Opinions

The Republican chaired Oversight and Government Reform Committee wasted the time and money of the American tax payer Sep. 29 in a desperate attempt to frame Planned Parenthood as the […]

After 50 years, the national land and water conservation fund expired this year and all our national parks and lands have lost  their funding. Proposed by Washington Senator Henry Jackson […]

Though mass shootings are often cited as a reason to increase gun control, they are random and infrequent enough to be a negligible risk to most of the population. High […]

Sanders has been making a splash in the democratic primaries, second in popularity only to Hilary Clinton. If current trends continue he has a solid chance of surpassing Clinton as […]

Talk to almost anybody enough and they’ll give a nearly endless list of problems in this country. Nine times out of ten, it’ll come down to an economic issue. It’s […]

2016 is a year of anti-establishment. With the primary party nominations four months away, many voters are showing a distrust of Bush and Clinton, middle of the road politicians who […]

Last week on Sept. 28, Earth’s shadow blotted out the moon turning it blood-red. This was the last of four, successive, full “super moon” eclipses, the first of which was […]

The United States government transitioned over to a new set of insurance codes used to classify claims for adding or removing benefits. The 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification […]

With the increasing pace of information exchange in the world, social media outlets seem to be littered with junk information that makes it difficult to discern fact from fiction. Certain […]

Lately the news has covered a lot about the Syrian Refugee Crisis. With  connections to Syrian friends and news about the crisis, the conditions seem to worsen day by day. […]

The much-awaited and strangely-named Windows 10 was recently released as a free installation. One of the most immediate negative responses against the operating system revolves around the privacy settings – […]

A couple decades ago, there was something called the Bambi effect. Deer, normally considered a destructive nuisance, were humanized in the Disney film “Bambi” and contributed to backlash against hunters. […]

In the United States, three major sports make up a year-round schedule. The Major League Baseball season begins in early April and lasts through October. The National Football League runs […]

One of the dominant sources for protein in the United States food industry is meat, particularly beef. I’m fascinated by the different ways that meat can be prepared and cooked […]

Amidst an abundance of power source alternatives, it’s hard to know exactly which ones are good and which are bad. While some methods may provide service to nearby towns and […]

A couple weeks back, I packed up some gear and headed into central Washington for some camping. I ended up seeing something I’ve never seen before – the Milky Way. […]

The might of the United States military is insurmountable, even in the event that the entirety of the world’s forces were allied against the U.S., the federal government has ensured […]