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Here is a major problem with the kafuffle about climate change. Who should you believe? My paper carried a piece by a local scientist.  He is an expert in glaciers.  He wrote that “97 percent of all climate scientists attribute the current rate of warming to human...

Here are a few phrases that waterboarding would not pry from our lips. Firing squads would fail to get various leaders to utter them. One is “I’m sorry. I was wrong.”  Another is “I made big mistakes.” And similar phrases. We have seen examples of this resistance...

We should cut our taxes as President Trump proposes.  Why? Because the Congressional Budget Office says it’s a bad idea. Congress asks the CBO to score tax proposals. To predict how much a new tax will raise. To predict how much a tax increase will raise. Or how much...

So…you want to run for the school board, eh?  First you will have to show us your tax returns. For the last five years.        What?  It’s not the school board you want to join?  Instead, you want to run for the county board?  Okay, hand over your tax returns. Why? ...

Let’s hear it for a few of the teachers in your life. That idea came after I was touched by a piece by a woman in her 50’s.  She paid tribute to the teacher who taught her the word “Look”.  Her first word. She went home in triumph knowing she could finally read. She...

Please remove your Democrat or Republican baseball cap.  Sit on it for a minute. This surveillance stuff is nasty.  And it should trouble you. No matter what your political persuasion. As you know the accusations have been flung far and wide.  Trump guys did this with...