Michael S. Robinson Sr.

Utah's Own Inquisition

Regardless of BYU's many stellar—even world renowned—colleges, it fails to be what a university should be.

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
The Honor Code is only part of it; BYU certainly has a history of intolerance to students and staff, including mass-firings of professors who dared to speak words deemed unorthodox.
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Utah and Somalia: Not So Different

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
This barbaric practice has been renounced by the World Health Organization, and many enlightened countries have enacted laws to stop it.
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Chastity Belts: The Latest Fashion Craze?

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
Gary Herbert—will cement the essential understanding that a woman's body does not belong to her; it is the sole property of the designated man in charge.
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Herbert: A Failure of the Public Trust

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
Democracy: We learned about it early, and our teachers explained it in great detail
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Trumpty Dumpty

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
The bulk of Utah's congressional delegation are spineless yes-men.
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HB166: Headed for Herbert's Desk

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
DNA has solved crimes, allowed successful matching of transplant donors and recipients, brought prenatal testing for in utero abnormalities, provided Webster with the word "clone," and opened the Pandora's Box of related moral questions.
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Better Brooms, Bigger Rugs

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
On the surface they all look freshly scrubbed and squeaky clean, but the reality is a simple matter of statistical probability—there are skeletons in virtually everyone's closet.
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Echoes of History

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
President Donald Trump is totally absorbed by getting his own way and hurting those who oppose him.
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Utah's Legislators: Gone Rogue

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
The legislative opposition to Medicaid expansion is the latest case in point.
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The Politics of Protective Coloration

• By Michael S. Robinson Sr.
The chameleons, lizards and walking stick bugs are just a few that stand out—chameleons for their ability to modify their colors to blend in with almost any surrounding; lizards for appearing as the sand and rocks beneath their feet; and the walking sticks for looking like just another innocuous twig.
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