Because socialized medicine is oh so cheap. Via the AP:  Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That’s sure to stoke another “Obamacare” controversy days before a presidential election. Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for […]

John Lee says he didn’t have ‘free will’ when he agreed to deal in Moscow shooting deaths of adoptive mother, two others A Moscow man convicted of killing three people last year is asking to withdraw his guilty pleas. John Lee, 31, filed a two-page handwritten motion Monday arguing he was “not in the right

Early or absentee voting will be open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the Latah County Courthouse, 522 S. Adams St., Moscow. Registered voters will be issued a ballot after showing a driver’s license or another form of photo identification. Those who are not currently registered in Latah County will need to bring photo ID and

Wikileaks has released its 12th batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta. The brings the total number of emails released to date to almost 19,000.  Read Full Article

The two major party presidential candidates are not the only choices on Election Day. John Stossel writes: While America is going bankrupt, both candidates brag that they will spend more—Trump on the military and his pointless wall, Clinton mostly on social programs. Both promise a new child care entitlement: paid maternity leave. I’d think a Republican

Via Reason:  1. John Podesta thinks Bitcoin is too “libertarian” to be associated with the Clinton campaign. In 2015, Podesta passed along a tip he received at a fundraiser about a digital currency called Ven, which on its website states that part of its value “includes carbon futures, so the more Ven in circulation, the more

Thanks goodness! Heaven forbid someone shows up in a Donald Trump costume.  The University of Idaho wants to help people select a culturally sensitive and politically correct Halloween costume.  Special presentations entitled “Fright Night Keep it Right:  Don’t mess up when you dress up!” will be held Thursday on the UI campus.  The directors of

Via the Associated Press:  A record high 60 percent of American adults support legalization of marijuana, according to a new Gallup poll released three weeks before voters in nine states decide whether to expand legal access to pot. When Gallup first asked about this issue in 1969, 12 percent of Americans supported legalization. By 2000,

When Hillary Clinton came under attack last February for her 2001 vote in favor of a bankruptcy bill that made it more difficult for poor people to discharge their debts, she defended herself by saying she did it for women and children. During an appearance on ABC News’s “This Week”, Clinton was confronted with a 2004 Bill Moyers video interview with then-consumer

Because freedom of speech means not allowing someone to speak whom you disagree with.  Members of UCLA’s “Revolution Club” disrupted a guest lecture event by Sabine Durden, an anti-illegal immigration activist. Durden’s lecture focused on the death of her son, who was killed at the hands of an illegal immigrant. She is also a passionate supporter of Donald

I would like to see what the enrollment numbers look like when they do not include dual enrolled high school students.  After losing over a thousand students in the past 3 years enrollment at the University of Idaho is back up.  The administration announced its official mid semester census number Wednesday showing an increase for the

Roughly 25 out of 30 panels installed in a prototype solar road in Idaho broke within a week, after the project received $3.9 million in funding and 6.5 years of development. Despite massive internet hype, the prototype of the solar “road” can’t be driven on, hasn’t generate any electricity and 75 percent of the panels were broken before they were

Todd Starnes reports A Bible was removed from the waiting room of a Chillicothe Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Athens, Ohio after a veteran complained.“Our government is secular, and must remain secular,” the unidentified veteran wrote. Mikey Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, fired off a letter to the medical center on behalf

Such poetic irony. A campaign bus for the Democratic National Committee has been photographed illegally dumping raw sewage into a storm drain in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Local authorities are working to ensure the local water supply is not contaminated by the human waste. Read Full Article

Even Moscow High went to Trump.  This should have the local Dems shaking in their boots.  Donald Trump won the presidency Wednesday over Hillary Clinton by a 312-255 margin in a mock election held at Latah County high schools. Moscow High School favored Clinton by a 219-123 margin, but the rural high schools of Kendrick/Juliaetta,

You have to wonder at the coming election. WikiLeaks has already shown that the Democrat machine worked to steal the primary from Bernie Sanders, followed by high ranking Democrat operatives admitting on video that they cheat the system as much as they can.  Scott Foval bragged they have been busing people in to key seats ” to

Have you noticed that for a few months, President Barack Obama has stopped bragging about how the federal budget deficit is shrinking? That’s because it’s not. For the first time since 2009, the deficit has gone up rather than down. The Congressional Budget Office recently released its budget review for September 2016. It shows that

Follow the logic here:  Cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis reached records levels in 2015 among young Americans, according the federal health officials. Highest rates are among gay and bisexual men. Among the causes are budget cuts in STD clinics and dating apps.  And here I always thought that STDs were do to having sex,