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He actually said it! While talking to reporters on his way to Camp David, he used the phrase "Make Iran Great Again"! Does this mean that President Donald Trump has ordered that Iran will join America in the Greatness Club? "MIGA" as opposed to "MAGA"? Of course, Trump insists that since he's taken over, he's already accomplished that for America. Could it be he's branching out and that it's Iran's turn? Will there be new baseball caps with the slogan embroidered in Farsi? What will we do about the fact that Iranians call the United States...
The worry was that the Trump administration was ginning up fake intelligence about Iran blowing up oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz to justify a war against Iran. Then the next week President Donald Trump said the Iranian attacks weren't a big deal. The episode is another indication of the underlying modesty -- not a very Trumpian word -- of the administration. Subtract Trump's taste for nonstop controversy and rhetorical brinkmanship and you're left with an incrementalist center-right government that has pursued an expansionary fiscal...
#!*! Promised new trees on Main Street? YYYY New renovation at DSHS. Send your pet peeves and okeydokes to Whitman County Gazette P.O Box 770, Colfax, WA 99111 or drop them off at the Gazette office at N. 211 Main, Colfax...
When my parents graduated from high school in 1936, a college education was too expensive for the son of a copper miner and the daughter of a plumber. Eighty years ago, our country was in the middle of the Great Depression and teens took odd jobs to help put food on the table and pay the family bills. In those days no bank would lend money to college students. Following World War II, there was new hope for veterans. The GI bill paid for veterans to complete their college or trade school...
Deployments to Vietnam from Fairchild normally included an overnight stop in Pearl Harbor. Some of our crew had been there before and suggested we go out to the USS Arizona. We went to the pier and rode to the site in a small open boat operated by two US Navy sailors. There was nothing to see except the tops of the gun turrets, but it was our chance as American fighting men to pay homage to those who had gone before us. I made the pilgrimage each time I deployed to or from Southeast Asia. The now familiar, iconic monument had just been...
What segment of voters will decide the next presidential election? The same people who always do – the mainstream. Two decisions in the last two weeks may underline this. Joe Biden's announcement to change his longtime support for the Hyde amendment was a step out of the mainstream, if you will, while Donald Trump's calling off a planned military strike against Iran was a foot kept firmly in it. These two moves, plus recent history of Republicans may portend the future. Why would Biden drop his...
Let's not get too excited over the plans of the protesters to bring over the hilarious "Baby Trump" balloon from London and put it aloft during the president's Independence Day speech at the Lincoln Memorial. First of all, shouldn't we remember the nation from whom we declared independence? Duh! July Fourth celebrates the self-evident truth that 243 years ago the founders declared they were cutting the cord with England. So why would we import anything from there for use on the Fourth? Besides, do you know the chances that our customs people wo...
The more the climate debate changes, the more it stays the same. Polls show that the public is worried about climate change, but that doesn't mean it is ready to bear any burden or pay any price to combat it. If President Donald Trump claws his way to victory again in Pennsylvania and the Upper Midwest, his path will likely go through abortion and climate change, two issues on which the Democrats are most confident in their righteousness and willing to embrace radical policies that appeal to their own voters much more than anyone else. Joe Bide...
#!*! My husband was a WWII veteran. I feel it was such a disgrace to him and all veterans that our flags were not flying on Flag Day! Shame on Colfax....
Pretty good overview Skepticism underlies all critical thinking, especially in science. Frank Watson’s May 30 column on climate change illustrates this well. He begins by observing, “Winters…are not as severe as they were when I was a kid.” Then he adds, “I believe the published scientific data are true and accurate,” evidence that supports his subjective observation. Yet he’s still cautious. Though he respects “expert opinions,” he also observes, “I have known expert scientists to be wrong.” He cites several examples of how the “we-used-to-t...
A lead story in the Spokesman Review June 1 projected a different view of where police body camera footage can be seen. The report included a photo of the kind of camera Spokane Police wear when they go on duty. The story involved body camera footage that possibly could have involved police policy violations on the part of officers involved in a February arrest and chase. The core of the SR account reported members of the Spokane City Council had requested a look at the footage. The police department agreed to give the council members a look...
Let's play "Jeopardy," where the answers are questions. If Alex Trebek were to ask contestants to specify "A glaring contrast between Queen Elizabeth II and President Donald Trump," the correct response would be "What are class and crass?" Of course, there are other differences between the two. The player says, "I'll take 'Liz and Don' for $400!" Alex would read, "The one who served in the military." The winning answer-question would be "Who is the Queen of England?" Certainly it's not the president of the United States. As we all know,...
Clarity of thought and expression about moral issues is not a core competency of CEOs. If anyone had any doubt, look no further than the "historic" pro-abortion statement by nearly 200 CEOs that ran in a full-page ad in The New York Times. It is a festival of absurdity and euphemism, an exercise in perverse virtue-signaling to a progressive audience that believes that maintaining one of the most permissive pro-abortion regimes in the developed world is a virtue. The CEOs define abortion as "equality" ("Don't Ban Equality") and, of course,...
YYYY David Nails, who voted no to spend more taxpayer-funded money for the Colfax School District. #!*! Where were the flags on Flag Day?...
A thing or two In the June 11, 2019, Lewiston Tribune, there was an article where State Industrial was investigating the actions used by Pullman Fire Department for the April 9 flood on North Grand. I have been serving as a firefighter for just short of 50 years. It is my passion. Like the Farmer's Insurance commercial, I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two. But I do not know everything and neither does State Industrial. Fire fighting is inherently dangerous and when an emergency happens call 911 and a fireman will respond to...
The WSU board of Regents last Friday approved a 2.4 percent increase in annual tuition for undergraduates in a meeting at the Tri-Cities campus. The higher rate is slated to be in place for next semester. For the academic year, the cost pencils out at $9,953 a year for undergraduates and their families. A WSU student who stays on track for a four-year degree at that rate will face tuition costs of close to $40,000. That's for tuition. Food, housing, books, fees and supplies are in addition to tuition. Also, transportation costs for getting to...
As he exercises his Putin-given right as president to lay waste to the United States, it turns out that Donald Trump can really draw from only a very few weapons in his quiver as he causes all the traditional allies to quiver. When all else fails, he pulls out his favorite economy-piercing arrow: the tariff. Got a problem with immigration? Shoot an escalating tariff at all things Mexico. Never mind that Mexico is the United States' third-largest trading partner, after Canada and China, where he has also aimed the tariff arrows. In the case of...
Breaking news: Some guy posted a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi. But fear not. The website The Daily Beast sprang into action. It tracked down the random, Trump-supporting man who allegedly posted the offending clip, hounded him until he talked, then published his name and other details about his life in a shocking instance of harassment masquerading as journalism. The man whose identity was revealed by The Daily Beast is, by the publication's account, an unemployed African American forklift operator who lives in New York City and runs a...
Great music for First Thursday!! Too bad the cool weather kept the crowd away. You missed out....
David Wells, in your letter to the editor you concur with the arguments Frank Watson made in his Whitman County Gazette Opinion article the week prior ("Worth Cultivating" May 23, 2019). You both conclude that, splitting Washington in two and creating a new Liberty state might be a good idea. Well, you would find much support in the Puget Sound area. I've heard from several Puget Sound area residents, that they are tired of seeing 50% of their tax revenues going to support the rest of Washington state and would rather keep their tax revenues...
During World War II, the American GI earned the reputation for being innovative, adaptable and resilient. Nowhere was that more evident than the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. For example, Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, was assigned to drop paratroopers and land gliders behind the German lines on Normandy. They needed to secure roads and bridges for Allied tanks, artillery and supply trucks once the Nazi forces were dislodged from their beach fortifications....
Congratulations graduates! It’s been a long time since I stood in your place. I remember being excited to finish a big phase in my life and apprehensive about starting a new one. I am sure you feel much the same. For the past twelve years, you have been a child in our public school system. Your graduation is the rite of passage from childhood into the world of adults. Well...almost. Our court system considers you an adult, so shoplifting is no longer a juvenile offense. You can serve in the military or get married without asking your parents p...
