This is not going to make the nanny state happy one bit. Messenger will begin to offer an end-to-end encryption feature to a limited test group of users today. It’s a security option that’s been a long time coming for Facebook, which has considered making end-to-end encryption available for several months. The so-called “secret conversations” […]

Workers would be paid $13.50 an hour by 2020 under I-1433.  This is like voting to override the law of gravity. You cannot make low-wage workers more valuable by legislating it. You will either lay low-skilled workers off or replace them with technology.  Supporters of raising the minimum wage in Washington state turned in more

In his speech yesterday, President Obama said that the Minnesota & Louisiana shootings are not isolated.  This was right before the shooting of the white police officers in Dallas.  Do you think President Obama’s rhetoric is helping or hurting race relations in the US?  President Barack Obama called on American law enforcement to root out

Some local Moscow news.  Convicted murderer John Lee claims in a recently filed notice of appeal that he suffered psychological torture and was denied mental health treatment during his stay at the Latah County Jail — factors which affected his decision-making abilities and led him to take a plea deal he didn’t want. Lee was

Idaho 1st District Congressman Raul Labrador, who will be going to the national GOP convention in Cleveland as a Ted Cruz delegate, called today for Donald Trump to choose Cruz as his running mate. Labrador said that would take “the two guys who got about 70 percent of the votes in just about every primary,

Bernie Sanders will endorse Hillary Clinton for president next week, the New York Times reported Thursday. Sanders, who kept up his presidential campaign even as Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, will back her at a campaign event Tuesday in New Hampshire, the report said. Sanders on Thursday signaled he is close to a formal

This clip is under 1 minute and well worth your time. Listening to it! HT: No Agenda

This week, a report was released that showed yet another small window into this problem. In the first study of its kind, the facts show that police in Connecticut employ tasers more often against blacks and Hispanics than against whites. According to one review, the report “found that black men were about three times more likely to be

We’ll see how long this lasts.  In an age when lawmakers have convinced most Americans to pay their taxes “or else,” Libertarian activist Gary St. Fleur, founder of Save Scranton, is stirring taxpayer dissent. He convinced more than 60 brave business leaders in the small Pennsylvania city to sign a petition declaring their refusal to pay the

Back in 2012, the Commanding Officer of the USS Wyoming was relieved of command for mishandling classified information.  He didn’t mean to. There was no intent on his part. He unintentionally broke the law concerning the handling of classified information.  Why do the rules that apply to everyone else in the US government not apply

No transcript. No recording. No oath. Hillary’s entire interview with the FBI is meaningless. As most of us expected it would be. Hillary Clinton did not swear an oath to tell the truth before meeting with the FBI for three and a half hours last weekend, and the interview was not recorded, FBI Director James Comey

Via FPI:  It may now be against the law for Iowa pastors to teach on Genesis 1 that God created mankind – male and female – in His own image. The religious liberty organization Alliance Defending Freedom, on behalf of the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ, has launched a pre-enforcement challenge to the Iowa Civil Rights Commission’s new

Carl R. Truman over at First Things relates the following story from his personal friend, Chad Vegas, in Bakersfield:  As you know, CA has mandated this [school transgender policy] for the whole state. I have served on the largest high school board in CA, and the nation, for 12 years. I basically lead that board.

We’ll know that the companies really care when they either a) refuse to comply, or b) shutdown instead of violating their consciences. Via CT:  For the first time in 11 years, same-sex couples can find “God’s match for you” on the site. ChristianMingle.com will open its 16 million-member site to gay and lesbian users following