By Christian Rose Reader Contributor For much of my life I never felt particularly obligated nor overly inclined to stand and salute the flag during the national anthem. I did it, of course, but...
By Jim Healey Reader Contributor Hate-filled fliers left in citizens’ driveways here in Bonner County. A peace flag ripped down from a local’s front porch here in Bonner County. Racist emails from dailystormer.com sent...
By Justin Hayes Reader Contributor When you flush your toilet, the contents don’t magically disappear. Sewage gets cleaned at a sewage treatment plant operated by your city and then discharged to your local river....
By Michael Jacobson Reader Contributor In March 1991 unsettling photos of C-130 military cargo planes laden with flag draped coffins filled the news media. We were in Afghanistan. Prior to Desert Storm only active...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world. —Douglas Wilson, Pastor of Moscow’s Christ Church...
By Rachel Castor Reader Contributor If calling my representative to ask her not to vote on an anti-immigration bill makes me a radical… If calling my representative to ask her for a statement to...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Right off the bat, I’ll say that I have never been a fan of Donald Trump. I never watched his TV show, I never stayed at his hotels. What’s...
By Christian Rose Reader Contributor The American left is becoming increasingly insufferable. Eight years of Barack Obama’s stewardship of the fundamental progressive reshaping of our political landscape, cultural identity, and central-planning-style-economics have made the...
By Scarlette Quille Reader Columnist One of the many creatures residing in my home is a cat. Her name is Maple. She is an orange ball of hell fury. She was about three or...
“The sealed border was not just at the 38th parallel, but everywhere, in each person’s heart, blocking the past and choking off the future.”
—Suki Kim, Without You, There is No Us
