In a recent email, Congressman Mike Simpson warned that freedom is fragile and blamed the rise of socialism for threatening our democracy. I s…
Far be it from me to understand the desire to unleash fanatical fascists against the established American social democracy and diversity of in…
If there is one thing about Democrats I’ve learned, it is this: if you let the most naive of them off the leash, they will wander far and wide…
Empathy, to Charlie Kirk, meant trying to feel someone else’s pain or sorrow as if it were your own. Charlie said, “I think empathy is a made-…
State supreme court decisions about acceptable language used to define ballot initiatives — an issue not just in Idaho but elsewhere too — may…
Darrell Manning, who died last month at 94, was smack in the middle of Idaho’s hot and pivotal politics of the 60s. He served four terms as a …
Twenty five years ago, our world changed forever. Radical Muslim terrorists hijacked four airplanes, crashing them into the two towers of the …
Neither Julius Ceaser nor his fellow Romans could have grasped the full implications for the republic of his decision to cross the Rubicon. Roman citizens could not have conceived of the republic’s collapse and all that was associated with it — the ancient liberties of free speech and private property, a thousand years of self-government and the rule of law itself. If the restoration of the republic proved equally elusive, the explanations for its demise have found a measure of agreement. Gibbon has famously written, “The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost, when the legislative power is dominated by the executive.”
It is hard to believe 25 years have passed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Idahoans Brady Kay Howell, of Sugar City, and Ronald J. Vauk, of Nampa, were among those killed at the Pentagon that morning. Both are honored at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial. Shining a light on who they were is a key part of reflecting on this solemn anniversary.
