It’s an essential first step in making the USA less dangerously dependent on foreign minerals As we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, let us view it from a 21st century perspective. Many of the colonists’ grievances against King George III resonate today, as tyrannical environmentalists continue to block domestic development of minerals that are critical […]
The other day, as I was walking into a building, I noticed a handmade sign on the tailgate of a pickup truck. It proclaimed “ Damascus is back.” Yes, Damascus is back and completing steps to re-establish itself as a self-governing city in Clackamas County. Over the period of several weeks we have accomplished: • […]
If you care about teenagers and their mental health, the rush to legalize marijuana in America is a great example of a really, really bad idea. THC is the active ingredient in pot. According to the Washington Post, some of today’s marijuana products average a 68% concentration of THC, stratospherically higher than what my college […]
Longtime Northwest Connection editorial assistant Mark Ellis has released his first novel, A Death on the Horizon, via Kindle Direct. The book is priced at $2.99, and can be downloaded to any electronic reader or personal computer, or to an iPhone by utilizing a Kindle app. A paperback version is due out in September. A […]
The 4th of July is one of the best holidays in America. Picnics, barbecues, patriotic music; family and friends getting together to celebrate. Children, and many adults, impatiently wait all day for the sun to fade into the west for the anticipated fireworks display. Our 4th of July traditions are rooted in the celebration of […]
TO: Dean of Extraterrestrial Studies Galactic University, HomeStar FROM: Agent-in-Place, Planet Earth, North American Continent SUBJECT: Local native customs and rituals: “Independence Day” DATE: July 3, 2019, local time
The Multnomah County Republican Party joins U.S. Senator Ted Cruz in condemning Mayor and Police Commissioner Ted Wheeler for the Portland Police Bureau’s continued refusal adequately to police Antifa thugs that ran wild again this weekend. Despite extremely violent and widespread attacks, even including a vicious attack that put independent journalist Andy Ngo in the […]
Will activists finally admit their sins and break out of their pesticide-blaming time loop? Did you think Goundhog Day only comes in February? For anti-insecticide zealots and others in the environmentalist movement who’ve been preoccupied for years with bees and “colony collapse disorder,” it actually comes every June. That’s when the Bee Informed Partnership – […]
Yes, I know that it is a little early to think about my Christmas Wish List, but I certainly could use a Time Machine of the sort envisioned by H.G. Wells in his science fiction novel and in the 1960 movie adaptation starring Rod Taylor. I’m a big fan of good science fiction that takes […]
Man’s inhumanity to man is most clearly seen in racism. It has led to Hitler’s extermination camps in WWII, the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Stalin’s “Great Purge” in the 1930’s. It has also shown its ugly face in the enslavement, mistreatment and murder of Blacks in our own country’s history. This level of bigotry and […]
