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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, IFF’s former President
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, IFF’s former President
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, IFF’s former President
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, IFF’s former President
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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A victory for property rights 15 years in the making

By Brian Almon
May 25, 2023
This morning, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overstepped its bounds when it tried to assert authority over the Priest Lake property of Michael and Chantell Sackett. The Clean Water Act (CWA) was initially passed in 1972 over President Nixon’s veto. This act gave tremendous regulatory power to a […]
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Mental health association, media push to make sexual fetishes public and mainstream

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
May 24, 2023
Before we get into “Pride Month,” — and in light of Target, Budweiser, North Face and other businesses’ foray into the LGBT-agenda promotion — it’s important to understand that some fraction of what you see identified as “transgender” is really a public display of sexual fetishes condoned and promoted by the psychiatric community, leftists, and […]
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Government spending far outstrips tax cuts

By Fred Birnbaum
May 23, 2023
Editor's note: After this article went to the press, the Legislative Service Office posted the 2023 Legislative Fiscal Report. The article has been updated to include new information.  Governor Little frequently touts his tax cuts in public statements and press releases. To be sure, he has cut taxes while growing state spending significantly. If that […]
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