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Next week’s GOP convention in Cleveland has raised all the anticipatory angst of a condemned man being led to the gallows. Many GOP regulars are skipping Cleveland entirely. (“I would rather attend the public hanging of a good friend,” says Will Ritter, an up-and-coming Republican digital strategist who worked on the three previous conventions.) And among those […]

Just as economists promised: raising the minimum wage reduces the number of low-skilled workers hired and retained.  Well done, progressives!  Perhaps one of the more interesting data points from last week’s Employment Report is displayed in the graph above, which shows that the jobless rate for black male teens (aged 16-19 years) increased to 40.1%

The Tax Foundation has released a new ranking of state and local sales taxes, and Idaho ranks at the lower end: 37th. The foundation calculated Idaho’s combined state and local sales tax rates, on average, at 6.03 percent; Idaho’s 6 percent sales tax is statewide, and it has very few local sales taxes, mainly limited

The Libertarian team of former GOP New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Republican Governor William Weld is running strong nationally with some polls showing the team at around 10% of the popular vote. What many may not know is that their campaign is being run out of Salt Lake City, Utah. The campaign

The national debate over transgender bathroom laws will make its way to the living rooms of Fox News viewers who watch the Republican National Convention next week. The ad features Alaina Kupec, a transgender woman from North Carolina, a state with a controversial law mandating people use the bathroom corresponding with the gender on their birth certificate

In his recent newsletter, Congressman Raul Labrador writes: Americans’ trust in government suffered a terrible blow last week. The Hillary Clinton email scandal is an outrageous example of how those with political connections get away with lying and cheating while ordinary Americans have the book thrown at them for the tiniest technical violation. FBI Director

The Idaho Child Fatality Review Team has published its third annual report, this one reviewing child deaths in 2013, and it found five more Idaho children died because their parents’ religious beliefs prevented them from seeking medical treatment. That brings the total over three years of reviews to 10 Idaho children. However, the report notes

In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more restrained approach. Now, after the shooting deaths of five officers at a Dallas protest decrying last week’s police killings of two more black men, some experts are suggesting it’s possible

Via CNN:  Two House Republican committee chairmen formally requested that the Justice Department investigate whether Hillary Clinton lied to Congress. House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, sent a letter to Channing Phillips, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, on Monday, asking for a new probe to

T-shirt seen in a gift shop near Denali National Park.