As the 2016 session begins today, we march toward Constitutional Carry once again. This year Rep. Ron Nate and Rep. Heather Scott have been working together to put together a Constitutional Carry bill for Idaho citizens. Whatever version of Constitutional Carry they bring forward must be heard in the open and the fate of that […]
Idaho State Representatives Judy Boyle, Heather Scott, and Sage Dixon were among a group of western state legislators who traveled to Burns, Oregon last Saturday (January 8, 2016) on a fact finding mission. We were among a selected group of state legislators invited by an Oregon legislator because of our commitment to liberty, freedom and […]
When guns are outlawed and confiscated, then only outlaws in and out of government will have guns to control the citizens. It appears that Obama is working to join Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Lenin and Castro to disarm citizens. Gun control laws do not control crime because crimes are not committed by guns. Crimes are committed […]
The experiences of my youth have molded me into a fiscal conservative. Though no man is an island, there had been a number of times in life where the only thing that could be counted on was my own entrepreneurship, ingenuity, and effort. Thank God I live in a country that gave me the freedom […]
Very often someone says [essentially] that the answer to career politicians’ opportunistic abuses and violations of their public’s trust and the sacred oaths they took to our Constitution is to get rid of them rotely thru TERM LIMITS. Appreciating that frustration full well, it does feel good to vent the expression ‘get rid of them […]
Little remembered today outside of a few scholars, James T. Young was a progressive Professor of Academia for the University of Pennsylvania at the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. He wrote what would become one of the most important text books on the American Government for over fifty years. His […]
A little recognized fact of the American Revolution was the contribution – indeed, the critical needs fulfilled – by women during the American Revolution. They acted as cooks, maids, laundresses, water bearers and seamstresses for the always-moving Patriot army in order to free up the Minutemen to fight, and they were the bulk of George […]
The Conservative Right seems to operate from a general assumption that things keep getting worse because liberals are in power and democrats win all the elections. However, I got curious and did a little research on the topic. I discovered that over the past 20 years, republicans have held 57% of the control of our […]
Gary Hourigan to speak on Common Core at Hayden area Tea Party meeting on Wednesday, January 20th at the Hayden Library Gary Hourigan spent over thirty years in the mental health field working with chronically mentally ill who were mostly outpatients, as well as in hospitals and in prisons/jails. He has seen first-hand the results of […]
Conservative Republican Senate candidate Glenn Rohrer said Tuesday lawmakers should focus on cutting taxes in 2016, not on creating and expanding entitlement programs, as Governor Butch Otter has suggested. “I challenge Senator Shawn Keough to object to Otter’s budget plan and fight for tax relief for District 1 residents,” said Rohrer. “In his State of […]
Dear Friend, Over the past six months I’ve had the privilege to discuss my campaign platform with many of you in individual and group meetings. Issues important to you have crystallized because I hear them often. I understand the importance for voters to know exactly who and what you are voting for in a candidate. […]
Earlier in December, some Yale students signed a petition to repeal the 1st Amendment. It made some embarrassing national buzz. It is ironic since the right to petition is part of the 1st Amendment. In reality, the 1st Amendment is under attack in multiple ways in almost all our public schools and colleges. It is […]