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“Be it resolved we adopt in total Senator Bernie Sanders campaign platform for our legislators to work toward.” Idaho Democrat Resolution – June 17 Now, that’s a break from tradition for Idaho Democrats, who for years have assured voters that the Gem State variety of Democrats were far different from those liberal kooks on the […]

Via the Idaho Business Review:  Idaho’s nation-leading job growth has been widely reported, but a report by the Idaho Department of Labor says that Idaho isn’t as far ahead of its neighbors as it appears. Idaho added the most jobs in the country between March 2015 and March 2016. The number of Idaho jobs increased

Via the Idaho Mountain Express:  Blaine County residents came out in droves to voice support for and opposition to a newly developed Blaine County School District policy that would protect transgender and gender-nonconforming students during the school board’s regular meeting in Hailey on Tuesday, May 14. The policy, which was up for discussion last week

Idaho federal prosecutor’s office issued the following statement:  The United States Attorney’s Office extends its support to the five-year-old victim of assault, and her family, at the Fawnbrook Apartments in Twin Falls. The United States Attorney’s Office further encourages community members in Twin Falls and throughout Idaho to remain calm and supportive, to pay close attention

From ABC News:  DOBBS FERRY, New York — A former president of the U.N. General Assembly awaiting trial in a bribery scandal died in a weightlifting accident when a barbell he was lifting from a bench dropped on his neck, an autopsy revealed Thursday. John Ashe was declared dead late Wednesday afternoon by a paramedic

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the broad reach of a federal law that bars people with misdemeanor domestic violence convictions from owning guns. The justices rejected arguments that the law covers only intentional or knowing acts of abuse and not those committed recklessly — where a person is aware of the risk that an

Notice economics at work. When the price of labor is forced to be raised above that of the actual labor price, a various things will happen to compensate: There will be a reduction in labor hired (ie., the lowest skilled workers will be fired There will be a substitution for labor (ie., robots or various

Progressives, who used to fairly pasifist, have now taken the gloves off, bolstered by the momentum of their liberal causes. They are creating their own brand of liberal Shariah Law in America. Via Reason: At least five people were stabbed in a statehouse skirmish between members of the white-nationalist Traditional Workers Party (TWP) and “anti-fascist”

Republicans, Democrats Interpret Orlando Incident Differently This is because it goes against the Dem’s meta-narritive. From Gallup:  Republicans and Democrats have starkly different interpretations of what the recent mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub represents. While 79% of Republicans view it primarily as an act of Islamic terrorism, the majority of Democrats, 60%, see it

Both sides of Brexit were shocked — the Remainers because they have never met a Brexiteer nor bothered to read their arguments. And The Brexiters were a bit shocked too — amazed that despite the big-media bias, puffed up economic scare and the blanket of institutional warnings, the public can still fight off big-gov with

A threatening and overreaching bill (Senate Bill 1146) is working its way through the California legislature. If passed as is, this bill would strip California’s faith-based colleges and universities of their religious liberty to educate students according to their faith convictions. The proposed legislation seeks to narrow a religious exemption in California only to those

A computer algorithm that calculates the likelyhood of a criminal reoffending has been accused of being racially biased against blacks, even though race is never entered into the system.  … race is not an explicit factor in its assessment algorithm. However, some of the factors that do inform the scores can be closely tied to