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Will: In Oregon, progressivism spills over at the pump

WASHINGTON – Frank Lloyd Wright purportedly said, “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” Today, however, Oregon is the state with the strangest state...

DATE: Jan 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: Conflicting views on how democracies perish

Everybody agrees society is in a bad way, but what exactly is the main cause of the badness? Some people emphasize economic issues: The simultaneous concentration of wealth at t...

DATE: Jan 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Buckley: Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire turns 50 this year

Fifty years ago, Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire was published to decent reviews but little fanfare. “Another book dropped down the bottomless well. Into oblivion,” wrote a disheartened Abbe...

DATE: Jan 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Dreamers fate may rest on the mood of the moment

We’re thinking about that lovely bipartisan meeting the president hosted Tuesday with members of Congress about immigration. Everybody was impressed by how concerned Trump seemed...

DATE: Jan 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Shirley: Conservatives should oppose shrinking national monuments

The Western United States may be the last natural bastion of what it means to be a free American. The image of the Old West brings a sense of beauty, with sky-scraping mountain ranges, deep ...

DATE: Jan 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

From the Department of Injustice, more prohibition

After foraging through the dumpster of discarded ideas, the Trump administration has dragged out another fetid reject as part of its campaign to roll back modernity, common sense and the wil...

DATE: Jan 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: Praise for those who ‘move in traffic with prudence’

Over the past several years we have done an outstanding job of putting total sleazoids at the top of our society: Trump, Bannon, Ailes, Weinstein, Cosby, etc. So it was good to g...

DATE: Jan 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: The retreat to tribalism

Imagine three kids running around a maypole, forming a chain with their arms. The innermost kid is holding the pole with one hand. The faster they run, the more centrifugal force...

DATE: Jan 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Linnett: Hemp replaces uranium in rural western Colorado

When locals in western Colorado’s old uranium mining towns of Naturita and Nucla get word that a journalist is coming to town, they reach for their guns. Not to shoot the “fake n...

DATE: Jan 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Atkinson: Breaking up with carbon, turning concern into action

According to Yale University’s More than 82 percent want to see policy support for renewable energy sources, and 74 percent want to see the greenhouse gas, CO², regulated as a pollutant. ...

DATE: Jan 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Siggins: Embark up 2018 with intention

It’s hard to believe that another year is in the books; 2017 flew by and it will go down as one of the most intense years in history. Despite what it may seem, there are more goo...

DATE: Jan 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Schultz: Button, button, who’s got the button?

In the early evening of Jan. 2, the president of the United States tweeted this boast: “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all ...

DATE: Jan 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman