For decades the national Republican Party literally owned the political debate over national security issues. Polls repeatedly indicated...

Republican Congressman Greg Walden represents a vast swath of Oregon in the House of Representatives. His huge district stretches from...

It is difficult to escape the feeling that the United States has reached an inflection point: mass shootings now a regular, sickening...

House and Senate leaders and the president apparently reached a two-year budget agreement this week that increases federal spending by...

This piece first appeared in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune ———– Historians, philosophers and ethicists have been debating for nearly 60...

It is often said – and correctly so – that we live in tumultuous times. Our devices spew forth a never-ending avalanche of information,...

One of the great ironies of modern American conservatism is that the party that claims to champion “limited government” is really in a...

I have always thought that Bill Bradley, the one-time United States senator from New Jersey, could have been a great president....

Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is about to get his moment in the wacky spotlight of U.S. Senate confirmation politics. Barring some last-minute...

The journalist and social critic H.L. Mencken was made for the Trump era. Unfortunately Mencken, a guy given to using words such as...

“The nation has become spectacularly meaner, to the point that George H. W. Bush is likely to be remembered as the last President of the...

Note: My column this week in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune ———– Just when it seems that our politics can’t possibly produce yet one more...

The President of the United States is a deranged liar who surrounds himself with sycophants. He is also functionally illiterate and...

“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or...

“This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” Donald J. Trump Inaugural Speech, 2017 ———- “We trust what we know in our...

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World ———— I have...

“We were party to a very big lie…Seemingly overnight, we became willing to roll back the ideas on the global economy that have given...

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel...

“More than a third of Americans believe that Medicaid is akin to welfare, with the implicit subtext that racial and ethnic minorities are...

“Frequently, people who go along a treasonous path do not know they are on a treasonous path until it is too late.” Former CIA director...