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Opinion

Ending Electoral College erodes voting rights

National Columnists

The structure of the American government was designed by the Founders to prevent raw majoritarianism: the three branches of government and their checks and balances, the allocation of power between the state and federal governments, constitutional limits on the federal government’s power, the ...

Are Iran’s nine lives nearing an end?

National Columnists

The theocracy of Iran has been the world’s arch-embassy attacker over the last half century. So it has zero credibility in crying foul over Israel’s April 1 attacks on its “consulate” in Damascus and the killing of Iran’s kingpin terrorists of the Revolutionary Guard Corps ...

Court effectively abolished right to assembly

National Columnists

Recently, the Supreme Court effectively abolished the right to assembly in three Southern states. By refusing to hear an appeal of a speaker accused of being liable for what a protester did in an audience the speaker addressed, the court exposed all protest organizers and speakers to ...

Reasons not to vote for Trump are false

Letters to the Editor

Steven Moen, Minot It was stated last week that Christians can’t vote for Trump, with a bunch of scripture verses to defend his position. Satan can quote scripture with the best of them and the fact that no mention of not voting for Biden makes me wonder. Most of why we shouldn’t vote ...

Farm work puts life into perspective

National Columnists

Hard work, passion, virtue and true grit earmark the American heartland. Anecdotes, generation-spanning farm families and crop innovations speak volumes. They are all children of agriculture. Farming teaches faith in God, food cultivation, animal husbandry, the value of love, the richness of ...

Needed: Regime change in Iran

National Columnists

Every approach to curtailing Iran from its threats and behavior toward Israel and other countries has failed. In 2023, the Biden administration imposed sanctions on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials accused of planning assassinations overseas. In 2024, it “reapproved a sanctions ...