Dale’s bi-weekly Op-Ed articles that run in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! Life is about evaluating tradeoff risks. Do I drive to California or fly to California? Many choose to drive for fear of flying even though you are 86 times more likely to die in a car crash than in a plane crash. With those odds, why […]
Op-Ed: Schools Need to Remain Open! Read More »
My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! The University of Idaho’s enrollment has been steadily declining since 2010. The Daily News reported in 2017 that 17% of UI’s enrollment were actually high schoolers. The University was in fact cushioning their numbers with high schoolers to mask the steady decline of enrollment numbers. Further exacerbating UI’s enrollment woes, the
Op-Ed: UI should set itself apart; keep students in class Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! Anyone 50 or older will immediately recognize the names Patty Hearst, William Ayers, and Eldridge Cleaver. I recently read Bryan Burrough’s book “Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence.” He recalls the history of America’s violent radical movements
Op-Ed: A Look at Antifa’s Days of Rage Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! I stand by my previous Op-Ed that systemic police brutality toward minorities across America is a myth. Four recent academic studies have demonstrated this. One in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, one by Harvard economist Roland Fryer in the National Bureau of Economic Research, one in the
Op-Ed: Black lives matter but BLM Platform Doesn’t Help Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! “Thou shalt not murder” (Exodus 20:13). This command applies universally regardless of skin color, ethnicity, sex, nationality, age, religion, etc. There is near universal agreement that the police officers’ actions against George Floyd were excessive and criminal, and they are rightfully jailed and charged with murder.
Op-Ed: Rioting in the name of racism; anarchy is not liberation Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! On Saturday 16 May, many Idaho businesses were allowed to reopen with restrictions. My family patronized Moscow’s Tapped for dinner that first day. Per Idaho Gov. Little’s Stage 2 guidance, Moscow restaurants were to submit their reopening plans for pre-approval to the Idaho North Central Public
Op-Ed: Culture of Fear Where Freedom Goes to Die Read More »
U.S.—Americans in some states are finally starting to feel normal again, now that stay-at-home orders are being lifted. Children are at the park again, adults are back at the bar, and the elderly continue to play bingo at 4 p.m. sharp on a daily basis. https://babylonbee.com/news/back-to-normal-conservatives-go-to-work-while-liberals-stay-home/
Back To Normal: Conservatives Go To Work While Liberals Stay Home Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Idaho State Journal. Enjoy! I appreciate the Idaho State Journal allowing me to respond to Professor Gier’s May 8th editorial regarding Sweden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic (Coronavirus deaths may be undercounted by 60 percent). To the layman, the data emerging from Sweden can be complex and nuanced, but properly
Op-Ed: Response to Gier’s Coronavirus Column Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Idaho State Journal. Enjoy! I appreciate the Idaho State Journal allowing me to respond to Professor Gier’s May 8th editorial regarding Sweden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic (Coronavirus deaths may be undercounted by 60 percent). To the layman, the data emerging from Sweden can be complex and nuanced, but properly
Op-Ed: Response to Gier’s Coronavirus Column Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! I remain highly critical of the US’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. We were sold on a binary solution: complete lockdown or doing nothing at all. But why a nationwide shutdown in response to a virus with negligible risk to most of the population, those 4-50
Op-Ed: With COVID-19, we should be allowing personal risk assessment Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As I mentioned in my last two Op-Eds (here and here): rather than isolating the infected, quarantining the exposed and the vulnerable, and social distancing everyone else, America treats everyone as infected. Swedish professor Johan Giesecke is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, and as
OpEd: Palouse Should be Released from the Lockdown Read More »
My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As I mentioned in my last Op-Ed (Singapore made the right moves regarding COVID-19), I am highly critical of the United States’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic. To protect Americans from this deadly virus, the government decided to shut down the entire country except for “essential”
Op-Ed: A Common-Sense Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic Read More »
My Op-Ed on the Singaporean strategy for combating the Coronavirus ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Let me know what you think! In 2011 I had the opportunity to travel to Singapore. It is the most beautiful, clean, and safe metropolitan that I have ever visited. This city-state of 5.6 million people is larger than
Op-Ed: Singapore made the right moves regarding COVID-19 Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! Progressives objected to my 4 March 2020 column (Why Socialism in the US Scares Me to Death). Most did not object to the academic definition of socialism, in which the state allocates the means of production. Rather, they prefer the Nordic model of “democratic socialism” as
OpEd: Sweden Found Socialism to be a Savage Master Read More »
My bi-weekly Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Here is the unedited version. Enjoy! During my junior year of college (1979-1980), I had the opportunity to study Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Forty years ago this very month, I visited the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and Czechoslovakia. It was
Op-Ed: Why socialism in the US scares me to death Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As a strict constitutionalist, I support the decennial census the way the Founding Fathers intended it to be used: allocating House seats and determining a head-tax. Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the US Constitution says: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the
Op-Ed: Census no longer resembles what our Founding Fathers intended Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! I am not a fan of the oxymoronic “mandatory gratuity.” The move in Washington State and by some Moscow restaurants to shift to mandatory gratuity changes the entire dynamic of food service in those restaurants. Incentives matter, and the waitstaff in these restaurants are less incentivized
His View: Mandatory Gratuities Hurt Quality of Service Read More »
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! The Moscow School District’s recent experiments with Competency-Based Education remind me of the educational fads practiced on me in the mid-1960s and 70s. Each hindered my education more than the last. The first education experiment was “Whole Language“ (Sight Reading/See-Say) in first grade. Brilliant Harvard PhD’s
His View: Educational fads address problems that do not exist Read More »
My third column on climate change denial ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As I noted in two previous columns (No one is a climate change denier Part 1 and Part 2), all agree that the climate has changed for millennia and is still changing. What scientists do not agree on is the cause.
No One is a Climate Change Denier, Part 3 Read More »
My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! The recent Moscow-Pullman Daily News article (High wages and tougher regulations worry local merchants) highlights Pullman businesses’ anxiety about three changes coming out of Olympia: first, Washington state minimum wage rising 12.5 percent on Jan. 1; second, the odious regulations being imposed on restaurant and hospitality
His View: The effects of higher wages and increased regulation Read More »