Misdirection is a common tactic in most competitions. Basketball has feints right or left, baseball has the “slash bunt,” and tennis players attempt to telegraph “wrong-footing” volleys.

There is a libertarian mantra both infuriating, and extremely difficult to prove wrong. It goes something like this: “There is no constituency for good government.”

America is not a pure democracy. We are a constitutional republic, and with good reason. Pure democracy is a flawed and miserable institution.

Psalms 106:37-38 — Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: And the land was polluted with blood.

At least for now, Idaho will retain its status as a place where voluntary brain cell destruction is limited to booze and football. With a bill just signed by Governor Little, possessing as little as an ounce of marijuana is punishable by a fine of no less than $300.

After decades of debate and some of the fiercest and most expensive lobbying in Idaho’s history, parental choice in schools is just one signature away.

Half of my friends want to know why Idaho’s Governor Brad Little went bonkers and now wants to subsidize private religious schools with tax money.

For twenty-two years I represented my employer on the board of Idaho’s leading business lobby. That entire time on only a handful of issues I personally disagreed with the prevailing view. Whether to apply a sales tax to groceries was one of those.

The Germans said it this way: “Gott steckt im Detail.” Almighty God is manifest in detail.