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Dear voters, your views on foreign policy stink!

Most of human history has been marked by war. Between 1500 and 1945, scarcely a year went by without one great power fighting another. Then, in 1945, that stopped. Battlefield dea...

DATE: Jun 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Jun 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Most nonsensical garbage from Dems

Since George Steppontopofus posed a hypothetical question to President Trump, let me propose one to him: Caller: “Is this the Trump campaign? I have information on Joe Biden you’r...

DATE: Jun 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

That old magic: Bob Dylan is timelessly alive

Bob Dylan is back in a new movie with a few pointed things to take away

DATE: Jun 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

The worst president hails the greatest generation

Why do we still commemorate D-Day? It’s not a rhetorical question. The event is more distant to us than Custer’s Last Stand was to the men who stormed the Normandy shore. Those me...

DATE: Jun 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Report shady law enforcement to police

There is some confusion these days about Federal agents’ pursuit and deportation of undocumented people. Many have asked what to do when they observe persons detaining Hispanics w...

DATE: Jun 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A textbook case of Colorado political ineptitude

For those who wonder why Republicans keep losing in Colorado, we give you the latest GOP fail, in which Kristi Burton Brown, vice-chair of the state Republican Party, officially ended her do...

DATE: Jun 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

City was shortsighted at whitewater park

Itâ€™s truly a shame that in the rare year when the Animas River is at high flows at the same time as nice hot weather, the city has, by its unnecessary stream bed construction work, made ra...

DATE: Jun 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The other D-Day: 75 years ago, it lit up the Pacific

As allied troops crossed the English Channel to invade northern France on June 6, 1944, 600 U.S. Navy ships were converging on the Mariana Islands, Japanese territory only 1,200 miles from t...

DATE: Jun 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The people who thanked the firefighters

We heard La Plata County Manager Chuck Stevens at a Durango Chamber of Commerce breakfast last week talking about the 416 Fire. It was a cool, sunny morning. The air was fresh and clear. Ste...

DATE: Jun 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Colorado fast becoming California lite

The editorial in the June 10 edition regarding the Denver mayor’s election is spot-on (“ Colorado is fast becoming California lite as new residents pour in from failing blue states. ...

DATE: Jun 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

I’m still not a socialist – don’t believe the hype

Once again, Rep. Scott Tipton is labeling me a “Socialist” (“ This has been standard procedure from Republicans for a very long time. Here’s what then-President Harry Truman said about it i...

DATE: Jun 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns