ARTICLES BY RON ROIZEN SPECIAL TO NEWS-PRESS
I draw the line at the U.S. Constitution
OK, I think I get it. In 2016, a significant portion of the American electorate voted to roll a grenade into the Washington, D.C., establishment. They wanted to destroy the liberal consensus, broadly defined, that has exerted some sort of hegemony in the federal government, and the national consciousness, since …
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PVT Dowling remembered (or Mis-remembered)
This year’s Veterans Day — Sunday, Nov. 11 — will fall on the 100th anniversary of World War I’s end, which happened at the 11th hour of the 11th day of November, 1918. It’s an important centennial. In early October there will be a brief but appropriate commemorative ceremony in …
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Safeguarding Col. Wallace's semi-sullied reputation: Part 2
Cooler heads however — and fortunately! — soon took charge of the situation. Let me quote Magnuson’s Coeur d’Alene Diary’s account of what happened next (pages 60-61):
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Safeguarding Col. Wallace's semi-sullied reputation: Part 1
There are weighty questions in history’s halls — Why did Rome fall? What launched the Renaissance? Why the American Civil War? The following doesn’t deal with one. It merely touches on one of history’s countless minor footnotes — in this case, here in Wallace.
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