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Down in Flames – Help us Fight the Avista/Hydro One merger!

The Canadian company, Hydro One that is trying to purchase Avista Corp, our US utility, is not faring well in its own Province. The Ontario Energy Board has turned down Hydro One’s plan to buy another Canadian energy company because they could not show how ratepayers would not be harmed by the merger, even though rates […]

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We Must Help Trump, ‘Our Blessed Gift for Our Time,’ in the Mid-Terms

We MUST NOT Be Complacent President Trump’s list of accomplishments seen at magapill.com for his first year alone is incredible. Also, a general overview of his first 500 days by whitehouse.gov can be seen at President Donald J. Trump’s 500 Days of American Greatness. All Americans should be grateful for these most meaningful accomplishments; but […]

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Former Eastern Bloc Countries to Walmart: Stop Selling Soviet-themed Goods

— Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com — While millennials show how cool they are by donning T-shirts depicting Che Guevara and other communist leaders, three eastern European countries that endured decades of communist rule are pleading with Walmart to stop selling shirts with symbols of the Soviet Union because peddling the clothes “demonstrates lack of […]

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Trump Endangered Species revisions a step in the right direction

— Published with Permission of FreeRangeReport.com — The environmental lobby has always viewed endangered listings themselves as the primary goal, because listings lead to regulating business activity like mining, ranching, logging, and energy. That’s why such groups have petitioned the government to add another 145 new species to the list, an effort that will never […]

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On the Edge of Common Sense: Labor Day on the farm

— Published with Permission of HeraldandNews.com — Labor Day was created by Unions to recognize the American Worker. It did not include ranching and farming; if they did it would destroy the ability of a farmer to get a loan. If a farmer included the cost of his daily labor on a financial statement, no […]

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Trusting the untrustworthy

— Published with Permission of ReNewAmerica.com — Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813), a Scottish jurist and historian, provides an explanation for why great societies do not survive for more than 200 years: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess […]

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Medicaid Expansion? Bad Medicine for Idaho

In a recent article posted Idaho Politics Weekly otherwise known as the “Zions Bank Weekly,” Mr. Jim Jones took on the task of justifying Medicaid expansion. You can read it here. He tried his best to tell his readership how it is unfair that everyone else’s insurance is paid for by the government, so why […]

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A Rebuttal to Those Who Don’t Want to Arm Teachers

There is an interesting and divisive debate going on around the country. The debate centers around arming school teachers/staff to provide extra security for students. I want to lay out some of the common excuses I hear to not arm teachers and give you some rebuttal points to them. “Teachers have enough to worry about. […]

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Why Gun Owners Must Oppose ‘Red Flag’ Laws!

Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report? In the Tom Cruise thriller, several people called “precogs” can see into the future and determine who is going to commit murder. However, before the murder takes place, the police go and arrest the individual and lock them away for life. The individual didn’t actually commit the crime and […]

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Fake News and the Swamp Needs a Brain Scan

When I was 5 years old, my Quaker grandmother told me to be careful of the thoughts I think. Thoughts turn into words, words turn into actions, actions turn into habits, and habits define a life. Before the end of the 20th Century, neurobiologists believed that the brains of humans reached full development around the […]

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Why Liberals Fail—While Conservatives Succeed—on Talk Radio

— Published with Permission of ConservativeHQ.com — This is excerpt No. 30 (of 45) from America’s Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Over America, by Richard A. Viguerie and David Franke. We looked at many explanations of why liberals have failed to succeed in talk radio, while conservatives dominate the […]

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E Pluribus Unum – The Love of One, the Preservation of the Other

1796 “While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionally greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what […]

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