The following Letter to the Editor ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News:  Thank you, Daily News, for publishing Jeremiah Thompson’s Letter to the Editor (Aug. 23, Volunteers who save lives). I have since been following his blog, Bring to Light, Stories from Latah County. Though I am thankful for the emergency medical service volunteers’ terrific […]

Residence facilities most popular locale for student crime.  The University of Idaho’s 2016 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report lists alcohol offenses as the highest area of reported crimes involving students both on and off campus. According to the report, released Monday by the UI, 32 students were arrested for violation of liquor laws on

Four members of WSU football players facing potential felony charges Whitman County Prosecutor Denis Tracy said the process of deciding whether or not to prosecute the four members of the Washington State University football team facing felony charges could take several months, meaning the players – some of whom are key contributors to the team

That’s one way to meet your quota.  CAMP LEJUENE — Following the repeal of the ban on transgender service members, a senior Marine Corps officer has revealed that the service has exceeded its female gender quota for Fiscal Year 2016 by forcing select males to identify as females. Col. John Barrett, Chief of Staff of 2nd

What if there wasn’t a one-size-fits-all solution to school discipline? J.D. Tuccille writes: There’s plenty of stupid to go around in public schools with the application of all flavors of discipline policies. The commonality here isn’t lenience or rigidity—it’s the government-run monopoly that still prevails for many Americans, despite growing options. Advocates of educational choice

Taping over or otherwise covering up your computer’s web camera is a “sensible” thing that everyone should do, according to FBI Director James Comey. US spy agencies have had the ability to hack into webcams for years, according to whistleblowers.  Read Full Article

The deadline is December 1. If Congress fails to act, the FBI gains the power to hack and surveil an unlimited number of computers, based on just one warrant from any federal judge. “Rule 41” marks a new line drawn in the cybersecurity-privacy battle.  Read Full Article

Now that’s inconvenient. And not backups, either…. About a quarter of all police body-camera footage stored by the Oakland Police Department was deleted by accident in 2014, according to a sergeant’s testimony in an East Oakland murder trial.  Read Full Article

Of course, an Italian civilian is worth more than an Arab civilian… </sarcasm> The US has given a “donation” of $1.32 million to the family of Giovanni Lo Porto, the Italian aid worker killed in January 2015 by a US drone strike. Documents detailing the condolence payment also confirmed the attack took place in Pakistan. 

The gov’t has an incentive to lie about Snowden, especially since public opinion (and the latest movie “Snowden”) have Americans sympathetic to his cause.  Edward Snowden addressed specific claims of the report by the House Intel Committee, which accused him of lying about his record, cheating on his exams, and becoming a whistleblower due to

No real surprise here.  But since Sanders’ name isn’t on any of the state ballots, it would have to be via write-in.  Should Hillary Clinton leave the presidential race for health or other reasons, Democrats favor leftwing US Senator Bernie Sanders over Clinton’s vice presidential nominee to take her place, according to a new poll. 

The Lone Star state is the most dangerous place to give birth in the US. While the maternal mortality rate has been internationally decreasing, a study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology found the rate in Texas had doubled in two years.  Read Full Article

How many lives are worth $5 trillion?  The US spent $4.79 trillion on wars in the Middle East and on the ‘War on Terror’ after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, a new report estimated.  Read Full Article

The father of the man who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall has identified the attacker as Dahir A. Adan, a 22-year-old college student of Somali origin. Authorities have not yet released the assailant’s name.  Read Full Article

This goes back to the liberal claim that the gov’t can vet all of the immigrant applications from terrorist countries. At least 858 individuals “from special interest countries who had been ordered deported or removed under another name” were granted citizenship based on a lag in digital fingerprint data in government databases, a new audit

She’s trying to out-Trump Trump. Wow.  Well, her actions didn’t work out so well for US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.  Hillary Clinton has accused GOP candidate Donald Trump of giving “aid and comfort to Islamic terrorists in his use of anti-Muslim rhetoric.” She says that Trump helps recruit new fighters, and claims she is the “only

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” During his last UN address as a US president, Barack Obama has accused Russia of trying to recover “lost glory” through the means of military power, though Russia is far behind

A rebel group operating in northern Syria has been designated by the US as a terrorist organization. Since its founding, Jund al-Aqsa has worked closely with the Al-Nusra Front and ISIS, but has not been viewed as terrorist until now.  Read Full Article

Don’t ask what his religions motivations were. You’ll be labeled a bigot just for asking. Federal prosecutors have filed four charges against Ahmad Rahami, who is suspected in the recent New York City bombing that left 29 injured.  Read Full Article

And here will be the liberal solution: those who skimp and save for their retirement, they should have their savings taken and given to those who didn’t save.  Think that’s not the case? They are suggesting means-testing Social Security. Those who put away extra savings for retirement should lose the Social Security that they paid