Rev. Richard Killmer and Amy Rogghe: The truth about electric vehicles

We now have the rechargeable battery technology to make EVs not only more practical, but more economical and an answer to many existential problems of our time, like the climate crisis and detrimental public health impacts surrounding air pollution.

Austin Bay: Israel’s airspace defense victory: Credit Reagan’s SDI

Israel’s missile defense victory was 50 years in the making. Recall Desert Storm’s miss-then-hit Patriot shots against Saddam Hussein’s SCUDs. Beginning with the Reagan administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the U.S. and Israel developed “layered” air and space missile defenses.

Cal Thomas: Needed: Regime change in Iran

This should be the policy of the United States and other free countries, especially those that have been subjected to terrorist attacks. The goal must be removal of the ayatollahs ruling and ruining Iran, and to make sure free and fair elections are held to replace them.

Editorial cartoon for Sunday, April 21, 2024

Hal Phillips: RiverWatch: Many expectations of the child welfare system largely miss the point

L.D. 2097 is a bill that would authorize and fund the hire of case aides — to lighten the load of caseworkers around the state by delivering documents, driving children to appointments, supervising kiddos in the office or hotels rooms overnight. When making the best of imperfect situations (in this case, an imperfect hiring situation), L.D. 2097 makes sense to me.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The misuse of religion

Christian Nationalists’ desire to make us a “Christian nation” could make us look a lot like Russia. There may lie a path to the death of democracy.

William LaRochelle: Trump is ‘a clear and present danger to the whole free world’

Cassidy Hutchinson, former White House aide for Donald Trump, who testified against him at the hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, recently stated:  “Policy is important, but, especially in this period in American history, character takes (precedence) over policy positions.” Now ponder this evil advice the infamous […]

Susan Fesenmaier: ‘Let’s put our energy toward solutions, not lies’

I decided to check out Truth Social, and I wondered how anyone could believe the stuff posted on there. I know there are many things happening in this world that I know nothing about. But believing what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth is a no-brainer. He is a bully who often makes things up […]

Editorial cartoon for Saturday, April 20, 2024

Cal Thomas: A taxing time

We must drive a stake in the blood-sucking government’s heart, or we will end up driving one in ourselves, and the country we have known and loved will be no more.