Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.
"I didn’t say it as well as I should have," he said at Ball State University.
As he tried to [...]

Zion National Park is in Utah’s southwest corner, the part of the state that Utah residents call Dixie, where spring arrives first.
The grass was still brown when we left our home in Montana early last April and headed south on Interstate 15. But as we descended the last stretch toward Zion, dropping from mountains into [...]