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Lessons Learned

Wisdom is the thing you get right after you need it. At the recent Kootenai County Republican Town Hall, we got played. Agitators successfully manipulated the situation to fit their narrative. Looking back, it’s clear it was a planned, practiced, and coordinated effort. President Trump posted: “Paid ‘troublemakers’ are attending Republican Town Hall Meetings. It’s […]

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WARNING! New Portland Ahead

“So what do we do if someone is unruly and interrupts the meeting?” “Ask them to be quiet.” “What if they won’t be quiet?” “Take a recess to deescalate the situation.” “What if they continue after the recess?” “Reschedule the meeting for another time.”  “Would you remove a person disturbing the peace?” “Under no circumstances […]

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Who Runs Bartertown?

Can a rogue judge stop a President from doing his job? Early during the first Trump administration, Sean Spicer was the Press Secretary and was also appointed by the president to a three-year term on the Board of Visitors for the Naval Academy. When the Biden Administration took over, they sent Spicer a letter inviting […]

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Golden Age

We are on the cusp of either a Golden Age or ruin. Will we have the judgement and fortitude to make the right decisions? There is nothing in human experience that prepares us for the scale of a trillion. It may be intellectually comprehensible but we have no innate sense for how big a trillion […]

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Tariff-ic Solution

Some people are concerned or even panicked about President Trump imposing tariffs on the products of other countries. Progressive economists and world government proponents have loudly opined that tariffs are the destructive option that will harm us more than “them.” In reality there is little cause for concern. Free trade is almost magical. Imagine there […]

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Whining

The Trump victory has resulted in a seismic shift in the direction of the country. Domestic, regional, international and economic policies have taken a new direction for the better. Trump has accomplished more in the first 100 hours of his administration than other presidents accomplish in their first 100 days. The reason for this competency […]

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Winning

January 20th 2025 was one of the best days for Republicans, and the country, in a long time. We now have an actual president, not a titular sock puppet that signs Executive Orders without knowing what they are about. We have a president that can converse freely and unscripted with the press while demonstrating his […]

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The Right to Choose

Now more than ever we need to innovate to survive. The Artificial Intelligence Pandora’s Box has been opened. We will have practical humanoid robots by the end of the decade. High minimum wages are incentivizing automation in the service and manufacturing sectors. The number of instances where people can work remotely has skyrocketed. The world’s […]

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IDGOP Winter Meeting

The Idaho Republican Party (IDGOP) State Central Committee meets every 6 months to receive reports from our party officers and to consider new rules and resolutions. The Winter Meeting was held last week in Boise and was well attended. The IDGOP State Central Committee (SCC) is the ultimate authority for the Idaho Republican Party. The […]

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Immigration Sanity

America is a land of immigrants, which isn’t unique as this can be said about virtually every nation. Unless your ZIP Code is The Garden of Eden, we are all either immigrants or descended from immigrants. Beginning with the first humans, we have roamed the entire planet and now, facilitated by our technology, occupy every […]

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Government Opacity

Much of what our government does is designed to hide the truth. The bureaucrats, lobbyists and lawyers that actually run the government act as if they don’t want you to see or know how they are performing, by design. I say “design” because if the true goal was transparency then we would see the system […]

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Back to College

On Tuesday it was my great honor to participate in the Electoral College as one of Idaho’s four electors. Most people have heard about the Electoral College, with the path to 270, and have heard pundits praise and bemoan its existence. But how does it all work and how does someone become an elector? The […]

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