One night several years ago I had a very vivid dream about my mother. I had invited her to my Moscow home, and she appeared in the front yard in the full bloom of her womanhood. Dressed in her casual…
Who is responsible for Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields?’
On the 42nd Anniversary of the Fall of Phnom Penh and the 47th Anniversary of Nixon’s Invasion of Cambodia Pot’s revolution would not have won power without the carpet-bombing of Cambodia’s countryside by American B-52s. —Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot…
7b Drug Free presents Reality Party
Teenagers today face increasingly dangerous situations at parties, no matter where they live. Bonner County is not exception. In an effort to increase parental awareness and to initiate dialogues with their kids about the dangers of the current party scene,…
Vietnam: The New Asian Tiger
It was March 24, 2010, and I was at Bangkok’s new international airport, the fifth busiest in Asia. Along with my travel companions, I boarded Air Vietnam flight 830 to Hanoi. Forty years ago, Americans flying this direction would have…
UI Athletics is $1 Million in the Red; BSU’s Enrollment Boost Fizzles
Reader Columnist In 1982 I circulated a petition on the University of Idaho campus asking that state appropriated funds not be used for athletics. My main argument was that these funds should be used solely for academics. The Vandals Win…
Some French break the law to help refugees
Reader Columnist “I felt like if I didn’t do anything, I would regret it all my life, and I would feel like a coward.” —French journalist Raphaël Krafft Over treacherous mountain trails that Jews fleeing Nazi-occupied Italy once used, hundreds…
Obama, Trump or Putin: Will the real Antichrist please stand up?
“We just can’t work with him because our base thinks he’s the Antichrist.” —Barack Obama paraphrasing GOP leaders (8/25/16) President Putin is the Antichrist, and Russia is the 10-horned beast of the Book of Revelation. —Psychic T. Chase (1999) Former…
Refugees and Immigrants are People, Too: Let’s Welcome These New Americans
Nick GierLeave a Comment on Refugees and Immigrants are People, Too: Let’s Welcome These New AmericansTruly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. —Jesus, Matthew 25:40 Ultimately, we fear this executive order may become a self-inflicted wound in the fight…
Donald Trump’s Right-Wing European Allies: Brits, French, Dutch, Germans, and Danes Turn against Immigrants
Nick GierLeave a Comment on Donald Trump’s Right-Wing European Allies: Brits, French, Dutch, Germans, and Danes Turn against ImmigrantsMany countries are shifting from a universal civil nationalism towards the blood-and-soil, ethnic sort. —The Economist (11/19/6) In 1992 Francis Fukuyama published a book with a very strange title: The End of History and the Last Man. Fukuyama’s thesis…
Obama and Reagan: Assessing their legacies
RR is totally lost, out of his depth, and uncomfortable. He has not enough knowledge or decisiveness to cut through the contradictory advice that is being offered to him. —Richard Pipes, at a 1981 National Security Council meeting The general…