I would like to challenge the faith community to do something different this Easter. Every Christmas we get joy with all the season entails, though a lot isn’t celebrating Christ’s birth. But He’s still honored mostly during this holiday....

“Czar: any top level presidential employee who does not have confirmation from the Senate.” Obama has padded his administration with 39 czars, stuffing his cabinet with them rather than hassling with the Senate over the positions! These ‘royal appointees’ of Obama are doing exactly what he�...

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Very funny! I read with interest in the Friday, April 16, paper, the headline, “Did you have a nice spring and summer?” On yet another subject and considering all the gas drive offs, I’m wondering if it wouldn’t pay off (for our area) gas stations to have a few video cameras installed at eac...

A letter to the editor published in the Tuesday, April 19 Brainerd Dispatch expressed opposition to the wars. The letter called for people to take a stand.  There is a group taking a stand against the wars: The Brainerd Area Coalition for Peace (BACP). BACP held a vigil at the intersection of H...

Kathleen Parker (Dispatch April 11, 2011) wrote somewhat sarcastically about how she envisions liberals talking about conservatives, that is, with a lot of ridicule, slander, and sarcasm. In actuality, I think she has it exactly reversed: Party Republicans interact to Democrats not only with sarcasm...

The Brainerd City Council and Crow Wing Board of Commissioners are spending a great deal of time on the $135.000 possible conflict of Interest issue with the airport. And the overall airport project is about $7 Million dollars.  As I read in the Dispatch this morning I smiled and wondered to my...

The class envy crowd is really rolling these days, led by the envier-in-chief who longs for fairness in our society. Of course, those who long for fairness are allowed to define it, as they define so many other things to their advantage. The lamentations about the distribution of wealth in our socie...

Obama and the liberals want us to believe that by taxing the rich more we can fix our financial mess. Never mind that the top 1 percent of our earners now pay over 40 percent of all individual taxes collected. Never mind that the top wage earners are the only ones creating jobs in America today. The...

The Rosenmeier Center-sponsored debate on voter photo IDs, featuring  State Representatives Mary Kiffmeyer and Steve Simon left unanswered questions and prompts one to research this topic.   Does a 10-minute video tell the real facts about Voter Photo IDs? No. The League of Women Voters Mi...