'L'etat c'est moi': Obama vs. the people
What is “the state”? On that question hinges the fate of Obamacare, and perhaps the fate of the nation.
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It's not a funding crisis; it's a constitutional crisis. Got it?
When the history books are written, they won’t write about whether or not the Department of Homeland a got funding in February of 2015; they will write about whether or not there was still a homeland at all.
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Why is Congress all talk, no action?
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Let's get ready to rumble ... Zinke vs. Tester
When the Democratic Party tapped Sen. Jon Tester of Montana to chair the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, a war was sure to break out.
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Islam, history and the failure to recognize a world threat
If you don’t know which side the president is on, you should probably be forgiven. It often appears HE doesn’t know which side he is on.
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'The Big Game' is finally here!
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'Je suis Frank'; how 'bout you?
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'You can keep your freedom, if you like your freedom' (or maybe not)
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'Walking Dead,' the Constitution and the Roman Empire: You do the math...
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Dr. Art Otto was Marcus Welby of the pet world
When I arrived in Kalispell in 1984, I had a couple of suitcases, a couple dozen boxes of books and one gently used basset hound named Gwendolyn, age 11.
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Another nail in the coffin?
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It's time to stop the lying!
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Citizen Carl was tireless advocate
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What about good & evil?
Disconnect.That is the feeling any sane person must have when watching the rioting in Ferguson, or when listening to the self-proclaimed wise men justify the rioting.How can anyone blame the policeman who killed Michael Brown for defending himself and the rest of us from violence? How can anyone turn Michael …
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Of earthquakes, Facebook & news
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Dynasty: It's not just a TV show
Let’s talk about Election Day.
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Survival of the witless? Unlikely to impossible
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Debates are a challenge in more ways than one
Candidates love to challenge each other to debates. It’s an easy way to make news — first for issuing the challenge, then for critiquing the opponent’s response to the challenge, and then again when the debate is held.
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Rule of law or tyranny by courts?
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Religious persecution not just part of history books
Assuming that they still teach history in school, then students today are learning — just as I did almost 50 years ago — that many of the early settlers of the American colonies were people who were escaping from religious persecution in Europe.
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Don't blame the weatherman if it's dark outside
I’m well aware that my column is mostly of the “doom and gloom” variety, and perhaps some folks think that life cannot possibly be that bad — that it must be a negative reflection on me that I don’t have more positive things to talk about.
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Looking back at 10 years of Sundays together
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'Be on guard': Demand truth about Benghazi
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Thanks for 30 great years at the Inter Lake
We’re celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Inter Lake as a newspaper in today’s edition, which got me thinking about another important milestone.
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Hedonism and beheading: Two worlds collide
The murder of American photojournalist James Foley by hooded thugs in the Islamic State ought to unite our country in a passion for justice, but it won’t.
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In heated war of words, my money is on Mark Steyn
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Christians, Jews are easy targets, but for how long?
The absurd attacks on Israel for exercising its right of self-defense in the past few weeks have only been surpassed in foolhardy dangerousness by the world’s virtual silence about the genocide being practiced against Christians and other minority religions in the Islamic State formerly known as northwestern Iraq.
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On the road to a bad day
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Protecting religious freedom is not just a hobby
The Constitution is under assault. So is our way of life.
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Our republic: Lost cause or worth the fight?
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What will finally be the last straw?
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This week, let's take it down a notch
There were lots of big changes in the world last week — from the fall of Eric Cantor to the collapse of Iraq — but nothing compared to the big changes in the Miele household.
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Searching for fairness in all the wrong places
All right-minded people hate discrimination. It’s too bad we no longer know what that is.
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Let's uphold (and honor!) the Constitution
As we celebrate the ultimate sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of Americans who died in the defense of liberty, perhaps it is fitting that we pause for a moment of silence to contemplate the imminent loss of the Constitution which they had sworn to uphold.
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Trick or truth! Can you even tell the difference?
What if everything you know is fake?
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A front-row seat at the culture war
Is it just me, or has the culture war between right and left been escalating wildly over the past few months?
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Another sign of the times
You can call it a symbol or you can call it a coincidence, but I had a phone call on Good Friday which gave me a perfect column for this Easter Sunday.
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Equal time for common sense on 'equal' pay
I’ve written a couple of columns in a row on some of the more blatant attempts by liberals to shut down free and fair debate on topics ranging from climate change to Christianity.
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The freedom not to question climate change
The campaign to marginalize conservatives and their traditional values has many facets. Last week, we talked about the efforts in academia to restrict access to people whose beliefs are not in tune with modern liberalism, but that is just one small component of an ongoing multi-front war.
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Is free speech intended for everyone? Or just liberals?
What is it about liberals that makes them so afraid of free speech, free thought and free expression of ideas, especially on college campuses?
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Free or paid? Why we ask our readers to buy the paper
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A Constitution more or less for the trampling
Too bad we spend so much time yelling at each other about which political party is right and which party is wrong. Too bad we get so easily distracted by the slogans and the backslapping. Too bad that myopia is the national disease, because what we aren’t seeing down the …
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How about 'shared responsibility' for freedom - period!
You have to hand it to Nancy Pelosi: She was dead-on accurate when she claimed Congress had to pass Obamacare before we would find out what was in it.
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Despite setback, the FCC's snout is under the tent
Chalk one up for the good guys — well, sort of.
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Man-given rights and government gone wild
Just what we needed — another item to add to the ever burgeoning file labeled “Things that can’t possibly be true in America, but are anyway.” Consider this monstrosity:
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Fighting for your rights: Ukraine gets it
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'If football were politics' - and other opium dreams
If the Super Bowl were what the average Washington pundit thinks politics is supposed to be, then we would have spent the past two weeks reading about how the two opposing teams were looking forward to working together for the common good in today’s game.
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Iran's nukes are no joke
There are some things about which I can take pleasure in saying, “I told you so,” but a nuclear Iran is not one of them.
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'No truth and no consequences'
One week before the 2012 election, as it stood apparent that President Obama would easily defeat challenger Mitt Romney, I wrote a column cautioning that re-election would not insulate the Obama administration from accountability for the massacre in Benghazi two months earlier.
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How about them Seahawks? On second thought, don't tell me!
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Off the grid and on target: One man's response to political correctness
The collapse of civilization is a fun place to visit in movies like “Apocalypse Z” or books like “Alas, Babylon,” but I wouldn’t want to live there.
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A mother's love trumps medical know-it-alls
One of the most heart-breaking medical tragedies of recent years occurred earlier this month when a 13-year-old girl woke up from surgery for a tonsillectomy, asked for a popsicle, and then started bleeding profusely from her mouth and nose, leading to a heart attack as a result of loss of …
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Government health-care diagnosis: Dependency
The claim: The United States is the richest nation in the world, and as a matter of decency should pay for the health care of all Americans who can’t afford to pay for their own.
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A life of kindness and a lesson in neighborliness
Living across the street from Bill Yackey for the better part of 25 years meant that I got to know first-hand what it was like to live in the world of Norman Rockwell.
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From sports to war to the White House: One reporter's adventure in journalism
One pleasure of scanning old Inter Lakes is discovering a familiar name among the ink-stained wretches whose career has ambled through Kalispell at one time or another.
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The tyranny of bureaucracy
Saint Paul noted some 2,000 years ago that the root of all evil is the love of money. A corollary of that prescription might be that the root of all tyranny is the love of other people’s money.
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'Run, Brian, Run!' An open letter to Gov. Schweitzer
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Amend it, or else ...
I’ve written repeatedly about the mostly unspoken constitutional crisis that has enveloped our country for the past 100 years and have even gone so far as to draft a
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When does 2 plus 2 equal XX?
“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?”
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'These are the times that try men's souls'
Whenever I see that clip of Harry Reid saying he won’t fund cancer research for children, I think of Strother Martin’s famous line from “Cool Hand Luke”: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
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'Moral decay' and the rot of paternalism
Last week, I invoked the names of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton to trace the roots of American political polarity back to the very foundation of our country.
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The struggle for power and the cost of conscience
Nothing about the political battle between conservatives and liberals is new — not the passion, not the beliefs and not the absolute certainty on both sides that the country is doomed.
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Samantha, Syria and the use of power
Did you ever wonder why we have been teetering on the brink of war with Syria when virtually no one in America wants to go to war?
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2014 Montana politics could be demolition derby
Montana could be in the national spotlight in 2014 as Republicans try to re-take the majority in the U.S. Senate, and Democrats look to make in-roads in the House.
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Al Jazeera and the soft underbelly of America
Can you imagine Adolf Hitler owning a TV news network that spewed his hateful rhetoric across the United States either before or during World War II?
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'Big Brother': When reality TV intersects with 'The Twilight Zone'
Reality is, of course, a rather harsh environment to start with, but when you are talking about reality TV, it can be downright ugly!
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Parades, history and a look at our common heritage
Everybody loves a parade!
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Common sense is OK, but it sure can't make pigs fly!
On the subject of immigration, some people try to frame the debate as if you have to be either pro-immigration or anti-immigration.
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One good reason to be glad Congress gets nothing done
I read Friday that Congress has just begun a luxurious five-week summer vacation as if all its important work were done!
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Local history comes alive in new book
It was two years ago this month when I wrote a lengthy column on the history of early Montana explorer Joseph Howse and the search for his connections to the Flathead Valley.
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Killer salt and other 'scientific' disasters
Climate change is going to kill your grandkids? You might want to take that “science” with a grain of salt — literally.
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Readers get the last word (and one gets the first prize)
It’s been an exciting time at the Daily Inter Lake, as we rolled out our “Your Life Covered” marketing campaign, and there’s plenty of evidence that we’ve actually got Northwest Montana Covered.
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A birthday wish: Don't walk away from doing right
Happy birthday to me — if I have lived that long.
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Rewriting history and 'Looking Backward'
One thing that’s incredibly tiresome about being a conservative is how people rewrite history so that they can pigeonhole you as a racist, a fascist or a dangerous radical.
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Immigration reform? Or a comprehensive transformation of America?
The so-called “comprehensive immigration reform bill” is just the latest turn of the screw in the ongoing campaign to fundamentally transform America into a socialist republic.
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Inter Lake has long roots across Northwest Montana
Rumors are nothing new in the news business. We hear all kinds of unfounded rumors every day, which we can usually file under the heading of either wishful thinking or malicious mischief.
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Government overreach? Are you really surprised?
“Let me assure you that the trifling problem you brought us today is already put safely to bed... The memorandum itself is now being thoroughly and plausibly denied by its authors and blamed on an overzealous local bureaucracy somewhere in the barren Midwest.”
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Has the West already lost its will to survive?
Have the terrorists already won?
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Has climate agenda run out of steam?
I got an e-mail from Democratic lobbyist John Podesta last week that began “Dear Friend,” so I knew it had arrived at my inbox by accident.
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Let the reader (of reader comments ) beware...
From time to time, I get a complaint from a reader who just read something outrageous in the online comments posted at www.dailyinterlake.com and wonders how we could possibly let people post such a stupid comment.
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Immigration: Assimilation or devastation
On Friday, we were warned by Sen. Chuck Schumer not to “jump to conclusions” about “the events in Boston” or “to try to conflate those events” with the immigration reform bill hammered out by Schumer and the other seven senators who have appropriately identified themselves as gangsters.
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Waiting for genocide: Islam and the West
Before the rise to power of the Nazis in Germany — which was arguably Europe’s most civilized country — there were approximately 9.5 million Jews living in Europe. As a result of Hitler’s genocidal policies, two out of three Jews were killed over the next 20 years.
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Equal Pay Day: Think before you parrot the empty rhetoric
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Restoring the Constitution - with a little help from my friends
Last week, I somewhat audaciously proposed a
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The Restoration Amendment: Putting the genie of big government back in the bottle
A recent letter to the editor got me thinking about the origins of our great country, and how far astray we have gone from the principles enshrined in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.
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FDR, Obama and the need for opposition
Some time ago, a reader presented me with a yellowed newspaper clipping from 1936, which seems to grow more relevant every day.
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Power vs. liberty: A lovers' quarrel
The much talked-about schism in the Republican Party is better defined as a schism between the lovers of liberty and the lovers of power.
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The Hostess Shuffle: Feds put the 'dough' in this doughnut
“The devil,” wrote Shakespeare, “hath power to assume a pleasing shape.”
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One good reason not to trust Fox News
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, and the same thing goes for Al Gore and Rupert Murdoch, right?
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Two killers: Which received justice?
They say that justice delayed is justice denied. If that is the case, then surely the families of Harvey Mad Man and Thomas Running Rabbit can rightly complain that there is no justice in Montana.
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A declaration of sanity: Don't give up rights without a fight
What part of “self-evident” don’t Americans understand?
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Cloward and Piven, immigration reform & 'nothing left to lose'
With apologies to Kris Kristofferson, “immigration reform” is just another phrase for “nothing left to lose,” and as Janis Joplin sang in her version of “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free.”
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Inaugural auguring: Clues from 2009 speech
President Obama’s second inaugural address is now history, and unlike various posthaste pundits, I will reserve to history the right to judge it.
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Empire and resistance: Lessons from history
What do these all have in common: The Ottoman Empire, the Nazi Empire, the Soviet Empire and the New Islamic Caliphate?
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The two Als and a national shame
If you needed more evidence that the United States is in full self-destruct mode, you got it last week when it was announced that former Vice President Al Gore had sold his failed cable talk network Current TV to Al Jazeera for $500 million.
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Making room for God in a changing world
Change is not always good. That should be obvious to anyone who has observed Congress for more than a minute, but unfortunately there seems to be a built-in human bias which assumes that we collectively get wiser as time passes.
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Guns are dangerous, but people are more so
I don’t know anything about guns. I have no fascination with them, and no particular interest in them.
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The Internet and the end of the world (as we knew it)
It’s no secret that the world didn’t end Friday, but what’s less easily discerned is that the world we used to know DID end, not on Friday, but relatively recently — let’s say sometime in the last decade.
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Evil exists; so does good
There is really no possibility of writing about anything this weekend other than the school shooting that occurred on Friday in Newtown, Conn.
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Chemical weapons in Syria? Just imagine that!
Last week, the world was told that Syria’s President Bashar Assad is poised to use chemical weapons against his own people in a last-ditch effort to retain power despite his growing unpopularity.
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Lincoln, compromise and the price to pay
This just in — compromise to a liberal really does mean compromising your principles, and you don’t have to believe me. Just read what liberal columnist David Brooks had to say about the new film “Lincoln”:
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You reap what you sow: Austerity now!
Here we are again.
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Advice for GOP: Don't change your message; change the map
Winning the presidency isn’t about who you nominate, but about who votes — and most importantly about where they live.
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The Bridge on the River Potomac?
In the wake of Tuesday’s election, we are hearing lots of talk about bipartisanship and statesmanship, with the unstated premise that statesmanship and bipartisanship are automatically the same thing.
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Is mock vote a leading indicator of GOP sweep?
Everyone is looking for some kind of clue as to how Tuesday’s elections are going to turn out.
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Benghazi, Watergate and the sword of judgment
Shakespeare said that “what’s past is prologue,” and the older you get the longer your prologue becomes, so you have to forgive me — as I edge inexorably closer to 60 — for seeing portents and omens of our country’s willful blindness today in my own callow youth.
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Senate debate should be a doozy
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President's record speaks louder than his confident words
With the murder of U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens, the Arab Spring has now become the Arab Fall, and the Islamic Winter cannot be far behind — yet American politicians (and the American media) continue to celebrate democracy in the Middle East as though it were a good thing.
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Religious freedom is fine as long as it stays in church
I have written before about Freedom Newspapers, the chain founded by R.C. Hoiles, which operated under a set of moral principles espoused by Hoiles and published frequently in his newspapers in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Coal, China and tilting at windmills
One thing is certain: Those well-meaning environmentalists who think you can solve global warming by reducing coal emissions haven’t been to China recently.
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Health care over easy, with fries on the side
People sure are funny.
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Will Karl Marx have the last laugh?
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1962: Extremists warned in vain against socialism & surrender
One last shot from 1962 and then I am finished.
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A miracle drug for what ails us? Maybe, maybe not...
I’m not sure why people insist on thinking that our current political environment is the worst ever, but it isn’t.
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An American hero from another world - 1962
The past couple of weeks I have been exploring how America in the 1950s and ’60s had a chance to stop the juggernaut of bigger government from crushing the spirit of free enterprise, and for the most part missed the opportunity.
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Do nation's watchmen now stand guard in vain?
Last week, I mentioned that I had found a column about the “Liberty Amendment” in a newspaper owned by the Freedom Newspapers group, and noted that Freedom Newspapers and its owner R.C. Hoiles were worth a column of their own.
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Do we need amendment to protect our liberty?
Just when you think there is no possible solution to the mess facing our country, you discover that the solution has been around for more than half a century.
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Park employee injured in fall
Glacier Park workers carry an injured trail worker to the ALERT helicopter Tuesday afternoon on Going-to-the-Sun Road.
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Liberals, conservatives and the Great Divide
When I first contemplated writing this column, I thought it would be interesting to show how moving from the East Coast to Montana and then living here for nearly 30 years had changed me from a big-city liberal to a small-town conservative.
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The more government we have, the less freedom we keep
Last week, I addressed the conundrum of “liberal Republicans” and the virtual absence of “conservative Democrats.”
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Do political parties matter - or not?
I get confused about partisanship. Apparently sometimes its good and sometimes it’s bad. I may be wrong, but I think it is good when the Democrats are the party in power, and bad when the Democrats don’t have enough votes to do what they want.
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So just who was 'smearing' whom?
What if Barack Obama gave a “party,” and nobody came?
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Freedom to choose? That all depends...
I was contemplating the joyous simplicity of writing a column about Mayor Bloomberg’s delightfully dim-witted plan to ban big Cokes in the Big Apple when something far more troubling occurred that made me rethink my plans.
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Angry at coal? Then turn off your lights
The willingness of Americans to be persuaded to do things against their own interests seems to have no limits, which must give great encouragement to our enemies.
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Compromising positions - and more politics as usual
More and more lately, we see establishment Republicans naively, innocently — perhaps foolishly? — lamenting the change in politics that has sent Dick Lugar and other longtime politicians to the sidelines.
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Two women who mean the world to me
It was 10 years ago this coming November that my mother made her last visit to Montana, when she came to Kalispell to stay with me and my two children on Thanksgiving.
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Call 911: Your country is being mugged
When did “we the people” become “we the bystanders”?
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A parable for our times
If you want to know how screwed up this country is, consider the parable of the two singers.
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Horse trading: Swap taxes for transcripts
President Obama and the elves cobbling together his re-election campaign in the basement of the White House annex in Chicago have challenged GOP candidate Mitt Romney to release his tax returns.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS AGO
Constitution 'vetoes' fundamental change
Last week, we took a look at President Obama’s criticism of the Supreme Court, focusing on his attempt to influence the justices into deciding the health-care case favorably for his administration.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS AGO
President takes aim at Supreme Court - again
When it comes to the justice system, President Obama is a repeat offender.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS AGO
My official renunciation
This column is dedicated to the people who hate this column (and you know who you are). For once, I am going to write just what you want me to say — crystallized in a series of nuggets that represent the outcome of 100 years of progressivism.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Orwell, the 'truth' and a troubling trend
Ronald Reagan famously joked that “the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
What we know, and what we think we know: Poking around the propaganda factory
The president has started his re-election campaign in earnest recently by touting the wonderful state of the economy, his brilliant energy policy, popular health-care reforms, and respect for American traditions and liberty.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
A special day for a special lady
From the desk where I am writing this column, I can see eight or 10 shiny balloons, plus tinsel and streamers, hovering above another desk less than 100 feet away.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Bill of Rights is now Bill of Wrongs
The noose around the neck of liberty just got noticeably tighter.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
If we could do it over again...
Editors make a hundred decisions every day — some small and some large. Sometimes those decisions are right, in which case we might get a thank you from the public. Sometimes those decisions are wrong, in which case you might see a correction the next day. And sometimes they are …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Death of a nation: Five stages of grief
It is painful for me to have to write this column, just as it is always painful to write about the loss of something or someone near and dear to us — but finally the truth must be told:
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
GOP elephant finally hears from little old Whoville!
Last week, the Republican primary season took as its inspiration the Dr. Seuss classic “Horton Hears a Who” — only in this new version it was the big fat GOP elephant that needed to get the wax out of its ears.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
GOP voters being led around by the nose?
Hey, Republicans, how does it feel to be taking your marching orders from Big Media, Big Government, and Big Money?
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Shouldn't president honor a subpoena?
There has been considerable evidence in recent months that President Obama, like President Nixon before him, sees himself as above the law.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
'Natural-born' mess may soon be cleared up
“So far as the author knows, no fully satisfactory definition of the term ‘natural-born citizen’ has yet been given by the Supreme Court.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Penetrating the illusion of tolerance and diversity
Cue the theme music.
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One hundred years of solicitude: From Teddy to Barack
In the past year, I have sought answers to the question of American decline — how exactly did we come to the point of audacious despair that led us to jettison our cherished traditions and values and embrace mediocrity as the new excellence.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
How did the Treasure State wind up begging for jobs in N.D.?
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Christmas, community & an ongoing conversation
Christmas is a time to remember our blessings, and for me, having the opportunity to work at the Daily Inter Lake since 1984 counts as one of the best in a life full of them.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
These port protesters 'occupy' sheep's clothing
As a great man once said, “By their fruits you shall know them.” Indeed, Jesus warned that sometimes “ravening wolves” come to you “in sheep’s clothing.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Economic inequality and the enduring myth of 'easy money'
Thanks to winter weather and a handful of belatedly plucky mayors around the country, the Occupy Movement has gone into semi-hibernation, but don’t imagine you’ve seen the last of it.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Occupy Eden: How did that turn out?
One of the chief complaints of Occupy Wall Street is economic inequality. And because Americans have been conditioned to abhor inequality, thousands of us have been lured to support the movement out of an honest desire to achieve a fair and equitable distribution of wealth.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Let's fix what ails us: A deficit of common sense
The words of Sen. Max Baucus in the Congressional Record are admirable: “Giant deficits are killing us. ... Clearly we cannot keep borrowing this way. We must act.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Don't be afraid to say it: 'We are the 1 percent'
It is time to stand up and be counted.
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Walter Vrooman, economic equality, Occupy Wall Street, and other lost causes
As we watch the swirling turbulence of social upheaval that is known as Occupy Wall Street, there is a temptation to credit it with good intentions (change for the better) and then to wish for its success (hope against hope).
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Anarchy and experience: Can people still learn from their mistakes?
Anarchy is a great place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
One percent logic; 99 percent bull
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been aptly described as “Anarchists for Totalitarianism.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Are you really for revolution?
“This is WHAT democracy looks like,” chanted about 1,000 protesters as they plotted their Occupy Philadelphia strategy a couple of weeks ago.
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Are the conditions ready for revolution?
So at last we have come full circle. The revolution that started on the streets four decades ago, then went underground, has returned to the streets once again.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Why care about Ayers?
Some people say that writing a series of columns about 1960s revolutionaries is a waste of time. They say that radicals like Bill Ayers weren’t that popular to begin with and are completely irrelevant by now.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Celebrate the Constitution
You can’t blame the decline in American patriotism over the past 50 years on any one thing or any one person — but you can look at individual people and individual agendas and see plainly that there are enemies of patriotism everywhere.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
'How did we get here?' Finally, here's the answer
Lots of people resist the notion that the horrible things that have gone wrong in the United States could possibly have been the outcome of a planned rebellion.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Leininger: respected community leader, child rapist
The man at the center of a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts for failing to monitor him at a time when he was sexually abusing young girls in the 1970s was a respected member of the community in Kalispell from the time he arrived in 1956 until his arrest in …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Is American decline the product of chance or of design?
Look around and ask yourself if the United States of America is growing stronger or weaker.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Revolution went from violent overthrow to co-opting the system
Does any legitimate authority really think that communists targeted the U.S. public education system as a means to transform the American character from rugged individualism to comfortable socialism?
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
The revolution you may not even know happened
Revolutionaries, by the very nature of their task, face a peculiar challenge that creates inherent risk in their enterprise, and thus necessitates that they be ready to change tactics frequently.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Education or violence: The two-pronged revolution of Bill Ayers
When the Students for a Democratic Society organization was wracked by a schism in the summer of 1969, Bill Ayers sided with the faction that favored widespread revolution across the face of America. It is instructive that the newly formed SDS council honored Ayers with the title of secretary of …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Dr. Bill Ayers: Or how I learned to stop bombing and destroy the system from within ...
By the mid-1960s, all hell had broken loose in the American education system, most obviously in the universities that were at the center of the Vietnam War protest movement, but more subtly in the public school system as well.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
How America dropped the baton
Every culture is either self-propagating, or by definition it is self-destructive. Culture has no meaning and no value unless it is passed on to the next generation.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Education: 'It's a hideous mess, but it's OUR mess'
We have spent the last two weeks surmising that the lever that pushed America from the land of the free to the “land of the free lunch” in a short five decades was progressive education.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
An education in how things went so wrong
There was a man who once said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
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As we go over the cliff, just who is in the driver's seat?
A few months ago, I asked the question, “How did we get here?”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
What's for lunch? Whatever the Mama Grizzly wants!
A lot of people wonder why I like Sarah Palin so much.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Putting principle ahead of popularity
Last week, I had the pleasure of introducing many of my readers to author Dorothy Thompson for the first time.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
A tale of two strong conservative women: Yep, it can happen here
A famous 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis, titled “It Can’t Happen Here,” envisioned the arrival of a fascist regime in America in the guise of a voluble, charismatic president named Buzz Windrip.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
America in good hands with Mama Grizzlies
Believe it or not, a candidate has come to my attention who actually has a spine — someone who wants to get a grip on Congress and restore sanity to spending.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
This time, Obama deserves credit for doing right thing
There is no sense of closure, nor should there be, as a result of the death of Osama bin Laden.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Why you should see - and then read - 'Atlas Shrugged'
“What’s their fear of Ayn Rand? They hate this woman. They hate individualism.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS AGO
Don't fear the women warriors! They are here to help
The usual complaints were heard about my column last week from the usual suspects — How dare I! What was I thinking? How could I! What kind of an idiot am I?
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS AGO
Athena is a fitting symbol for Tea Party
Where did the Tea Party come from?
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS AGO
Is a slow news week the quick path to enlightenment?
I spent the last week trying to pick a topic for this column, and finally decided to write about not picking a topic for this column.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
It's no time for a 'party'
If you are a fan of this weekly column, you probably don’t think Democrats are the solution to this country’s problems. But if you think Republicans are the solution, think again.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
'Could've, would've, should've': Reflecting on Caden's unfinished life
Saturday was the second anniversary of the deaths of 13-year-old Caden Vincent Odell and his mother, Erin Thompson, in a horrific, homicidal automobile crash.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Don't let your bias do the talking (or send e-mails)
While we are on the topic of bias, do I really need to point out that it’s not exclusively a malady of the left?
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
It's the 'AP world,' but not everyone is buying their vision
Matt Gouras of the Associated Press is apparently concerned that Montana is becoming a “laughingstock” because of conservative bills proposed by newly elected “Tea Party” legislators.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Anderson Cooper and the 'Big Bad Birthers'
CNN’s Anderson Cooper may actually think he is a fair-minded journalist. But probably someone in a mental institution somewhere thinks he is Anderson Cooper. Which just goes to prove that thinking something, doesn’t make it so.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Democracy or chaos? From Egypt to Wisconsin
Following the momentous political eruption in Egypt, President Obama told the world, “I am confident that the people of Egypt can find the answers, and do so peacefully, constructively, and in the pursuit of unity that has defined these last few weeks — for Egyptians have made it clear that …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
A sinking ship and a rising tide of red ink
It’s hard to be a hero.
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The 'rational' exuberance of spending other people's money
To sink or swim? That is the $15 trillion question.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
In praise of a forgotten hero
The premise of John F. Kennedy’s book “Profiles in Courage” was that true political courage is found when politicians take a principled stand that turns their assumed friends into sworn enemies.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
What's so scary about Sarah?
Some people don’t like Sarah Palin.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
White-hot free speech is nothing new
A popular myth that has arisen in recent years — and been intensified by the rhetoric over the recent shooting in Tucson — is that somehow politics is more polarized or more heated these days than it was in times past.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
'Liberty ... is not safe': A continuing struggle
H.L. Mencken, a famous writer of the first half of the 20th century, is often credited with having said: “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Community, charity and good cheer
A year ago, when Kalispell Mayor Tammi Fisher took office, she said she wanted to be judged as mayor on three points — transparency, accountability and accessibility.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
America: Faith, hope and charity
For the past month, I have been revisiting the New Deal to see what lessons can be gleaned from it about American politics, but today I propose to shift gears a bit and see what the 1930s can teach us about the American people instead.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
New Deal? Many did dare call it socialism
Perhaps the most important lesson of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal is what it reveals to us about the sweep and scope of history — and how easy it is to bury truth under the winds of change.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Was U.S. shuffled into socialism by New Deal?
Last week, I explored the notion that perhaps — just perhaps — Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was part of a larger plan to detour the United States into socialism.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Obama, FDR and the myth of 'permanent plenty'
A few readers took umbrage to my column last week in which I quoted some newspaper articles from the 1960s that found fault with Social Security.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
The modern-day battle for independence
In my research for the past three columns, I have accrued quite a wealth of information on the American battle for independence. No, not the battle against England at the end of the 18th century, but the battle against Washington, D.C., at the end of the 20th.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Freedom of choice: Just another thing we've lost?
I’ve been musing on some historical trends for the past few weeks in an effort to explain how America went from a country that fought communism to one that embraced socialism in the course of about 50 years.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
How America got lost: A look back at the past 50 years
How did we get here?”
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A word to the wise: The fight is not over
Now that the conservative movement has prevailed at the ballot box, it’s worth taking note of the movement’s goals and aspirations, which seem so reasonable to some and so wild-eyed to others.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Scary stuff - and it's not even Election Day yet
It’s scary out there, and not just because today is Halloween. Face it — depending on your point of view, the country is either going to hell in a hand basket or is already there.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Your choice, your country, our problem
Election Day is fast approaching, and there is a tendency among some pundits to think that it can solve everything.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Congress to us: Damn the Constitution, full spending ahead ...
Hardly a day goes by when I don’t get a press release dropped in my in-box from someone announcing that the federal government is kindly spending another $50,000, $100,000, $1 million, or $10 million in Montana.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Jefferson and the roots of the 'liberty movement'
If Democrats and Republicans were ever truly interested in finding common ground, a good place to start might be with Thomas Jefferson, who was the co-founder of the fortuitously named Democratic-Republican Party.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
The 'Jefferson Prayer' that never was, and the one that should never be forgotten ...
The give and take of the Opinion page in the Daily Inter Lake is a barometer of the mood of the nation; it is also an exemplar of the dictum that the only opinion worth staking your name to is one that you have personally tested against the facts.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Tea Party is expression of 'general will' of the people
It’s not politics that drives the Tea Party movement; it’s patriotism — and not just flag-waving patriotism, but the underlying stream of the American consciousness that fueled our revolution and built our country.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Intolerance, history, fear and the facts about Islam
Because I wrote a column last week on the historic threat of Islam to the West, this week I am dealing with the usual accusations of intolerance and Islamophobia.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
History, Islam and the war against the West
If you can start a war by burning a book, you have proven two things:
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Poker legends: 'All in' with Todd, Pam and Doyle Brunson
I used to be a big fan of boxing, savoring the combination of grit and intelligence that great fighters brought to the ring, but then I discovered an even more arduous sport that also had great champions and terrible defeats.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Taking back Constitution piece by piece
It is an immutable fact that the Constitution is the law of the land, but the law of the land should not be presumed to be immutable.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Constitution: Is it for us, or against us?
It is amazing how easily the American people have let the hood be pulled over their eyes as they are led on their way to political slaughter.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
It's our duty to preserve the 'Blessings of Liberty'
Liberals love to call the U.S. Constitution a “living document” — in other words, one that changes through time in order to keep up with the times.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
WikiLeaks culprits must pay a price
It is being compared to the Pentagon Papers document dump of the Vietnam War era, but don’t you believe it.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Why make it easy for illegal aliens?
Should we make it easy for illegal immigrants to stay in this country, or should we make it easy for them to leave?
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Journolist: A peek inside the Ministry of Propaganda
OK, so now we know that there is a liberal media conspiracy — as if we didn’t already know that.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Welcome to Wonderland
In Tim Burton’s recent film version of “Alice in Wonderland,” the adventuresome heroine finds her world turned literally upside down.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
A loss beyond our understanding
The loss of two young reporters in a plane crash last Sunday leaves everyone in the Daily Inter Lake family profoundly saddened.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
When political worlds collide ...
Did you feel the ground shake?
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Navy Seals were heroes ... even before they were proven innocent
“Where do I go to get my reputation back?” former Labor Secretary Ray Donovan famously asked after being acquitted of fraud and larceny in 1987.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Goodbye, Mr. Kurdy
It’s always hard to say goodbye to a friend, but at least it’s much easier when they retire than when they die.
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Buying the lie: 'Something for nothing'
I suppose it was just plain greed that got us to this point.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Exploring history is living life
“The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry, and the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
What the world needs now is more real liberals
Liberals — God bless them!
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Racial profiling: It's only cool if it DOESN'T save lives
The backlash against Arizona for having the audacity to try to protect its citizens from a known and identifiable threat would be laughable were it not so dangerous.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
America's moral crisis is threat to our security
Without law enforcement, there is no law.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 15 YEARS AGO
Just who do they think they own?
I have for some time been looking for a model to describe the relationship that currently exists between the people and the federal government. At different times, I have labeled it as feudalism, serfdom or slavery.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 15 YEARS AGO
Tea: Vaccine against the Partisan Virus
Democrats cannot save this country. Neither can Republicans.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 15 YEARS AGO
On liberty and legal plunder ...
It’s not socialism. It’s just an “income shift” from the rich to the poor.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Congress and the incredible shrinking Constitution
Con-sti-tu-tion-al — adj. (3) of, in, authorized by, subject to, dependent on, or in accordance with the constitution of a nation, state, or society.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
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