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Published on Tue, 02/02/2016 - 4:43pm

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Modern Problems Call for Modern Solutions

Published on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 3:49pm
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Modern Problems Call for Modern Solutions

Published on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 3:48pm
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Meet Kevin McCarthy, political hollow man

Published on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 3:47pm

WASHINGTON — I hereby nominate House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for the James Buchanan prize, awarded for monumental smallness in a time demanding leadership. The 15th president, you might recall, was a politician who tried to take both sides on a matter of conscience and chose to temporize rather than govern. In his 1857 inaugural address, Buchanan proclaimed that slavery was “happily, a matter of but little practical importance.” Five years later came Antietam.

Real political scandals are rarely about sex

Published on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 3:46pm

As the Trump presidency fades into the past, we are reminded of the sex scandal at its dawn. The Federal Election Commission has just dropped its probe into former President Donald Trump’s alleged hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. 

Charges that Trump broke campaign finance laws in 2016 by not reporting the $130,000 payment to Daniels — perhaps thinking that a tawdry affair would hurt his electoral chances — dominated the national conversation for weeks. And like most political sex scandals, this one wasted an inordinate number of America’s brain cells.

Montana, S. Carolina, see downside of giving away money

Published on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 3:45pm

By Kathleen Parker
Syndicated Columnist

 

The day before Friday’s disappointing jobs report, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster followed Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte in calling on their respective states to end their participation in COVID-related unemployment programs.

In both cases, the two Republicans cited worker shortages in their states to explain their decisions. Contrary to the way things may appear, the United States isn’t suffering a jobs shortage so much as it is suffering a shortage of people willing to work.

Censorship

Published on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 3:32pm
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IN THE MAIL — May 10

Published on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 3:30pm

Great contributions of three former LHC board members

Editor: 

Dan Kaul and Shiell Anderson, eight- and four-year members of the Livingston HealthCare (LHC) Board, respectively, would like to shed some light on the contributions of three former Livingston HealthCare board members.

Housing prices in the West are over the moon

Published on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 3:29pm

One hundred thirty thousand dollars. That’s what it takes for a down payment to buy an average-priced home in Bozeman, Montana. Then an aspiring homeowner must fork out another $3,000 each month, which is more than two-thirds of their household’s paychecks if they make the median income for the metro area. 

Pushing Congress to enact sensible gun reform measures

Published on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 3:28pm

For more years than it is comfortable to count, the National Rifle Association and its abettors in Washington have forestalled even the most sensible efforts to confront our national scourge of gun violence.