Congress made Social Security’s promises. It should cut other spending before demanding more from younger workers or punishing retirees who saved responsibly. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 3 November 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. My high school civics teacher, Col. Walker, warned his classes not to count on Social Security. Save for
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I am totally done with shifting clocks every six months. We turned them back Sunday. We will push them forward again in March, then repeat the exercise in November. Apparently, modern civilization can synchronize financial transactions across continents but cannot settle on when breakfast should happen. Let’s just stop. Keep standard time permanently. The inconvenience
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Politicians finish at the bottom of the Ipsos Global Trustworthiness Index 2026. Yet we should ask a harder question than whether people trust them: How much power should anyone have when trust fails? Across 31 countries, an average of 58% rate doctors trustworthy, followed by scientists at 57% and teachers at 53%. Politicians receive just
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Do Americans still have common ground? Gallup’s October 25 report offers a qualified yes: 76% identify at least one of 12 listed values as something most Americans share, “regardless of politics or background.” That is worth distinguishing from a very different claim: that Americans agree on what those values require in practice. Freedom leads the
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Moscow’s schools enroll fewer students, yet MSD wants $65.6 million for a facilities plan whose final price taxpayers still don’t know. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 20 October 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Moscow School District wants $65.6 million over seven years, requiring 60% voter approval. For what? Phase One of a
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Photo: Pineapple Studio via Getty Images, via The Daily Wire. Democrats object to Trump using taxpayer money to promote his agenda. Republicans point out that Democrats have done it, too. Fine. Stop both. “The other team did it” is an admission that the problem is bigger, hardly a defense of doing it again. My tax
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Photo: digicomphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus, via The New American. Canada’s government plans to indefinitely block euthanasia eligibility based solely on mental illness while opening another door: advance requests for people who later lose the capacity to consent. Think about that. When the lethal injection arrives, the patient may no longer be capable of understanding what is
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Photo: Getty Images, via Conservative Brief. We keep telling American students to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. They graduate, start looking for work, and discover that employers claiming a talent shortage are also laying people off. Perhaps those companies should explain exactly what is in short supply: qualified workers, or workers willing to accept
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Image via The Post Millennial. Oregon leads the nation again. This time, it’s a ranking nobody should want. Nearly one in three adults experienced mental illness in the period studied. Oregon’s political leadership ought to spend some time explaining that number. Compassion is easy to put on a campaign sign. Helping people recover requires results.
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Idaho voters face Proposition 1 this November, but campaign promises won’t bind the judges who could reshape protections for unborn children and parental consent. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 6 October 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Both sides say the other is lying about Idaho’s Proposition 1. Fine. Read the law. Then
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Moscow schools spend heavily while too many students still struggle with basic math and reading, repeating the mistake my father corrected when I was a boy. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 22 September 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. When I was in elementary school in the 1960s, I was taught “New Math.”
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Wayne Beebe (Letter to the Editor: Selective Interpretation) asks for the “full record,” then ignores the record in front of him. My column did not argue that right-wing political violence never happens. It argued that today’s left has built a permission structure for violence by calling Trump a Nazi, fascist, pedophile, rapist, traitor, and existential
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The Department of Defense exists to defend the nation, not to maintain a separate bureaucratic category for every religious group in America. Becky Tallent argues (Department of Defense policy change sparks charge of religious preference) that reducing the Pentagon’s list of recognized religious affiliations somehow limits religious liberty. It does not. Service members remain free
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Nick Gier’s response (Answering Dale Courtney’s Inquisition on Socialism) to my column (Socialism’s Map Leads Toward Regime Change) spends far more time discussing Doug Wilson than democratic socialism. That’s his prerogative, but it never answers the question I asked. One factual correction is necessary. Gier wrote, “I have never used the phrase ‘market friendly redistributionism,’
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Terence Day’s rebuttal (The Bible Doesn’t Support Prosperity Gospel) to my column (The Forgotten Commandment Still Shapes Our Politics) would be devastating if I had actually written the column he attacks. I did not preach the “prosperity gospel.” I never claimed wealth proves God’s favor, poverty His disfavor, or Christians must not help the poor.
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, America still lives with emergency powers born in fear, and it is time to ask which ones still belong. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 8 September 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Some events burn themselves into memory. Decades later, I can still remember where I was, what I
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Nick Gier turns Jubilee and Acts into arguments for state redistribution, but Scripture draws a sharper line between Christian charity and Caesar’s coercion. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 25 August 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Nick Gier’s latest response to my column on coveting begins with a straw man. As a retired
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Fauci’s own files reveal that while Americans endured sweeping COVID restrictions, key officials privately questioned assumptions the public was told not to challenge. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 11 August 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. When Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before the Senate last week, the biggest story wasn’t merely that he
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From the Daily Fly: PULLMAN, WA — Idaho has been ranked among the top five states in the nation in the 2026 Index of Freedom released Monday by Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. The annual report evaluates the business climate in all 50 states using three primary areas: government efficiency, regulatory freedom and energy resiliency. SEL
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Here we go again, Moscow. From the 8 August 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman News. MOSCOW — A new high school, middle school or elementary school could be in Moscow School District’s future depending on what transpires during the next several months. On Aug. 26, the Moscow School Board will vote on whether to place
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