The Republican Party, such as it is, will run the U.S. House of Representatives until, at least, 2024. Since the GOP is a “coalition” of disparate “hearts and minds,” we proffer advice on how the 118th Congress can hit the ground running on Jan. 3, […]

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Jesus told us that no one knows the day or hour that He will return. That’s a given. But he gives us a framework that tells us a lot. Those closest to the Lord during his ministry asked Him what it would be like – […]

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Happy Thanksgiving. This has been quite a year. Normally I release my annual “Root Turkey Awards” – for the biggest winners and losers of 2022. But I’m going to only announce my big winners this year. Because we all need a jolt of positivity. I’m […]

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Have you ever thought you live in Bizarro Land? Did you ever imagine we would see things that were once unthinkable, inconceivable, incomprehensible, would become routine? Think about it. How about doctors performing child “genital mutilation”? There’s simply no other way to say it or […]

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A short but interesting article appeared in our local newspaper recently: “Idaho ranks as 34th ‘happiest’ state.” As a resident of rural North Idaho, this was startling news; because let me tell you, we’ve lived here since 2003 and we’re as happy as clams to […]

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Were you ready for it? The celebration of Thanksgiving this year. I’ll be honest: I wasn’t and still am not. Just knowing that Christmas now is even closer gives me the jitters. I am not ready for that either. And then, of course, it will […]

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Maybe I should start by asking about your old normal. Was it a good normal? A bad normal? Or maybe even an Abby Normal? Human beings do seem to prefer a normal life, where most things are much the same as they were yesterday, last […]

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In Israel today, you can still see the ruins of various structures that King Herod erected. Everything Herod built had sizable walls, because he thought everyone was out to get him. And he would put to death anyone he perceived as a threat. Herod was […]

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By Darin Chappell In 1996, with President Clinton’s signing of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a breach of American federalism took place with little notice. A few of us objected to the Act, even though it codified what we believed to be accurate, that […]

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One of the worst aspects of an ever-enlarging government is that it begins to take on an outsized importance in our daily lives. The political parties and people who control them become more important than they should be. Their policies – especially when they are […]

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Years ago, I had scheduled a tour of the ancient city of Petra, about 100 miles from Amman, Jordan. It’s a spectacular city, Jordan’s premier tourist destination, carved out of sheer rock mountain and made known to the world in “Indiana Jones and the Last […]

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The Republicans are investigating the Hunter “Baaaden” affair, to imitate the repetitive intonations emitted by Fox News’ Australian journalist, about the “Baaaden” laptop. Deplorables, don’t be misled into this dummies-and-ditto-heads dead end. This is vintage lightweight, GOP tit-for-tat distraction, on par with the Democrats’ ongoing […]

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“Government requires make-believe. Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the […]

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Thank You, Lord, for allowing me to live in the greatest country in the world – one where we as citizens are permitted to live in freedom, to speak our minds, to debate the great issues of the day openly and without fear and, most […]

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As something of a Thanksgiving treat, allow me to serve three media turkeys at one sumptuous sitting. Admittedly, these misreported stories have little in common, but in the holiday spirit I am going to jam them all in anyhow. The story begins in Western New […]

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The world has entered a geopolitical depression, writes Dr. Nouriel Roubini, pointing at severe megathreats that spell dark days ahead. This new era will resemble the tumultuous decades between 1914 and 1945, as the U.S. economic, financial and security unipolar world is challenged by four […]

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The 2020 U.S. presidential election had voters going to bed that evening believing President Donald Trump clearly had been reelected, only to learn the next morning that Joe Biden had mysteriously rallied. Boatloads of ballots giving Biden a statistically questionable win found their way to […]

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Among the key headlines from the 2022 election were gains by Republicans among minority voters. According to the AP VoteCast survey, Republican House candidates got 14% of the Black vote, almost twice the 8% of the Black vote that Republicans captured in 2020 and 2018. […]

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It’s almost Thanksgiving, and I’m thinking of Rush Limbaugh – very fondly. Why am I thinking of Rush? I always think about Rush this time of year because he told a story about Thanksgiving – each and every Thanksgiving. A beautiful story. I remember how […]

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Observations on the irrepressible human spirit and the power of censorship to breed rebellion: Like the old boiler-based steam engines of yore – or today’s ubiquitous residential hot water heaters – societies without an adequate release valve to keep internal pressures within tolerable limits will […]

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