And he grew up in the Tri-Cities.  A Pullman native is President-Elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense.  Retired Marine General James “Mad Dog” Mattis was born in Pullman in 1950.  General Mattis went to high school in the Richland before attending Central Washington University.

More on the government spying on its citizens.  Documents acquired from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show the Virginia State Police have a powerful cell-site simulator that can capture not only GPS location and metadata but voice communication.  Read Full Article

Officials say the number of patients in the Seattle area believed to have mumps has risen to 22. Public Health Seattle & King County said Friday that five cases of mumps have been confirmed, 17 are probable cases and four other cases are under investigation. Officials say 15 of the cases involve children from 5

The politicians in San Bernardino still cannot figure out what motivated the two terrorists? Seriously? Talk about Political Correctness to the extreme. It will be the death of us.   A year after a couple loyal to ISIS killed 14 and wounded 22 in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, police are still looking

The suspension of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity at the University of Idaho will continue through Spring of next year. The university has found that the fraternity house engaged in activities that violate policies on hazing, drug use, and alcohol consumption. Delta Sigma Phi was first suspended in October following an investigation and review regarding allegations

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to “immediately deport” all “illegal aliens” from Area 51 at Groom Lake, Nevada, after learning of the top secret collection of extraterrestrials during a classified briefing, which he live-tweeted on Friday evening. “What we are going to do is get the aliens that have done weird stuff, blowing up cows

From recount efforts to criticism of the Electoral College as an institution and death threats to some electors, the aftermath of the US presidential election has become no less controversial than the campaign itself – and the heat is far from over.  Read Full Article

US Green Party candidate Jill Stein said her campaign will appeal to a federal court on Monday to seek a state-wide vote recount in Pennsylvania, hours after dropping a lawsuit in a local court, saying the cost of the lawsuit was too high.  Read Full Article

The US Army Corps of Engineers will not grant permission for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross Lake Oahe, the hotspot of massive protests of water protectors, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said in a statement, adding that alternative routes are now being studied. “The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that

446,000 Americans left the labor force in November. An all-time high of 95.1 million Americans are out of the labor force. It’s pretty easy to say that the unemployment rate is down when people stop looking for work and rely on those who are working to subsidize their unemployed lives.  So much for that much

California pensions are underfunded by $1 trillion. In trying to tax themselves into prosperity, they have bankrupted the future generations. Brilliant.  Earlier today the Kersten Institute for Governance and Public Policy highlighted an updated pension study, released by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, which revealed some fairly startling realities about California’s public pension underfunding levels.  After

The House votes to pass the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. The bill has a provision that calls for government counteraction to Russian media manipulation. On November 30, one week after the Washington Post launched its witch hunt against “Russian propaganda fake news“, with 390 votes for, the House quietly passed “H.R. 6393,

Healthcare spending increased by $3.2 trillion in the US in 2015. Obamacare is responsible for the growth in health care spending. “You get more of what you subsidize.” Public and private spending for U.S. health care increased to $3.2 trillion in 2015 or nearly $10,000 per person, according to a government report released Friday. The 5.8 percent

A Virgina public school district pulls To Kill a Mockingbird and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its libraries.  Another reason why our gov’t school kids are being uneducated.  Two classic American novels have been temporarily pulled from book shelves in Accomack County Public Schools. Superintendent Warren Holland confirmed to 10 On Your Side that a

Internet Archive fends off a National Security Letter and gag order issued by the FBI. Would you and I have enough guts to tell the FBI to take a hike?  A decade ago, the FBI sent Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, a now-infamous type of subpoena known as a National Security Letter, demanding

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter says the US must remain in Iraq after ISIS is defeated. We broke it, we bought it.  The American military, along with its international partners, will need to remain in Iraq even after the expected defeat of the Islamic State group, outgoing Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Saturday. Carter said

The Senate passes a bill that instructs the Department of Education to target anti-Israel speech on college campuses. If you criticize the politics of the nation state of Israel, does that make you anti-semitic?  In a move intended to dramatically broaden Department of Education probes of colleges and universities who tolerate students that criticize Israel,