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The Next Pandemic

Just like Event 201, the corona virus exercise held two months prior to the corona virus pandemic, another exercise held October 23, 2022, again sponsored by Bill Gates and Johns Hopkins, was held in Brussels, Belgium, called the “Catastrophic Contagion”. This exercise is the fifth in creating a ruthless plan to bring fear and tyranny […]

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65 Years Ago – Reflections of a Baby Boomer

Jane and I grew up together in Montana and married just out of high school and now have four married children, 24 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. What has become especially more difficult is to relate to our grandchildren is what it was like to grow up in America in the 50’s and 60’s. Nearly […]

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County Positions: Sheriff, Treasurer, Assessor, Coroner

Dear Editor, Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and […]

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John Livingston

Now is the Time to be Faithful

Hope springs eternal in Garden City this Christmas season. The celebration of the birth and promise fulfilled by the Baby Jesus will always sustain us no matter the challenges that the secular temporal world can put before us. We must never lose hope for the future. WE know the “rest of the story”. As Mother […]

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John Livingston

The Idaho State of Bureaucracy

Jerry Pournelle was a modern-day renaissance man who had the unique ability to see life from both sides of his brain—right and left. An operations and weapons scientist with BOEING and as a consultant to many Aerospace and military contractors his insights into “how things work” was sought by captains of industry, military leaders, and […]

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John Livingston

Who are we?

Herschel Walker gave the best concession speech I have ever heard —I paraphrase: There are no excuses, thank you, this is a time for reflection. So, I shall reflect on what happened in the disastrous Republican mid-terms and give an opinion about how we should move forward. First, we don’t know who we are. For […]

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Bob's Words of Wisdom

Twitter is Just the Tip of the Big Tech Iceberg

Well, it looks like the preverbal POOP hit the fan this week with Mr. Musk the new owner of Twitter, spilling the beans on the previous owners’ and employees’ collusion with the federal government. Twitter was indeed shadow banning and censoring comments and the reach of anyone they deemed to be a problem by the […]

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Bob's Words of Wisdom

Mike Moyle Idaho’s new House Speaker “A Proverbial Fence Sitter”

While I have a lot of respect for Idaho’s new House Speaker Mike Moyle, there are better qualified members of the House who could have filled that position. All you need to do is see how he has organized the House committees to make sure he has complete control of what bills get passed and […]

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The Proper Role of the Local Governments

Dear Editor What is the proper role of a local government? A quick review of the 9th and 10th Amendments reveals that the States and the People have most of the powers. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people (9th Amendment) […]

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John Livingston

The Right Man for the Job

I am so looking forward to Mike Moyle becoming the Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives. I have had the pleasure of knowing Mike and his family for almost 30 years. Over the past 10 years he has reminded me when he is wearing his political hat of a combination between Tom Brady and […]

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John Livingston

First In, First Out

I was happy to hear about the release of American basketball star and two-time Olympic Champion Brittney Griner from a Russian Prison in exchange for Viktor Bout known to US intelligence agencies and the DEA as “the merchant of death”, an international arms dealer who is responsible for the deaths of several Americans. The press […]

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John Livingston

Tolerance vs Intolerance

Growing up in central Ohio and in a community dominated by Irish and German Catholics and Scotch Irish Evangelicals I was exposed to many media evangelists. Billy Graham, Sister Angelica, and the Venerable Bishop Fulton Sheen were favorites in my family and in the homes of many of my friends. I read many of their […]

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