HERE’S WHY Politically, nothing feels better than to exclaim ‘Throw them all out!’ because a majority of us who are paying attention are madder than hell! How often do you hear others say with conviction that the answer to our problems is term limits? Most of us don’t give serious enough consideration to what that […]
Candidate for Idaho Lt. Governor, Janice McGeachin, from Idaho Falls spoke to the most devout true Republicans in the party at the May 20th Benewah Republican Liberty Caucus annual dinner in St. Maries. McGeachin served five consecutive terms as a State Representative from 2002 to 2012. The first four years she served on the Revenue […]
New District 5 State Senator Dan Foreman (91.5% voting index on the Idaho Freedom Foundation ‘Freedom Index’) gave a rousing address at the recent Benewah Republican Liberty Caucus meeting in St. Maries, ID on May 20th. He said that he always admired those that participated in the original 1776 fight for independence and recognizes that […]
America’s great icon of inspiration for the work ethic and winning, the late, great Vince Lombardi for whom the NFL Super Bowl Trophy is named is often remembered for the similar on field remark “What the hell is going on out here?” A leader he was, a politician he was not. Leading to win in […]
This is a significant victory for property rights in Idaho! State District Court Judge Eric J. Wildman, presiding in the Coeur d’Alene-Spokane River Basin Adjudication (CSRBA), has ruled on motions for summary judgment regarding tribal water right claims filed by the United States. Bob Bingham, Kootenai County Commissioner is the founder and past president of […]
President Trump is so eager to make a deal on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) that he can be too easily cajoled into believing what he wishes for is what we are getting without the advantage of closer inspection by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) or weighing the damage it will inflict on citizens […]
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. They refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair. The Rosenbergs […]
In the first place, there is no law that a President of the United States must release his tax returns for periods prior to his election. From the website taxhistory.org, “Individual income tax returns — including those of public figures — are private information, protected by law from unauthorized disclosure. Indeed, the Internal Revenue Service […]
Speaker Paul Ryan started out as a fine young man at the age of 22 serving as a legislative aide in WI Sen. Bob Kasten’s office, after graduating in 1992. Before being elected as a Congressman in 1998, he had also served as a speechwriter, legislative director to a Senator and as a marketing consultant […]
Bob Bingham is the founder of Idaho’s largest property rights group, North West Property Owners Alliance (NWPOA) and recently became a newly elected Kootenai County Commissioner. Bob has a reputation for getting citizens aware and involved. NWPOA is a viable force today working very hard for property owners’ water, property and privacy rights by attending […]
A RUSE IS A RUSE IS A RUSE A perceptive friend of mine is known to occasionally say someone is worrying about the wrong thing. Amazingly, he is usually right, and what you saw originally might have been a ruse. A ruse is likened to a magician’s art. Ruse: an action intended to deceive someone; […]
I remember one of the late Johnny Carson’s best one-liners in 1964 when he said, “I heard a guy was just told that President Johnson declared War on Poverty today, so he went out and threw a hand grenade at a beggar.’ Of course, it cracked me up at the time, but America should realize […]