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 […]
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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
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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
I’ve been saying this for years. Actuaries have known this since the 1970s. For the 28 percent of Idaho’s population who are Millennials, politics probably looks pretty bleak this year. No wonder: Both parties are actively trying to ruin our futures. I’m talking about what Democrats and Republicans want to do with Social Security. No
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OLYMPIA – State wildlife managers are planning to kill some wolves in a northeastern Washington pack after its members killed at least four cattle this year. Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Jim Unsworth authorized killing a portion of the Profanity Peak pack in Ferry County after investigators on Wednesday confirmed a calf had been
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Tragic. Across the U.S., 1 in 9 adolescents ages 12 to 17 had at least one major depressive episode in the last year, according to a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Of the 10 states with the highest rates, four
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Via the NY Times: The United States is home to 324 million people. Each square here represents 1 million people. 103 million of them are children, noncitizens or ineligible felons, and they do not have the right to vote. 88 million eligible adults do not vote at all, even in general elections. An additional 73
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The movement is at war with black husbands and fathers. Unless you have been “off the grid” for a while, you have heard a lot in the news about Black Lives Matter. This “movement” has gotten a lot of press and some notable praise from celebrities and politicians, including positive mentions from President Obama. But I
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In a new interview, Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, says she left the Baptist Church at the age of 6 because it has a strongly pro-life position opposing abortions. Clinton made the comment at a recent fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in an attempt to address evangelicals who question her mother’s
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In the first case of a US police officer charged with aiding ISIS, a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority cop was arrested Wednesday for providing material support to ISIS, the Justice Department announced. Nicholas Young was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday but was on law enforcement’s radar since 2010, according to an affidavit released
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Obama administration insists there was no quid pro quo, but critics charge payment amounted to ransom. The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.
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Trump fires back at Obama’s comments about his being unfit. Donald J. Trump on Twitter President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States! Trump’s statement, posted to Facebook, read: “Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our
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“The religious exemption is the only place in the child protective act that places the parent’s right before the child.” This is factually untrue. Every abortion puts the parent’s “rights” before the child’s. There are roughly 1,400 abortions in Idaho every year. I’m not supportive of the faith-healing religions, but they do far less damage