During the 2020 presidential debates, Joe Biden was asked a question about Antifa, who at that time was burning, looting, and hurting American citizens in several major cities. Biden shrugged off the question by replying that Antifa was really just “an idea, not an organization”. Many Americans, mainly those on the right, expressed outrage at…
[Looking at why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] To build the framework for the original teachers and settler-leaders to the Indian Territory, we saw that President Thomas Jefferson was an avid supporter of church schools. That caused us to back up for a look at the foundations of the government. Many…
MITCHELL, South Dakota – In lot of ways, Oklahoma and South Dakota are very similar. Both states have more registered Republicans than Democrats. Forty-five percent of the registered voters in Oklahoma are Republican while that number is 53% in South Dakota. Oklahoma has a conservative Republican governor and so does South Dakota. The GOP overwhelmingly…
In 1966 I was 15 years-old, and I bought my first car. It was a 1954 Plymouth Belvedere 4-door sedan. In those days there were two kinds of cars, one class was called “Babe Magnets.” Guys drove those cars to attract pretty girls. They just wheeled into the local Dog ’n‘ Suds and people would…
[Looking at why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] Why were Presidents Jefferson and Washington, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, with other early political architects called Deist? We saw earlier that all the founding colonies had requirements and oaths definitively affirming traditional Protestant beliefs and the colonies expelled those not advocating the prescribed practices….
How long has mankind been on this Earth? What does genetic science tell us? Dr. Jeffrey P. Thompkins is with The Institute for Creation Research. According to his biography, he “earned a master’s degree in plant science in 1990 from the University of Idaho, where he performed research in plant hormones. He received his Ph.D….
Growing up, I didn’t need the Internet. Instead, I had a Montgomery Ward catalog. Not only could you use it to find and order just about anything made, but you could break one or two of the Ten Commandments within its pages. Back in the day, we considered three things sacred: God, country and the…
[Looking at why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] Did President Jefferson promote religious education? That brings up the bigger question. Was our country founded as a Christian nation? We have seen in earlier editions that Thomas Jefferson was an ardent financial supporter and advocate of education for Native American groups, who…
As far as I know, none or my close relatives have ever given their lives while in military service for America. May 31 is Memorial Day. For some Americans, it may just be a three-day weekend, the start of summer, the end of the school year or just another day. For those families who have…
I grew up in the generation that wrote letters. We didn’t have email, texting, Facebook or Twitter. We did have a telephone. My parents were a little more modern than my grandparents, who still had a hand-cranked phone on the wall. But phone calls were expensive, especially long distance, so our family communicated mostly by…