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Obama’s Indian Country

An Obama administration official got into a fistfight with a Native American college student over a Washington Redskins shirt the student was wearing at a Pow Wow in Washington, D.C. Barrett Dahl says William Mendoza, executive director of the White House Initiative of American Indian and Alaska Native Education, approached him, called him stupid and uneducated for […]

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32% of likely voters said they “would consider” voting Libertarian

According to a new poll, 32% of likely voters said they “would consider” voting for Libertarian Gary Johnson. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson could have a better showing in November than his current 9 to 10 percent polling averages suggest, according to a Morning Consult poll published Monday. Thirty-two percent of likely voters reported they would at least

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Did Trump just flip-flop on immigration?

Donald Trump promised to be “fair, but firm” on immigration Monday, after previous pledges to forcibly deport 11 million immigrants living in the United States. When asked if his plan still included mandatory deportation, his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said the plan was “to be determined.” The Republican nominee is now delaying an immigration speech previously set for later

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Colin Powell Rejects Claim He Inspired Clinton’s Private Server

Lies, lies, and more lies.  Hillary Clinton reportedly told the F.B.I. former Secretary of State Colin Powell recommended she use a private email server, according to the New York Times. On Saturday, Colin Powell denied he had anything to do with the matter.  He suggested “her people have been trying to pin it on me” to deflect criticism.

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State Department reviews 15,000 previously undisclosed Clinton emails

A Federal District Court judge ordered the State Department to expedite its review of nearly 15,000 new emails uncovered by the F.B.I.’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s personal email account. While most of the original 55,000 pages of work-related emails have already been released, the several thousand new emails come from the accounts of people Clinton was in communication with

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Judge In Texas Temporarily Blocks Obama’s Transgender Rules

A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration’s order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity. In a temporary injunction signed Sunday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that the federal education law known as Title IX “is not ambiguous”

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Latah County Sheriff Wayne Rausch Hopes State Will Address Pot Rules For New Hires

Current law requires law enforcement candidates to be clean of marijuana for at least three years.  Latah County Sheriff Wayne Rausch told county elected officials and department heads Monday the Idaho Peace Officer Standards and Training Council will push the state Legislature to make it easier to hire deputies who may have used marijuana in

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Oregon collects $25.5M in marijuana taxes

Oregon has processed $25.5 million in tax payments from recreational marijuana from January through the end of July.  The state’s Department of Revenue says medical marijuana dispensaries were required to file their second-quarter returns for recreational marijuana by Aug. 1.  Oregonians legalized recreational marijuana in late 2014.  But it can only be sold by medical

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NBC: Headed For A Teeth-Shattering Winter

“Frigid.” “Exceptionally cold.” “Return of the Ice Cold Winter.” Those are the words used to describe this coming winter. The Almanac predicts a colder-than-normal winter for two-thirds of the nation. “Exceptionally cold conditions” are expected in the Northern Plains, Great Lakes, Midwest, Ohio Valley, Middle Atlantic, Northeast, and New England states. The West could see

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FBI finds 14,900 more files from Hillary Clinton’s email server

Here we go again. I’m still expecting that the juicy ones won’t leak until it’s time for the October Surprise! Just because the US Attorney General isn’t bringing charges over Hillary Clinton’s private email server doesn’t mean that it’s all over — far from it. FBI investigators have unearthed 14,900 more files (email and documents) on the server, or almost 50

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Federal judge blocks transgender student guidelines

The Obama administration’s transgender student guidelines are on hold, for now. A federal judge in Texas issued a temporary order blocking the May 13 guidelines — which have drawn fire from state officials in more than a dozen states, including Idaho. The guidelines address several topics, including access to restrooms and other school facilities. Under the guidelines,

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