Tag: Editorial
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“Tin Hat” People are Right
By Evelyn Pyburn Remember when some folks were resistant to the installation of “smart meters” that made monitoring electrical usage so easy? Remember their “paranoid” concerns about how smart meters might be eventually adopted to control people’s use of electricity? You know — Big Brother stepping in and declaring that you could only use so…
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Time to Pay Up
By Evelyn Pyburn Over the years as a reporter and learning about economics, early on I became alarmed at the rate and intrusiveness of regulations. As I came to understand the depth and breadth of regulations on business, I failed to understand, not only the acceptance of them but the often enthusiastic embracing of them,…
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The Use of Force
By Evelyn Pyburn There is lot’s not being said about all that is happening. Despite what is claimed, COVID-19 is a political issue. When political power is brought to bear on any issue it is political. It becomes political in that moment. One must remember that politics is about the use of force. When people…
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Free Stuff Enslaves
By Evelyn Pyburn A few months ago, I encountered a news story about a recent court decision that was at once heartening and disheartening. A federal judge ruled that children do not have a fundamental right to learn to read and write. A surprising ruling, given the state of our judicial system, but a wonderful…
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Doing Just Fine
by Evelyn Pyburn Someone must come to the defense of business following what is but a veiled attack upon decades of how business has been successfully conducted. It was recently reported that Business Roundtable, a lobbying group composed of people like Apple’s Tim Cook and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, is changing the definition of the “purpose of…
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Catastrophes that Didn’t Happen and Have Been Forgotten
Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true – but that is never reported, complains the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Failed predictions are never reported upon by a media that enthusiastically reports…
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How to Cut Taxes
By Evelyn Pyburn If in no other way, the significance of the impact of drug abuse and the illegal trafficking of drugs, as well as related crimes, in Yellowstone County can be made clear by an evaluation of the budget for Yellowstone County. It would not be a stretch to conclude that as much as…
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Social Entreprenuers
By Evelyn Pyburn Have you noticed how as soon as the true meaning catches up with some terms or words, the wording gets changed? There are dozens of words that were perfectly good terms at one point in time, and not only do they get changed but sometimes it becomes anathema to continue to use…
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Endangered Species Act Reform Pleases Some, Not Others
From The Center Square The Trump administration announced, last week, reforms to the Endangered Species Act that it says will “increase transparency and effectiveness” in the law’s implementation. One of the reforms removes a blanket rule which treats protections for threatened species the same as endangered species. It will also require the same standards be…
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Editorial: The Real Threat
By Evelyn Pyburn Why does the slogan “Make America Great Again” cause such angst for so many? Some say it is a threat! I know the twisting of reason and words by those who supposedly feel threatened by it. So bizarre is the reasoning though, it’s hard to believe that they even believe what they…