Friday, December 19, 2025

ARTICLES BY LINDA COOK

Mystery blogger takes off mask

In August of 1968 a fascinating exchange took place on television. Gore Vidal called William F. Buckley a “crypto-Nazi” and Buckley retorted “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddamned face and you’ll stay plastered.” Buckley later apologized for calling Vidal a …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

When a child is hurt

There is a collective anguish that occurs whenever we read about a child being attacked. I wept when I read about the 3-year-old girl in St. Maries who was nearly killed by her mother's boyfriend. I don't know the girl but her suffering resonated sharply within my soul. Along with …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Please Answer the Question, Mr. Labrador

Raul Labrador is an attorney and it shows. He is smooth, pleasant and sometimes evasive - very good qualities in a lawyer but not such great stuff when you are running for Congress. So I have some questions for him regarding two very hot topics this political season.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

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