Category: From the Editor
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We Get It!
By Evelyn Pyburn It’s been my observation that there is no tax that doesn’t eventually filter down to the individual citizen, and if they are a consumer, they are a taxpayer. This isn’t a good thing or a bad thing, it just is. Businesses do not pay any kind of tax. While they may seem…
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When a Grunt will Do
By Evelyn Pyburn With all the wrangling we encounter about words—what’s appropriate, what’s not, what a word means, and even if we dare speak words – if you think that is just an accidental manifestation in our society – think again. To attack our language, to make communication difficult if not impossible. To create confusion…
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“I don’t know clouds at all”
— “they only block the sun.” by Evelyn Pyburn Just because it’s not likely to get nearly the public recognition that opposition views routinely get, this editorial is to emphasize two news reports about how much we should be concerned about global warming. Not so much, it seems. Certainly, not so much that we should…
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Boycotts – Just the Market at Work
By Evelyn Pyburn I just read a reference to “the power of the boycott” – suggesting that people are just discovering it. It’s kind of amusing that this should be a surprise to anyone. The power of a boycott is nothing more than consumers making choices. It is the very foundation of a free market…
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So, Sign the Petition
By Evelyn Pyburn Save us from those who want to protect us. The 12-year-old girl from Red Lodge who is passing a petition to allow people to become lawyers in Montana without going to law school or without sanctions of the Supreme Court, is so spot-on in so many ways. Why shouldn’t the legal profession…
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Caregivers Deserve Better
By Evelyn Pyburn As jobs go begging in Montana people are often asking why. Where are the workers? While it’s true that more workers are working now than ever before in Montana, it’s also true that there are businesses going out of business because they can’t get the workers they need. The Federal Reserve Bank…
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Let’s Get Real
By Evelyn Pyburn The news recently held a report that fossil fuels are not good for human life. One has to wonder, how simple-minded one must be, not to realize the absurdity of that statement. Look around you – wherever you are at – point to something that isn’t dependent upon fossil fuels, in one…
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When a Value is not a Value
Evelyn Pyburn We are over the top, ridiculous, when freedom is so far lost that people are turned out into the cold to freeze in order to defend bureaucrats’ regulatory turf. That’s what happened in Montana when in the depth of winter, churches wanting to provide a warm place for homeless families were thwarted by…
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Everyone Can’t be Right
By Evelyn Pyburn In reporting about the media misrepresentations, regarding Representative Kerri Seekins-Crowe’s experience in discussing the transgender issue of SB-99 during the state legislature, she said that after asking one reporter about why he wasn’t interested in her side of the story, he told her that while he didn’t want to lie, since the…
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Non-Partisan is Non-thinking
By Evelyn Pyburn The concept of non-partisan is nonsense. It’s to say that a person doesn’t have an opinion. It’s to say they aren’t thinking. An employer I once worked for told me that they wouldn’t want someone working for them who didn’t have opinions because it meant they didn’t think. While I am certain…