Wednesday, January 22, 2025

ARTICLES BY DAN COOPER/GUEST OPINION

America needs to go back to its roots

Women’s rights. Gay rights. Black lives matter. Right to grow, smoke, and sell our own pot. Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. As Americans we love our rights, now our taskmasters. Dependence on government handouts, Internet porn, no-fault divorce, endless litigation, and police-the-world politicians with pat answers yet few solutions are just …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Let's do it the way our Founders did

Many kudos for 'guest opinion' contributor Courtney Theander and her astute observation that the fundamental building block to a healthy society is a strong family unit, including her correct assertion that parents, much more often than not, are more intimately equipped at deciding the fate of their own children than …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Absolute power rears its ugly head

Please, letter writers to the editor, you can speak to the facts without joining the circus! Case in point: Laura Boro, in the Oct. 17 edition, blaming the governor and his "fire and brimstone" buddy Vieselmeyer for their stance against gay marriage.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Yes, we are a Christian Nation

Since when do voting parishioners become the "lees and dregs" of society, and pastors mere doltish knaves, while the scorn-filled local editor sits high atop his ivory tower, hoarding the 1st Amendment pie, imagining himself more worthy of a larger piece of freedom? Wouldst that all the area's citizens to …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

We must adhere to our religious convictions

As a youngster in the early 1960s, I noticed an ideology in the aspirations of Americans, including the story of a brave uncle who was gunned down near Roanne as the U.S. Army pushed the Germans north through France in World War II.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

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