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This really was a no-brainer. Socialism predictably fails  in just such places.  Aetna’s decision to abandon its ObamaCare expansion plans and rethink its participation altogether came as a surprise to many. It shouldn’t have. Everything that’s happened now was predicted by the law’s critics years ago. Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said that this was supposed to […]

Just two years later, I was pursuing my Masters of Science degree in Information Technology Management and learning to code HTML by hand — a skill that has served me well for 22 years.  The internet just marked another major milestone. The first website, Tim Berners-Lee’s description of the World Wide Web project, went public 25

Whitman County sheriff says unidentified suspects may face reckless burning charge.  It will be at least a week until officials file charges against three individuals who allegedly built a campfire in the area where the Snake River Fire later erupted. Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers said the individuals will not be identified until charges are

It’s ok. It’s not out of my pocket. Let the taxpayers suck it up… $60 million. $60 million!  The Idaho state official in charge of a voided $60 million statewide school broadband contract says he won’t try to recover the money paid out under the illegal deal despite direction from Idaho’s highest court. Idaho Department

Fire officials hope weekend conditions don’t worsen the blaze.  With help from the weather, firefighters are starting to gain headway on the massive Snake River Complex Fire that began in Garfield County and jumped the Snake River on Tuesday. As of Friday afternoon the fire was 70 percent contained and had scorched an estimated 11,362

President Barack Obama scoffed Thursday at Republican Donald Trump’s warnings earlier this week that the presidential election in November may be “rigged.”  “Of course the elections will not be rigged. What does that mean?” Obama said during a press conference at the Pentagon. “The federal government doesn’t run the election process, it is states, and

Idaho lawmakers have taken their first step in reviewing the state’s contentious faith-healing exemption law, which allows families to cite religious reasons for medical decisions without fear of being charged with neglect or abuse. Legal experts, child welfare workers and church-goers took turns testifying in front of a legislative working group on Thursday. Supporters argue

Researchers and employees for a University of Washington lab that uses tissues obtained from abortions and other procedures have filed a lawsuit to prevent their names from being released to anti-abortion activists. The Seattle Times reports employees at the Birth Defects Research Center say they fear harassment and violence if their names are given to

The training delves into the psychology of how people react during mass shootings and other life-threatening events. Often, “they freeze or they go back to what we all learned in school, which is to duck and cover,” Shults said. “But we don’t want people to do that. We want them to leave, to get out

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Among the dirty little secrets I’ve learned as your congressman is that Congress willingly surrenders its constitutional authority to the executive branch. The result is a vastly expanded federal bureaucracy that controls decisions that should be made by Congress. This attack on liberty isn’t new, though President Obama has refined executive overreach with his actions

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.