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Via the Daily News:  The Snake River Complex Fire remained at roughly 10,000 acres Thursday, but the heat began to take its toll on firefighters battling the blaze. Public Information Officer Megan Hill said four firefighters were transported to a nearby hospital from heat-related injuries and exhaustion suffered while battling the blaze, which is burning […]

The following Letter to the Editor ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News:  The Republican and Democratic national conventions revealed that the two major parties are no longer in step with Idahoans. In Idaho 70 percent of members in both parties said they do not want either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. Idaho is ripe for

Russia is manipulating the 2016 U.S. presidential election by leaking hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) servers — emails that show the DNC rigged and manipulated the Democratic primary in favor of Hillary Clinton. Call it an exercise in hypocrisy, or call it a deflection to detract from the fact that America’s political process is corrupt beyond belief.

Via the NY Times:  The United States is home to 324 million people. Each square here represents 1 million people. 103 million of them are children, noncitizens or ineligible felons, and they do not have the right to vote. 88 million eligible adults do not vote at all, even in general elections. An additional 73

In a new interview, Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, says she left the Baptist Church at the age of 6 because it has a strongly pro-life position opposing abortions. Clinton made the comment at a recent fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in an attempt to address evangelicals who question her mother’s

In the first case of a US police officer charged with aiding ISIS, a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority cop was arrested Wednesday for providing material support to ISIS, the Justice Department announced. Nicholas Young was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday but was on law enforcement’s radar since 2010, according to an affidavit released

Trump fires back at Obama’s comments about his being unfit.  Donald J. Trump on Twitter President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States! Trump’s statement, posted to Facebook, read: “Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our

Farmers & Firefighters are working hard to save the wheat fields for harvest.    

“The religious exemption is the only place in the child protective act that places the parent’s right before the child.” This is factually untrue. Every abortion puts the parent’s “rights” before the child’s. There are roughly 1,400 abortions in Idaho every year. I’m not supportive of the faith-healing religions, but they do far less damage

ATLANTA, Ga. – Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund (TPPCF) Chairman Jenny Beth Martin today released the following statement, announcing that the Super PAC associated with the nation’s largest Tea Party group has endorsed U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador for reelection to his seat representing Idaho’s First Congressional District. “Since being elected to Congress in 2010, Raul

As I read this, my first thought was “and if literacy keeps declining, are you going to remove the funding?”  The education-industrial complex has done a great job of marketing themselves as just needing more money. Funny, education was better when per student spending was significantly less.  The legislator who sponsored this year’s signature literacy

It’ll be interesting to see how the Idaho Legislators deal with this.  Dan Sevy, a member of the Followers of Christ and a practitioner of faith healing, told lawmakers today, “I want to point out that we believe in freedom of health care. Not free health care, but freedom of choice in health care.” Sevy,

The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is following up on a lawsuit that forced voting changes in Yakima with a similar case against Pasco, alleging that the way the city runs its elections weakens the political voice of Latinos. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, the ACLU says that

An Idaho school district has painted over a mural that some considered disrespectful to Native Americans. KTVB-TV reports that officials say the former logo depicting a stereotyped Native American doesn’t reflect the current culture of Boise Schools. The school mascot is still the “Braves,” but the logo hasn’t been used for 25 years. District spokesman

Campaign officials said that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will be traveling to the Pacific Northwest within the next month for rallies and fundraisers. Republican Sen. Doug Ericksen of Ferndale, the deputy director for the Washington state campaign, said Thursday that while the dates and locations are still being worked out, Trump will visit Washington

Idaho’s religious exemption from charges of child abuse, neglect, child injury and manslaughter, passed in the 1970s to accommodate faith-healing groups, came under close scrutiny at a legislative hearing Thursday. “The religious exemption is the only place in the child protective act that places the parent’s right before the child,” Mary Jo Beig, an attorney

Whoops! Sorry about that. Back to our hole… An Idaho environmental group that accused a nationwide plastic bag producer of violating federal laws on reporting toxic waste says it made a mistake. The Idaho Conservation League in a joint statement Monday with Novolex says that after reviewing information it now understands that a facility operated