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Former governor sounds off on property tax debacle
How did the largest percentage of Republicans elected in Montana history grow government at the fastest rate in st…
From legislative secrecy to Constitutional sunlight
It was 1971 when, at 23, I took my seat in the Montana House of Representatives – the youngest member.
Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond
In a nutshell: destroying SS would allow the wealthy to dodge proposals to shore up SS by increasing or eliminating SS’s cap on taxable wages.
Keeping the Republic
Our democratic republic, though we’ve been blessed with it and devoted to it for 237 years, is nonetheless fragile. It is, after all, based upon the consent of every American. We cannot be forced to embrace it. We …
Incompetence meets corruption
But they couldn’t have avoided knowing that in 2021 Ellsworth confronted a Highway Patrolwoman who had pulled him over for going 88 mph in a 55-mph construction zone – at night.
It’s time to balance access with conservation on public lands and waters
The joke was on the public since many of those deeded lands never saw permanent rail lines built.
America has Stage 4 cancer
We taxpayers have been paying for all this ‘corpulence’ for YEARS & now we must educate ourselves re the disgusting waste, fraud, corruption...
A message to Montana's federal delegation
Are you so afraid of Musk and his money that you will neglect the needs of one-quarter of your constituents?
Republicans have shown their stripes
This devolution means people give up their rights, bit by bit, to a cultist leader who demands obedience and loyalty.
Making Canada 51st may not be such a bad idea
Not that I expect that we will ever actually annex Greenland, seize Panama, or turn the Gaza Strip into a...
Partisan judges
Our State’s Constitution has too many subjective terms like "privacy" in it which allows judges...
Trump's call for terminating Constitution is deranged
George Washington, in his farewell address, warned that political parties would, over time, become “potent engines by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men would subvert the power of the people and usurp fo…
Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond
“Think about it—we’re talking about people who own their own spaceships who are trying to take away healthcare for millions of kids.”
Thinking out loud
“If you can start arguing over something and get enough publicity, and keep the argument going, you can divide our nation overnight as whether spinach or brocolli are the most nutritious.” Will Rogers.
Is the U.S. back sliding?
Or America herself by the invasion of millions of illegals jeopardizing our national security and the safety of our communities all for the goal to influence our electoral college?
Taking from the poor, giving to the rich
The Trump administration needs to re-think its priorities and stop helping the very rich at the expense of the very poor.