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By Dick Pilling August 2016 Ok people, listen up!!  Whether you like it or not, Donald Trump is the GOP presidential nominee and it is time to quit bellyaching and get on the bandwagon. Yes, I know that occasionally he goes off message and sticks his foot in his...

From Chair Dick Pilling: May 25, 2016 In answer to questions as to which candidates that the Clallam County Republican Party (CCRP) supports in the upcoming elections, the CCRP makes the following comments: The CCRP does not choose between candidates but equally...

by Dick Pilling, Chair Immigration or Invasion? I see Europe is starting to refuse entry to refugee immigrants – even send them back to their home countries – because of the deleterious effect on their cultures and economies.  Should we? In the past, American welcomed...

What is fair anyhow… Did you ever notice how often the word “fair” is used?  Particularly in the economic sense?   Like there is fair taxation, fair housing, fair income, fair rental, fair deal, etc. Many times, however, the word fair is used – mostly by liberals – in...

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern”.  Plato “Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.”  Greg Iles “The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is...

Tax Reduction Day… The FOURTH of July used to be one of my favorite holidays but now no more!! My new favorite holiday is the FIRST of July which will forever be enshrined in my memory as TAX REDUCTION DAY.  Because, effective that date and for the first time in...

Lying Liars… We have been hearing some real whoppers here lately…  You know the ones I mean… For instance, “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan”.  Or how ‘bout, “Benghazi happened because of some horrible video”.  And then there was “My helicopter was hit by...

Don’t look now but the government has its hand in your wallet.  And… no surprise… it’s a “left” hand, of course. Yes, Olympia is at it again.  Or, rather, the democrats in Olympia.  According to Freedom Foundation’s list of big spenders, the top 20 spendthrifts in the...

I don’t know if you have noticed, but our universities are, by and large, dominated by lefty liberals… a bunch of progressive panderers preaching propagandist pap. And I believe the reason for this is a result of the Viet Nam era of the 60’s. You see, those who wished...

I don’t know about you but, personally speaking, after the recent elections, I am still in a state of euphoria.  Ecstatic is hardly the word.  It is so bad that people are making me chew on lemons just to take the silly grin off my face. How sweet it is to be able to...