An Idaho Falls man who police say identifies as transgender was arrested Tuesday afternoon after deputies say he took photos of a woman in a fitting room in Target. Sean Patrick Smith, 46, who also goes by Shauna Patricia Smith, was booked into the Bonneville County Jail on one felony count of voyeurism.Bonneville County Sgt. […]

Newt Gingrich calls for testing of all with Muslim background, deportation of Sharia believers No Description Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Thursday called for increased scrutiny of Muslims in the United States after a deadly attack in Nice, France “This is the fault of Western elites who lack the guts to do what is

2016 costs expected to surpass $10K per person.  This is the “affordable care” that we were all looking for?  It’s also a wealth transfer from the young to the elderly.  The nation’s health care tab this year is expected to surpass $10,000 per person for the first time, the government said Wednesday. The new peak

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court on Thursday expressed regret for her recent remarks about the candidacy of Donald J. Trump, saying they were “ill-advised.” Earlier this week, Justice Ginsburg called Mr. Trump “a faker” who “really has an ego” and said he had been treated too gently by the press. Mr. Trump,

You could always give that overage back to the taxpayers, to whom it belongs… Idaho’s state tax revenues for June came in $20.1 million higher than projections – 6.5 percent higher – a revenue bump that means Idaho closed out its fiscal year June 30 with a balanced budget and also automatically transferred $15.6 million

The City of Atlanta Police Department cancelled all off-days, and officers are working 12-hour shifts to keep protesters and the city safe. In return, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is asking everyone to treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve.  Remember, it’s the taxpayers who are paying for this overtime.

So, whether Chief David Brown likes it or not, he has become the face of law enforcement in the on-going debate over police brutality. And yesterday, he flipped the script of the debate in a way not often suggested by police unions or civil rights activists, saying, “We’re asking cops to do too much in this country.

Ben Sasse’s letter. It’s worth reading the whole thing (reprinted here in its entirety).  This letter is actually not primarily about the 2016 US election. But the need to highlight three often overlooked distinctions has been made more urgent by the shallow debate surrounding our troubling presidential choice. We need more wrestling together about: 1)

Amid calls to reduce police violence, we need to consider whether we really want police to enforce the regulations of an overweening administrative state. Enforcing Petty Laws Can Be Violent Consider some of the high-profile police killings that started with routine police enforcement of some petty local ordinance. Eric Garner, the black man who died in