There’s a lot of talk these days about “”personal responsibility,”” and for good reason. It’s a nice, antiseptic-sounding, middle-of-the-road kind of idea: President Obama talks about it when he wants ...

“Is there a problem with saying ‘personal responsibility’?” my friend asked. “What do you mean?” I replied. He’s a Romney-type conservative who’s deeply involved in bipartisan efforts to address ...

Thoughts from a Principled Conservative Outpost — fifth in a series on the aspects of Panhandle conservativism. “Whiteface, Texas, is a small community located in Cochran County (sharing a border with ...

In the last weeks of class, I’ve observed a curious phenomenon: It appears a large segment of campus does not want to take responsibility … for anything. I hear diatribes of hatred toward the most ...

Leadership is the world's scarcest resource today. Not because it's finite or limited to a chosen few, but because too many of us are waiting for someone else to take charge, someone else to fix ...

My name is Larry Lautaret. I was born and raised in Kalispell, have been a pastor for 50 years, and in the Flathead for nearly 40. I have been a police chaplain for over 20 years. I am speaking not ...

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