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UI Spring Enrollment is Up

This is great news.  I was really concerned that the quad-murders in November would affect Spring enrollment.  Via the Moscow-Pullman Daily News:  The University of Idaho is reporting growth in its spring semester enrollment numbers compared to this time last year. A statement from President Scott Green said the numbers show students still want to

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UI president requests funds — Part 2

The question that the Idaho Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee members should have asked: is this money you discuss fungible? In other words, while taxpayers are not funding the UI’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, they are being funded nonetheless. And as a state institution, the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee can say “not

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UI President Requests Funds

President Green is the best UI President in the last 20 years by far.  IMO, it’s because he’s not an academic politician.  BOISE — University of Idaho President C. Scott Green echoed fellow university presidents in noting the impacts of inflation in a presentation to state budget writers, which included an emotional thank-you for security

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Time: Covid Numbers Highly Inflated

Time Magazine’s real title is “COVID-19 Is No Longer a Public Health Emergency”.  But dig into the body of the article:  The former Milwaukee County chief medical examiner conducted a careful review of some 4,000 COVID-19 deaths reported during the pandemic there. His research revealed that nearly half had no link to COVID or in some cases

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EU Ministers Seek Trump-Style Border Walls Amid Spike In Illegal Border Crossings

And Biden build a wall/fence around his personal home to keep the unwanteds out.  But doing so along the Rio Grande is racist.  Some members of the European Union are calling for the body to support renewed construction of border barriers as Europe has seen a rise in illegalborder crossings in recent months. On Jan.

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Idaho: No abortion sanctuary cities

The blue states tell conservatives that if you don’t like their progressive, woke laws, suck it up or move.  Idaho Republicans are telling our state’s woke progressives the same thing.  State’s Rights, baby! Via the Moscow-Pullman Daily News:  BOISE — The House Revenue and Tax Committee on Thursday passed a new, broadened version of an

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Judge Blocks California’s COVID-19 Misinformation Law

Free Speech in the USA: Being able to say what the goverment says you can say. A California judge on Wednesday halted the state’s so-called COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation law, which was challenged by doctors in two lawsuits, claiming it violates their constitutional rights. In Hoeg v. Newsom, five doctors alleged that the state law,

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National Archives Misses Deadline To Send Biden Materials To House Republicans

What’s a deadline if there are no consequences for missing it? The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) failed to meet a Jan. 24 deadline to hand over materials requested by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability relating to the discovery of classified documentsin President Joe Biden’s former office, a committee spokesperson confirmed to

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Feds Allocate Over A Million Dollars To Improve WSU Infectious Diseases Research Lab In Pullman

Are they attempting to stave off another Wuhan leak?  The federal government has allocated over a million dollars to Washington State University to improve a Pullman lab that researches infectious diseases. The money is in the 1.7 trillion dollar federal spending bill that was signed by President Joe Biden last month. According to a post

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Skaug introduces replacement to bill punishing abortion sanctuary cities, applies to all state felonies

Another Idaho conservative that’s driving liberals nuts!  The House Revenue and Tax Committee on Thursday passed a new, broadened version of an earlier proposal to punish cities that declare themselves “sanctuary cities” for abortions. The new bill, sponsored by Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, withholds sales and use tax revenue from any city or county that

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Skaug introduces replacement to bill punishing abortion sanctuary cities, applies to all state felonies

The House Revenue and Tax Committee on Thursday passed a new, broadened version of an earlier proposal to punish cities that declare themselves “sanctuary cities” for abortions. The new bill, sponsored by Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, withholds sales and use tax revenue from any city or county that makes a proclamation declaring that it won’t

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Idaho attorney general joins Texas immigration lawsuit against Biden administration

Gotta love Raul. True conservative.  Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced his office joined a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration over the expansion of a parole program for Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Cubans, an action the administration took in early January, Idaho Capital Sun reporter Kelcie Moseley-Morris writes. The White House’s announcement said the

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