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Costello: Dems Concoct Flag Hubbub

Political scientist Wallace Stanley Sayre famously observed, "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." The colloquial interpretation of Sayre's law reads: "In any dispute, the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." This came to be known as Sayre's Law. Sayre died too soon. Had he seen the news media and Democrat-concocted controversy over the Confederate Battle Flag, he would have conceded that there are politics more bitter and vicious than academia, over even lower stakes/Michael Costello, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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