opinion

Have you noticed all the talk about the “inevitability” of same-sex marriage? Are you watching the second round of the “war on women” rhetoric hitting opponents of the president’s stance...

New federal gun-control legislation has been declared all but dead on arrival this week. Gridlock in the U.S. Senate, where a supermajority of 60 votes is needed to move most...

Rarely has the political class whipped itself into a lather that has abated so quickly. After the Newtown, Conn., massacre, so many invested so much hope in President Barack Obama’s...

It’s one thing for Big Oil to bust into our communities, groundwater, and economic well-being with the hydraulic fracturing natural gas boom. Now, in addition to poisoning the environment, this...

Billions of Christians around the world celebrated Easter last Sunday, but not our media. Once again the holiest day of the Christian year slipped under their godless radar. I saw...

The philosopher George Santayana wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” Which is what we’re doing. I thought I’d found an isolated instance of that...

I would like to thank Dr. Janis Haworth of the BSU Music Department for the wonderful drum presentation on Guinea, West Africa at the recent Adventures in Lifelong Learning. She...

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” –Thomas Jefferson So why is anyone surprised to learn that...

I found something on the IRS Web site I never expected to see: quotations from great minds on taxes. The first two agitated me: “Taxes are what we pay for...

Gov. Dayton and the DFL legislators seem to think that the solution is to tax everything. Tax this for that, tax that for this. Taxing is the easy answer and...

Welfare is not the problem as Lyle Delaney suggests (April 3). There is simply no data to backup such a claim. If a government giving money to its people was...

There are few things sadder than the “climate denier.” He ignores the data and neglects the latest science. His rhetoric and policy proposals are dangerously disconnected from reality. He can’t...

I think it was a dream: There I was at the Washington Nationals’ Opening Day as they started the season that naturally will end in a World Series victory. As...

Our fathers and grandfathers could have easily predicted the problems we are having with teenagers causing mayhem in this country. Any nation that deliberately pays people not to work and...

Did you know that U.S. law forbids the admission of any immigrant who is likely to depend on public assistance? It’s right there in Section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and...