BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador and 24 other Republican Attorneys General issued a joint statement supporting President Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in response to violent rioting in California. “We will always defend the right to peacefully protest, but there’s nothing peaceful about arson, assault, and anarchy. If you set police cars on […]
Dear Friends, This week, the State of California agreed to repeal key provisions of a sweeping electric-vehicle mandate known as Advanced Clean Fleets. This rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, sought to force a nationwide shift in trucking technology without legal authority or the consent of other states. Idaho joined a 17-state coalition […]
We have previously commented on the tragedy of the California fires. Prayers and calls for God’s many graces and mercies on the families and homeowners continue. Tragedies and natural disasters have been part of the human experience since the beginning of time. We can’t stop these events. We can mitigate and prepare to minimize the […]
Our hearts and prayers go out to the citizens of LA County. They also go out daily to everyday people, who through actions or no actions on their part, find themselves and their loved ones separated temporarily from each other. Famine, destruction, petulance and death have forever been part of the human condition dating back […]
Boise, ID – Attorney General Raúl Labrador led a coalition of 27 states in filing an Amicus Curiae brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Second Amendment, asking the Court to affirm the lower court’s decision to enjoin California’s unconstitutional Assault Weapons Control Act (AWCA) in Miller v. Bonta. For […]
If you were an owner or an investor in an abortion clinic in California future business couldn’t be looking better. I know such a person and he sent me the following information from the Guttmacher Institute—an organization that has always supported abortion. He considers himself to be “Pro Choice” I would like to ask upfront is […]
The sheer hypocrisy of Luke Mayville’s recent op-ed accusing Republicans of corruption (very subtly titled, “Corruption, Corruption, Corruption”) is truly amazing. You see, Mayville – a New York City Ivy League professor who leads the group “Reclaim Idaho,” which was behind the Medicaid expansion initiative on the November 2018 ballot – has relied on hundreds […]
“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” — Published with Permission of FEE.org — During a speech at Harvard several years ago, Charlie Munger related a story about a surgeon who removed “bushel baskets full of normal gallbladders” from patients. The doctor was eventually removed, but much later than […]
— Published with Permission of cfact.org — California’s wildfires are a horrific tragedy. At last report 63 people are dead, 631 missing and 11,862 structures have been destroyed. We hold those lost and suffering in our thoughts and prayers. Not unexpectedly, Governor Jerry Brown would have us believe the harm caused by California’s wildfires is […]
— Published with Permission of cfact.org — Estimated construction costs for California’s high-speed rail line have risen to $100 billion (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/us/california-high-speed-rail.html) – or $8,000 per California household – according to the latest estimates. Years behind schedule and $60 billion over budget, estimated construction costs have now risen to over $1.2 million per mile of track. […]
I feel like Paul Revere. “The communists are coming, the communists are coming.” This is real. Their new leader is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This former waitress has been called “the future of the Democrat Party” by the DNC Chairman. She is now campaigning across the country for Democrat candidates. She is their great hope. Democrats used to hide their […]
Remember the famous (but sad) saying, “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes truth.” Well I have the number one lie in America for you—”Diversity makes us stronger. Immigration makes us more prosperous.” Sorry, but not always. California is Exhibit A. It’s filled with immigrants. Ten million to be exact. Many of them illegal. Guess which state […]