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Deregulation: The prescription for cost and scarcity in healthcare

By Niklas Kleinworth
June 8, 2023
Under a shroud of good intentions, government regulations often hurt the very people they intend to help. This is because the bureaucratic hurdles created by regulations cause the free market to become lethargic, which stunts simple solutions to large-scale problems. Nowhere is the burden of overregulation more potent than in the health care market. Some […]
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Pride in America: Riley Gaines

By Brian Almon
June 7, 2023
Welcome to Pride in America Month. Every day in the month of June and through Independence Day, we will be highlighting a figure who has demonstrated and defended American values. Consider it a healthy alternative to the Left's June celebration that has taken over the media and corporate America. The top athletes in America work […]
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The DEI Consequences of the University of Idaho's $550 Million Gamble on NewU

By Anna Miller
June 7, 2023
The University of Idaho recently decided to move forward with a potentially unconstitutional $550 million purchase of the University of Phoenix through NewU. The deal contains a host of problems, including the University of Idaho acquiring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at the University of Phoenix. The Idaho Board of Education has made its […]
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Pride in America: Charles Lindbergh

By Brian Almon
June 6, 2023
Welcome to Pride in America Month. Every day in the month of June and through Independence Day, we will be highlighting a figure who has demonstrated and defended American values. Consider it a healthy alternative to the Left's June celebration that has taken over the media and corporate America. For the first three decades of […]
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Evidence absolutely shows rural Idaho school bus driver fired for exercising free speech

By Wayne Hoffman
June 6, 2023
The evidence is clear that rural Idaho bus driver Dakota Mailloux was fired from his job with the Kellogg School District because he attended a protest in support of student Travis Lohr’s comments at a student assembly.  By now, people around the country have heard about what the district did to Lohr and Mailloux. Lohr, […]
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Pride in America: Tucker Carlson

By Wayne Hoffman
June 5, 2023
Welcome to Pride in America Month. Every day in the month of June and through Independence Day, we will be highlighting a figure who has demonstrated and defended American values. Consider it a healthy alternative to the Left's June celebration that has taken over the media and corporate America. If there's a recent example of […]
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The Biden debt deal is bad for America and bad for Idaho

By Fred Birnbaum
June 5, 2023
The federal budget and debt ceiling standoff was resolved last week, but any long-term resolution was superficial. Despite Speaker McCarthy’s ebullience, nobody who understands the federal budget should see this as a victory for anything other than the status quo. And that means more federal debt. A simple review of the numbers tells us why. […]
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Kellogg schools obviously mistreating Travis Lohr for being unwoke 

By Wayne Hoffman
June 4, 2023
Kellogg, Idaho's government schools were bad academically before their mistreatment of student Travis Lohr and bus driver Dakota Mailloux, and the district is now giving up the evidence that there’s a lot more going on here. Let’s start with the fact that Kellogg School District is an academic disaster. In the district, half to two-thirds […]
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Kellogg student banned from graduation for saying “Guys are guys and girls are girls”

By Brian Almon
June 2, 2023
On Thursday, Kellogg High School senior Travis Lohr took part in an activity where seniors share advice for lowerclassmen. In a departure from his preapproved remarks, Lohr spoke from his heart, saying, “Guys are guys and girls are girls. There is no in-between.” Despite the fact that this simple statement has been a truism for […]
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Pride in America: Davy Crockett

By Brian Almon
June 2, 2023
Welcome to Pride in America Month. Every day in the month of June and through Independence Day, we will be highlighting a figure who has demonstrated and defended American values. Consider it a healthy alternative to the Left's June celebration that has taken over the media and corporate America. Any child growing up in the […]
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Pride in America: Thomas Sowell

By Brian Almon
June 1, 2023
Welcome to Pride in America Month, a celebration of the men and women who made our country great. Every day in the month of June and through Independence Day, we will be highlighting a figure who has demonstrated and defended American values. Consider it a healthy alternative to the Left's June celebration that has taken […]
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Gingrich’s defense of the debt deal is further evidence of what’s wrong in Washington, D.C. 

By Wayne Hoffman
May 30, 2023
Not surprisingly, former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is out with a commentary today praising the McCarthy-Biden debt ceiling deal and urging congressional Republicans to back it. It seems to me that if you’ve been in Washington, D.C. — or even in Boise, Idaho — for too long you start to think in […]
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