• Opinions 14 February 2025

    A weaponized FBI: It's real, whistleblowers testify, with scars to prove it

    FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes. These include allegations that at least two of the fired officials, Jeffrey Veltri and Dena Perkins, manipulated the security clearance review process to personally and professionally punish conservatives, COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, and Jan. 6 whistleblowers who reported suspected bureau malfeasance, and retaliated against those who came to the whistleblowers’ defense. 
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 13 February 2025
    Happy Valentine’s Day
    Of course, readers of this column know me and know God is an important part of my life. I’ve been given, so far, an extra 23 years. I wake up every morning asking the Lord what he wants me to do with these days. I didn’t beat cancer. He did, and I need to follow His leading on what to do with all this extra time.
  • Opinions 12 February 2025
    The Biden policies we must leave behind
    By incentivizing investment, addressing housing supply constraints, reforming the tort system, and curbing administrative and regulatory overreach, and, Congress and the new administration can create the conditions for sustained economic growth and lower prices.
  • Opinions Dr. Andy Bowman 12 February 2025
    Hobbled milk cows and tethered horses
    Recently sidelined, I know how a hobbled old milk cow looks at life, or what a horse tethered to the fence feels. Imprisoned, caged, confined. Stuck in one place with absolutely no say in the matter. And it is not fun. 
  • Opinions 12 February 2025
    The value of BARDA
    Twenty years ago, in 2004, Congress passed the Project BioShield Act, which established the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, also known as BARDA.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 11 February 2025
    Learning the realities of capitalism once again
    In Washington and elsewhere around our country, people are once again learning the principles of capitalism. It makes no difference where you live on this planet, what sort of government you are under, at the individual level, everyone is a capitalist.  
  • Opinions Fr. Mike Paraniuk 11 February 2025
    A sermon on Luke 6:20-26
    On behalf of Holy Trinity Church, I gladly welcome the Future Farmers of America to worship with us today. I leave you with a spiritual truth that will lead you to the blessings Jesus wants for you. Jesus said in John 10:9, "Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures." 
  • Opinions 10 February 2025
    Bringing farm country voices to Washington
    My highest priority for the next farm bill is to improve the farm safety net, whereby every farmer in every region of the country will have access to modernized risk management tools regardless of the commodity they grow.
  • Opinions 10 February 2025
    U.S. Marine Corps: Put me in coach
    We are now almost five years into the implementation of Force Design and the current General Manager (CMC), General Smith, has not changed course but instead doubled down.
  • Opinions 10 February 2025
    China and Taiwan: Beware the law of unintended consequences
    Will China invade Taiwan? Yes. As long as Xi Jinping is the supreme power in China, as he currently is, count on it. Why? He has repeatedly told everyone who is listening that he intends to do so.
  • Opinions Christine Tailer 9 February 2025
    The human library
    I woke early and navigated my way through the dim morning light. I opened the door to my closet. My daily attire typically consists of jeans, flannel shirt, and work boots, but not this day. This day I was going to be part of a human library.
  • Opinions 9 February 2025
    Welcome to the executive presidency
    Trump’s second term will be fundamentally different from his first. Through the appointments of Hegseth, Patel, Gabbard, and others, Trump is establishing a system of communication that will facilitate his command of the executive branch and the country. By replacing resistors with transistors – highly capable communicators of his energy, ideas, goals, and politics – Trump will project his vision and his achievements to the world. It’s what the American people voted for on November 5.
  • Opinions 8 February 2025
    There is nothing green about the ‘green’ agenda
    If the climate movement was truly sincere and intellectually honest in its desire to stop actions contributing to global environmental degradation, it would stand fast against solar panels and electric vehicles. There is nothing green about the climate left’s solutions. There is nothing environmentally friendly about using enslaved children in the Congo to mine cobalt for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries used in EVs.
  • Opinions 8 February 2025
    Religious liberty and the genius of the American founding
    The American Founders’ invocation of the transcendent moral authority of nature is one of the most remarkable acts of statesmanship in human history. The question which we and all American patriots confront today is whether we still understand and appreciate this incredible gift of religious liberty bequeathed to us by the Founders. Do we still have the knowledge and courage to keep alive the sacred fire of liberty?
  • Opinions Dr. Andy Bowman 8 February 2025
    Headlights that bend
    Bright, bendable headlights. Now THAT’S something for my next Christmas list. But until some inventor comes up with those, I have to do the same as everyone else.  
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 8 February 2025
    Window moldings, engineers and one physicist
    I was sitting in the dentist chair the other day and looking at the window on the horizon, just beyond my feet. My eyes went to the molding surrounding the window, causing me to ponder several things. Who came up with that molding design? How many linear feet or miles of it have been produced? Where was it first made? Was it first made with a router head or a specialized block plane? How many router heads of that shape have been made since the first one?
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