ARTICLES BY JIM ELLIOTT

Defending government property at the expense of liberty

As I read of the use of Federal officers sent to Portland against the wishes of the Governor of Oregon and the Mayor of Portland for the purpose of “protecting federal property,” I thought of these words from the Declaration of Independence enumerating one of the reasons for rejecting the …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Let us take history for what it is; the good and the bad

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Let us take history for what it is; the good and the bad

“The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. “
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Be reasonable, see it my way

How can two different people have totally opposite opinions on the same thing? Well, it’s pretty easy as we can see, for instance, in the impeachment hearings going on in Congress. You are not going to be able to talk either side into taking what you have you say into …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Daylight saving a matter of perspective

Of all the petty annoyances in life few things seem to set people to fuming and fussing more than having to adjust their lives to the change from daylight saving time to standard time and vice-versa. Imagine, then how people felt in 1883 when cities and small towns, each of …
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A president is not a king

It was fascinating last week to watch as British legislators did what American legislators would be wise to do; stand up for principle.
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A president is not a king

It was fascinating last week to watch as British legislators did what American legislators would be wise to do; stand up for principle.
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Compromise for the common good

Representative Justin Amash, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, may be the most principled man in American politics. Unfortunately, he is most likely going to wind up in the ash bin of principled politicians, most of whom sacrifice their career and their influence for the small pleasure of being able to sleep …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Compromise for the common good

Representative Justin Amash, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, may be the most principled man in American politics. Unfortunately, he is most likely going to wind up in the ash bin of principled politicians, most of whom sacrifice their career and their influence for the small pleasure of being able to sleep …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Political purity has its downsides

Ideological purity and consistency of opinion over time are two standards to which many Americans want to hold their political candidates.
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Political purity has its downsides

Ideological purity and consistency of opinion over time are two standards to which many Americans want to hold their political candidates.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Free lunch trumps free enterprise in America

I suppose I shouldn’t be any more surprised than most taxpaying Americans to discover that I paid more in income taxes in 2018 than the behemoth retailer Amazon.com; but then I didn’t have a net profit of $11.2 billion, either. Nor did I get anything close to Amazon’s $128 million …
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Free lunch, not free enterprise

I suppose I shouldn’t be any more surprised than most taxpaying Americans to discover that I paid more in income taxes in 2018 than the behemoth retailer Amazon.com; but then I didn’t have a net profit of $11.2 billion, either. Nor did I get anything close to Amazon’s $128 million …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Free lunch, not free enterprise

I suppose I shouldn’t be any more surprised than most taxpaying Americans to discover that I paid more in income taxes in 2018 than the behemoth retailer Amazon.com; but then I didn’t have a net profit of $11.2 billion, either. Nor did I get anything close to Amazon’s $128 million …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Montana Viewpoint: The laying on of hands

It was January 1991. I was a second term legislator who, for a reason I can’t remember, wanted to take on a leadership role and sought and won the position of running the first meeting of the House Democrats. That was the meeting where we elected our leaders. It was …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO

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