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Op-Ed: UI should set itself apart; keep students in class

07/22/2020 / COVID-19, Op-Ed

My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! The University of Idaho’s enrollment has been steadily declining since 2010. The Daily News reported in 2017 that 17% of UI’s enrollment were actually high schoolers. The University was in fact cushioning their numbers with high schoolers to mask the steady decline of enrollment numbers. Further exacerbating UI’s enrollment woes, the

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Op-Ed: A Look at Antifa’s Days of Rage

07/08/2020 / Antifa, Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! Anyone 50 or older will immediately recognize the names Patty Hearst, William Ayers, and Eldridge Cleaver. I recently read Bryan Burrough’s book “Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence.” He recalls the history of America’s violent radical movements

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Op-Ed: Black lives matter but BLM Platform Doesn’t Help

06/24/2020 / Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! I stand by my previous Op-Ed that systemic police brutality toward minorities across America is a myth. Four recent academic studies have demonstrated this. One in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, one by Harvard economist Roland Fryer in the National Bureau of Economic Research, one in the

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Op-Ed: Rioting in the name of racism; anarchy is not liberation

06/10/2020 / Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! “Thou shalt not murder” (Exodus 20:13). This command applies universally regardless of skin color, ethnicity, sex, nationality, age, religion, etc. There is near universal agreement that the police officers’ actions against George Floyd were excessive and criminal, and they are rightfully jailed and charged with murder.

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Op-Ed: Culture of Fear Where Freedom Goes to Die

05/27/2020 / COVID-19, Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! On Saturday 16 May, many Idaho businesses were allowed to reopen with restrictions. My family patronized Moscow’s Tapped for dinner that first day. Per Idaho Gov. Little’s Stage 2 guidance, Moscow restaurants were to submit their reopening plans for pre-approval to the Idaho North Central Public

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Back To Normal: Conservatives Go To Work While Liberals Stay Home

05/18/2020 / COVID-19, Op-Ed

U.S.—Americans in some states are finally starting to feel normal again, now that stay-at-home orders are being lifted. Children are at the park again, adults are back at the bar, and the elderly continue to play bingo at 4 p.m. sharp on a daily basis. https://babylonbee.com/news/back-to-normal-conservatives-go-to-work-while-liberals-stay-home/

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Op-Ed: Response to Gier’s Coronavirus Column

05/15/2020 / COVID-19, Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Idaho State Journal. Enjoy! I appreciate the Idaho State Journal allowing me to respond to Professor Gier’s May 8th editorial regarding Sweden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic (Coronavirus deaths may be undercounted by 60 percent). To the layman, the data emerging from Sweden can be complex and nuanced, but properly

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Op-Ed: Response to Gier’s Coronavirus Column

05/15/2020 / COVID-19, Op-Ed

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Op-Ed: With COVID-19, we should be allowing personal risk assessment

05/13/2020 / COVID-19, Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! I remain highly critical of the US’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. We were sold on a binary solution: complete lockdown or doing nothing at all. But why a nationwide shutdown in response to a virus with negligible risk to most of the population, those 4-50

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OpEd: Palouse Should be Released from the Lockdown

04/29/2020 / COVID-19, Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As I mentioned in my last two Op-Eds (here and here): rather than isolating the infected, quarantining the exposed and the vulnerable, and social distancing everyone else, America treats everyone as infected. Swedish professor Johan Giesecke is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, and as

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Op-Ed: A Common-Sense Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic

04/15/2020 / COVID-19, Op-Ed

My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As I mentioned in my last Op-Ed (Singapore made the right moves regarding COVID-19), I am highly critical of the United States’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic. To protect Americans from this deadly virus, the government decided to shut down the entire country except for “essential”

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Op-Ed: Singapore made the right moves regarding COVID-19

04/01/2020 / Op-Ed

My Op-Ed on the Singaporean strategy for combating the Coronavirus ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Let me know what you think! In 2011 I had the opportunity to travel to Singapore. It is the most beautiful, clean, and safe metropolitan that I have ever visited. This city-state of 5.6 million people is larger than

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OpEd: Sweden Found Socialism to be a Savage Master

03/18/2020 / Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! Progressives objected to my 4 March 2020 column (Why Socialism in the US Scares Me to Death). Most did not object to the academic definition of socialism, in which the state allocates the means of production. Rather, they prefer the Nordic model of “democratic socialism” as

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Op-Ed: Why socialism in the US scares me to death

03/04/2020 / Op-Ed

My bi-weekly Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Here is the unedited version. Enjoy! During my junior year of college (1979-1980), I had the opportunity to study Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Forty years ago this very month, I visited the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and Czechoslovakia. It was

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Op-Ed: Census no longer resembles what our Founding Fathers intended

02/19/2020 / Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As a strict constitutionalist, I support the decennial census the way the Founding Fathers intended it to be used: allocating House seats and determining a head-tax. Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the US Constitution says: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the

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His View: Mandatory Gratuities Hurt Quality of Service

01/22/2020 / Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! I am not a fan of the oxymoronic “mandatory gratuity.” The move in Washington State and by some Moscow restaurants to shift to mandatory gratuity changes the entire dynamic of food service in those restaurants. Incentives matter, and the waitstaff in these restaurants are less incentivized

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His View: Educational fads address problems that do not exist

01/08/2020 / Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! The Moscow School District’s recent experiments with Competency-Based Education remind me of the educational fads practiced on me in the mid-1960s and 70s. Each hindered my education more than the last. The first education experiment was “Whole Language“ (Sight Reading/See-Say) in first grade. Brilliant Harvard PhD’s

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No One is a Climate Change Denier, Part 3

12/11/2019 / Op-Ed

My third column on climate change denial ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As I noted in two previous columns (No one is a climate change denier Part 1 and Part 2), all agree that the climate has changed for millennia and is still changing. What scientists do not agree on is the cause.

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His View: The effects of higher wages and increased regulation

11/27/2019 / Op-Ed

My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! The recent Moscow-Pullman Daily News article (High wages and tougher regulations worry local merchants) highlights Pullman businesses’ anxiety about three changes coming out of Olympia: first, Washington state minimum wage rising 12.5 percent on Jan. 1; second, the odious regulations being imposed on restaurant and hospitality

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His View: It’s not voter suppression; it’s the law

11/13/2019 / Op-Ed

My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! Bill Parks’ Op-Ed response (Students who live here have a right to vote here) shows that his real disagreement is with Idaho law governing residency classification, and Idaho’s justification concerning student voting, which I argue we should uphold. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with Idaho

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