Wednesday, January 22, 2025

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