I’ve written more than 100 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests over the past few years, as well as a newsletter on FOIA policy, so it caused me great pain to read the headline over at Vox on Tuesday: “Against Transparency: Government officials’ email should be private, just like their phone calls.” Vox’s Matt Yglesias writes that, in […]

Can you imagine? Not waking a child up for a 3 minute shopping break! The horrors!  Pitchforks are so 19th century. Today’s righteous mobs wield cell phone videos and Facebook likes. Here’s the video of a baby whose mom decided against dragging him into the gas station for a short errand. Instead she let wait in the

More on the state’s inability to leave its citizens alone.  For the past 25 years, Shawnee Chasser has lived in a treehouse in Florida. Now, the Miami-Dade County code enforcement office says it has to come down. Officials say it doesn’t meet local building codes, which are strict because of the possibility of hurricanes, and it doesn’t

According to Gallup, Americans’ support for the Affordable Care Act remains basically unchanged since May; 44% currently approve of the law. Nearly three in 10 Americans say the law has hurt their family, the highest Gallup has measured to date..  In a summer that saw many insurers drop out of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance

Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson will be on the ballot in all 50 states but will almost certainly not be on stage for the presidential debates that start at the end of September. And yet a new poll shows that the former governor of New Mexico is in double digits in no fewer than 42 states. In

More U.S. adults now than in recent years want the government to play a major role in improving the position of minority groups in the U.S. However, the 38% who favor this idea is similar to what Gallup measured in 2004 and 2005.   As both major party presidential candidates tout ways their policies will

Much of the media have internalized the fantasy that the Hillary Clinton campaign is treated tougher than the Donald Trump campaign. David Harsanyi writes: Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was finally asked a tough question during NBC’s commander-in-chief forum, so naturally the establishment media immediately coagulated around the notion that NBC’s Matt Lauer was the worst

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing Americans to sue Saudi Arabia over 9/11, days before the attack’s 15th anniversary. The measure passed without objection or opposition, but the White House is threatening a veto.  Read Full Article

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One third (1/3) of all refugees are in Boise high school! 5% of all students in Boise are refugees.  In Boise, Idaho, about 1,300 of the city’s 26,000 students last year were refugees, roughly a third of them in high school. The United States expects to resettle 85,000 refugees in 190 cities and towns nationwide

On December 7, 2015, there were no paramedics available for 9-1-1 calls in Latah County for a period of nearly five hours. If you listened to the video then you heard the voice of the only paramedic on call at Moscow Ambulance notifying dispatch of what he was doing. He had answered a call from