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Op-Ed: Nine Month Abortion is Too Radical for Idaho

I’m sure you’ve heard that the so-called “Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act” has qualified for the ballot. That means you, the voters of Idaho, will face a clear choice this November: bring abortion back to Idaho, or maintain our state’s status as a sanctuary for the unborn. Supporters of the initiative, now called Proposition 1, […]

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Fulcher Issues Federal Land Management Survey, Encourages Idahoans to Participate

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 14, 2026CONTACT: Christianne.Allen@mail.house.gov WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher (Idaho-01) released a survey seeking input from Idahoans regarding the management and use of federal lands within the state of Idaho and the role of local communities in responsible stewardship. “Feedback from this survey is intended to ensure Idahoans have a voice and seat at the table […]

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John Livingston

The Fourth Estate No Longer Guides The People

A free press that hides the truth from voters may still be constitutional—but it has betrayed the Madisonian ideal it was given to serve. The Fourth Estate once named something noble: the public press and journalists as a distinct power in society, standing alongside clergy, nobility, and commoners in early modern Europe. The press emerged […]

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John Livingston

Atheism is the Mistress of the Communist

There is an old saying about the trials and tribulations the people of Israel faced during their forty years in the desert. On at least three occasions, they turned their backs on God and on their leader Moses, begging to return to Egypt and its grinding slavery and servitude. They preferred the familiarity of chains […]

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Bob's Words

Who benefits from Illegal workers in Idaho?

“Wake Up, Idaho, You are Getting Screwed Big Time” Here is the fundamental truth that both Democrats and Republicans refuse to say out loud. The entire immigration debate is framed around “benefits vs. costs” but that framing hides who gets the benefits and who pays the costs. The data makes this crystal clear. The $500 […]

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Labrador Letter: Idaho Wins at the Supreme Court, Six Years After Its Fight for Women’s Sports Began

Dear Friends, Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Little v. Hecox, affirming Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act and ending six years of litigation that began before the law ever took effect. The Court confirmed what Idaho argued from the very beginning: “states may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females.” In 2020, Idaho […]

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AG Labrador Pushes Federal Government to Further Crackdown on Illegal Robocalls

BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador and 48 other attorneys general today called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to strengthen rules that would cut off scammers’ access to legitimate telephone numbers. Without that access, scammers can’t use real numbers to deceive and scam Americans. The Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force asked the FCC to work on this issue in 2021, and members of this coalition are now responding to the FCC’s proposed rules.   “Idahoans are tired of scammers swindling their […]

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Op-Ed: Vote No On Prop 1… Again

Well, it’s all but official. Word is that pro-abortion activists found enough signatures to get their radical and deceptive “Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act” on the November ballot. I’ve never seen such a dishonest title. Abortion is not about freedom, it’s not about privacy, and it’s certainly not about reproduction. Abortion is the deliberate destruction […]

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John Livingston

Family First

For several months, a central theme of my columns has been a simple but historically grounded claim: the political and economic philosophies of progressive socialism and communism have never worked as promised. Time and again, totalitarian systems and command-and-control economies have enriched ruling elites while diminishing the standard of living for ordinary people. Oligarchy is […]

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John Livingston

Economic Agency and Political Dignity

There is a familiar narrative now circulating through mainstream media and progressive political circles: that America is mired in an “affordability crisis,” and that the underlying cause is what critics call “oligarchic capitalism.” It is a phrase designed to provoke—suggesting that free markets have devolved into rule by the few, leaving ordinary citizens economically stranded. […]

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A Nation Remade: How America Has Changed

God has surely blessed our nation — “Happy 4th of July” As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country it is worth measuring the distance the country has traveled not in years, but in the kind of nation it has become. An American from 1950, or even 1980, set down in the present would […]

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PODCAST: Idaho’s Micron Subsidies, Minimum Wage & Immigration

This episode uses classic supply-and-demand economics as a lens on the policy fights shaping Idaho, moving from an abortion measure likely bound for the November ballot into a working tutorial on how markets actually set prices—and what happens when government tries to override them. The economics segment builds from the ground up: the law of […]

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