The Tax Foundation has released a new ranking of state and local sales taxes, and Idaho ranks at the lower end: 37th. The foundation calculated Idaho’s combined state and local sales tax rates, on average, at 6.03 percent; Idaho’s 6 percent sales tax is statewide, and it has very few local sales taxes, mainly limited […]
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The Libertarian team of former GOP New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Republican Governor William Weld is running strong nationally with some polls showing the team at around 10% of the popular vote. What many may not know is that their campaign is being run out of Salt Lake City, Utah. The campaign
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The public backlash against police shootings of black people is helping fuel the growth of black hate groups, some of which advocate retaliatory violence against law enforcement, watchdog groups said Monday. The Southern Poverty Law Center counted 113 groups advocating black separatism, black supremacy or some other extreme, black-centric ideology in the United States in
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The national debate over transgender bathroom laws will make its way to the living rooms of Fox News viewers who watch the Republican National Convention next week. The ad features Alaina Kupec, a transgender woman from North Carolina, a state with a controversial law mandating people use the bathroom corresponding with the gender on their birth certificate
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In his recent newsletter, Congressman Raul Labrador writes: Americans’ trust in government suffered a terrible blow last week. The Hillary Clinton email scandal is an outrageous example of how those with political connections get away with lying and cheating while ordinary Americans have the book thrown at them for the tiniest technical violation. FBI Director
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The Idaho Child Fatality Review Team has published its third annual report, this one reviewing child deaths in 2013, and it found five more Idaho children died because their parents’ religious beliefs prevented them from seeking medical treatment. That brings the total over three years of reviews to 10 Idaho children. However, the report notes
Via the LMT: Sojourners‘, the only homeless shelter in north central Idaho that includes housing for single men, lost essential federal funding earlier this spring. As a result, the organization has stopped admitting new residents and focused solely on placing those in its programs into alternate housing. The nonprofit will close during the months of
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In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more restrained approach. Now, after the shooting deaths of five officers at a Dallas protest decrying last week’s police killings of two more black men, some experts are suggesting it’s possible
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Via CNN: Two House Republican committee chairmen formally requested that the Justice Department investigate whether Hillary Clinton lied to Congress. House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, sent a letter to Channing Phillips, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, on Monday, asking for a new probe to
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T-shirt seen in a gift shop near Denali National Park.
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Sarah Palin wrote a fiery Facebook post slamming “cultural influencers” in politics and the media who stirred division leading up to the Dallas attack. She said if she must choose a side, she’ll choose the “Thin Blue Line.” “Shame on politicians and pundits giving credence to thugs rioting against police officers and the rule of
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“If Black Lives Matter was truly concerned about black lives, they’d be concerned about black crime.”
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Just one quick excerpt from Heather Mac Donald’s excellent article over at Imprimis. Facts are stubborn things. I encourage you to read and digest her entire article. It’s not a race issue, it’s a statistics issue. Every year, approximately 6,000 blacks are murdered. This is a number greater than white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even
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Some dark new twists to voting-booth demographics. Via National Review: Since the U.K. voted to leave the EU, there has been a torrent of angry progressives demanding old people not be allowed to vote. As it turned out, a majority of Britons over 50 voted to leave the EU, while a majority of Britons under
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CNN’s Poppy Harlow interviewed Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke about the recent protests that some in the Black Community have sparked after the police related deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Harlow asked the Sheriff, who has been on several news shows on Fox and others, about a tweet he sent out implying that if
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Put yourself in the place of this police officer who is acting calmly, respectfully, and carefully. I never expected what happened to happen. Did you?
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