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  • Education is failing America's future by forgetting its past (OPINION)

    Randy Olson|Jan 4, 2024

    In the year 2022, eighth grade test scores in civics and U.S. history hit record lows. The decline didn't start with pandemic school closings. But they made it worse and revealed its extent. Less than half of adults can name the three branches of the U.S. government. Another 25% can't name even one. And just over one-third of Americans can pass the U.S. citizenship test. These sad facts are a reminder that the future success of our nation is far from guaranteed. We must acknowledge the imperfections of our current system and work to reform...

  • The Post Office system is breaking the newspaper in half

    Randy Olson|Jan 4, 2024

    Publisher's statement on the Post Office: The Post Office system is currently breaking my back. Delivery issues with the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper have gotten out of control. Example: each week, a handful of newspapers that I paid to mail to subscribers are sent back to me with correct addresses, and I have to pay for each one that is returned (currently I pay 78 cents each time that happens). They are slapped with USPS labels saying that they have wrong addresses. Yes, in some cases, the...

  • Senator Klobuchar statement on Independence Day

    Randy Olson|Jun 29, 2023

    U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released the following statement on Independence Day. "All across our state, Minnesotans are coming together with friends and family for parades, barbecues, and fireworks in honor of the Fourth of July and the birth of our nation. Today, we celebrate the start of the great American experiment in democracy that began in 1776 when our founding fathers adopted the principles in the Declaration of Independence. Those principles became the foundation of our democracy and a roadmap of our nation's purpose....

  • Representative Anderson: House bill shorts long-term care

    Randy Olson|Apr 27, 2023

    House Democrats approved a bill on Tuesday, April 25 which Representative Paul Anderson of Starbuck said does not address the long-term care crisis in our state and severely underfunds this portion of the state budget. Anderson said he has concerns over the House Human Services Finance omnibus package (S.F. 2934) for its lack of funding for nursing homes, which came to the floor accounting for just .01 percent of the Democrats' $72 billion budget proposal that consumes the state's $19 billion...

  • And freedom was born (Paul Harvey video)

    Randy Olson|Jan 26, 2023

    Here's a special Paul Harvey video found on YouTube at the official Paul Harvey Archives channel....

  • "Freedom To Chains" by the late Paul Harvey

    Randy Olson|Jan 12, 2023

    In 1965, American radio host Paul Harvey gave an immense warning to the American people about the fate of the nation. "We Were Warned: Freedom to Chains" is a short film about the parallels between the warning Harvey gave over fifty years ago, and today with the socialist influences in government and society. This video is an edit of the short film created to provide only the audio without the visuals seen in the original. Harvey's speech lasts about 9 minutes. He was born in Tulsa, OK on September 4, 1918 and passed away on February 28, 2009...

  • Record-breaking excess deaths in the United Kingdom

    Randy Olson|Nov 3, 2022

    Excess deaths in the United Kingdom are currently 1,564 per week above the statistical average. This mind-blowing statistic compares to a figure of 1,322 excess deaths per week in the U.K. in 2021. In 2020, before the completely "safe and effective" COVID-19 treatments were unleashed by global pharmaceutical conglomerates, the excess deaths per week figure was 315 during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. Let all that sink in for a moment. The figures are both stunning and appalling. The video...

  • MASSIVE breach of ethics at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

    Randy Olson|Nov 3, 2022

    Meanwhile, at the United States Food and Drug Administration, the commissioner of the FDA recently committed a massive breach of ethics when he began specifically promoting a drug with his government-backed mouthpiece. Remember: it is just a coincidence and should not lead to skepticism of our government and Big Pharma when President Biden, CDC diretor Walensky and Dr. Fauci all suffered from Paxlovoid-induced COVID rebound, not to mention all the other celebrities and government figures who...

  • Letter to the editor: governor candidate Scott Jensen tells a whopper of a lie

    Oct 27, 2022

    In September Republican Governor candidate Scott Jensen repeated the crazy, debunked claim that some of our Minnesota schools had cat litter boxes for children to pee in! This bizarre internet hoax was given traction when outgoing Republican State Representative Tim Miller claimed it as fact at the State Capitol. Alexandria and Minnewaska districts were ones mentioned using these. I have grandsons at both the Minnewaska elementary school and High School, and I'm quite sure one of them would have mentioned this were it the case. As a former educ...

  • Vindicated (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Oct 27, 2022

    A professor who was fired from the University of California-Irvine was recently vindicated in his battle with his former employer. Dr. Aaron Kheriaty has been an outspoken advocate for natural immunity and fighting against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The video features a lengthy interview with the professor and doctor, who is part of a lawsuit that will force government officials like Anthony Fauci to defend the strictures imposed on the public during the pandemic. Leading up to the pandemic,...

  • Sad news: jab "role model" now dead

    Randy Olson|Oct 20, 2022

    A self-described health fitness expert named Doug Brignole has passed away after spending months and months and months during 2021 and 2022 stressing how important and life-saving it was to get the experimental but "safe and effective" COVID-19 therapeutic jabs. Note: Brighole's first jab of the COVID therapeutic was in April 2021. He recently passed away at age 62 on October 13. He proudly said on Twitter, "We're all in this together, so let's do our share to beat it" on April 4, 2021 when he first rolled up his sleeve for jab No. 1. Keep in...

  • U.S. "experts" consistently fail and/or drop the ball (OPINION)

    Randy Olson|Sep 22, 2022

    It's become a broken record in the United States. Over and over we see self-described "experts" fail us in the area of health and wellness. The latest antics come from the "American Society for Nutrition" who suggested that "more research is needed" to determine the link between children having poor health outcomes due to eating unhealthy foods. Really? As outlined in the video below by Dr. Suneel Dhand, this is an insanely stupid thing to say. Who in their right mind doubts that eating junk...

  • Getting crushed by this regime (OPINION)

    Randy Olson|Sep 1, 2022

    Who else out there is getting demolished financially by the current regime we're living under in the U.S.? Our family's 529 college savings accounts for our two primary school-aged children have each lost over 12 percent of their value. That's just one of many examples of how 2022 is crushing us financially. Something has to change....

  • Happy Independence Day from Senator Klobuchar

    Randy Olson|Jun 30, 2022

    Editorial commentary submitted to the Bonanza Valley Voice by Senator Amy Klobuchar. On this Fourth of July, we celebrate the birth of our country-the great American experiment in democracy that began in 1776, when our founding fathers adopted the principles penned in the Declaration of Independence. Those principles became the bedrock of our nation, a roadmap of America's purpose, and the foundation for a new way of governing rooted in the importance of working together. Throughout our history, brave Americans have fought and given what...

  • Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm: taking smug and arrogant to a new level

    Randy Olson|Jun 9, 2022

    Jennifer Granholm is another high-ranking government official in our world who is one sick puppy. Utterly vile! She takes smug and arrogant to a whole new level. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: we are ruled by completely incompetent people who are so self-absorbed that they have NO CLUE whatsoever what pain we are suffering out in the lower and middle class of America....

  • Will we get an answer? (OPINION)

    Randy Olson|Jun 2, 2022

    It remains to be seen if federal officials will explain how they ignored warnings dating back to last fall about what was an impending shortage of baby formula in the United States. Some media ask the question, but there's not much explanation coming from Washington D.C. At the end of the day, we know that bureaucracy ultimately slows down what could be speedy progress to the problems we face in America....

  • This has got to stop

    Randy Olson|May 26, 2022

    Bonanza Valley Voice publisher's column, May 26, 2022. I so vividly remember a conversation I had one afternoon in the spring of 1995, when the late Terry Frazee called me in to his principal office in the newly-remodeled B-B-E high school in Belgrade, told me to sit down, sunk his shoulders and looked me in the eye before saying, "Randy, I'm gonna keep this short, I'm sure you want to get back to Mr. Gesellchen's chemistry." Frazee looked me straight in the eye and said, "I know you meant well, but please, don't bully the bully." I sat for a...

  • Guard your lean tissue like it's gold (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 24, 2022

    As Dr. Shawn Baker says in the video, "So you should be putting it on and guarding your lean tissue like it's gold, because it really is." "You don't have to be in the gym doing many dead lifts to get strong. There's many ways to do that," he adds. "You could pick up things and go for a walk, you could put a backpack on and go for a walk. Now I think as you get more proficient at stuff, you should continue to challenge yourself. Because the whole point is to progress and continue to progress."...

  • Some governments consistently push anti-science recommendations, mandates (OPINION)

    Randy Olson|Feb 3, 2022

    Governments such as those found in the United States and Canada continue pushing anti-science COVID-19 narratives. This is especially true in the area of child jabbing. At what point do we have to consider how to protect children from government?...

  • United States C.D.C. uses another terribly flawed COVID-19 study (OPINION)

    Randy Olson|Jan 20, 2022

    Another week, another bad study used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in regards to its COVID-19 response. In this case, it is related to children, which means it's even more despicable that the CDC would use flawed information in its messaging to the public. Shame on them. In the study they cited, the inclusion of Body Mass Index (BMI) figures were not included with a study that the CDC says linked COVID-19 and higher prevalence of diabetes in children. There were countless...

  • Letter to the Editor: kind companies would rehire unvaccinated workers

    Randy Olson|Jan 20, 2022

    The CDC website (Dec. 20, 2021) states: "CDC expects that anyone with the omicron infection can spread the virus to others, even if they are vaccinated or don't have symptoms." Happily, news outlets all over the world, while noting its rapid transmission, are reporting that omicron is much milder than its predecessors, resulting in significantly reduced serious illness, hospitalization and death. "Signs that it [omicron] may cause milder symptoms than previous strains have offered some relief." (Reuters, Jan. 7, 2022). And so as new...

  • Test, Jab, Boost, Repeat (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Jan 13, 2022

    Test, Jab, Boost, Repeat by Jane M. Orient, M.D. and Executive Director of Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Online at https://aapsonline.org. Joe Biden introduced his "new" plan to save us from the dread coronavirus. He will provide 500 million "free" tests (paid for by taxpayers or with borrowed money); 1,000 National Guard troops to overstressed hospitals; and more pressure to get vaccinated and boosted. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, we would need 2.3 billion...

  • The narrative will collapse (OPINION)

    Randy Olson|Jan 13, 2022

    George Orwell himself would not believe the world we live in today. Have you ever wondered why there's no standard and well-organized way for a vaccine-injured person to receive assistance with therapy or recovery? Anyone? Hello? If the number of vaccine-injured people are so few and far between, so insignificant in number that no one should be concerned with population-wide jabbing, then we should certainly be able to help them, right? Again, and follow me here = they are such a small minority out of all the people jabbed, then there should...

  • Good health is finally being discussed...in El Salvador (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Jan 6, 2022

    It's fascinating to see the campaign for better health that was recently launched in El Salvador of South America. It's downright stunning when compared to the messaging that we get from health "authorities" in the United States. El Salvador president Nayib Bukele wants the issues of obesity and diabetes to be discussed front and center in his country. These two issues are the leading cause of increased vulnerability to severe disease and hospitalizations. The 11-minute long video here explains...

  • Climbing to the peak of 'Mount Stupid'

    Randy Olson|Dec 30, 2021

    Each day in America, we climb closer to the top of Mount Stupid. The only question is: where is the peak of this mountain we're currently on? Because they've fired unvaccinated health care workers, many of whom have beaten COVID-19 and have natural immunity, the state of Rhode Island has decided it's better to allow health care workers with an active COVID-19 case to care for patients. They have gotten that much higher on Mount Stupid that this is where they're at. On January 1, 2022, the...

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