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Just a quick background. I served as Command Security Manager abroad my submarine. My job was to ensure the safety and security of all the classified information onboard my strategic nuclear missile submarine. As you can imagine, there’s a significant amount of that material onboard, and the requirements to protect it are precise.1 So, I’m qualified to […]

Dave Johnston, the executive director of Idaho’s Republican Party, is only 27 years old, but he’s quickly mastering the art of herding cats. Those skills are handy in his line of work, where peace and harmony do not always prevail. The GOP is the party of the Otter PAC, where pragmatism is not viewed as

Via Idaho Ed News:  Hillary Clinton received the National Education Association’s endorsement in October. But that didn’t prevent the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee from receiving a chorus of boos from union members Tuesday. Speaking at the NEA’s annual conference, Clinton called for a truce in “education wars,” POLITICO’s Kimberly Hefling reported. Clinton drew boos from some

Via Idaho Ed News:  Idaho ended up with a top five ranking in a recent national report — and the results have some encouraging implications for work force development. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center tracked the 536,351 students who received an associate’s degree in 2009-10. Over the ensuing six years, 41 percent of these

The Tax Foundation has released their “State and Local Sales Tax Rates, Midyear 2016” report. This from Betsy Russell:  The Tax Foundation has released a new comparison of state and local sales taxes by state, and Idaho’s ranks at the lower end, 37th highest. The foundation calculated Idaho’s combined state and local sales tax rates, on average,

We knew this was coming. Obama & Biden would’t be campaigning for her if the feds weren’t going to already clear her. Via the UK’s Daily Mail: FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that the FBI will not recommend federal prosecution of Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server to store what turned

The Declaration of Independence was approved this day, July 4, 1776.  John Hancock, the first to sign, said: “the price on my head has just doubled.”  Benjamin Franklin signed saying “We must hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately.” Of the fifty-six signers: 17 lost their fortunes, 12 had their homes destroyed, 9

An Independence Day primer:  Suppose you live in Montana, and one day you get a tax bill in the mail from the tax collector in Pennsylvania. You have never been to Pennsylvania and have absolutely nothing to do with that fine state. You are about to round file that bill when a friend stops you.

This was the scene outside the Convention Center that led to 3 arrests ahead of Donald Trump’s Denver speech. This is the peaceful progressives.

From Bonnie Kristin over at Rare:  The 2004 presidential election was the first to which I paid close attention. Among the key issues of that cycle was civil liberties. Though Democratic candidate John Kerry rapidly became known as a flip-flopper, he also sought to make a name for himself as a civil libertarian, claiming that then-president George

A Milestone For Women In Politics: Libertarians Reflect on Hillary’s Nomination Hillary Clinton’s lock on the Democratic nomination is a historic milestone for our country, and these libertarian women are so proud… Written and Produced by Austin Bragg. Featuring Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nena Whitfield, Kat Murti, Maryrose Milkovich, Emily Reynolds, Hannah Bennett, Molly Davis and Erinn

You won’t hear about this one in the mainstream media. It goes against the meta-narrative.  While the left yammers on that gun rights are a relic of the past and should be tossed aside quicker than a 7 year old gas station hot dog, a concealed carrying gun owner just prevented a mass shooting at

Via Breitbart: Sweden’s police chief unveiled the force’s latest weapon in the fight against sexual assault: wristbands reading “Don’t touch me”. A recent Swedish press release warns that groping is a crime. In it, the country’s national police chief Dan Eliasson said: “No one should have to accept sexual molestation. So do not grope. And

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You will read about this story in the MSM, but you will only hear that the top 1% did twice as well as everyone else. The “politics of envy” will only tell you half the story.  As one of those 99%, I’m grateful that my income group had the best income in 17 years, and

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said her husband Bill’s meeting with US Attorney General Loretta Lynch at Phoenix, Arizona’s Sky Harbor Airport was not related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s email probe and was nothing more than a “chance meeting at an airport tarmac.” Clinton made the comments during her first media interview since

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