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Idaho voters to have 8 options for presidential candidates

Idaho has swung for Republican presidential candidates for more than four decades, but voters will still have plenty of options for those who don’t want to pick either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton come November. In total, there will be eight candidates seeking the country’s highest political office on the Idaho ballot. Those include Libertarian […]

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Law Enforcement Officers Ride School Bus, Look For Distracted Drivers

The adults riding a school bus roaming around Moscow’s main city streets this week were not headed to school. They were law enforcement officers searching for drivers committing traffic violations. They placed a special emphasis on catching drivers who were texting and driving, which is illegal in Idaho. Members of the Moscow Police Department, Idaho

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Obama-Backed Solar Company Goes On The Auction Block

A judge approved September auctions for a government-backed solar panel company that could put up to $224 million in its coffers. Judge Stuart Bernstein signed off Thursday on auction rules for two parcels of projects SunEdison was producing amid a slew of financial and legal problems. Those problems landed the company in bankruptcy. … The Obama-backed company benefited

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North Atlantic surface waters cooling – Headed for a Maunder Minimum?

This goes back to the argument from the solar physicists that the sun is cooling off. FWIW, I came really close to shifting my major in college from general physics to astrophysics. Probably wouldn’t have done my career much good as a nuclear engineer, but it might have been useful in the global warming wars. 

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The warming started long before our emissions became important

The correlation looks “good” from 1979-1999, but there are contradictions in every other time period. Everything about this graph tells us that CO2 is not a major controller. Other forces are more important and the mainstream climate modelers don’t know what those drivers are — they are not even looking for them. (On the other

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Experts “surprised” to discover what skeptics have known for years: world has been warming for 200 years

Facts are stubborn things. For years, skeptical scientists have been pointing at data that showed the the world started warming somewhere from 1700 – 1820. This has been known from glaciers, sea level studies, ice cores, boreholes, ocean heat content estimates, and more proxies than any climate-nerd cares to name. Finally, expert climate modelers are “surprised” to discover this: “…their study

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Republicans To Pull Money From Trump Ads And Spend It On Alcohol

Via the Borowitz Report:  Calling it “the best use of our resources at this time,” the Republican National Committee has decided to pull money originally earmarked for Trump campaign ads and spend it on alcohol instead. According to the R.N.C. chairman Reince Priebus, the decision to reallocate the funds from television advertising to alcoholic beverages came

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Arrival of the LINOs

The only third party candidate who is within shouting distance of being able to make it on the debate stage with Hillary and Trump is Gary Johnson. Maybe he will make it, and maybe he will not, but whether he succeeds there or not, a lot of Christians are looking around for some decent place

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From a Course on Miley Cyrus to ‘Identity-Based Housing,’ Examples of Lunacy on College Campuses

From Walter E. Williams. It’s worth reading the entire article! As the fall semester begins, parents, students, taxpayers, and donors should be made aware of official college practices that should disgust us all. Hampshire College will offer some of its students what the school euphemistically calls “identity-based housing.” That’s segregated housing for students who—because of

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McClatchy: The Clinton Foundation comes under scrutiny again

The Clinton campaign is rushing to defend the Clinton Foundation after an Associate Press report found half of the people who met with Hillary Clinton while Secretary of State also donated to the Foundation. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook called the report cherry-picking, suggesting AP only took a fraction of Clinton’s meetings into consideration. “This is a woman

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Special Delivery

The U.S. Postal Service has fired a postal carrier who dumped hundreds of pieces of mail into a Lee County, Florida, dumpster, and she could face federal charges. The owner of a nearby pizzeria saw the carrier, whose name wasn’t released by the postal service, dump an entire bin of mail containing bills, letters and business fliers.

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University of Chicago Warns Freshmen Not to Expect Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings

This is great news, and Robby Soave (and U of C’s Dean) doesn’t pull any punches for the fragile students attending college these days. Heaven forbid that college students would be exposed to new ideas! Many universities are caving to fragile students’ demands for emotional protection from offensive speech. The University of Chicago isn’t one

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