• Opinions 27 June 2024

    James Clapper, Mr. October Surprise: How Obama's intel czar rigged 2016 and 2020 debates against Trump

    On Oct. 7, 2016 – just two days before the presidential debate between Trump and Clinton – Clapper issued the unprecedented intelligence advisory with Obama’s personal blessing. It seemed to lend credence to what the Clinton camp was telling the media — that Trump was working with Russian President Vladimir Putin through a secret back channel to steal the election. Sure enough, the Democratic nominee pounced on it to smear Trump at the debate. And that wouldn’t be the only historically consequential maneuver for Clapper, whose role in skewing presidential campaigns might deserve a special place in the annals of nefarious election meddling – by, in this case, a domestic, not foreign, intelligence service.
  • Opinions 27 June 2024
    Five energy failures Biden needs voters to forget 
    These disasters won’t get the attention they deserve in this first presidential debate. However, every voter needs to remember them when November rolls around.
  • Opinions 26 June 2024
    How Harris casts herself as an environmental justice crusader
    The narrative has become a bedrock of Harris’ political identity. She featured her DA environmental justice crimes unit in her first statewide television advertisement and she rarely missed an opportunity to tout the history during her presidential bid, during which she promised similar initiatives if elected. But records from the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and interviews with local environmental advocates point to a different, far less ambitious record. 
  • Opinions 26 June 2024
    The power of martyrs
    Israeli Defense Forces argue that since Oct. 7, Hamas militants have planted themselves in Gaza’s residential areas to either hide behind or induce strikes on the Palestinian civilian population. The IDF claims that Hamas “uses the people of Gaza as human shields by embedding itself among them in schools, mosques and hospitals.”
  • Opinions 26 June 2024
    Attacks on ‘cheap fakes’ extend Biden Administration’s war on free speech
    There were two astonishing developments this week in the Biden administration’s continuing attack on free speech. First, just days ahead of the Supreme Court’s decision on whether to uphold the Fifth Circuit’s injunction against the administration’s extensive censorship enterprise, a second White House press secretary strongly encouraged the media to chill political debate. Second, Karine Jean-Pierre was masterful in her delivery of the new Biden attack line on “cheap fakes.”
  • Opinions 25 June 2024
    Another expensive summer
    Since President Biden took office, prices have skyrocketed by 20.1 percent, while real wages remain lower than four years ago. Not only is gas up 55.3 percent, but so are basic family necessities like eggs, which are up 40.1 percent, flour, which is up 34.8 percent, and chicken, which is up 24 percent. Not to mention, airfare is up by 29.9 percent, electricity is up 29 percent, eating out is up 22.2 percent, and housing affordability has plummeted to record lows.
  • Opinions 25 June 2024
    Willie Mays: A grateful nation says goodbye
    The National League won 17 All-Star games with Mays in the lineup, losing only six. In 1959, when Willie Mays tripled Hank Aaron home in the 8th inning to give the National League a 5-4 win, San Francisco Chronicle baseball writer Bob Stevens quipped, “Harvey Kuenn gave it an honest pursuit, but the only center fielder in baseball who could have caught it hit it.”
  • Opinions 25 June 2024
    Biden's shortsighted patent attacks threaten American innovation
    The Biden administration's efforts to twist decades-old laws to achieve political wins may not end with Bayh-Dole. Legal filings suggest that the administration is also advancing a radical reinterpretation of Section 1498, a World War I-era statute meant to provide patent owners with reasonable compensation if the government infringes on their technology during a war or other direct government responsibility. 
  • Opinions Fr. Mike Paraniuk 24 June 2024
    A sermon on Mark 5:21-43
    Max Lucado expresses beautifully the essence of faith. "Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right." 
  • Opinions 24 June 2024
    The debates are a travesty: Here’s how to fix them
    Presidential debates once made an important contribution to American civic life and democratic ideals. They should reflect our values as a society and serve to create a better informed and more thoughtful electorate – not the opposite.
  • Opinions 24 June 2024
    Politics yield bad border policy
    Throughout his time in office, and especially this election year, only one consideration seems to motivate President Biden’s border and immigration policies: politics.
  • Opinions 24 June 2024
    Ensuring access to quality health care for rural Americans
    More than a quarter of Idahoans and over 46 million Americans nationwide live in our vibrant rural communities. However, living in such remote areas has made it far too difficult for far too many Americans to access reliable, high-quality health care. 
  • Opinions Christine Tailer 23 June 2024
    The teachers
    This work was work that we would have been doing anyway, but not necessarily all done with the goal of getting everything in tip top shape in a timely fashion, so that we could share our world with 37 teachers who were stopping by for a visit.
  • Opinions 22 June 2024
    Father's Day and family bonds
    Fathers are pillars of strength, providers of wisdom and bearers of faith, guiding their children through life's challenges and teaching them the values essential for a life of virtue and integrity. As a father of three and a grandfather of seven, I have been blessed to witness the incredible joy and fulfillment that comes from being part of a loving family.
  • Opinions 22 June 2024
    Sports should unify, not divide us
    I believe that one day soon in America—even in sports media!—we will free ourselves from woke ideology and return to recognizing reality and speaking honestly. Only when that happens will sports return to serving as an important source of unity rather than division in American culture.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 21 June 2024
    The death of decorum
    Decorum. If you are so inspired, let’s start using this word more frequently and teach others what it means. 
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