What the Polls Show

Have you noticed the flurry of campaign flyers hitting your mailbox this week? Some would chalk it up to last-minute campaigning, but I think there’s something bigger at play. As we discussed last week, most of the major races appear to be very tight. Now we have...

Are All Judges Neutral?

As absentee ballots arrive and voting begins, nary a day goes by that the race for Montana Supreme Court is not mentioned in a major newspaper somewhere across the state. The question is, “Why?” Why have Supreme Court races gotten so competitive? Why has the...

Let the Churches Speak

For the first 200 years of our nation’s history, pastors across America regularly preached sermons on the culturally relevant issues of the day. Yes, they preached on God’s plan for salvation, but they also preached on things like taxes, war, and politics, regularly...