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Open Letter to Kevin Miller from Ammon Bundy

Dear Kevin, It has been brought to my attention that you questioned our friendship over the air on one of your recent shows.  This was prompted by an email from my campaign manager that she has since corrected. Please know that I have considered you a friend since the moment I met you, and still […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Congressman Fulcher Votes Against Democrats’ Reconciliation Bill

Legislation fails to address inflation while raising taxes on businesses and Idahoans WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Russ Fulcher voted against passage of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act. The bill passed the House with zero Republican votes and every Democrat voting in favor. The vote follows more than a year of Congressman Fulcher voicing […]

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PRESS RELEASE: President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home raided by FBI agents

No person is safe in this country with men and women controlling judicial power without moral boundaries. FBI agents have demonstrated over and over that they are no longer capable of handling the sobering duty of due process. We are faced with an ultimatum, abolish the FBI and cleanse the DOJ or become as third-world […]

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Bob's Words of Wisdom

The Cost of Illegals and the Prospect of a Deep Recession

Have you noticed that in the last 6 months there have been a lot of new people working in supermarkets, retail shops, landscaping and home building? If you haven’t you need to take your blinders off. Has anyone been keeping tabs on the immigration issue in our state? I’m not sure the people who are […]

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CDA School Election: Eight Million Dollars for Ten Years!

You may be asking yourself why are we voting on a school maintenance election on August 30th less than ten weeks before the general election on November 4th? The County Clerk, Jim Brannon, asked the same question at a County Commissioner meeting on July 19th where he said the cost of this “special election” would […]

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Stop the Salmon Falls Wind Project

Please help stop the Salmon Falls and Lava Ridge Wind Farms projects. Please contact Governor Little and our Congressional Delegation and express strong opposition to these taxpayer paid for boondoggles. NONE OF THE ELECTRICITY STAYS IN IDAHO! THESE PROJECTS RAPE THE LANDS OF IDAHO! THERE ARE NO BENEFITS TO IDAHO! The many reasons are listed […]

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Open Letter to Idaho’s Washington Representatives

Members of Congress are seeking to pass legislation that would unconstitutionally redefine marriage on a national level. Please work to STOP these unconstitutional bills as listed below. I realize that H.R. 8404 has already passed the house but use your influence to stop passage in the senate. H.R. 8404, sponsored by Representative Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), […]

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John Livingston

RINOs & Progressives vs The Deplorables

Liz Cheney is a wife and a mother. For that she should be respected. I try to find good in everybody and that is all that I got for Liz. She is also her father’s daughter. Like John Kasich, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, George Bush, and Brad Little she is a political “legacy”. Her access […]

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John Livingston

Old Soldiers

One of the hardest aspects about retiring, I still hope to volunteer and hope to do mission work, is accepting the fact that I am increasingly becoming professionally less relevant. In some ways, this has crossed over into my personal life. Last Mother’s Day my granddaughter and I approached the maitre d at The River […]

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John Livingston

Context and Solitude

Two of the smartest, most educated, and clearest thinkers that I have met in my life are my brother who owns a trucking company, and my brother-in-law who has owned and skippered several commercial fishing boats out of Kodiak Alaska. They both are extremely well read and are facile in The Classics, Modern and Ancient […]

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Bob's Words of Wisdom

The Insane Asylum Called Washington D.C.

We are not even through the second year of Joe Biden’s presidency, and the America we all know and love appears to be coming apart at the seams. Energy prices are at unheard-of levels, inflation running up at historical levels, we are officially in a recession, and we have a president who cannot put two […]

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John Livingston

Racism in Medical Education

Higher education has become obsessed with “woke culture.” I graduated from Medical School at THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY in 1976. Already at that time “sensitivity training” and cultural awareness programs were starting up. These were not in the basic or clinical sciences but could be found in Public Health Departments. The Department of Engineering at […]

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