The police chief in Charlotte claims Keith Lamont Scott exited his car holding a gun, not a book as his family claimed, and that police could not find a book at the scene. The chief said it was “time for the voiceless majority to stand up and be heard.” Scott, the police chief, and the officer who […]

Many Idahoans understand from personal experience promises made by President Barack Obama regarding the Affordable Care Act haven’t come to pass — keeping your doctor, keeping your health-care plan and making health-care more affordable.  But there’s another problem with Obamacare. It’s creating medical class warfare by pitting those who get government-paid health care against those

An editorial in the Spokesman Review:  In response to a startling number of student-athlete arrests, Washington State University President Kirk Shulz said he didn’t want to comment on incidents that occurred before he assumed the office (in June). So he spoke about the four most recent arrests, and said he’s confident in the way they

Put them out of business then take over their previous location. Brilliant.  The new Staples location in Moscow is hosting its grand re-opening Thursday.  The new Staples is located where the old Office Depot operated at the Palouse Mall.  The former Staples location was not far away on Warbonnet Drive near Walmart.  

Supply and demand! Zero (legal) suppliers in Moscow; and tons of demand.  Plans are in the works to develop a 5th Pullman area marijuana retail shop, this time next to the Idaho stateline. The Whitman County Planning Department has received a conditional use permit application from a Premium Roast LLC to operate a pot shop

If you’re black, using the n-word is fine. It’s as if liberals have never listened to a rap song or HipHop lyrics before.  The real question is why it’s ok for one race to use a word and it’s off-limits for another race to use it (not that I’m defending use of that word by

The Polar Ocean Challenge expedition – aka Ship of Fools II – has escaped from the Arctic by the skin of its teeth. We were told that due to AGW, the arctic would be ice-free by 2016. Think again.  It was supposed to show how amazingly navigable the Arctic Circle has become now that climate

More U.S. workers say they worry about having their benefits reduced (30%) than worry about having their wages cut (20%), being laid off (19%), having their hours cut back (17%), or their company moving their jobs overseas (8%). Benefits cuts consistently have been the top worry since Gallup first asked the question in 1997. U.S.

Americans’ trust and confidence in the mass media “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly” has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is down eight percentage points from last year. Gallup began asking this

Because ObamaCare is doing so well.  I guess if your boss is paying for your healthcare, you don’t care so much.  Sixty-five percent of Americans are satisfied with the way the healthcare system works for them, down slightly from 67% in 2014. Americans with Medicare, Medicaid and military or veterans’ insurance continue to express the

At least at the local level, you can vote the bums out!  For the past 15 years, Americans have expressed more confidence in their local government than their state government to handle problems. Similar to polls since 2013, about seven in 10 (71%) say they have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust

So who wins here?  The University of California, Berkeley has announced that it may eliminate free online content rather than comply with a U.S. Justice Department order that it make the content accessible to those with disabilities. The content in question is all free and is for the general public to use. “The department’s findings

In New Jersey, thousands of students languish on waiting lists for charter schools, desperate but unable to leave failing public schools. The main reason? Teachers unions, which have spent of millions of dollars attacking charter schools—and those who support them. Governor Chris Christie recently admitted as much, insisting that union bosses are keeping students trapped in “failure

This is what you get when teachers want to teach, but the political bureaucracy wants them to babysit.  More than 200 teachers quit the Highline district near Seattle this spring,”many saying the new approach to student discipline has created outright chaos,” reports Claudia Rowe in the Seattle Times. Three years ago, Superintendent Susan Enfield eliminated out-of-school suspensions, except for threats to

Mainstreaming students with disabilities (which includes behavioral problems) is the norm in gov’t schools.  “Including” young children with emotional and behavioral disabilities affects the learning and behavior of their non-disabled classmates, researchers conclude. Other students “had more absences, lower math and reading scores in kindergarten and 1st grade, and were more likely to act out in the classroom or struggle

Add a politically correct subtitle to the book of the week in the National Association of Scholars’ contest.

The next president could choose up to five new Supreme Court justices. John Stossel writes: “Gridlock is a feature, not a bug,” says Ilya Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Cato Institute’s Supreme Court Review journal. “The founding system was not to make government more efficient. It was meant to pass policies that have large agreement that’s sustained across

Even The New York Times seems to have had it with campus political correctness, writes Shikha Dalmia. In a recent front page story it painted an unflattering portrait of the comical efforts of Clark and other universities to warn incoming freshmen against microaggressions. But the good news is that Clark may be part of a waning trend given

These laws were clearly passed by people who have never run a business in their lives.  LAS VEGAS — Officials from 21 states sued the U.S. Department of Labor Tuesday over a new rule that would make about 4 million higher-earning workers eligible for overtime pay, slamming the measure as inappropriate federal overreach by the

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The future of Wyoming wolf management rides on a federal court hearing set for Friday in Washington, D.C. The hearing before a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals comes two years after U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Washington, D.C., sided with national environmental groups and rejected Wyoming’s wolf