Looks like Trump is going to keep his word and drain the swamp.  Energy Department officials have refused to provide President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team with a list of names of employees who have attended various climate meetings, according to The Washington Post. Last week, Bloomberg first reported that Trump’s team had sent a questionnaire to the Department of Energy inquiring

Here we go again?  Mount St. Helens is keeping up its unsettled 2016, this time with another small earthquake swarm. The USGS detected over 120 earthquakes over the last few days, all occurring 2-4 kilometers (1-2 miles) beneath the volcano and all very small (less than M1). These earthquakes, like the ones that happened earlier this year, are

For the first time since the 1990s, Americans are dying at a faster rate, and they’re dying younger. A pair of new studies suggest Americans are sicker than people in other rich countries, and in some states, progress on stemming the tide of basic diseases like diabetes has stalled or even reversed. The studies suggest

Progressives are going to need their valium more than ever, now.  It was a good weekend for the GOP and Donald Trump as the great state of Louisiana handed them even bigger majorities in both Houses of Congress. Frist in the Senate, thanks in large part to Louisiana’s odd election methodology, Republican John Kennedy easily

When the truth comes out, I hope head will roll.     “The Trump administration is well aware of the political use and scientific abuse of climate for a political agenda. I learned how aware while attending the Heritage Foundation Climate Conference on Thursday December 8 in Washington D.C. The majority of the public sense

Oh, the irony.  Rick Perry, the former Republican Governor of Texas, has been nominated by Donald Trump to head the U.S. Department of Energy. During the 2011 CNBC Republican presidential candidate debate Perry was listing three Federal agencies that he would eliminate were he to become president. Perry said that he would get rid of the Department of

It just keeps getting better and better.  I didn’t vote for Trump, but had I known that he would faithfully appoint cabinet members like this, I may have reconsidered.  Just to see the climate activists’ with their hair on fire!  Appointing Rex Tillerson to be our chief diplomat is an affront to global progress and

It seems unlikely that the Senate Intelligence Committee’s massive 6,700-page report on the CIA’s use of torture in interrogations will be declassified at some point during the remainder of President Barack Obama’s term. But in order to keep the reports from possibly being destroyed rather than released, the president will be saving a copy in his presidential

Now the fed’s have taken to meddling into something I care about! Rick Newcombe writes: The FDA wants for anyone hand-rolling cigars to register with the government; same with artisan pipe makers. Tobacconists would no longer be able to offer their store’s unique blends without special permission, and no cigar or pipe tobacco introduced after 2007

Donald Trump intends to nominate Rick Perry as secretary of energy. The Energy Department, meanwhile, refuses to provide Trump’s transition team with a list of employees working on climate issues. Barack Obama says it’s important to listen to your intelligence briefings no matter how smart you are, responding to Trump comments that he didn’t need to sit through the

Back in October, Google stated that the FBI lifted a gag order, allowing them to officially disclose they’d been served one National Security Letter (NSL), a type of secret subpoena, by the FBI. This was news because every company is restricted from revealing more than a very broad range of NSLs it has received. But a 2015

What’s a few billion here or there.  Several months after President Obama laid out his plans to cure cancer in his last State of the Union address, he is signing legislation to do just that. Known as the 21st Century Cures Act, the bill will invest $1.8 billion in a Cancer Moonshot Task Force led by Vice President Joe

‘We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally protected religious beliefs.’ Employees from large organizations across the technology industry have pledged to never help build a government database targeting individuals by race, religion or national origin, in response to extreme immigration proposals from US President-elect Donald Trump. The signatories come from

Labrador has been publicly speculating about a possible run for governor of Idaho in 2018. That’s already prompted David Leroy, former Idaho lieutenant governor and former Idaho attorney general, to begin exploring a run for Labrador’s seat. Leroy confirmed last week that he’s interested. He ran for the same seat in 1994, finishing second in

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers may no longer be a sure-thing for winning a nomination to be Interior secretary Politico is reporting that President-elect Donald Trump now is considering Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador, who represents the congressional district immediately to the east of McMorris Rodgers’ district, for Interior secretary, as well as Rep. Ryan Zinke of Montana.

House Republicans are looking to tax cuts “first thing out of the box” in the upcoming legislative session, House Assistant Majority Leader Brent Crane, R-Nampa, told reporters today. Crane, who spoke at the Idaho Press Club’s “Legislative Bootcamp” for reporters who will be covering this year’s legislative session, noted the growing state surplus. “We feel

How many Latino voters backed Donald Trump? The Washington Post political team has been all over this issue, asking: Did 29 percent of Hispanics actually vote for Trump? Was this just a matter of “rural” Latinos, whatever that means, swinging his way? So what’s the answer? It may surprise you, and it will definitely make the progressives angry.  While