-year old. As the 13th overall selection in the 2017 draft, nobody expected him to immediately grab the keys of the franchise and run...
  
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• University of Utah running back Zack Moss is hoping to close out his Ute career in a ‘downright nasty’ way

  27-07-2019 17:14
  Hollywood, Calif. • Zack Moss’ style of running with the football is not always a matter of his own choosing.“I can be elusive when it's needed,” he said, “and I can be downright nasty when it's needed as well.”That’s a useful skill set. Utah’s senior running back is healthy, ready to destroy the school’s career rushing record and eager to see what the Utes can become in a season when they’re picked to win the Pac-12 championship. The kn
  
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• Monson: The Utah Jazz aim to win big by helping their brothers out

  27-07-2019 17:13
  Fitting in. Helping your brothers out.Of all the concerns the Jazz have for an upcoming run toward real contention in the West — and who knows, maybe a shot at a title — that is the part that is most critical. No longer is it what it used to be, back when the Jazz had mastered the singing-in-harmony-around-the-campfire component, but lacked offensive firepower. Now, it’s flipped, necessitating the putting of talented pieces together in such a firm and sometimes flexible way to
  
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• A friends-and-family intervention for preventing teen suicide

  27-07-2019 17:12
  If you or someone you know are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.A 16-year-old boy, a high school athlete with good grades, told his therapist that he was thinking about taking his own life. That therapist, Dennis Kolsch, got him admitted to an inpatient ward. “He didn’t have a great experience in there, but he was safe,” said Kolsch, a licensed mental health counse
  
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• Utah has required schools to have ‘In God We Trust’ posted publicly for 17 years

  27-07-2019 17:11
  A recent law in South Dakota requiring the phrase “In God We Trust” to be prominently displayed in all public schools was meant to “inspire patriotism,” according to the legislators who sponsored it.But it has quickly touched off a national debate over whether the message — the motto for the United States — instead promotes religion. Some have said it pushes the boundary of separation of church and state. Others have argued it illegally puts God in the classro
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: The Utah Jazz aim to win big by helping their brothers out

  27-07-2019 17:10 via sportspyder.com
  Fitting in. Helping your brothers out.
  
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• Candidates for Salt Lake City mayor outline plans to address affordable housing crunch

  27-07-2019 17:09
  With a 25-year plan to boost housing accessibility and a $40 million investment in affordable units over the past three years, Salt Lake City is arguably doing more than any other Utah municipality to tackle what some have labeled a “crisis.”Yet even as new buildings pop up across the city, the issue remains one of the most pressing facing the city’s next mayor — and many of the eight candidates vying for the position say they would do more, if elected, to address it.Seve
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Mike Conley has proven to be the recruiter the team has dreamed of

  27-07-2019 16:40 via sportspyder.com
  Mike Conley has done an exceptional job as a recruiter for the Utah Jazz, as his influence was key in the team landing free agents this summer. The Utah Ja...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Mike Conley has proven to be the recruiter the team has dreamed of

  27-07-2019 16:21
  Mike Conley has done an exceptional job as a recruiter for the Utah Jazz, as his influence was key in the team landing free agents this summer. The Utah Jazz have never been thought of as a free agent destination. Between a small market size, it’s widely unfamiliar location and some stigmas about the area […]
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• Rich Lowry: Democrats should not have subcontracted their job to Mueller

  27-07-2019 14:00
  Rarely has a made-for-TV drama been such bad TV.The much anticipated Robert Mueller hearings that were supposed to catalyze the impeachment drive against President Trump probably brought it to an effective end.The testimony represented the final installment of a years-long over-investment in Mueller by the Democrats and the media that finally went completely bust in his laconic, halting, uncertain performance.All during the period of Mueller's investigation and his public silence, he was built u
  
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• Rachel Appel: Voting rights matter in San Juan County

  27-07-2019 14:00
  It’s a 290-mile drive from Salt Lake City to Monticello, the seat of San Juan County in Utah’s southeast corner, and the rain followed our car the whole way. As clouds threatened another downpour, we joined the dozens of people converging on the San Juan County Courthouse to attend the May 21 County Commission meeting.Once inside, Leah Farrell, the ACLU of Utah’s senior staff attorney and I sat down as the room filled with more than 40 people. Why such keen interest in the gove
  
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• Noah Smith: America’s roads and bridges cost too darn much

  27-07-2019 14:00
  High construction costs pose a major threat to the U.S. economy. Not only are highways and transit systems irreplaceable for most Americans, they enable the free movement of people and goods within and between cities — the glue that holds together networks of domestic production. Without smooth roads, solid bridges and well-functioning trains, supply chains break down, people can’t get to work and the whole economy gets gummed up. In the short term, the government can spend more, thr
  
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• Letter: What example does President Trump set with all his lies?

  27-07-2019 14:00
  President Donald Trump’s supporters need to think deeply about the values they are supporting and the effects it does and will have in the future.In an interview with David Muir of ABC World News Tonight almost two years ago, Trump said it was OK for him to lie because “people agree with him.”Since taking office, Trump has made more than 10,796 false or misleading claims and continues to lie on an almost daily basis.People need to think about this person sitting in the Oval Off
  
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• Letter: Planned Parenthood is an exemplary health care provider

  27-07-2019 14:00
  The misinformed and strongly biased Rich Lowry is obviously no friend of Planned Parenthood (“For Planned Parenthood, no doctors need apply,” July 20). His strong anti-abortion position greatly colors his view of the mission of PP throughout the world.In my association of almost 20 years with Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, they have always functioned as an exemplary health care provider throughout the state, with eight health care clinics serving over 46,000 clients during 2
  
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• Letter: It’s time to eliminate the Electoral College

  27-07-2019 14:00
  The question isn’t whether the American public would vote for a woman as president. In 2016, a woman beat her male opponent by almost 3 million votes.The question is how much longer will the majority of Americans be willing to leave their vote for president up to the weak spot in the Electoral College, its state-by-state winner-take-all operating system.Under winner-take-all, the closer the margin between winner and loser in a presidential race, the greater the odds of divergence between t
  
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• Letter: How can anyone support Donald Trump?

  27-07-2019 14:00
  I have tried hard to understand, explain, ignore and even defend people I know who support Donald Trump. It is time to come right out and say it. Whoever supports and encourages a dangerous racist, white supremacist, demagogue must be considered of like mind.Trump has made the vile and corrupt acceptable to a large swath of people in this country who will support him regardless of how often or how blatantly he violates all standards of decency. They should look at themselves in the mirror and as
  
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• Letter: Driving on highways is downright terrifying

  27-07-2019 14:00
  The highways around the Salt Lake Valley keep getting more frightening all the time. The drives to Provo, Ogden and Park City can be downright terrifying, with speeding drivers cutting in and out of various traffic lanes.A family member of mine drives a cargo transport daily from Reno to San Francisco via I-80, a traffic corridor that is normally jammed with vehicles of every description. I asked him if he had any advice to give to make such congested travel a little safer.His advice was to driv
  
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• Ishaan Tharoor: The enduring cruelty of Trump’s immigration agenda

  27-07-2019 14:00
  In a parallel universe, the scene could have flooded newspaper front pages and cable news networks for days. But in the whirlwind of the Trump presidency, it'll end up just another footnote in a forgotten chapter of White House absurdity.Last week, President Donald Trump hosted a delegation of some two dozen victims of religious persecution from around the world. The diverse group, which included a Jewish Holocaust survivor, a Tibetan who fled China and a Rohingya Muslim chased out of Myanmar by
  
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• Andrew Kramer: Treatment of refugees is a dark stain on America

  27-07-2019 14:00
  Trump and his administration — backed by feckless Republican politicians — have intentionally created a humanitarian crisis at our southern border and at most detention centers.As reported by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general, conditions for immigrants are appalling — overcrowding, squalor, hunger, lack of basic needs and sanitation and grossly inadequate medical care. Many lack necessities like toothbrushes, soap and access to showers. Some are given rotten
  
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• Trump administration to reject full Medicaid expansion funding for Utah

  27-07-2019 07:09
  Washington • The Trump administration will not give Utah or other states generous federal funding to partially expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, funding that Utah hoped to receive after the administration earlier this year authorized the state to move forward on an expansion of the government health insurance program.This decision should trigger a fallback provision in Utah’s scaled-back Medicaid proposal that will allow for full Medicaid expansion, similar
  
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• Shake Shack schedules first Utah opening in Sandy

  27-07-2019 04:28
  The wait is almost over. Utah’s first Shake Shack is set to open in early August.The New York-based burger-and-shake franchise will make its Utah debut at 11 a.m. on Aug. 3, following a VIP event the day before, according to a company news release.y A ribbon cutting is slated for 10:45 a.m. on opening day.The company announced its first Utah store in January, and according to Twitter, Utahns were pumped for the chance to have the chain’s foods a little closer to home than Phoenix or
  
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• Flash flooding closes part of U.S. 89 in Utah County, prompts evacuations near Strawberry

  27-07-2019 03:27
  Utah Highway Patrol troopers have closed a 3-mile section of U.S. 89 in Utah County that was flooded Friday evening with mud and large debris.The closure is between Birdseye and Thistle, a ghost town that was destroyed by a mudslide in 1983. UHP tweeted that the roadway is covered with rocks and mud more than 2 feet high, and water was still flowing.Flash flood and large debris/mud field on US 89 from MM 309 to MM 306. Roadway is closed in both directions with over 2 feet of rock and mud coverin
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Ed Davis, Jeff Green cite winning as the reason they joined Jazz

  27-07-2019 02:36 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz introduced new members center Ed Davis and forward Jeff Green on Friday to assembled media, with the veterans citing their new team’s ripe position to contend for a title as the key reason to come aboard. “At this stage of my career, I...
  
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• Girls are bearing the brunt of a rise in U.S. cyberbullying

  27-07-2019 01:52
  Seattle • Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online.The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen said she contemplated suicide. Once she got help, she decided to limit her time on social media. It helps to take a break from it for perspective, said Whalen, now a 19-year-old college student in Utah.There’s a rise in c
  
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• Utah Royals’ Becky Sauerbrunn might be the best center back on the planet, but she says she’s not satisfied yet

  27-07-2019 01:42
  Becky Sauerbrunn has won at just about every level imaginable. Olympic gold in 2012. Back-to-back NWSL championships with FC Kansas City. Back-to-back Women’s World Cup titles. And throughout her career, the United States Women’s National Team veteran and captain of the Utah Royals FC has shared the field with the best of the best.But when Sauerbrunn hears Royals head coach Laura Harvey, her peers, the media or whoever say she’s the best center back in the world, something insi
  
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• Zions Bank customers notified of data breach

  27-07-2019 01:41
  Zions Bank sent letters to some of it customers this week notifying them of an online data breach.“We recently learned of unauthorized access to our computer network on or around June 1, 2019,” according to the July 22 letter. ″As a result we believe some personal information of some of our online banking customers may have been improperly viewed or acquired.”The letter did not disclose how many customers were affected. But James Abbott, director of external communication
  
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• Salt Lake City police release video of officer fatally shooting a mentally ill man, injuring another officer

  27-07-2019 01:39
  Almost immediately after officers knocked on the door to room No. 408, it swung open hard and fast.A man inside pushed his arms out first, waving a gun in circles. One woman saw the weapon and ducked down the hallway to get away. An officer started firing.The man, 43-year-old Michael Brand, crumpled to the ground. He was shirtless and still.“He’s been hit,” one officer says and he kicks the weapon — which was later determined to be a paintball gun. Another officer, who ha
  
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• Virginia ‘Jinnah’ Kelson, ‘fierce advocate’ for Utah women, dies at age 90

  27-07-2019 01:38
  The women were all set to work in Tooele coal mines. They were trained. They were going to make a good salary. Plus, they enjoyed the job, Virginia Kelson said.But in just a few months, all the women quit.The reason, Kelson said, was criticism from their families. Their relatives “did not like their assertiveness” and “felt that it was improper to be taking ‘men’s jobs,’” she said.Kelson, who had helped prepare the women for mining jobs, spent decades ch
  
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• "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." — Eleanor Roosevelt. #5ForTheFight | @5ForTheFightpic.twitter.com/ASHnRDo9fO

  27-07-2019 01:34 via twitter.com
  "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."— Eleanor Roosevelt.#5ForTheFight | @5ForTheFightpic.twitter.com/ASHnRDo9fO
  
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• Rep. Ben McAdams has highest approval rating of Utah’s delegation and Sen. Mitt Romney the highest disapproval, poll shows

  27-07-2019 01:31
  Forty-three percent of freshman Rep. Ben McAdams’ constituents “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of the job he is doing in Congress, according to a new poll, giving the lone Democrat in Utah’s federal delegation the highest show of support among his Washington peers.The highest rate of disapproval in the poll goes to freshman Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, with 40% of voters objecting to his job performance compared to 38% who support him.The numbers place Romney an
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jeff Green, Ed Davis say Mike Conley has ‘no ego’

  27-07-2019 01:31 via sportspyder.com
  A big reason why veteran forwards Jeff Green and Ed Davis signed with the Utah Jazz in free agency is because of the presence of point guard Mike Conley. Both Green and Davis say Conley has “no ego,” is a good person on and off the court, and a guy...
  
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• Governors ponder how to fix rural economies with ‘innovative strategies’

  27-07-2019 01:29
  Rural jobs historically have revolved around what Nathan Ohle of the Rural Community Assistance Partnership calls an “extraction economy.”Mining coal. Harvesting crops. Logging.But as rural areas in Utah and elsewhere in the nation move into the future, Ohle said his organization is trying to help them shift toward innovation and wealth creation.Utah Sen. David Hinkins offered a different perspective during a Friday panel discussion at the National Governors Association summer meetin
  
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• Canadian official touts how important Utah trade is, praises progress on new North American accord

  27-07-2019 01:26
  As the Trump administration hoped aloud Friday that progress will lead Congress to ratify a new North American free trade agreement in September, a top Canadian trade official visiting Salt Lake City said his country’s Parliament aims to pass it in tandem if U.S. lawmakers act.The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, “is extremely important to Canada,” said Omar Alghabra, Canada’s parliamentary secretary for international trade diversification — roughly equivalen
  
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• Supreme Court allows use of Pentagon funds for border wall

  27-07-2019 01:01
  Washington • The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.The court's five conservative justices gave the administration the greenlight to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for the projects had been frozen by lower courts. The court's four liberal justices wouldn't have allowed construction to start.The justices' decision to l
  
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• good place to wear a Jazz hat! (everywhere is a good place to wear a Jazz hat tho)

  27-07-2019 00:50 via twitter.com
  good place to wear a Jazz hat!(everywhere is a good place to wear a Jazz hat tho)
  
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• Holly Richardson: A summer without air conditioning? OK, OK. Two weeks. Same thing.

  27-07-2019 00:40
  About three weeks ago, the air conditioning unit that cooled our home’s bedrooms went out. Using trusty Google and YouTube as guides, my husband checked it out and decided it was probably the condenser and we could be looking at a four-figure repair job. Or five figures for a replacement.So, we got a few fans, opened the windows at night, turned the fans on and tried to get through the hottest part of summer.It led me to a few observations.I just don’t do well in heat. It gives me ma
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert urges other states to copy Utah and lower DUI limit. Other speakers say it will save lives, money.

  27-07-2019 00:38
  Gov. Gary Herbert invited the nation’s governors Friday to consider following Utah’s lead and lower the blood alcohol content limit for drunken driving from 0.08 to 0.05.The president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and a top official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention joined in, telling the National Governors Association meeting in Salt Lake City that it would save hundreds of lives a year and prevent much suffering.“In Europe, countries have it down to 0.05
  
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• Summer goals (via @rudygobert27 IG)pic.twitter.com/JcotJmlbEf

  27-07-2019 00:36 via twitter.com
  Summer goals
  (via @rudygobert27 IG)pic.twitter.com/JcotJmlbEf
  
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• have you found some?

  27-07-2019 00:16 via twitter.com
  have you found some?
  
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• Chris Herrod: Commentary was a pathetic smear job on a good American

  27-07-2019 00:00
  The recent commentary by Paul Mero, Senator Curt Bramble, and David Irvine, demonstrates the politics of personal destruction. Every sleazy technique to shut someone up seemed to be used, personal smears, the “church” card, the “God” card, the “race” card, half-truths, Orwellian doublespeak, and innuendo. Not bad for an 800 word essay.Rather than attack policy positions, they attacked the person and attempted to destroy a life-time of honorable work. Washingto
  
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