Tag Archives: TJ Smith

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Conservative Corner: Words Matter

When I was in grade school, we were taught how to think. When we said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, we all said, “…one Nation under God,…” When I learned the Lord’s Prayer, we would say “…forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us…” We learned that the United States of America was a Judeo-Christian Republic. Carbon dioxide was just the result of photosynthesis. Climate simply meant we lived in a semiarid climate.

My first recollection of “other” climate was from read more

Conservatice Corner: A Shadow Campaign

Remembering a morning walk through Ann Morrison Park years ago…we move from under a canopy of trees into the bright sunshine. Our toddler son runs into the bright sunlight first. He stops. Looking at the ground he slowly lifts one … read more

September 28, 2024 Guest submissionPoliticsConservative Corner • TJ Smith

The Border Czar

Did Kamala forget that as the Border Czar of the United States her actions on illegal immigration would be highly visible? This visibility, I might add, shows a job of utter failure, if not a downright dereliction of duties. Mainstream … read more

September 26, 2024 StaffPoliticsConservative Corner • Joe Biden • Kamala Harris • President Clinton • TJ Smith

Attempted Murder

The last I heard, or read, the FBI had declared the attempted murder of President Donald J. Trump was done by a lone murderer. Such a statement is political speak. (Does this remind us of similar statements about Hunter Biden’s … read more

August 31, 2024 StaffPoliticsPresident Donald J. Trump • Secret Service • Senator Jon Tester • TJ Smith

Conservative Corner: KIND PEOPLE

My wife has a card sent from one of her friends with a cover that says, “Kind people are the best kind of people.” This friend happens to be from Minnesota and is obviously one of the ‘Minnesota Nice’ people … read more

August 23, 2024 StaffPoliticsConservative Corner • Kamala Harris • TJ Smith

Conservative Corner: Drug Dealing the DC Way

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 2023 roughly 75,000 US citizens died from synthetic opioids. The Obama administration might have explained this away as the “new norm.” They said “new norm” began in 2013 and continued … read more

August 9, 2024 Jonathan McNivenPoliticsCenters for Disease Control • Drug Enforcement Agency • Jon Tester • Kamala Harris • Senator Jon Tester • The Conservative Corner • TJ Smith

ELECTION INTEGRITY?

There have been numerous conversations concerning election integrity the past four years. There have also been new election laws written, and new election laws overturned by legislation from the bench. Since you and I have little control over the courts … read more

July 19, 2024 StaffPoliticsConservative Corner • Jon Tester • Montana Politics • Steve Daines • TJ Smith

Conservative Corner Column: FALSE Media Has Declared War on America Freedoms

By TJ Smith The Mainstream Media (personally dubbed as “Fabricated Ambiguous Language of Socialistic Equivocation”or FALSE) apparently declared war on America the day President Trump won the 2016 Republican Presidential Nomination. The FALSE media lost that battle, but they refined … read more

July 8, 2024 Guest submissionPoliticsConservative Corner • TJ Smith • Weekly Columnist

What Does Virginia Bryan look for in her Stories?

Dear Editor, Virginia Bryan of Yellowstone Valley Woman Magazine has written many stories about historic Billings women. She will talk about how she picks the subject of those stories, how she researched them, what she looks for to read more

March 23, 2024 Guest submissionLetters to the EditorTJ Smith • Virginia Bryan • Yellowstone Valley Woman Magazine

Commenting on “…Children’s Lawsuit” from 9/8/23 YCN.

Dear Editor, Commenting on “…Children’s Lawsuit” from 9/8/23 YCN. Prominent climate scientists, William Harper of Princeton University and Richard Lindzen of MIT, have stated in their court case against the EPA, “All the models that predict catastrophic global warming fail … read more

September 15, 2023 Jonathan McNivenPolitics • Letters to the EditorLetters to the Edior • TJ Smith

Lack of Judges, Space Bottlenecking Prosecution

Dear Editor, The Heights Task Force received an update concerning city of Billings crime statistics on 2/28/23. Chief St. John spoke of a problematic bottleneck within the prosecution pipeline due to a lack of judges and bed space for prisoners … read more

March 10, 2023 Guest submissionOpinion • Letters to the EditorTJ Smith

Sign the COS Petition to Stop Robbing Social Security

Dear Editor, Politicians have been forecasting the insolvency of Social Security for years. This makes little sense because the unbroken string of Social Security surpluses start year 1 and run through 2018 ($3.1 billion that year). What happened to all … read more

November 11, 2022 Guest submissionOpinion • Letters to the EditorTJ Smith

Far-Left and Influencing Local Politics

Dear Editor, The far-left is engaged to influence local politics to the same degree as it does national politics. For this reason, we must not let ourselves be distracted by other issues such that we lose focus on local politics. … read more

January 15, 2021 Guest submissionOpinion • Letters to the EditorTJ Smith

Climate science projections are not actual science

Dear Editor, I remember learning from my grade school history classes that bloodletting was a consensus medical procedure used by most doctors. In fact, our first president, George Washington, strongly believed in the practice and actually ordered the bloodletting that … read more

October 21, 2019 Guest submissionOpinion • Letters to the EditorTJ Smith

What is the US Climate Alliance?

Dear Editor, What is the US Climate Alliance? It is a domestic group formed specifically to undermine President Trump’s excellent decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Now, by executive order, part-time Governor Steve Bullock has undermined all of … read more

July 19, 2019 Guest submissionOpinionTJ Smith • US Climate Alliance

Republicans made America great again

Dear Editor, “…to many conservatives the world looks like a much scarier place.” Actually, it is quite the opposite. To many conservatives America is great again, and the world looks like a much safer place. read more

May 17, 2019 Guest submissionOpinion • Letters to the EditorAmerica Great Again • TJ Smith

Let’s shine a brighter light on politics

8Dear Editor, “As Montanans, we exhibit and demand honesty and integrity, ‘say it like it is and no beating around the bush’. We all, regardless of party, should want full disclosure…” Truer words cannot be spoken. However, these words must … read more

April 7, 2019 Guest submissionOpinion • Letters to the EditorTJ Smith

OBSD support not given blindly

Dear Editor, The presentations of One Big Sky District are intended to get us excited about the project. They have, and I believe you will find most all of us support the concept of OBSD. read more

February 8, 2019 Guest submissionOpinion • Letters to the EditorOBSD • TJ Smith