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BIBLE: Leviticus just one piece
Thank you Richard for your commentary on Leviticus. But we need to remember the Bible is a whole from Genesis to Revelation. The laws in Leviticus are just a few of 400 or so given. Some were beneficial for that ti…
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The people have spoken. Roughly 30,000 times, in fact.
BIBLE: It has many uses
Sad! I’ve been reading some “Opinion, Readers Write” and I would like to point out some errors. These writers have no knowledge of the Bible based on their picks of some use of scriptures. I’m reading their guilt, …
KNOBS: That's what thieves are
Dear Old Radio Collector, who saw my beautiful big console radio, circa 1945, in my booth at Paris Antiques, AND DECIDED IT WAS OK TO STEAL THE KNOBS, forgot what you learned in Sunday School.
BIBLE: Prophesy for all sinners
Dear Richard Cripe,
OPINION: Press wasted space
I cannot believe The Press editors can display such a lack of intelligence by deciding to waste paper and ink by publishing the irrational rant of Robert Roberts in the My Turn column on March 21. Maybe on April 1 …
BIBLE: Remember, God is gracious
The following is a response to a letter to the editor by Teresa Sausser of Rathdrum as published in the Coeur d’Alene Press, March 18. Ms. Sausser has completely taken out of context the sentence written by the Apo…
BIBLE: Freedom from exhaustion
The book of Leviticus is indeed “exhausting” as Richard Cripe tells us in his letter to “Readers Write.” The Jews certainly found that to be the case!
TRADE: Don't fall into TPA trap
What’s so bad about free trade? Doesn’t it help everyone involved to have freer access to goods and services in an open marketplace? Isn’t that the basis of our entire economy? Why do some keep harping on the appro…
PROJECT: Praise for the developer
I sat through 3 1/2 hours of a 5 1/2-hour meeting recently. This was for a new 82-lot subdivision that wants to go out by Silverwood. In this meeting several people got up and bad mouthed the developer and the buil…
A peculiar presidential primary
Apparently, the only thing better than a closed Republican primary is two closed Republican primaries.
LEGISLATURE: Pay bills, get out of way
Cuts both ways? The first page of the CDA Press, March 17, 2015, carried an article about the Idaho State Senate endorsing legislation banning local government regulations on carrying or using knives. It was noted …
$255: What's your death worth?
Approximately a month after my wife’s death in 1993, I was contacted by Social Security regarding the death benefit from my wife’s Social Security that I was entitled to. I never knew there was such a thing. I reje…
ABORTION: A bit of hypocrisy
Many Idaho state legislators oppose abortion on the grounds that the unborn fetus has no say in the decision of life; they protest against only the mother or parents having the say.
HOMELESS: But thankless, too?
In response to a letter from Jan Pollard regarding Homeless. We were at the Golden Corral for dinner. There was a guy sitting outside, looking poor and hungry. Didn’t want to give him money that he could go use for…