Jeb Bladine: Memorial Day Weekend merges fiction, reality
Memorial Day Weekend: flowers to the cemetery, a family barbeque, national mourning for military personnel who died in the line of duty, and opportunity for holiday escape into a marathon movie series. This ...
Jonah Goldberg: Maybe it’s the product and not the packaging
There’s an ancient almost surely apocryphal story about a dog food company executive convening a big sales meeting. A very short version has the exec running through all of the company’s advantages — the best sales team, the best advertising, the best packaging and so forth — then irately asking, “So why aren’t we selling more dog food?”
From The Conversation: Young Latinos are shaping future of Catholic Church
On Ash Wednesday, two Roman Catholic priests and a religious sister entered an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, to celebrate Mass with detainees inside.
Ellie Gunn: Sharing the Linfield experience on eve of another graduation
A great deal happened during my time as circulation manager at Linfield University’s Northup Library from 1985 to 1989.
Investigating the Bible: The value of consequences
Meg Faville wrote in The Reader’s Digest about her family’s experience in Okinawa when a Fourth of July was celebrated. The military base always hosted a spectacular fireworks display. They ...
Quirk of the Week: A street well met
“Get your own Quirk, easy installments!” If this were a cheesy commercial it wouldn’t come with “Operators standing by — order right now!” (Remember the old “late-night-TV” ...
Jonah Goldberg: Founding Fathers would have gotten rid of Trump long ago
In 1788, Virginia convened a convention to debate ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, promulgated in Philadelphia the previous year, and presidential pardon power proved to be a sticking point for some delegates.
Rusty Rae: Land of the free, home of the brave
MURFREESBORO, Tennessee — The message of Memorial Day is never far away when visiting a battlefield. That’s true whether it’s the sands of Iwo Jima, the beaches of Normandy or a battlefield from the Civil War.
Jeb Bladine: Trump wins complex negotiations with himself
Books will be written about the 2026 Trump Anti-Weaponization Fund Settlement. My 500-word limit makes a full summary impossible, but here’s a thumbnail. President Donald Trump, his two sons and ...
Investigating the Bible: The important first step
In 1950, the 45,000-ton battleship Missouri ran aground in Chesapeake Bay. The captain was brought before the Naval Board of Inquiry tasked with determining the cause of the costly and embarrassing mistake. ...
Quirk of the Week: ‘No two shelters are the same’
Quirk has focused in the past on small roadside shelters including, recently, the tall one-person shelter on Hillside Drive near Newberg. Since then, shack examples have emerged in explorations in other ...
Jacqueline Smith: Hegseth forcing Stripes to toe Pentagon PR line
A recent opinion column I wrote as the Stars and Stripes ombudsman began with this: “Pete Hegseth doesn’t want you to see cartoons in this newspaper anymore.”
Randy Stapilus: Hill steepens for GOP in Oregon’s 5th District
In 2022, after Oregon’s new map for congressional districts was set in place, the state emerged with a high number of competitive U.S. House districts:
Jonah Goldberg: Cory Booker guilty of shameful demagoguery
I wish “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker had asked Sen. Cory Booker if he’s qualified to represent New Jersey, given that nearly nine out of 10 of his constituents are not Black.
