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If we want our say in 2024 presidential race, March is the time

In response to the Legislature removing the March presidential primary, the Idaho Republican Party State Central Committee voted overwhelmingly to host a presidential nominating caucus on March 2, 2024. Without this caucus, more than half a million Republicans in Idaho will have no say in our own nomination for president. Now, the Senate President Pro […]

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Affordable Idaho

“Just a touch of sarcasm” Reclaim Idaho has a brilliant plan to deal with Idaho’s drug, crime, and homelessness problems while making housing more affordable for everyone. Remember that Reclaim brought us Medicaid Expansion that they promised would cost $350 million but it performed three times better and now costs about a Billion dollars a […]

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What the 2024 Idaho Presidential Caucus might be like

During the last legislative session, the Secretary of State Phil McGrane pushed legislation to move the Presidential Primary from March to May. Unfortunately, the bill was poorly drafted and what it really did was to ELIMINATE Idaho’s Presidential Primary entirely. Despite this flaw, the Governor signed the bill which disenfranchised every Idaho citizen from expressing […]

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Idaho’s Presidential Primary

It appears that Governor Little is not going to call a special session to deal with the need to reinstate the March Presidential Primary. This has to be a tragedy of epic proportions. Surely the governor understands that under current policy, our military and our absentee voters will have no vote. That has to be […]

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West Bonner School District — Supporting Change!

My family and I moved here a few years ago anxious to leave the liberal domination of Madison, Wisconsin, and be back out west where I was raised. We loved our time in the mountains and meeting our neighbors who had become good friends. The COVID plandemic opened the public’s eyes to the control of […]

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Too Many Attorneys in our Washington D.C. Legislature

[responsivevoice_button rate=”1″ voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Article”] I’ve been wondering for some time why is our country in such a mess politically and I think l have found at least a partial answer to the question. I did a little research and found out that most of our members of Congress and the Senate […]

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Just some Thoughts on Politics and Voter Apathy

It is interesting that we are hearing more from Christians that the end of the world is near. Or they are saying we must be near the End of Days as described in Revelations. I don’t pretend to be a prophet but I personally, don’t believe that either is imminent. The problems we are dealing […]

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Assassins Vs. Apostles — A Recap of the Election

There are going to be a number of post-election critics and analysts with their opinion of who won and who lost and why. What we know for sure is that the divide is real in our communities. The local paper’s summation that some “engaged in ridiculous culture wars” in a recent editorial confirmed that they […]

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For God, Country, and Harley Brown, Pilgrim

Recently, while lamenting the sad state of our Uni-Party system, where Republicans and Democrats often seem to be just two sides of the same Twix bar, my mind flitted back a few years to the halcyon days of the 2014 Idaho primary campaigns. These days the rancor, rampant dishonesty, hypocrisy, and general disregard for the […]

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Will America Survive Another Two Years?

Many have said they hope someone with an America First Policy, like President Trump, will be elected in 2024 and we will be able to reverse this madness. But the question has to be asked if we will even survive the next two years. As soon as Biden was elected, he signed a stack of […]

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Idaho’s voice must be heard, and early on, in 2024 Presidential race

The 2024 Republican Presidential Primary is shaping up to be one of the most consequential primaries of the last forty years. Selecting the delegates who will decide the next Republican nominee can seem a complicated and arcane process. Across the country, state Republican parties use different procedures to select delegates to send to the Republican […]

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The May 16th Election: Absolutes or Relativism?

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man” is a saying attributed to St. Ignatius of Loyola. “Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted” is credited to Vladimir Lenin. Lenin followed up with another quote that stated, […]

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