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The Twin Towers Collapse

In the previous post, Firefighters for 9-11 Truth (FF911Truth) and Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (ae911), challenged the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conclusion about what caused the World Trade Center 7 (WTC7) collapse, and the 9/11 Commission Report about the cause of the World Trade Center Twin Towers (WTC) collapse. The rebuttal discussion […]

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Defend the Innocent

What is the moral condition of a nation that allows an entire category of its people to be murdered, one by one, without due process? How is that nation affected when, over time, the population loss is 66 million – greater than one-sixth of the country’s current population? Imagine if everywhere you go, one in […]

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AG Labrador Defends Parents’ Right to Raise Their Children

BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador is defending the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, urging the Ninth Circuit to affirm a federal district court ruling against California policies that allow public schools to facilitate a child’s gender identity and social transition and actively conceal it from their parents. […]

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Labrador Letter – Idaho Families Won’t Pay for New York’s Climate Change Agenda

Dear Friends, In 2024, New York passed the Climate Change Superfund Act, claiming that the companies producing America’s oil, natural gas, and coal owed the state $75 billion for fuel they produced between 2000 and 2024, and it passed a law to collect. Idaho joined 21 other states to challenge that law, and a federal […]

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Op-Ed: When Republicans Vote, Idaho Wins

Last week, I had the honor of leading Idaho’s delegation to the first-ever Republican Party midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. Speaker after speaker, from President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, told the story of how Republican leadership is […]

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Firefighters for 9-11 Truth

Now that the 9/11 remembrance ceremonies have been held on the 25th anniversary of that event, and we have once again kept those who were lost on that day in our hearts, it might be a time to reflect on questions that continue to linger for some. It isn’t always easy listening to challenges of one’s beliefs. But […]

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Labrador Letter – Remembering September 11

Dear Friends, Twenty-five years ago today, America changed forever. I can still remember that morning. When I arrived at work, people were gathered around the television, watching in shock and disbelief. As I joined them, the second plane struck the South Tower. In that instant, we understood that our nation was under attack and that […]

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Op-Ed: Remembering the Heroes of 9/11

25 years ago, our world changed forever. Radical Muslim terrorists hijacked four airplanes, crashing them into the two towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. 2,977 people were killed in the worst terror attack in American history. For the victims and their families, it was a shocking tragedy. Men […]

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AG Labrador Demands Feds Strengthen Rules to Fight Illegal Robocalls

BOISE, ID – Attorney General Raúl Labrador and a bipartisan coalition of 48 other attorneys general are pushing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to strengthen its “Know Your Upstream Provider” (KYUP) requirements to help prevent scammers from using the U.S. phone network to make illegal robocalls. KYUP rules require voice service providers to ensure that they […]

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At What Price Growth and Who Should Pay for it?

I want to personally thank Senator Brian Lenney for making known the problems that Idahoans will face if indeed this Micron FAB is permitted to be built under the auspices of 18-year-old legislation never used for the purpose it was written. This will leave Idaho’s citizens to once again pick up the tab for Idaho […]

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More Government Centralization

Many Americans realize that citizens lost control over the government decades ago. It seems there is nothing left to rob from them, freedoms have been taken, rights are usurped, speech is targeted. What is left is just threads of what was once the greatest country on earth. Just three days before Thanksgiving in 2025, when […]

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Trump’s Beef Announcement That Influences the Character of Our Nation

When President Trump recently announced that local ranchers could process their own beef, it sparked several important conversations. Local conversations in Idaho are generally positive, as most Idahoans see the existing beef industry as being overregulated. However, there are some who do not see it that way. I see this as a pattern to change […]

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