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Democracy is a process, not a finished product
“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely,” said conservative activist Jack Posobie…
Laws, compassion and common sense
When God appeared to Solomon in a dream God offered him anything he wanted. Solomon asked to be given wisdom. He did not ask for power or long life. He asked f…
Two tiers of justice at the Montana Supreme Court
“Equal justice under law” is such a foundational principle in our constitutional republic that the phrase is carved in stone above the entrance to the United S…
Is Trump too young?
Is Biden too old? Try asking this: "Is Trump too young?"
Mortgage bills next step in property tax increase
Well, the next step in your residential property tax increase is happening. Banks are sending updated “mortgage bills” to homeowners.
Appreciates Zinke remarks
I would like to commend Rep. Ryan Zinke for his remarks made Feb. 1 after a Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) hearing to assess the recent U.N. review of China’s human rights record.
Did Jesus tell us to bear false witness and lie?
I have a bumper sticker featuring a quote from Gandhi. It says, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.”
Climate Conversation: Predictions from the 1990s are coming true
Watching the vice-grip of climate change take hold, I’m beginning to understand how our grandparents must have felt in the 1930s as something equally horrible, fascism, took hold in Europe and Asia, and the world s…
Replace Biden dictatorship
Currently our democracy is lost unless we stand up against the tyranny of the Biden administration and the progressive Left. The dictatorial Left under the Biden administration has removed many of our freedoms and …
Time to elect different leadership
I am really getting tired of our current state government policies and leadership. We are number one in the nation for homelessness – way to go super majority legislature!
Leaders failing Montanans on public land policies
We all agree that we want more public land; we want that land better maintained and we want better access to those lands. Why don’t we at least have that?
Let us act like a great nation
I am reading a history of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin and their role together in the creation of America. It depresses me greatly. It depresses me because of the stark contrast with the caliber of peopl…
Setting the Medicaid record straight
Plain and simple — people get sick. Right now, more than 250,000 predominantly low-income Montanans get help with health care through Medicaid — a state-federal partnership. Montana has overall and primary responsi…
Citizen ballots are democracy in action
Currently there are six ballot initiatives approved by the Secretary of State for signature gathering. Several are sponsored by single individuals – one by a young teenage girl! These are Montanans!
More wilderness, not less
Senator Daines’ Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act permanently withdraws three Montana Wilderness Study Areas from wilderness consideration.
Fake electors still faking it
The smooth transition of U.S. Presidential power came to an end after 225 years due to Donald Trump. The work of many, highly placed Republicans is responsible for this debacle.