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John Livingston

From David to Goliath or Behemoth to Leviathan

The Midwestern Farmer–Labor tradition began as a defense of ordered liberty and local independence and, over time, was captured by centralized, progressive forces that now use its rhetoric to justify bureaucratic control and dependency. Understanding that transformation is essential if families today are to teach their children to be both pious and patriotic, and to […]

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Food Control is People Control

Greetings Senators Crapo and Risch; Representatives Simpson and Fulcher; Governor Little; Lt. Governor Bedke and the Idaho State Legislature: Please stop funding all wind and solar so-called green energy projects including wasteful Carbon Capture as they are not sustainable. Our farmers and ranchers are under attack from the United Nation’s Agenda 2030. Co-sponsor S. 3428 […]

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John Livingston

Context and Solitude

Two of the smartest, most educated, and clearest thinkers that I have met in my life are my brother who owns a trucking company, and my brother-in-law who has owned and skippered several commercial fishing boats out of Kodiak Alaska. They both are extremely well read and are facile in The Classics, Modern and Ancient […]

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On the Edge of Common Sense: Labor Day on the farm

— Published with Permission of HeraldandNews.com — Labor Day was created by Unions to recognize the American Worker. It did not include ranching and farming; if they did it would destroy the ability of a farmer to get a loan. If a farmer included the cost of his daily labor on a financial statement, no […]

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