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Open letter to Rob Curley, editor of the Spokesman Review

November 9, 2018 Dear Mr. Curley, Regarding your articles in the Sunday October 28 Spokesman Review about Scott Morris and the sale of Avista to Hydro One. Scott Morris is definitely a personable and impressive man: (from Avista fact sheet on Hydro One deal) “Scott currently chairs the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Seattle […]

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Trump Was the Biggest Winner

I always tell the raw truth. I don’t back down. I just say what’s on my mind and let the chips fall where it may. Here’s the raw truth about Tuesday’s election: the winners and losers. Winner #1: President Trump. Liberals won’t understand this one. But they will soon… Trump pulled off a miracle. He became only […]

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The Pre-Existing Conditions Rule Kills Insurance Companies

It is also the lynchpin for single-payer, government-run healthcare If insurance companies were to be required to cover people with pre-existing conditions, who would want to pay for insurance when they know it is not necessary, since they can just wait until they need it and buy it then? This would end the insurance industry […]

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Still the smartest guy in the room

Well, whaddaya know? In the midterm elections of November 6, 2018, the American people rewarded the president – for only the third time in almost a hundred years – with a net gain of three and possibly four Senate seats, lost half the House seats that his predecessor lost, and left the radical left-wing Democrats […]

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The Anti-trump Riots are a Smoke Screen, The Real Goal – Eliminate The Electoral College

— Published with Permission of AmericanPolicy.org — Many seem bewildered by the anti-Trump riots and demonstrations that have covered the nation since the 2016 election. And many keep trying to find a reasonable response. Give it up. You can’t reason with them with words. Here is my take. They know full well that they aren’t […]

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2018 Idaho General Election Endorsements

Idaho’s General Election takes place on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Please consider the following recommendations and endorsements. Proposition 1 (Restore Historical Horse Racing): No Recommendation Proposition 2 (Medicaid Expansion): NO Local Vehicle Registration Fees (Ada County): NO College Of Western Idaho School Plant Facilities Reserve Fund Levy (Treasure Valley): NO United States Representative—District 1 Russ […]

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Keep Idaho Conservative — Vote Janice McGeachin for Idaho Lt. Governor!

“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.” — GK Chesterton As many people work to escape states that have wandered far from the well-known American foundation, we are fortunate to already be right here in Idaho—our home built on traditional values and solid conservative principles. I want […]

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Proof Democrats are in Conspiracy to Commit Voter Fraud

For two years now since President Trump’s election, I’ve chronicled the violence, threats of violence and just plain hysteria and unhinged mental illness by Democrats with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The liberal-biased mainstream media, of course, doesn’t bother to report it. They just keep repeating the “fake news” theme that Trump supporters are violent and Trump himself is “divisive.” Guess […]

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The Dimm’s Drive for Power Includes Open Borders and the Failings of Socialism

Do you think it is a coincidence that the huge migrant ‘caravan’ heading for the United States was scheduled to happen just before the mid-term elections on Nov. 6th? With ‘immigrants’ possibly getting rides in buses and cars they could actually arrive before Nov. 6th giving the left the visuals the Dimms so want plastered […]

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‘Soft Targets’ — 11 Killed in Pittsburgh Synagogue

As we reflect on the killings this weekend in Pittsburgh, we need to remember that places of worship are soft targets for killers just like our schools. There are always going to be evil people in this world who want to harm others, and it is up to us as citizens to protect ourselves and […]

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A Classical Education Primer

What exactly is a “classical Christian school?” Most people hearing this description today would have little idea what it means. The term “classical” refers to a very specific set of education principles, but many people today might dismiss the term “classical” in this context as synonymous with a “traditional” or “ordinary” Christian school. Classical education was indeed […]

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Trump Order Will Invite Lawsuits, But Can They Succeed?

— Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com — As expected, the leftist, anti-Trump media collapsed in a conniption when they learned the president meant what he said when he told the tsunami of migrants headed through Mexico to go home. The president is preparing, the leftist media reported, to close the border, pursuant to his authority, as The New […]

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