Imagine a meeting of your neighborhood watch where the neighbor down the street bursts in, yelling “Help, my house is burning!” You survey the room and another neighbor is sitting there decked out in fire-fighting gear from head to toe.
The semi-annual Idaho Republican Party Central Committee will convene in Pocatello the weekend of June 20-21. Following a recent “trend,” the topic will not be “How to grow the Party.” Instead, it appears to be “How to whittle the Party down to only the purest compliers with Republican orthodoxy.”
It’s graduation season, a time of celebration, reflection and pride for both graduates and their families. I’ve had the privilege of speaking with some of Idaho’s graduating seniors, young men and women who stand at the threshold of a new chapter in life. In every conversation, I’ve seen a real sense of excitement at what the future holds.
America is a constitutional Republic. Or at least it usually is. Evidence is growing that, sometime between 2021 and 2025, nameless activists, never elected and completely unaccountable to “the People,” usurped the power of our nation’s chief executive.
Century High School graduates pictured during their recent commencement ceremony at the ICCU Dome in Pocatello.
Life imitates art. Where we find heroes and villains in the popular fiction of our day suggests the landscape of heroes and villains in our everyday lives.
Transparency in government is essential. If exposure to public view is a disinfecting light, efforts to obscure and spin legislative votes are the tile beneath the urinal at a bus station.
What did America’s founders, like Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton, think of TikTok, social media moderation, personal data mining, illegal alien deportation, and mass vaccination mandates?
There are laws ordering you to turn your money over to a tax collector, fill out forms and get approval before building, traveling, or doing things involving “risk,” and demanding you “obey all applicable signage.” But have you ever heard of a law declaring you should celebrate?
Republicans are determined to keep President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, but struggle to close the nearly $4 trillion gap those cuts open between federal income and spending over the next decade.