Welcome to Heartland Diary USA, the new website of Montana author Frank Miele, the former editor of The Daily Inter Lake. Frank’s weekly column on national politics is now published on Mondays at realclearpolitics.com and will also be linked here. “After 14 years of writing my Editor’s 2 Cents column for the Daily Inter Lake
(This column was originally posted more than a year ago on May 26, 2019, but it could have been written yesterday. We have watched left-wing protesters tear down statues of our American heroes like Washington and Jefferson because they were flawed human beings, yet there seems to be a double standard. No one on the
Democrats think of President Trump the same way they thought of Abraham Lincoln — as a dangerous demagogue who will divide the country. Just listen to the rhetoric used by the left about Trump’s historic speech at Mount Rushmore on July 3. Shop on Amazon for EVERYTHING TRUMP The New York Times called it “dark
I’m excited to announce the publication of my new book, “How We Got Here: The Left’s Assault on the Constitution.” It could not be more timely. The chaos in the streets of America the last two months is no accident, as a study of history will prove. Don’t forget it was just 10 years ago
It took nearly five years, but the crusade of two mothers from Kalispell, Montana, for justice, finally paid off when the U.S. Supreme Court in a surprise decision agreed with their lawsuit that said parents of children in church-affiliated schools should not be discriminated against by the state. I say it is a surprise decision
The Ten Commandments monument in Kalispell is part of a “cornerstones of law” display outside the old County Courthouse. When it was toppled this weekend, it was an apt symbol of the nation’s descent into chaos and lawlessness in the last two months. A ne’er-do-well named Craig Weimer has been arrested for wrapping a chain
If you’re not scared by what is happening to free speech, then you may have already surrendered to the mob. My new column at Real Clear Politics looks at how hard it is to resist a digital mob that can destroy lives in a matter of minutes, and concludes there may be few heroes who
How loud can you say “FOUR MORE YEARS!”? If you want to make your voice heard in support of President Trump, you will have a great chance to do so on Saturday, June 27, in Kalispell. Shop on Amazon for EVERYTHING TRUMP The Flathead County Republican Central Committee is holding a Grand Reopening at 10:30
This week’s column at Real Clear Politics is a warning about the danger of informational orthodoxy to liberty and free thought. Google, Facebook and the mainstream media have come to represent the threat of Big Brother in “1984” and the “Enemies of Freedom” envisioned by Aldous Huxley. How do we take back our country? Big
(EDITOR’S NOTE: In a week when Google, Facebook and Twitter all attacked free speech, it is worth revisiting a column I wrote in 2017 about Aldous Huxley’s warning against the propaganda machine he envisioned as one of the greatest “Enemies of Freedom.” I’ll update this concern in my column Monday at Real Clear Politics. BTW,
Chief Justice John Roberts may be the most dangerous man in America. His willingness to toss out the Constitution in order to protect liberal ideologies and agendas certainly makes him the worst chief justice in history. He started down that road by siding with the court’s four liberal justices to protect Obamacare despite it’s obviously
