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Editorials

US pullout from Afghanistan is provisional

Four thousand more U.S. troops will be pulled out of Afghanistan, reducing the force there to about 8,600, it was reported this week. That number is inadequate to do more than protect key U.S. positions and personnel. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw more forces from ...

The unraveling of Obamacare continues

Little by little, the bright, appealing shell that is Obamacare is being stripped away to reveal a thoroughly rotten core. Former President Barack Obama’s administration went to great pains to shield the truth about Obamacare from the American public. After nearly three years of President ...

Cookie drive shows appreciation for military members

Thanks to cookie bakers from the Minot community and Minot Air Force Base, first-term airmen who live in the dorms on base are getting sweet treats delivered to them for the holidays. The airmen are between the ages of 18-20 years and it is the first time for many of them to be away from ...

Arming teachers a difficult decision to make

A significant number of schools throughout the United States have authorized staff members to carry firearms while at work. The idea is that armed educators and school service personnel can protect students in the event of an incursion by someone bent on violence. But an Associated Press ...

Playing politics with presidency a desperate move

It is a virtually foregone conclusion that the House of Representatives — Democrats in it, that is — will vote to impeach President Donald Trump. When that happens, it will go down as the most transparently political impeachment in history. Not a single Republican in the House is ...

US intelligence needs to ramp it up

Until they have answers, the top priority for U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies needs to be determining whether Mohammed Alshamrani was a lone-wolf terrorist or part of a larger plot. Alshamrani, an officer in the Royal Saudi Air Force, was being trained at a U.S. naval base at ...