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Preserve Property Rights by Defunding HUD’s AFFH Rule

The pressure by property advocates from across the nation to rein in HUD’s disastrous Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule is being felt on Capitol Hill. As a result, two bills have been introduced to defund and eliminate the program. Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) has introduced H.R. 482 (24 cosponsors), called the Local Zoning Decisions […]

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Syria, the U. S. Constitution, and the War Powers Resolution

In the wake of the U. S. missile strike on the Syrian air base believed to have been used to mount a chemical weapons attack, there is no lack of the usual debate about, “it’s right, it’s wrong; it’s good, it’s bad; we should have, we shouldn’t have.” Most of the discussion revolves around personal […]

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Tax Day – Time to Amend the 16th Amendment

Tax Day is not an occasion Americans celebrate with picnics, presents, or parades. Yet we haven’t always had a Tax Day. The income tax was foisted upon us in 1913 by the generation that passed the 16th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The 16th amendment states, “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect […]

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Trump is Correct about ‘Climate Change’!

Have you ever heard anyone say that 97% of scientists agree that man is the chief cause of global warming and that this warming is going to end in disaster? Actually, less than 1% happen to agree on the cause of climate change! Donald Trump chose Myron Ebell last September to head up the transition […]

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CLASSIC RUSES: Clinton’s Lewinsky and Obama’s Russians

A RUSE IS A RUSE IS A RUSE A perceptive friend of mine is known to occasionally say someone is worrying about the wrong thing. Amazingly, he is usually right, and what you saw originally might have been a ruse. A ruse is likened to a magician’s art. Ruse: an action intended to deceive someone; […]

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So Long, Island Park; Hello, Yellowstone Highlands

Although this article is regarding Island Park, every Idahoan throughout the state will be affected by the same agenda. It must be time to transform Island Park into something else using “action plans”. The question is, what needs to be transformed? What in Island Park needs fixing? The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) […]

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Celebrity Apprentice Versus ‘The Biggest Loser’

It’s happening right before our eyes. President Trump is busy changing the direction of America, while Democrats worry about the color of the curtains in the White House. Remarkably, politics today is like a reality television show. President Trump is “Celebrity Apprentice.” The career DC politicians are “the Biggest Losers.” Like “the Apprentice” Trump is […]

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Freedom of the Press? Journalist Arrested for Defense of First Amendment

— Reprinted with permission from Redoubt News — Gary Hunt has been keeping Americans informed of Constitutional violations by the government for over 20 years. He has reported on the Ruby Ridge massacre as well as the Waco Siege. More recently, Hunt has released information pertaining to Confidential Human Sources (aka Informants) in the Bunkerville […]

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Kiss Idaho Goodbye – The rest of the story

The federal government created a beast, landscape conservation cooperatives (LLC) for wildlife protection, sprouting in 2011 following the “America Great Outdoors” initiative in 2010.No congressional approval came with this, the Department of Interior (DOI) just created it and assigned the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ( No congressional approval came with this, the Department of […]

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Bunkerville Defendant is FBI Informant

— Reprinted with permission from Redoubt News — The Nevada Bunkerville Protest Trial heated up today when it was unintentionally disclosed that defendant Greg Burleson has been a paid informant for the FBI since 2012. The prosecution called FBI Agent Michael Caputo and FBI Agent Adam Nixon to the stand and, in an unusual move, […]

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Democrats vs. America

I remember one of the late Johnny Carson’s best one-liners in 1964 when he said, “I heard a guy was just told that President Johnson declared War on Poverty today, so he went out and threw a hand grenade at a beggar.’ Of course, it cracked me up at the time, but America should realize […]

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The Cycle of Debt & A Salt Free Diet

“If you do not have economic freedom, you are not free.” This is not my quote, but came from a gathering I attended some years ago. I do not remember who said it, but it has stuck with me for many years, — decades in fact. I was reminded of it, again, when reading Proverbs […]

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