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Jonathan Lange: The Reopening Of Notre Dame Signals Renewed Hope For Our Civilization
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Notre Dame’s reopening is a visible sign that the Prince of Peace has not abandoned us for our many sins. The Word of God still has free course. It is preached and available throughout the Christian West. We should not take that for granted."
Jonathan LangeDecember 21, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Lawfare Against Sorority Sisters’ Attorneys Tries To Stifle Debate
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "In this case, activists have been playing both ends against the middle for years. When it is advantageous they publicize the transgender sorority member's chosen name to the world. But when it is disadvantageous, they censor it and punish those with the temerity to say his name."
Jonathan LangeDecember 14, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Talk Of 'Secondary Sex Characteristics' Endangers Children By Avoiding The Primary Fact
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: While euphemisms and medical sleights of hand can make discussion of “puberty blockers” and “cross-sex hormones” seem almost normal, even the most radical ideologues can’t defend putting children under the knife and cutting off perfectly healthy and normally functioning sex organs.
Jonathan LangeDecember 06, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Governments Should Encourage Worship, But Church Should See It Done
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Give the government an inch and it will take a mile. One day Congress is 'requesting a recommendation from the president' and the next day the governor is issuing a 'health order' that forbids certain kinds of worship altogether."
Jonathan LangeNovember 30, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Judge Who Struck Down Abortion Bans Resurrects Outdated Law
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Prenatal life has constitutional rights in the state of Wyoming. That is a fact of law and of the Constitution. But nowhere is it disputed, refuted, or even acknowledged in Judge Owens’ opinion on abortion."
Jonathan LangeNovember 22, 2024
Jonathan Lange: It’s Time For Wyoming Lawmakers To Protect Our College Girls
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The cowgirls cannot sue the legislators who left them exposed. What happened to their season cannot be undone. It should, however, be prevented from ever happening again."
Jonathan LangeNovember 15, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Weston County Shows Why Hand-Counting Is Needed Even In Computer Age
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "The Secretary of State, with human eyes and common sense, caught the disenfranchisement of hundreds of Wyoming voters. The county clerk, the computer system and the County Clerk's Association didn't catch it."
Jonathan LangeNovember 08, 2024
Jonathan Lange: A Spider-Man In Every Voting Booth
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: “Nobody can pull the lever for you. When you stand alone in that voting booth, you are wielding a power that few people in history have ever been given.”
Jonathan LangeNovember 01, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Did Any Adults Question Kelly Walsh's Bloody Marching Band Routine?
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "As I watched this disturbing routine, I could not help but ask myself: Who were the adults in the room? Who wrote it? Who choreographed it? Who selected the music? Did anybody, anywhere along the way, question its propriety?"
Jonathan LangeOctober 25, 2024
Jonathan Lange: The Undead Amendment A Should Never Have Been Exhumed
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: It is illegitimate for powerful people to use the color of state law to favor one use of private property while disfavoring another use of the same private property.
Jonathan LangeOctober 18, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Col. Thomas Hutchings Lived Purposefully
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Soft-spoken and tender-hearted, Colonel Thomas C. Hutchings, USANG, Retired was a man like none other. Last week, we suddenly lost this Wyoming treasure. Cowboy State Daily readers might remember last summer’s headline, 'Miracle On I-25: Cheyenne Man Doesn't Know Who Saved His Life After Crash.' That was Tom."
Jonathan LangeOctober 11, 2024
Jonathan Lange: How We Can Help Congress And Our Secretary Of State Keep Elections Clean
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Funneling campaign cash through 'straw donors' allows it to be laundered through people who have no idea they are being used. Stolen money or money from foreign donors can be injected into both national and local campaigns undetected."
Jonathan LangeOctober 04, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Why is Wyoming Not Joining States Investigating Child Sex-Change Rules?
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: “If the people of Wyoming have an opportunity to join other states in protecting children from snake oil, it should fall under the purview of one elected by her people. As it stands, Wyoming is glaringly absent."
Jonathan LangeSeptember 27, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Party Platforms Are A Voter’s Best Friend
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: “Bewildered voters just want to know how each candidate intends to act in office. Instead of tossing around inscrutable jargon, just tell me which principles are non-negotiable and which can be sold to the highest bidder.”
Jonathan LangeSeptember 13, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Compulsory Content For Preschool Is The Devil’s Playground
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: “Last year a bill that would lower the age for compulsory school attendance from 7 to 6 years old failed an introductory vote by 7-24. Now, the education lobby wants to compel not only 6-year-olds, but 3-year-olds as well. Parents are wise to be wary.”
Jonathan LangeSeptember 06, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Reflections On A Half-Million Acres Of Fire
Jonathan Lange writes: "A spontaneous government arose across county and state lines because people had an urgent task to accomplish. Should anyone attempt to hijack its power for personal gain, he or she would find that it dissolves as quickly as it arose."
Jonathan LangeAugust 30, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Thankfully, Two-Party Politics Has Returned To Wyoming
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The increasingly lopsided ratio of Democrats to Republicans has effectively turned Wyoming into an unhealthy one-party state. The emergence of two clear caucuses within the dominant party helps the voter make an informed choice."
Jonathan LangeAugust 23, 2024
Jonathan Lange: How To Know Where Candidates Got Their Money And Who's Funding Their Campaigns
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "For weeks, candidates have been making claims and counterclaims of “dark money” and out-of-state-interest groups backing their opponents. Now, voters have the means available to judge for themselves."
Jonathan LangeAugust 16, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Your Noble Approach To Politics Can Restore Its Beauty
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Partisan harping against the transgressions of others merely adds to the mudslinging. Removing the speck from your brother’s eye should not be a campaign strategy."
Jonathan LangeAugust 09, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Trust, But Verify
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Gov. Gordon’s recent text blast changed the game. Under the banner of, 'Trust, but verify,' he effectively made 50 endorsements in Republican primary races."
Jonathan LangeAugust 02, 2024
Jonathan Lange: The Future Of Drop Boxes In Wyoming
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "After bypassing the formal rulemaking process for five administrations, litigation may be the only way forward. By discovery, we can learn what happened. And by court authority, Wyoming voters can again be treated equally."
Jonathan LangeJuly 26, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Only Passionate Love Can Lower The Temperature
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "My heart aches for Melania and Barron Trump — and all of President Trump’s children. To them, he is neither a political target nor an icon. He is a husband, a father, and a grandfather."
Jonathan LangeJuly 19, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Wyoming Should Declare Independence From The Federal Health Bureaucracy
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Wyoming needs an "after action review" in the aftermath of COVID-19. Four years ago on July 1, Gov. Gordon issued the 7th continuation of 3 unprecedented Public Health Orders that were first imposed on March 19, 2020."
Jonathan LangeJuly 05, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Wyoming Voters Deserve Better Than The Circus In Cheyenne
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The real issue here is that Cheyenne mayoral candidate Vic Miller (the AI candidate) wants to appear on the ballot under a pseudonym. As a result, the state of Wyoming has become a national joke."
Jonathan LangeJune 21, 2024
Jonathan Lange: “One Nation Under God” Is Cornerstone Of America’s Republic
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "On this day 70 years ago, President Eisenhower signed a bill which added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge of Allegiance. Both chambers agreed unanimously that 'under God' should be added."
Jonathan LangeJune 14, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Wyomingites Should Question AG’s Opinion On Secrecy Of Election Records
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Despite their constitutional guarantees, the rights of Wyoming citizens to scrutinize public election records are being denied."
Jonathan LangeJune 07, 2024
Jonathan Lange: The Board Of Medicine Exists To Protect Patients, Not Practitioners
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Wyoming should be thankful for the integrity and courage of doctors like Eric Cubin. His persistent voice against the groupthink of our day is what the Board of Medicine needs most of all."
Jonathan LangeMay 31, 2024
Jonathan Lange: FDA Unlawfully Approved Chemical Abortion Drugs, Eviscerated Crucial Safeguards
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "A new report reveals that more than a million babies were aborted by the 'formal healthcare system in 2023.' Of those, 63 percent, 642,700 lives, were taken by so-called 'chemical abortions.'"
Jonathan LangeMay 24, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Thankfully Wyoming Is Fighting Back Over Title IX Rule Changes
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The rules harm Wyoming citizens not only by forcing young women to disrobe in the presence of males. They also coerce teachers and students to parrot pronouns or risk fines, loss of tenure, and harassment charges by the school’s thought police."
Jonathan LangeMay 17, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Rachel Rubino, A Wyoming Treasure
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Rachel Rubino was a Wyoming treasure. But most who read this tribute have never heard her name. That is one of her greatest charms. She cared enough about Wyoming to serve her state tirelessly."
Jonathan LangeMay 11, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Women Impregnated By Rape Should Be Heard
Male columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Rep. Karlee Provenza shared her own story of rape and wondered, 'What would happen if I was pregnant?' Its a fair question. Even well-meaning people who speculate about the needs and feelings of such women, are only guessing. So, I sought out two women to give them voice."
Jonathan LangeMarch 09, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Wyoming Legislators Mulling Important Pro-Life Bills
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: Senate File 83 Prohibiting chemical abortions would protect Wyoming women from a corrupt FDA that is quietly stripping standard medical protections from women.
Jonathan LangeFebruary 18, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Sen. Wendy Schuler’s Trans-Athlete Bill Protects Women
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Wyomings High School Activities Association currently allows biological males to participate on female sports teams. Female athletes in Wyoming are sitting on the bench while males take the field.
Jonathan LangeFebruary 11, 2022
Jonathan Lange: It’s Time To Re-Visit Lincoln At The Springfield Lyceum
Columnist Jonathan Lange quotes Abe Lincoln: If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Jonathan LangeFebruary 04, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Stand With Päivi Räsänen Against Censorship
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: There is legitimate censorship and there is illegitimate censorship. Civil discourse requires that we know the difference."
Jonathan LangeFebruary 01, 2022
Jonathan Lange: In Today’s World, Do You Suppose That Pandora’s Box Unleashes War?
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: That, I think, is why the song is so famous. It captured a feeling in the air. While revolutionary events are in process, few contemporaries notice. Stills did, and his words beckon us to do the same.
Jonathan LangeJanuary 13, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Now Here Is A Winning Idea, In 2022, Let’s Keep Our Oaths
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: Most recently, an anonymous whistleblower has made unsubstantiated claims that over 200 Wyomingites including several high-profile conservatives were once involved with the organization.
Jonathan LangeJanuary 06, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Why is Christmas on December 25?
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: No serious scholarChristian or otherwisedoubts that Jesus was born two millennia ago. But neither the Bible nor any other historical record names the season, month or day of his birth.
Jonathan LangeDecember 23, 2021
Jonathan Lange: Thankfulness In Hindsight Gives Hope In Foresight
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "I am grateful not only for the benefits previous generations accrued for me. Even more, I am thankful for the example they left me."
Jonathan LangeNovember 28, 2021
Jonathan Lange: The Wyoming State Bar should be accountable to voters.
Guest columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "The Wyoming Bar Association seems obsessed with overruling Cheyenne voters."
Jonathan LangeNovember 16, 2021
Jonathan Lange: School Boards Should Listen To Concerned Parents, Not Attack Them
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Parents are the primary educators of their own children. When they become upset enough to address a school board, educators should drop everything and listen."
Jonathan LangeNovember 05, 2021
Jonathan Lange: Local Library or Seedy Adult Book Store? The true Censorship at Your Local Wyoming Library
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Anyone unable to see why parents should object to the open display of Doing It, The V-Word, and This Book is Gay, in the childrens section of a library has no business being around our children.
Jonathan LangeOctober 17, 2021
Jonathan Lange: The Marriage Penalty Unjustly Penalizes The Children
Columnist Jonathan Lange says: The marriage penalty is buried in the $3.5 trillion budget bill that was recently rammed through the House.
Jonathan LangeOctober 08, 2021
Jonathan Lange: Defend The Conscience Rights Of Those On The Front Lines
Jonathan Lange writes: Also last week, whistleblowers leaked a memo from the Department of Defense that instructs chaplains to participate in the persecution of anyone who might seek a religious exemption from military vaccine mandates.
Jonathan LangeOctober 07, 2021
Jonathan Lange: When It Comes To Ivermectim, ‘Seriously, Y’all. Stop It.’
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: those at the CDC and FDA, who have spent a year and a half failing to study Ivermectin, should be put out of a job. The Centers for Disease Control was created to control diseases, not to control the narrative. Seriously, yall. Stop it.
Jonathan LangeSeptember 09, 2021
Jonathan Lange: Youth Scaling Heights Give Wyoming A Bright Future
Jonathan Lange writes: "The cross at the top of the mountain was not an empty symbol to them. It silently proclaimed the Creators redemption of His world."
Jonathan LangeAugust 15, 2021
Jonathan Lange: Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere To Us All
Especially in a highly charged political climate, it is vital for America that we maintain the formalities of justice.
Jonathan LangeAugust 05, 2021
Lange: Can Liz Cheney Give Americans What They Justly Deserve?
Guest columnist Jonathan Lange writes about U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney being a part of the committee investigating the Capitol attack earlier this year.
Jonathan LangeJuly 21, 2021