Idaho spends less than every state, yet its math scores expose the myth that bigger school budgets buy better results. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 19 May 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Every few months, the same headline sails back into view: Idaho spends less per student than any other state. The […]
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After another anti-Trump assassination attempt, America must confront the rhetoric, media myths, and online mobs turning political murder into moral theater. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 5 May 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. What country treats assassination as political speech? The WHCA dinner attack exposed the pattern. Reports say the suspect wrote
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As D.C. edges toward war with Iran in 2026, Americans must decide whether real defense requires prudence and constitutional restraint, or another ruinous Middle East disaster. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 21 April 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. America should be the hardest nation in the world to bully and the slowest
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On March 28, Moscow and Pullman’s ‘No Kings’ protests used Iran as cover for a far broader anti-Trump outburst, exposing the Left’s selective outrage. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 7 April 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. On March 28, ‘No Kings’ protests in Moscow and Pullman exposed the Left’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
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Why do D.C. Democrats still fight voter ID and proof of citizenship when Americans across party lines, including most Black voters, strongly support both? This editorial ran in the Tuesday 24 March 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. The SAVE America Act should not be controversial. That is what makes the fight over it
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Trump turned his 2026 State of the Union into a midterm ad, and Democrats in the House supplied the footage by refusing to stand for obvious, human moments. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 10 March 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Trump’s 2026 State of the Union did not feel like a governing
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I called it. Grateful for a sane outcome of this trial: A jury in Boise awarded $10 million in damages Friday to a University of Idaho professor who sued a Texas woman for defamation over fabricated claims she repeatedly made on social media that the academic was responsible for the Moscow college student murders. The
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Rep. Janelle Bynum (D., Ore.) described President Donald Trump’s request that lawmakers stand if they believe the first duty of government is to protect American citizens as “racist” and said the moment made her “uncomfortable.” In his Tuesday State of the Union, Trump made a request to lawmakers in the House chamber: “If you agree
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From the Washington Free Beacon: Trump was relatively disciplined throughout. He mostly stuck to the script rather than engage the hecklers, depriving them of the attention they craved. He took a long pause and milked the moment after inviting lawmakers to stand if they agreed that “the first duty of the American government is to
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When the 2026 Super Bowl crowned lust with a “love beats hate” banner, it exposed a divided America, and the object of our worship in plain sight. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 24 February 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. The 2026 Super Bowl halftime show ended with a massive banner proclaiming, “The
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On Feb. 5, 2026, Idaho’s Supreme Court unanimously upheld HB 93, rejected the monopoly arguments, and ordered attorney fees, while thousands of parents rushed to claim school choice. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 10 February 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Opponents of Idaho’s parental choice tax credit attacked House Bill 93 with
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Far-left agitators harassed families at Christ Church D.C., then took the same intimidation playbook into a Southern Baptist service in St. Paul, targeting worship itself. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 27 January 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. A familiar activist playbook is everywhere: disrupt worship in the name of “justice.” One heckler
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Twenty years after Stossel warned us, We still pay top dollar for schools that dodge standards, dodge accountability, and graduate kids who can’t read or do math. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 13 January 2026 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. When I was a college freshman in 1977, my physics professor stopped mid-lecture.
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In 2025, government institutions—from D.C. to Idaho—protected their power, punished parents for demanding better schools and healthcare, and forced families to build parallel systems instead. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 30 December 2025 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. If 2025 revealed anything, it wasn’t a new crisis. It revealed a pattern we should
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This December, I explain why reading mysteries aloud with kids builds brains, strengthens families, and turns Christmas break into something better than screens. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 16 December 2025 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. In elementary school I read my way through Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators Mystery Series, a
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When six Washington Democrats urge U.S. troops to question their commander’s orders, they aren’t defending the Constitution—they’re playing with mutiny in the ranks. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 2 December 2025 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. The inside doors of the stalls in the submarine heads carried excerpts from the Uniform Code of
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As America grows fatter and sicker, Washington is using your tax dollars to buy the junk food and drugs driving our quiet national collapse. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 18 November 2025 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. I still have my old elementary school class photos. My classmates and I went from first
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As 42 million Americans face a pause in food stamp payments, the real crisis isn’t hunger—it’s a nation forgetting the dignity of work. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 4 November 2025 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. My mother died of cancer when I was a baby, leaving my father to raise four sons
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When Brian Rhoades attacked my defense of Idaho’s school choice law, he proved my point—public schools fear accountability more than they value education. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 21 October 2025 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Brian Rhoades claims my Oct. 7 editorial (HB93 Frees Families from Moscow’s Failing Public Schools) could be
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While Moscow’s public schools sue Idaho to stop parents from choosing better options, new data reveal families have already fled—and they’re not coming back. This editorial ran in the Tuesday 7 Oct 2025 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. The Moscow School District (MSD) has joined a lawsuit against Idaho over House Bill 93, the
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