
Today my freelance article for Western Montana News hits and I’m hoping it hits HARD, staring with the title: Ellie Boldman, Lucifer, and the Breaking of the Liberal Mind. Check it out.
On the local news front, Missoula just enacted one of the dumbest policies possible with the adoption of the pride flag as an official city flag, flouting the state effort with flags. ALL of this flag virtue signaling is stupid, but the reason Missoula’s choice to wage a flag war is, by the far, the dumbest is because of how financially strapped this stupid town is, thus dependent on the state for assistance if they want to dig out of the hole they’re in.
For a town that LOVES to scapegoat the state for nearly all the problems they, themselves, help to create, what the fuck is this idiocy supposed to accomplish? In the cost/benefit analysis our local officials never seem to understand how to calculate properly, red meat for the disgruntled socialist base upset that their drug den is being shut down just doesn’t match up to the immense cost of once again pissing off nearly everyone outside the Missoula bubble.
For an example of what Montana’s Governor thinks about this, here’s the comment as it appeared on X:

The encampments Gianforte is referring to are rife with illegal drug abuse, and abusing illegal drugs is ILLEGAL. So where is the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office? Why isn’t Sheriff Jeremiah popping up his head from wherever he hides out from the media to explain why his office is helpless when it comes to encampments?
One of my long-standing contentions is that there is IMMENSE power in the role of the Sheriff in ANY County. In Missoula, for example, a Sheriff/Coroner has the power to literally euthanize someone. And Nationally, when the Sheriffs flex, even the mighty Trump administration backs down!
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on June 1 removed a previously published list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States, which were accused of failing to comply with federal immigration law.
The move comes following criticism from a national sheriffs’ group that has mostly been supportive of Trump’s tough-on-crime policy approach.
In a statement, National Sheriffs’ Association President Sheriff Kieran Donahue said, “This list was created without any input, criteria of compliance, or a mechanism for how to object to the designation. Sheriffs nationwide have no way to know what they must do or not do to avoid this arbitrary label.”
Why are Sheriffs so stumped about their role in law enforcement? Is it because they are ELECTED members of law enforcement and therefore even MORE politically oriented that police chiefs appointed by Mayors?
While I don’t have ALL the answers, I definitely have a more-informed perspective than most, and I plan on continuing to share my perspective in fun and creative ways, so stay tuned!
And, as always, thanks for reading.







