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‘Term Limits’ Sounds Right, But is Dead Wrong!

HERE’S WHY Politically, nothing feels better than to exclaim ‘Throw them all out!’ because a majority of us who are paying attention are madder than hell! How often do you hear others say with conviction that the answer to our problems is term limits? Most of us don’t give serious enough consideration to what that […]

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Down and Dirty Look at the Senate Healthcare Bill

Not Perfect but a Good Start What’s staying the same is the government-managed individual insurance market exchanges will continue, as will the subsidies for people based on income, age, and where they live. For another two years, Washington will continue to pay insurance companies to cover the out-of-pocket costs incurred by lower-income policyholders. Currently, individuals […]

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The Most Unpopular President Ever

Isn’t that what the polls say? Democrats and the mainstream media constantly quote polls reporting that Donald Trump is “the most unpopular president ever.” Funny how this “unpopular president” just keeps winning and winning and winning. 5-0. 100% winning. Undefeated. Perfect. That’s this “unpopular” president’s record in special Congressional elections since his November upset victory. That’s Trump’s […]

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Trumped-Care: If At First You Don’t Fail, Try, Try Again

— Published with Permission of AmericanVision.org — We previously discussed the fraud that has been “repeal and replace” ObamaCare. That fraud was rightly killed by the more conservative members of the House. Now Republican leadership has tweaked the fraud enough to convince enough of the holdouts to go “yea.” Now the House has passed a slightly modified […]

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Petition to Support H.R. 899 Terminate the Department of Education

— Published with Permission of AmericanPolicy.org — “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.” Those words are the entire content of a new bill, H.R. 899. This bill was introduced by courageous Congressman Thomas Massie (R – Kentucky). H.R. 899 is revolutionary. H.R. 899 will end the destruction of America’s education system. H.R. 899 […]

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House Natural Resources Reviews Antiquities Act Abuses, Possible Reversals

— Published with Permission of FreeRangeReport.com — “Traditional Utah Navajo people are not magazine environmentalists but are real stewards of the land whose interests will be destroyed by a Bears Ears National Monument. Grassroots Utah Navajo people do not support this effort to convert our sacred lands into a federal designation that will subjugate them […]

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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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Congressional ‘Magic’ vs. the Constitution

In recent years, it appears that an average day in Washington DC begins and ends with one common tenet: ‘Nothing spends like other peoples’ money.’ By design of the federal government, the largess of federal money we receive here in Idaho is intended to be thought of as benevolent assistance from the federal government, but perhaps […]

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Why the Irrelevant Left and the Sorrys on the Right Might Get ‘Drained’

The Democrat Party is now irrelevant. The far left socialist crazies that have totally hijacked the once proud Democrat Party are so at loss for any meaningful purpose-in-being after the wretched Obama years of destruction that they are now proven to be absolutely baseless and devoid of any justifiable positions going forward due to their […]

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Texas Congressman Proposes ‘Permanent’ Fix for Social Security

— Published with permission from The New American.com — Congressman Sam Johnson (R-Texas), chairman of the House Ways and Means Social Security subcommittee, presented his plan, the “Social Security Reform Act,” on Thursday, which he called “a plan to permanently save Social Security.” His proposal involves the same solutions often proposed by others trying to […]

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