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IFF’s School Board Candidate Survey Informs Parents, Voters on Critical Education Issues

Published with permission of the Idaho Freedom Foundation Actions of local school boards are currently at the forefront of many parents’ minds. Families and voters all over the country have been angered over school boards’ mask mandates, curricular choices, and unnecessary school closures. Ironically, voter turnout for school board elections is low. Parents who want […]

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U.S. Immigration Policy

A trusted friend wrote that a friend of his, who is a contractor from Texas, is being sent to Idaho to build camps for immigrants. This news was upsetting to my friend, as that action, building camps for immigrants was being viewed as a step toward bringing unwanted change to Idaho. France His concern is […]

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Climate Change

Of all the issues facing us as a nation president Biden has made fighting climate change number one; more important than fighting terrorism, national security, international relations or anything else. The theory is that because of man generated carbon dioxide the earth is warming and it will reach a “tipping point” and the earth will […]

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The Enemy’s New Strategy

Similar to Germans infiltrating American lines during WWII, private property owners are being targeted with renewed tactics to manipulate and bribe them into accepting and practicing conservation goals outlined in the current administration’s non-authorized 30×30 plan.  In fact, behind the scenes groups have been working on this for some time.  As a Republic, we have a […]

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We are Winning

Maybe the best two years of my 14 years on active duty in the Navy I spent at Camp Lejeune with the Marines. My operational billet was with THE FLEET SERVICE SUPPORT GROUP. My medical unit was assigned to Marine Recon—the equivalent of the better-known Navy Seals. I only deployed twice with “recon” both times […]

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Truth and Facts Will Win The Day — Eventually

There is a common thread that runs through the thinking of liberals when it comes to issues as disparate as sexual harassment and Covid vaccinations. Neither deductive nor inductive constructs in logic underpin their arguments. The ideas of “due process” and the “scientific method” require a discipline in thinking and subsequent actions based on those principles […]

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Zone of Privacy

I lived with my Quaker grandmother the first 5 years of my life. I am now 70 years old and that single blessing seems to me to be the most important element in the formation of my character, my thoughts and my beliefs. My younger brothers did not share that same experience and they look […]

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Where is The Avon Lady?

Several years ago, at the request of my wife I participated in a career day at Chaparral Elementary School. Several events happened during that day that should have been a harbinger for things to come. I today look back on those events and smile and say—well of course. Kids always get it. Kids can understand […]

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American Drift “It’s a Republic if you can keep it”?

Did you ever wonder how we have gotten to the place we are in America? It seems that our country has been turned upside down. We are just about evenly divided when it comes to the political arena. I like to call this “American Drift” or the transition of our country to something that our […]

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Enough is Enough

We are on the same page. Yesterday I was on the phone with my senator’s office and congresswoman’s office asking where my values were being represented. My message was/is we are bringing a knife to a gunfight and losing the country. First, we elect gentlemen like Dole, McCain, and Romney who all take the high […]

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Idaho media should be embarrassed over McGeachin lawsuit

Reprinted with the permission of the Idaho Freedom Foundation Some people on the interwebs think I should be outraged at Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin because she refused to give out the names of Idahoans who had contacted her office for help fighting critical race theory in Idaho’s government schools. Actually, I’m quite proud of her. […]

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Renewed Threats to Idaho

With the current administration promoting its America the Beautiful plan there will be a renewed effort by non-governmental organizations (NGO) to pursue as much land as possible for conservation in meeting the 30×30 objectives laid out in the plan.  That goal is conserving 30% of land and oceans in the United States by 2030.  NGOs are clamoring over each other to […]

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