Dear Editor:

In just the first hours in law school a student is told that his goal in law school is to learn to think like a lawyer. Another thing learned early on in law school is that there are no wrong answers but there are simply good arguments to prove or disprove a given point. Interestingly the major premises of these arguments never contain what could be considered an absolute truth. I understood that this lawyer that I was supposed to think like was certainly not a person like say a Thomas Aquinas. It did not take me long to understand that this lawyer was really the ultimate relativistic thinker. It was then I realized that law school was not really an academy of sophisticated learning but merely a trade school specialized in training clever relativistic thinkers. After I figured that out I was able to play their game competently and I actually graduated with distinction.

How did law school become this hot bed of relativism? I believe the answer to this can be found in the relationship between read more

Dear Editor:

During the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Montana, I heard general Flynn, an Obama-era officer, enthusiastically endorsing the one I call the flying sergeant, Troy Downing for U.S. Senate, on a Billings radio station.

I may have promoted him by calling him a sergeant. As one who flew in combat in Vietnam, I can assure you that this Downing guy did not hold the  aeronautical rating of pilot in the U.S. Air Force. No matter what civilian pilot licenses or ratings you hold, you cannot become a pilot in the U.S Air Force unless you attend Air Force pilot training. By entering the Air Force at age 35, Downing was way too old to enter pilot training in the Air Force.

His political ads were purposely meant to mislead the viewer about read more

Dear Editor:

I became licensed to prescribe opioids over 40 years ago. When I first began performing surgery 40 years ago many of my colleagues routinely prescribed aspirin and Tylenol combined with an opioid after most of their surgical procedures. In my military residency training, we were encouraged to try to avoid these types of pain medications if possible. I learned to use long acting local anesthetics and later on I learned how to use hypnosis and hypnotic techniques to avoid narcotic pain medication. I was able to use placebo medications, which I would actually prescribe to a patient. I would estimate that I prescribed opioids for less than 5 percent of my post-surgical or post-trauma patients.

Over the years I have learned what the entry-level drug is in this country is.  It is obviously nicotine. Those who routinely use nicotine almost always read more