http://www.deseretnews.com/home/ Opinion en-us Copyright 2013, Deseret News Publishing Company Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 MDT Wed, 22 May 2013 03:34:40 MDT Newspapers http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630233/Richard-Davis-Abortion-laws-should-keep-up-with-advances.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630233/Richard-Davis-Abortion-laws-should-keep-up-with-advances.html The illegal abortion trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell horrified the nation. Gosnell was found guilty of delivering late-term live... ]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630234/Letters-Consumers-last-word.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630234/Letters-Consumers-last-word.html In the war of businessmen against the people, the businessmen seem to have won the battle for collecting sales tax on... Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630235/Letters-Move-to-the-center.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630235/Letters-Move-to-the-center.html Dan Liljenquist's gleeful recounting of adversity in the Obama presidency is unfortunate ("Chaffetz's search for truth in... Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630238/Letters-Disaster-vs-disease.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630238/Letters-Disaster-vs-disease.html Everyone expects the government to step in and help the victims of this most recent tornado as it has in the other recent... Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630239/What-others-say-India-and-China.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630239/What-others-say-India-and-China.html India and China together account for about 38 percent of the world's 7-billion-plus population. Because these Asian giants... ]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865580415/Comprehensive-immigration-reform-or-bust.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865580415/Comprehensive-immigration-reform-or-bust.html Rey Kowalski makes the case for comprehensive immigration reform at the Christian Science Monitor ]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 14:30:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865580410/Search-for-extraterrestrial-life-goes-on-even-without-Kepler.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865580410/Search-for-extraterrestrial-life-goes-on-even-without-Kepler.html Meg Urry at CNN lays out the tech talk on what's happening to the Kepler satellite, but why it shouldn't overly worry us. ]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 12:25:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630113/In-our-opinion-Scouting-success-will-come-from-devotion-to-ideals.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630113/In-our-opinion-Scouting-success-will-come-from-devotion-to-ideals.html For a century, the Boy Scouts of America has provided the young men of Utah an unparalleled program of character development... ]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 09:17:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630108/Robert-J-Samuelson-Can-Americans-stem-future-increases-in-health-care-spending.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630108/Robert-J-Samuelson-Can-Americans-stem-future-increases-in-health-care-spending.html We all know that Stein's Law will someday apply to health care spending, which has risen from 5 percent of the economy (gross... ]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630109/Lois-M-Collins-Kids-summer-bucket-list-can-foster-real-growth.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630109/Lois-M-Collins-Kids-summer-bucket-list-can-foster-real-growth.html My oldest daughter is excited by the fact that school's almost over. Saturday, working beside me in our winter-neglected... ]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT