Via The Military Times: The Pentagon plans to announce the repeal of its ban on transgender service members July 1, a controversial decision that would end nearly a year of internal wrangling among the services on how to allow those troops to serve openly, according to Defense officials. Top personnel officials plan to meet as […]
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Idaho Ed News has the latest data on SAT scores by school & district. The good news: Moscow School District ranked 7th in the state. The bad news: only 55% of MSD students are proficient in math (which tells you how bad off the rest of the state is). Also, see if you can figure
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I cannot either verify nor deny the veracity of the claims made here. From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News: Here is the real story behind John Freeland’s withdrawal from the District 5 Senate race. For years, the Idaho GOP has been abandoning its principles of limited government, self-determination and individual liberty in favor of crony capitalism
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In the Moscow-Pullman Daily News: One of the most annoying things to ever happen in my life is the fact that I made promises not to comment on what exactly went down in the 24 hours between when I was saying that there was no way that I was going anywhere (Daily News, June 7),
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In today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Former Dem. Idaho State Rep. Shirley Ringo imparts her wisdom about gun control: As individual justices on the U.S. Supreme Court change, along with the prevailing attitudes in the country, the nature of Court decisions varies. Some are revisited with different results. An example is Brown v. Board of Education,
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On this day in 1314, Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated the English host under Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn–securing Scots independence (and the first Brexit). Via George Grant
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Congratulations, Great Britian, on your Brexit decision! This is a win for the anti-globalization and anti-statist forces.
This story is like peeling an onion to get thru layers to the truth. First it was “nothing happened.” Then it was “no Syrians; no knife; no gang rape.” And now this. There’s a lot more going on here than little kids “playing doctor.” The 89-year-old woman who came across a 5-year-old Twin Falls girl following
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Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 4-4 decision in United States v. Texas. The Court kept in place a 2015 decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that President Obama’s unilateral executive action to confer lawful status to millions of undocumented aliens is unlawful. Idaho was
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Why are Americans not allowed the freedom to buy the eggs & milk that they choose? Why must the gov’t protect us from our decisions? While Americans in the nearby city of Detroit face life in third world conditions, unable to even afford running water, the state of Michigan decided to direct its resources towards
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Preview With less than a month to go before the Republican National Convention, Cleveland police are teaming up with FBI agents to conduct so-called “community outreach.” The activists they’re visiting, however, call it “intimidation.” Read more here.
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The head of a Utah-based militia was caught trying to use an explosive device at a Bureau of Land Management facility. He had hoped to bomb a remote location in Arizona, but the plan fell apart when he tasked an undercover FBI agent to build the weapon. Via RT
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Via Climate Change Dispatch: Just days after the ISIS-inspired Orlando shooting, Secretary of State John Kerry was busy touring the Arctic Circle this week to see how climate change was affecting the region. But he did make one stunning admission: ISIS and terrorism poses a bigger threat than climate change, revealing a drastic paradigm shift. On Thursday, Kerry told
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