Monica Duffy Toft: Overconfidence is how today's wars are lost
Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are most commonly lost in the instigators’ minds — when they misread what they and their adversaries can do, when they substitute confidence for comprehension, when they mistake the last war for the next one.
Jonah Goldberg: Team Trump had to start war to learn how economy works
Early Monday morning, financial markets surged when President Donald Trump claimed there had been productive talks with Iran about ending the war. Therefore, he backed off a vow to bomb Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t reopened by Monday evening.
Jeb Bladine: Partisan bombast threatens need for U.S. unity
Iran seems content to take more military blows, randomly hurl its remaining missiles at surrounding nations, maintain a stranglehold on oil shipment through the Strait of Hormuz, and monitor the deterioration ...
Investigating the Bible: There’s nothing like success
On Feb. 19, the U.S. women’s hockey team defeated Canada to win the gold medal. Three days later, the U.S. men’s hockey team defeated Canada in overtime. Jack Hughes, his mouth missing ...
Phil Forve: What next for democracy: obituary or reeaffirmation
America appears to be at an inflection point in its great experiment with self-governance — a system of, by, and for the people.
Jeb Bladine: Downtown project paying the high cost of delay
Somehow, a half-century ago, McMinnville crafted and launched an extensive downtown development plan in what today would be considered record time. City leaders approved the investment while declining ...
Jonah Goldberg: Pessimism so pervasive that it defies even death
Biologist and author Paul Ehrlich, the most influential Chicken Little of the last century, died at the age of 93 this week.
Quirk of the Week: Sense of place seen in the out-of-place
Long balls and other baseball delights are back, so Quirk this week also will “Go yard.” Here we have a quintet of interesting, yet out of place, landscape adornments seen gracing four front ...
Investigating the Bible: With one mind, through prayer and fellowship
D.L. Moody is considered one the most influential evangelistic laymen America has produced. In the 1800s, before electricity powered public address systems, he preached to over 100 million people; Moody ...
Quirk of the Week: The Gs stand alone
Initial reaction is that these genius fonts are a G force Ah … Gs. Lotta G-eography in this week’s atlas of Quirk. Places such as Geraldi’s, Grieving Ink and George Fox. In McMinnville, ...
Jeb Bladine: Strong words indict short session Legislature
This week a respected, nonpartisan political observer called the Oregon Legislature a “corrupt organization,” with specific reference to the Democratic leadership. If intended to mean unethical, ...
Kirby Neumann-Rea: An insider's guide to plying Wine Country's back roads
Avidity first.
Such a sentiment is never wrong. However, in this case, Avidity is a winery just east of Newberg.
Michael Klein: War injects uncertainty into a weakening U.S. economy
The “fog of war” refers to confusion and uncertainty on the battlefield and the attendant possibility of fatal error. This principle has a parallel when it comes to the economic consequences of wars, especially when they explode in a region accounting for one-fifth of the world’s oil and one-third of its natural gas.
Jonah Goldberg: Trump on a short leash with an unpopular war
Let’s state the obvious: We’re at war with Iran.
My evidence? Turn on your TV. U.S. forces, working with Israel, killed the supreme leader of Iran and many of his top aides.
Investigating the Bible: Walking in the light
A little boy lost his tooth and had put it under his pillow. In the morning, his mother asked, “Did you see the good fairy when it took your tooth?” The child replied, “No, but I heard ...
