The Ninth Circut Court of Appeals refuses to reinstate Trump’s travel ban. The next step for the Trump Administration will be to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. A federal appeals panel on Thursday unanimously rejected President Trump’s bid to reinstate his ban on travel into the United States from seven largely Muslim nations, […]

Trump signs three executive orders dealing with public safety. The first order creates a task force to look into crimes and police deficiencies.  The second executive order directs his staff to develop new laws to protect all law enforcement from crimes.  The third executive order is an order to target cartels and criminal organizations. 

More counterexamples. Via The Missoulian: “It’s the most snow we’ve had through Jan. 14, ever,” said National Weather Service senior meteorologist Bob Nester. That’s 38.6 inches so far, with the entire 1996-97 winter recording a total of 59.5 inches. The “meteorological winter” lasts from Dec. 1 through the end of February, according to the National

As the article explains, lack of wind and nuclear outages made energy scarce and power prices spike.  German coal and gas-fired power plant output in January rose to its highest in almost five years as cold weather boosted demand while below average wind and record-low winter nuclear availability reduced supply, according to power generation data compiled

Yesterday Perth had it’s coldest ever February day (since 1910) with temperatures only making it up to 17.4C. This is not just 0.1 or 0.2C below the previous coldest record in February, but a whole 1.7C colder. Perth also got its second wettest February Day with a 106mm of rain. (To put a fine point

Seizing property of suspects who have not been convicted of a crime? That’s criminal in and of itself!  A sheriff was complaining about a bill to limit the government’s ability to seize and keep the cars, homes and other property of criminal suspects who have not been convicted of a crime. Critics call it policing

When he was criticized for his sweeping temporary ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations, President Donald Trump quickly said that Barack Obama had selected the countries. When he reorganized the National Security Council to add his chief strategist, Trump said Obama had done the same thing. When he authorized a raid in Yemen that

The Palouse River is now expected to crest just below flood stage in Potlatch overnight.  The National Weather Service is forecasting that the river at Potlatch should reach 14.7 feet either late tonight or early Friday morning.  Flood stage is 15 feet.  There is a chance the river will exceed flood stage.  The crest is

Eigenbrode said farmers are “climate skeptics.” Maybe that’s because their livelihood, income, and posterity are on the line? Maybe because they lived thru the 1960s-1970s “coming ice age” scare? Maybe because they are just not that gullible?  MOSCOW – A six-year, three-state, $20 million research project to study the potential effects of climate change on

How are you going to pay for it?  Democrats in Washington state want to make sure that even if national Republicans and President Donald Trump follow through on their promise to repeal the Obama-era national health care law, that preventative health coverage benefits remain intact in the state. Two bills – one in the House,

Idaho drivers will have a choice of Real ID-compliant or non-compliant driver’s licenses or ID cards under legislation introduced in the Senate Transportation Committee on Thursday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, addresses the concerns some people have about a national ID card. The Real ID Act, approved by Congress in 2005,

The Latah County Sheriff’s Office is warning local merchants of counterfeit currency being used in the area. The currency seized has been $20 and $10 bills. One of these bills was presented as payment at a business in Troy, according to a news release from the sheriff. The counterfeit bills can be easily recognized, as

Again: protests are fine. Riots, violence, and destruction of property aren’t protests. Those are criminal acts.  Too bad the college students were never taught to think about distinctions.  In one day UC Berkeley’s student newspaper The Daily Californian published five opinion pieces defending the violent protests over last week’s Milo Yiannopoulos talk. At the protests, which turned into a riot,

More proof of the hypocritical and two-faced nature of the Democratic Party!