Dale’s bi-weekly Op-Ed articles that run in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! Forty years ago I started my junior year of college. I lived at home the first two years, working a part-time minimum wage dishwashing job that covered all college expenses and travel (including driving two hours round trip every day to class). I earned $3892 and […]
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My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! There seems to be a growing trend in suburban/middle-class sentiment that simple acts of patriotism like flying an American flag will get you labeled a “nationalist.” What is a nationalist? Some think of war hawks like John Bolton. Others define a nationalist as someone who is
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My second column on Climate Change Denial ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! I appreciate the interaction concerning the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) hypothesis. This hypothesis assumes that human activity is completely responsible for all warming that we experience today. As with any scientific hypothesis, the burden lies with AGW proponents to demonstrate that
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My OpEd ran in yesterday’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! When I entered the navy in 1981, I ran the gauntlet of medical corpsmen with jet injectors giving every inoculation conceivable, including vaccinations for measles, mumps, and chickenpox (even though I already had those three diseases as a child). Because military members can be deployed anywhere
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My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! I do not know anyone who denies climate change. Scientists tell us the earth has gone through multiple warming and cooling cycles. If someone believes that there was once an Ice Age and that it is warmer now, then they believe in climate change. During the
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