In her book TEAM OF RIVALS Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how a group of petty, jealous, ambitious, men with extraordinary and unique talents, was able to be corralled by President Abraham Lincoln. He used his own unique talents at critical times and by the skin of their teeth they helped to save our Republic. Lincoln […]
The hate and rage that is being demonstrated today by those on the political left and in the mainstream media against Donald Trump and Elon Musk has reached new ends over the past two weeks. Hate and rage are emotions. They are never ever grounded in logic or reason. The reason for the rage and […]
Mass psychogenic illness—also known as “mass hysteria” has occurred throughout history. Notable examples are the Salem Witch trials, the Covid faux pandemic, Y2K, the Ukrainian phone call, Russian collusion by Trump and the “peepee tapes”, and yesterday the partisan “signal chat” dump of a strategy session between our Vice President and our National Security team. […]
I watched a speech translated into English days after it was given by John Paul II in Warsaw Poland in June of 1979. At the end of the speech hundreds of thousands of Polish people who for thirty years were not allowed to openly worship God under the atheistic communist regime in Poland shouted for […]
The problem we are having with governance in our State deals primarily and fundamentally with the “process of governance” which for too long has been controlled by the corporatist lobbying interests in our State, who not only control the process of legislating, but they also control the regulatory administrative bureaucracy that has for 30 years […]
I have been an observer of local and Idaho State politics for years. I have never been a lobbyist or a corporate insider. My four years on the Your Health Idaho Health Insurance Exchange Board allowed me access to both the Department of Insurance and The Department of Health and Welfare. I learned that many […]
In a Feb. 6th Newsweek report by Martha McHardy cited below, the progress made in the 11 States that are initiating DOGE-like programs to cut waste and State government inefficiencies, is reviewed. Since January I have been making a siren call for such a program in Idaho. The problems with the LUMA accounting and reconciling […]
In February 2016, Pope Francis said that “a person who thinks only of building walls, wherever it may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian.” I was reminded of those words as I was watching President Trump’s speech before Congress last week. The theme of “WALLS AND BRIDGES” has been applied most often […]
Adam Ferguson was an eighteenth-century political scientist and economist. He was a Scottish contemporary of Adam Smith. His work is reviewed in a recent Hoover Institute paper by Niall Ferguson entitled FERGUSON’S LAW DEBT, SERVICE, MILITARY SPENDING, AND THE LIMITS OF POWER. In his 1766 paper Adam Ferguson identified what today is being called the […]
Recently I listened to very compelling testimony before The Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Senate Bill 1036 that calls for a 10 year pause on vaccines or “any therapy” that uses messenger RNA (MRNA) technology which is currently being used in two Covid vaccines. The Bill is sponsored by Brandon Shippy, R- New Plymouth […]
There is certainly a big difference between an argument in logic verses the creation of a story that supports a political narrative. For several generations, the critical thinking skills that are supposed to be incorporated into a curriculum taught by teachers and professors to our students, has been replaced by programs designed to indoctrinate. Instead […]
The weaponization of our legal system has led only to an increasing distrust of the American People of our Department of Justice (DOJ) and our Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). More importantly the American People’s trust in the “process of justice” has made the jobs of thousands of people at all levels of government who […]