SandBoxUtah: Power Line "Love is sweeping the country"

Scott Johnson:
"Utah Republicans nominated the impressive Mia Love to run against incumbent Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson in the newly created Fourth Congressional District. John Fund covered the story for NRO. Ms. Love Love, the 37-year-old daughter of Haitian immigrants and the mayor of Saratoga Springs, a community of 18,000 outside Salt Lake City, was the Tea Party candidate in the Republican field for the nomination. Fund writes:

Love’s presence in Congress would certainly shake up the House. I met her at CPAC, the annual conservative conference, where she gave a stirring speech: “According to liberals, I’m not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: Game On.”

Love is perfectly representative of the Tea Party movement. She is smart, engaged and knowledgeable, harking back to first principles to guide us in our way forward. Hear her out in Glenn Reynolds’s InstaVision interview of her for PJTV last month, posted here and on YouTube (below). (I dissent only from her enthusiasm for Ron Paul.)....." (Read more?  Click title)

SandBoxUtah: Newsmax "Pete Sessions: Obamacare Has Cost Medicare Budget $500 Billion"

Martin Gould and John Bachman:
"The country has to accept that the Medicare budget has lost $500 billion due to President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul, and figure out a way to work around it, Republican Congressional Committee chairman Pete Sessions tells Newsmax.TV.

Unless the Supreme Court rules to overturn the law completely the money will not come back, so Republicans have to make sure the public is aware of the situation – and who is to blame – before the November elections.

“We have the responsibility as policymakers in Washington to deal with the law,” the Texas congressman said in an exclusive interview. “Now that we know the $500 billion, by law, is gone, we have to deal with that....."  (Read more?  Click title)

SandBoxUtah: Salt Lake Tribune "Utah immigration law could hinge on fate of Arizona’s"

David Montero:
"So now the two sides wait while eight judges sort through the immigration time bomb known simply known as SB1070.

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff read the transcripts of Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Arizona’s enforcement-only law and said, based on the questioning from the justices, it was difficult to imagine how they wouldn’t uphold provisions of SB1070."........

.......Sandstrom eventually said he didn’t want to do what Arizona did as pressure mounted from the business community, leaders in Utah’s Republican Party and religious groups to avoid passing a copycat of SB1070. "For example, I don’t think it’s practical to check status on every single person on, say, a traffic stop,’ Sandstrom said. "That’s one of the things we negotiated on that bill that I think turned out better than the original language."

So instead of requiring local police to check legal status of people during a lawful stop, Sandstrom’s version only required it be checked on a felony or Class A misdemeanor stop. On other misdemeanors, the check is left to the officer’s discretion..."  (Read the article?  Click title)

SandBoxUtah: Fox 13 "Four rescued from Utah Lake after canoe capsize"

Brittany Green-Miner and Zach Whitney:
"UTAH LAKE – Four people were rescued from Utah Lake Saturday afternoon after their canoe flipped.
Utah Park Rangers and the Utah County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of a boat in distress on Utah Lake at around 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses say a small canoe was out on the water and tipped, throwing two passengers into the 60-degree water.
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We looked over and we see a canoe tipped over on the side,” said Michael Hoffman, who saw the boat tip. ”Police started coming and everything, so we knew it was an emergency.”

The group was near the shore of the lake and was able to get onto land, though they were in the water for about 45 minutes. One of the teens showed the beginning signs of hypothermia and was hospitalized...."
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SandBoxUtah: Times Live "Sundance festival swaps Utah mountains for London"

"Sundance London, a smaller version of the US film festival set up by the actor and director in 1985, will showcase 22 films as well as a string of live music performances at the 02 Arena in southeast London.

"Music and cinema look like they could be the next hybrid," Redford, 75, said at a press conference at the 02.

The star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid said the London gala would be a "scaled down version of what we do in the mountains in Utah", where Sundance has grown into the United States' biggest independent film festival.

"I was reluctant to see us go out until the time was really right, and it felt like it was," he said.

Sundance London, which runs until Sunday, will host the British premieres of 14 American feature-length movies and 8 short films originally screened at its US sister festival...."
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