11,452 acres burned as of Sunday afternoon.  The Snake River Complex Fire was 85 percent contained as of Sunday afternoon after only consuming 90 acres during the weekend. The fire, which jumped a one-quarter mile section of the Snake River on Tuesday afternoon near Granite Point, had burned a total of 11,452 acres as of […]

With the national debt nearing $1 trillion and partisan gridlock gripping the country’s law-making bodies, some members of Congress are looking at new ways to create an annual federal budget. Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said this inability to pass a budget and control federal spending is what

“Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free.” “Don’t get hung up on differences in income when they result from people being themselves. If they result from artificial political barriers, then get rid of those barriers. But don’t try to take unequal people and compress them into some homogenous heap. You’ll never

This data is courtesy of The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.   

Via Bethany Blankley:  According to a report recently made public, early this year, ISIS specifically identified 15,000 Christian Americans for death and instructed jihadists already in America to begin widespread murder. The Kill List report comes in the wake of ISIS already publicly warning American and British Christians that “they were next.” British police last week publicly warned

“Sometimes it takes a mongoose to kill a snake.” Via Gary DeMar:  As I’ve pointed out in a previous article (“Vote Your Conscience: Vote Trump, Defeat the Clinton Political War Machine“), my first pick for President was Ted Cruz. When he did not win the primary selection, I did not pout, get angry, or become

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