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The Unseen Enemy of Children – Part I

The Teachers Union and the Fight for Education Alex Newman has written several books about the effects of the National Education Association and by affiliation the Idaho Education Association. His description states, “Through the deliberate dumbing down and conditioning of children in government schools, the forces of evil have radicalized youth to hate God, family […]

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America has become a Rudderless Ship with an Incompetent Captain

Joe Biden’s Mental State is a Danger to our Country: As we end another week of political turmoil, we find our country being confronted with a President who has just about been declared incompetent by his own justice department. We all know that Joe Biden is having cognitive problems with remembering and communicating in a […]

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You’re funding Idaho’s bloated DEI bureaucracy

Republished article with permission of the Idaho Freedom Foundation A recent Idaho Freedom Foundation report revealed that Idaho’s public university system is spending nearly $6 million on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) administrators. A previous estimate in February 2022, found that spending on DEI administrators across Idaho’s higher education system was around $2.2 million. In two […]

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Idaho GOP Advocates for Limited Government and Lower Spending

The Republican Party cherishes the principles of fiscal conservatism. We believe in keeping government as small as possible, keeping spending as low as possible, and keeping as much money as possible in the hands of the people who earned it. Idaho has traditionally been a red state, which makes it all the more frustrating that […]

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The New Republican Party

Kootenai County is the home of the most successful, respected and emulated Republican Central Committee in Idaho, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee or KCRCC. The mission of the KCRCC is to enhance freedom and prosperity by promoting fiscally and socially conservative candidates who will implement the Idaho Republican Party Platform as policy. Republican voters […]

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More Shenanigans, More Spending, And Less Tax Relief!

Our Joint Finance Appropriations Committee (JFAC) voted early in the 2024 legislative session to split our state agency budgets. This meant the House and Senate would vote on the maintenance segment of the state budget, and then have debate on the line items or new requests (including governor’s requests) to determine wants and needs. This […]

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Attorney General Labrador Joins Coalition Opposing Biden-Senate Border Bill

(BOISE) – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general on a Texas-led letter to the leadership of the United States Senate strongly objecting to measures in the “border bill” proposed in that chamber after negotiation with the White House. “The President has made it overwhelmingly clear that our borders are […]

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Climate Change, the Big Lie

The Truth Will Set You Free (John 8:32) For the past 35 years, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned us that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, predominantly carbon dioxide (CO2), are causing dangerous global warming. This myth is blindly accepted—even by many of my science colleagues who know […]

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Are You a Domestic Terrorist?

In 2021, the National School Board Association (NSBA) wrote a letter to the president asking that “the classification of these heinous actions (by parents at school board meetings) could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes” and be “reviewed by the U.S. Departments of Justice”, later apologizing for that letter. […]

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The BLM’s Solar Agenda

The current president has been hell bent on forcing America into a renewable energy waste bin, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is more than happy to participate. But the rush is on because the solar energy plan must be accomplished by 2035. BLM land has been littered with solar panels since 2012. Because of […]

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John Livingston

Idaho’s Romper Room

Down at the capital this morning I heard a new term to describe the more progressive branch of the Republican Party in Idaho—formerly referred to as RINOs. The term was “Romper Room Republicans” I am sure the term was used in a pejorative fashion, but there were some very positive things about the TV show […]

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John Livingston

Do We Know Who We Are?

I watched the Tucker Carlson—Vladimir Putin interview twice last night. Before I give my impressions of the interview, I want to note that there has been very little notice given to it by any in the mainstream media—including Breitbart and Fox. Could you imagine the “noise” if Bret Baier or Rachel Maddow had been able […]

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