“I have noticed the ‘write in Tim Bertling’ signs all over the county,” a Boundary County Republican Central Committeeman wrote today on the Boundary County Politics Facebook page. “One thing that I…
Time for all who cherish equal rights to take the tiller
NOTE: As a result of ongoing controversy, Boundary County Library Director Kimber Glidden, after just nine months in the job, tendered her resignation. Her last day was yesterday, but it wasn’t only…
Beware false neighbors, they aren’t civilized
In my years covering news in Boundary County, one thing I’ve learned is that all who land here and want to be accepted as neighbors are. We can bicker, we can argue,…
In this trying time, we must all take action
We live in interesting times, and they are going to get far more interesting, as MAGA Republican leaders, still led by former president Donald Trump and their “conservative” propaganda press continue to…
Ban the books, sound the shofar
This crowd that now attends each Boundary County library board meeting to assert its holy righteousness and call down the wrath of heaven upon the sinners and infidels who don’t quite share…
We must rally to save Trump’s helpless gullible
Photo by Seth Wenig/The Associated Press In legal proceedings and congressional hearings, Donald J. Trump’s big lie is clearly starting to unravel, but believers of the lie are clearly not hearing the…
Unnecessarily difficult times lie ahead
Thanks to my opinion pieces of late, I have been identified by local “true conservatives,” many of whom were friends before 2016, as a born again left wing socialist liberal commie pedophile….
We the people are owed the truth
Photo copywrite Getty Images “Whatever your politics, whatever you think about the outcome of the election, we as Americans must all agree on this. Donald Trump’s conduct on January 6 was a…
Library board recall an inept and shameless ploy
“Our Mission is to protect children from explicit materials and grooming,” say those seeking the recall of four of five members of the Boundary County Free Library Board, sparing the only member…
We let them get away with it
Before 2016, I would never have imagined seeing so many people in our communities, our region, clinging so firmly to such clear lies and false assertions as the Make America Great Again…
Only fools believe
A fool is defined as a person who acts unwisely or imprudently, and a good way to identify a fool is to prove that he or she denies the existence or validity…
Donald Trump: A clear, present and growing danger
“Almost two years after that fateful day … Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy.” Judge J. Michael Luttig, June 16, 2022, referring…
Why I won’t hear the ‘truth’ of MAGA
I am asked on occasion, in the context of being a Trump “hating” liberal Democrat socialist RINO, why I’m not open to at least considering the truths espoused by today’s “conservative” Republicans,…
I say this to my Republican colleagues … your dishonor will remain
Everyone, not just never Trumpers, Democrats, liberals and RINOs, should be watching and paying close attention to the House Select Committee’s public hearings on its January 6 investigation findings. It’s an unprecedented…
What a difference a few years make
What a difference a few hundred years makes. When on December 15, 1791, the words “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the…
Remembering the children who died that our rights be uninfringed
A man, no matter his color, creed, race or religion, who thinks of himself so highly that he can lose sight of the fact that we all love our children equally is…
No redoubt will long stand for those who would not share the blessings of liberty
This country’s founders were consummate writers, who, with great deliberation and care, drafted for us a constitution establishing the basic form and principals of our government using very much that same language…
I got my knee on his neck, Ma! Take a pitcher!
“Critical race theory, an ugly ideology that divides people based on race, has crept into Idaho’s public school classrooms right under our noses. You’re ready to fight back, but you need the…
The awful price of lies
If the statistics of late hold, by this time next week, the United States will have lost one-million people to COVID-19, a number far disproportionate to the rest of the world, where…
Instead of fighting, let’s keep the puddle wet
I’m not the sharpest cookie in the knife drawer, but I simply do not understand the brouhaha over abortion “rights.” It just doesn’t seem to me a legitimate topic of national discourse…