A growing threat to our freedom of speech is the attempt to stifle religious discussion in the name of preventing “defamation of” or “insults” to religion, especially Islam. A revival […]
Opinion
Meaningless labels
The editorial put out by the Ravalli Republic newspaper states, “Several candidates have filed to run in the upcoming election to represent their precinct or state legislative districts as Democrats. […]
Re: Agenda 21
Thank you for reporting about the Ravalli County Planning Board’s recent meeting during which Shannon Plocher ignored the concerns of the County Attorney and county residents, and offered a prayer. […]
Open letter to Lone Rock Community Park Board
We, as taxpayers and residents of the Lone Rock Community Park District, are angered and appalled that our Lone Rock Community Park identity has been stripped and that our park […]
Schools should protect LGBTs; gender identity linked to environment
By Judy Hoy, Stevensville Regarding Hamilton School Board’s consideration of providing special protection from bullying for LGBT students: No student, teacher or anyone else should be discriminated against or […]
No Obama for me!
The claim from Van Keele that Obama has created about 3.5 million private sector jobs in less than two years is complete fiction. All of this stimulus money has […]
Christian first
Wow! Remember when the Pilgrims came to America?? Let’s see… Oh yeah, it was so that the freedom of Christians could be practiced. Strange, there wasn’t an Atheist, Moslem, […]
Too little, too late
To Royce Engstrom, President of The University of Montana: I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your press release on March 22nd wherein you announced closure […]
Choo choo, boo hoo
I’ve been working on the railroad So are the Co. Commissioners, I’m told The Commissioners, Republican all, Want to make a winning call They want to do a railroad […]
Re: Obamacare and taxes
Obamacare may or may not still be the law in 2013, depending on how the Supreme Court rules. There are many myths about Obamacare. One untruth relates to taxes. John […]
Conservation is non-partisan
The latest nonsense from the Tea Party about protection of the environment and all god’s creatures that Noah saved being a communist conspiracy confirms my suspicion that they have […]
Setting Tea Party record straight
The article published on April 3 regarding six questionable candidates running for Democratic Precinct Captains perpetuated some confusion that continues to exist in Ravalli County regarding the Tea Party. […]
Foiled again!
Dang it! As a socialist “environmentalist,” I was most upset to see that our local planning board has discovered our plot for world domination. (Agenda 21 one world plan […]
Obama has communist support
Obama has been endorsed yet again by the Communist Party USA. FYI, the Democratic Party stole the entire CPUSA platform during Bill and Hillary Clinton’s ascendancy and re-branded it […]
Response to Keele
First, I would like to express my gratitude to Van P. Keele for giving me such an excellent opportunity to expose his fallacious, delusional, rambling distortion of political reality in […]
(Not) Affordable Care Act
The discussion by Insurance Commissioner, Monica Lindeen, in the guest column of the March 23 Missoulian supporting the Affordable Care Act caught my attention. As a subscriber to an […]
Obamacare and the Supreme Court
By Gary MacLaren, Representative HD 89 This last week The US Supreme Court heard arguments on four different lawsuits regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ACA. […]
Problem with newspapers
I think we all owe a thank you to the Howells for their willingness to publish controversial letters in the Star newspaper. I am sure they both disagree with most […]
We the people
Our government, national and state legislatures, have a paternalistic attitude toward we the people. They treat us like little children who are incapable of ever making valid decisions about […]
Re: Obama
After reading Hazel A. Smith’s 3/21/2012 letter in the Star, I felt it necessary to comment. Should Obama say that he was the first person to set foot on […]