From our history section: the Founding Fathers would be appalled that anyone would want the United States to be called a “Christian” nation (many, if not most, of the Founding Fathers were not Christians, and they knew the vital importance of religious freedom)…
They would double-down on the notion of religious freedom, including freedom from religion, especially if they knew how some people who call themselves "Christian" today...
The “parental rights movement” in Montana is a front for anti-science and anti-government groups, who want to hinder the free, public and fact-based education our Founding Fathers viewed as critical to our nation…
More here, from The Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2022/03/04/montana-parental-rights-debate/?
The Founding Fathers knew that a free and unhindered press was a pillar of democracy, and that politicians attacking the press were taking the first steps to tyranny and dictatorship…
Witness Russia, where Putin's brutal dictatorship can survive if the press is free: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/28/russia-war-censorship-reaches-new-heights#
Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who has seen thousands of Floridians needlessly die on his watch, bullies teenagers for wearing masks, while media sugarcoats his behavior…
More from Press Run: https://pressrun.media/p/desantis-bullies-teenagers-and-the?s=r
Opinion: Good read here on why fossil fuels don’t get us to “energy independence”…
From George Ochenski and the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/03/04/the-tired-old-baloney-about-energy-independence/?
Climate change has consequences: Corps of Engineers lowers spring runoff predictions for upper Missouri as drought persists…
More here, from the Corps of Engineers: https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/2952523/below-average-runoff-continues-for-the-upper-missouri-river-basin/
Healthy soil is vital to a healthy food supply, and a fascinating read here tells us why fungi are vital to healthy soil…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/mar/03/the-magic-of-mushrooms-how-they-connect-the-plant-world?
Industrial agribusiness giants, heavily subsidized and major factors in world’s unhealthy food supply system, use fear mongering to pressure European Union into abandoning anti-deforestation plan…
More here, from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/04/agribusiness-giants-tried-to-thwart-eu-deforestation-plan-after-cop26-pledge?
World wonders if nuclear power has a place in addressing the climate change crisis: beyond the question of radioactive waste there are the issues of earthquakes, sabotage and, now, war…
The Guardian on Ukraine's recently attacked nuclear power plant: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/04/ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-fire-zaporizhzhia-russian-shelling? American public opinion and nuclear power, from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073726137/the-us-is-divided-over-whether-nuclear-power-is-part-of-the-green-energy-future