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Giving Together: Supporting those who care for others

For many caregivers in the Flathead Valley, caring for a loved one with dementia can become an around-the-clock ro…

Updated 20 years, 1 month ago
Self-mutilation, American style

Maybe it is time for a civics lesson.

Updated 20 years, 1 month ago
Self-mutilation, American style

Maybe it is time for a civics lesson.

Updated 20 years, 1 month ago
Health care over easy, with fries on the side

People sure are funny.

Updated 20 years, 1 month ago
Will Karl Marx have the last laugh?

Karl Marx lost the battle, but he may be winning the war.

Updated 20 years, 1 month ago
Reporting, opinions and 'just plain rude'

Last week's column on the mainstream media elicited many responses, most of which agreed with me that East Coast reporters have a tendency to skew the news with their own left-leaning viewpoints.

Updated 20 years, 1 month ago
More mainstream media madness

Leave it to the mainstream media.

Updated 20 years, 2 months ago
Good, bad and ugly

Probably the Titanic offers the best example of good news/bad news in history. "The good news is we're unsinkable. The bad news is we're sinking." In that spirit, I offer a few observations about America, observed …

Updated 20 years, 2 months ago
You're getting warmer, but are you any closer to truth?

By FRANK MIELE

Updated 20 years, 2 months ago
Precedent and wisdom in the Supreme Court

I always like to be able to see both sides of any issue, but it is hard to see anything good in the Supreme Court's famous Kelo vs. New London ruling of last year that gave cities permission to take people's privat…

Updated 20 years, 2 months ago
Shipping is global, but national security is not

Have you heard the one about the Trojan horse?

Updated 20 years, 3 months ago
Chewing on Cheney's ankles

If we needed evidence that there is a total disconnect - a short circuit - between what happens in Washington, D.C., and what happens in the rest of America, we certainly got it last week.

Updated 20 years, 3 months ago
Schweitzer dares to be himself

Politics these days is too much about political correctness, which is why it was refreshing for the governor of Montana recently to show up at a meeting with the editorial board of the Inter Lake with a gun.

Updated 20 years, 3 months ago
Fantastic football

What a difference a year can make.

Updated 20 years, 3 months ago
With friends like these…

Think of it this way:

Updated 20 years, 4 months ago
Iraq and Iran and consensus

When you read what our nation's leaders have been saying about Iran's continuing effort to develop nuclear weapons, you have to think there is a pretty good chance that our war in Iraq could soon shift east to Tehr…