Marijuana May Be Quasi Legal, But Let’s Be Honest, It Makes You Stupid BY DAVID S. LEWIS What are you smoking? It’s one of three questions we will ask today, but first we ask, What are you reading?—a question posed to politicians and others who expect to be taken seriously, often as a way of […]
The IRS/Health Care Industrial Complex
An Alliance of Big Business and Big Government, Thanks to Baucus and Obama BY BEN GLECK The term once hurled so loosely at the Bush administration by liberals was fascist, sometimes defined as the consolidation of government and big business, though in truth fascism requires a police state. The term now hurled at Obama is socialist, where […]
Montana Pioneer Rasmus Indreland
The Man Who Knew Charlie Russell BY KERIE MICHELE HAGLER It’s the 1880s, the days of open-range wranglers and dusty streets in the sparsely settled central area of Montana territory. Two young men cross paths in the beginning of their illustrious careers, one destined for fame, the other for fortune, their work together immortalized in […]
To Live Like an Indian
I remember growing up, attending a parochial school back east as a child and suffering under the duress of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. Life wasn’t always pleasant under the watchful eyes and heavy-handed supervision of the nuns. It would be a lovely spring day, eyes wandering out the window beyond the school yard to […]