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RINOs are Worse than Crazy Democrats

I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year. Now, it’s Election night. Shortly after of the election, transformations begin appearing among Republicans revealing people most of us should despise, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) who are not honoring their oaths to our Constitutions, U.S. and state, and not taking their great GOP […]

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Service, Not Power

1796 “Friends and Fellow-Citizens: “The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, […]

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Supreme Court Upholds Fourth Amendment’s Restriction on Warrantless Searches

— Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com — In a lopsided 8 to 1 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States has restored a section of the barricade to government intrusion originally erected by the Founders in the Fourth Amendment. Most commentators were busy this past week breaking down the high court’s June 4 decision […]

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Chris Matthews’ false idea of equality

— Published with Permission of ReNewAmerica.com — “A true democrat, lowercase ‘d,’ thinks they’re no better than anybody else. That’s what a Democrat is. And the party regains that when white, black, Hispanic people, everybody, starts to think of themselves as one of them instead of being better than them.” Chris Matthews is almost right […]

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The Dutiful Citizen

1796 “I beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my […]

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The Truth About Nampa’s Wastewater Treatment Plant

Nampa citizens recently passed a bond that will pay for upgrades to its wastewater system. The bond authorizes funding up to $165 million dollars with an average sewer rate increase of 16.75% each year over the next 7 years, with “… totals of $279.2M in capital investments between 2018 and 2040.”, a fact that was […]

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Amtrak’s decision to degrade service threatens its future

— Published with Permission of HeraldandNews.com — In February, Amtrak deeply downgraded Northwest sleeper service on the Coast Starlight, its most heavily used long-distance train. The train’s elegant Pacific Parlour Car (the dedicated sleeper diner/lounge), was removed. While the train retains the coach diner/lounge (now for all riders), this train is so popular that the […]

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The Trump Economy Soars

I don’t mean to say, “I told you so.” But I told you so. As the great Mohammed Ali said, “It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.” Since literally the day Donald J. Trump declared his candidacy for President (almost three years ago), I’ve predicted that he would turnaround the miserable Obama economy and produce […]

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Merkel Calls for EU to Lead the World As It is ‘Reorganized’

— Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com — During Wednesday’s meeting of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Munich, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took the opportunity to take a cheap shot at President Trump while calling for the European Union (EU) to rise up and lead the world. The idea of World Government — a “New […]

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In Reply to Wayne Hoffman’s ‘Voluntary Giving’ Medicaid Gap Solution

I just finished reading Idaho Freedom Foundation head Wayne Hoffman’s proposed solution to the Medicaid expansion problem, and all we can say is you might as well be whistling Dixie while drowning in quicksand. We have written many times about how we need to change the way we look at healthcare in Idaho and in […]

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Yes, The Border Wall Is Being Built

— Published with Permission of ConservativeHQ.com — The fake news media would like you to believe that the Omnibus spending bill that Congress passed earlier this year was a major defeat for President Trump because it did not include the $25 billion he requested in funding to fulfill his campaign promise to build a wall […]

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Spies like us (or do they?)

— Published with Permission of ReNewAmerica.com — As the lead singer for the punk rock band “Dead Kennedys” once put it, “if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street…, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.” Today’s FBI […]

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