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An editorial in the local paper said we are the only advanced nation that does not guarantee health care for all. We jail too many people. We need to cut defense and spend more on welfare. We need to raise taxes and have less guns.

Democratic presidential candidate mayor Pete Buttigieg says he is a Christian gay person. That is like saying he is a Christian adulterer or a Christian murder, it is a contradiction in terms.

Scientists have discovered the theory of evolution violates the laws of conservation of energy and entropy. Paley's argument that a watch design requires a watchmaker has proven to be correct.

February 18, 1952, a massive storm split the SS Pendleton into two pieces about ten miles off the Massachusetts coast. More than forty sailors were trapped inside the ship's sinking stern in the midst of fierce winds and violent thirty foot waves.

Pro-choice advocates push for rights to remove care for a handicapped baby after birth and allow it to die.

The Constitution gave Congress the power to coin money, not a central bank cartel controlled by banks. In 1914 the Federal Reserve was established to create an elastic currency to promote inflation and provide liquidity.

Major causes of homelessness in Oregon are the direct result of interference of the housing market by over zealous bureaucratic land planners who intentionally restrict the supply of housing, and the soft money policies of the Federal Reserve.

Anthony Kennedy was a swing vote, who often joined liberal justices. Confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh to replace Kennedy on Supreme Court, will give conservatives a 5-4 majority.

Dr. Christine Ford named Brett Kavanaugh as someone who attacked her sexually at a high school party, almost forty years ago. Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has been concerned with how subsequent information can affect an eyewitness's account.

A strong economy is expected to help Republicans keep control of the Senate and House in the midterm elections. However, many experts see a recession in 2019-2020. No president has been re-elected during a recession started in his first term.

This is a rebuttall to Senator Jeff Merkley's editorial in the Curry County Pilot.

President Trump critic in local newspaper editorial said Trump was incompetent, self-serving and took children from parents.

President Donald Trump nominates Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy. This will give conservatives a firm 5 to 4 majority on Supreme Court

Man can conform laws to morality, but man cannot create right and wrong. Morality is eternal, universal, unchanging, and emanates from God's nature. Absolute rights are established by God, and are not imputed by man's vote.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Ginsburg announce plans to retire. President Trump plans to nominate conservative judges to replace them.

Laws of logic are universal, omnipresent and unchanging. Nations decline from an increase in lawlessness, and loss of discipline. The Greek, Roman, Ming, and British Empires all declined because of currency debasement and lack of self restraint.

President Trump replaced attorney Ty Cobb with Emmet Flood. A new legal teem is expected to reject Special Counsel Robert Mueller's request for an interview in regards to Russian collusion investigation, on grounds of executive privilege.

Young people born in the 21st Century often have a different worldview. Those born after 1980, and raised in secular public schools, tend to believe man evolved, rather than being created by God.

Parents and concerned citizens are looking for causes of increased shooting deaths in public schools. Should they look at some progressives teachers as contributors of increased violence?

Big Brother decides what students can read and discuss. Why limit ideas? Let all scientific facts on the table and let students draw their own conclusions.

Phonics allows children to sound out words and to learn to read quickly. John Dewey introduced the sight method which teaches children to memorize words as if reading was a hieroglyphics system. It causes learning disabilities.

President Trump could have switched to a hard currency policy, but has decided to continue soft money policy, lack of national discipline, and the rejection of the rule of law.

If Kevin Warsh becomes Fed chair, interest rates are headed higher faster. Warsh's Father-in-law, Ronald Lauder, is a billionaire, a conservative Republican, the president of the World Jewish Congress, and a previous classmate of President Trump.

Critics say the current U.S. Forest Service policy to let wilderness fires get out of control is dangerous to life and is expensive. Current forest fires in Oregon will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fight.

Do intelligent people really sell their souls to the Devil? Do some internationalist bankers support a one world government?

Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat past failures. Greeks, Romans, French, Germans and Chinese all tried fiat paper money and failed. The current experiment with soft money is doomed to fail.

In 2018, President trump could replace as many as five of the seven members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and change the direction of the Fed.