Opinion

Democrats’ reckless tax and spending spree will exacerbate inflation crisis hurting Montanans

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Montana families across the state are feeling the pain in their pocketbooks from inflation and higher prices on everything from gas to groceries to heating their homes. What’s causing this? President Biden and Congressional Democrats’ wasteful spending problems, and their multitrillion dollar reckless tax and spending spree bill will only make matters worse.

Infrastructure hard and soft

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Every once in a while the public’s attention is drawn to an issue with a name that few people understand and many cannot even pronounce; enter “infrastructure”. Whatever it is, we are now going to spend 1.2 trillion dollars on it in the next few years so perhaps it’s time to think about it. Since “infra” means “below” I think about infrastructure as the foundation on which our society is built.

How are you running your race of life

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In Zig Ziglar’s book “God’s Way Is Still the Best Way” the author includes a number of success stories in which business executives, a football coach and others made, and taught choices based on righteous behaviors.

Afghan resettlement endangers our communities

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Following the Biden Administration’s completely mismanaged withdrawal from Afghanistan, I have been extremely vocal in opposition to the mass evacuation and resettlement of Afghan nationals in America. I knew when I took this stance it would be controversial, but I believed then—as I do now— that the rushed evacuation and resettlement of tens of thousands of unvetted Afghan nationals in America poses a serious threat to the safety and security of our communities and our nation.

Now is the time to recognize a common humanity

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Remember when the popular Christmas songs were “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth” and a personal favorite, “Rocking around the Christmas tree.” Those times seem innocent and frankly naive when dealing with the human scars of the past couple of years. Many people are in great pain and the things we thought were lasting and true have failed to keep up with the disasters around us. And perhaps we expect too much from our institutions — government, politics, education, medicine, et. al. Human forms are in the long run without real substance and we cannot “fix” them or expect someone else to “fix it” for us.

An open letter to U.S. Sens. Tester and Daines and U.S. Rep. Rosendale

Senators and Representative,

Out-compete China with tech freedom

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China has a plan. It wants to be the dominant technology country by 2035. If you look, it’s clear to see how they’re executing on that plan. They’re massively investing in hardware and software development to catch up to, and eventually overtake, the United States. If they’re successful, we’ll experience serious ramifications for our economy and national security.

The Christmas Church doors are never closed

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Camouflaged amidst the falling snow was the little white country church. All Christmas like it stood as the flag flapping in the wind at full mast called all those passersby to attention. Only thing is, nobody was passing by nor stopping by for that matter. Long ago the little country church had closed its doors. Yet, a few still knew the secret within.

Finally ending the 100-year Teapot Dome scandal

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A century ago, in the infamous “Teapot Dome” scandal, Interior Secretary Albert Fall took bribes to sell oil leases in Wyoming and California to wealthy friends at below market rates. Fall was convicted and sent to jail, so people thought the scandal was over. But, in truth, the scandal continues to harm the public to this day.

Setting the record straight on rail service benefits

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The Rail Passengers Association and the Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority take strong exception to Mark Meyer’s guest column published in the Nov. 21 issue of the Ranger-Review attacking our work to begin examining the potential economic benefits of restoring passenger rail service through southern Montana. His criticisms reflect neither an understanding of Rail Passengers’ modeling tools, capacities, and process, nor an appreciation of the scope of work to which all parties agreed (which was a joint effort between Rail Passengers, the Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority, and Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute). Instead, he seems determined not only to misunderstand and to mischaracterize the process and the results, but to spread his misunderstanding to the greater public.

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