Screaming “Rigged!” Is Bad Politics, Worse Civics — and It’s Costing Republicans Votes.
Election integrity matters. Convincing our own voters the election is already rigged is not election integrity. It is electoral suicide....
Ben’s Viewpoint
Oregon Families Deserve the Choice Tina Kotek Is Denying Them
Sometimes an election really does present voters with a simple choice, and this November Oregon families have one that could...
Oregon’s Power Problem Isn’t AI. It’s Supply.
You’d think electricity demand was a brand-new problem.At least that is the impression you might get from the current debate...
Housing at Every Stage
America doesn’t have a single-family housing problem. It has a housing supply problem. I recently watched a video about America’s...
Never Forget — What, Exactly?
Security should defend liberty—not become the price of it.Twenty-five years ago today, Americans watched something almost unimaginable unfold. We watched...
A Tent Is Not a Treatment Plan
Municipalities can enforce laws and protect parks. But Oregon must finally confront the addiction and mental-health crisis that cities cannot...
From Free Thought to Political Orthodoxy
How America’s Universities Became Engines of Activism I live just across the Willamette River from Oregon State University, where the...
When “Liberty” Requires More Government
The Flock camera debate started as a legitimate argument about government surveillance. Now some want government to protect us from...
A Fire Oregon Refuses to See.
A Spokane man is being held on $1 million bond, accused of deliberately starting the Old Trails Fire near Airway...
Oregon’s Economic Plan: Lose the Factory, Block the Future
Oregon Is Closed For Business: Kotek Blocks a $5.1 Billion Future as 375 Jobs Cut Only in Oregon can 84...
Only You Can Prevent the Next Big Burn
How Forestry Science Deniers Put Oregon’s Forests—and Communities—at Risk Timothy Egan’s The Big Burn is more than the story of...
The Transformation of the Democratic Party
The progressive left claims Republicans invented a frightening caricature of Democrats. The party’s own platform suggests otherwise.Murry Evans recently accused...
The Climate Will Change. Cascadia Will Break.
Oregon is reducing energy security to address future climate fears while neglecting the earthquake and infrastructure collapse scientists know will...
Oregon’s Top-Ten List of Failures
Forty years of promises. Ten ugly report cardsOregon is one of the most beautiful places in America. Mountains, rivers, coastlines,...
A Dime at a Time: The Real Cost of Being Heard in Oregon Politics
Let Us Paddle was built on small donations, postage stamps, volunteer labor, and the hard lesson that citizen initiatives are...
Musk Envy and the Economics of Make-Believe
Why America Needs a Basic Lesson in Wealth, it's not rocket science.America has a wealth problem, but it is not...
Flag Day Belongs to America — Not to Any Party
Honoring the flag as a symbol of American unity, citizenship, and shared purpose — above party, beyond politics.Every June 14,...
Janelle Bynum’s Disaster Relief Hypocrisy
Congresswoman Janelle Bynum recently told the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, “Whether it’s wildfires, hurricanes, or flooding, the American...
Oregon, Skynet, and the War Over Data Centers
Are we being warned — or manipulated?In the Movie The Terminator, Skynet did not announce itself with a press release,...
Oregon Used to Melt Down Aluminum, Now We Melt Down Over Data Centers.
There is a new panic wandering around Oregon politics, clutching its reusable shopping bag and looking for something else to...
Oregon’s Tofu Apocalypse Has Entered the Chat
IP 28 may qualify for the ballot, it won't pass, but it just might help Oregon voters remember why Salem...
Closed Primary, Open Envelope, Empty Clue
Your Ballot Is Not Broken. Your Preparation Might Be. There is a special kind of Oregon primary election magic that...
Your Ballot Matters More Than Your Complaints
There is a hard truth about political social media that a lot of people do not want to admit: the...
Billionaires Don’t Pay Taxes. They Collect Them.
The uncomfortable truth hiding behind the “tax the rich” bumper sticker. There is a political fairy tale that refuses to...
The Disappearing Voter
“A registered voter who doesn’t vote isn’t participating—they’re spectating.” Oregon doesn’t have a voter suppression problem. It has a voter...