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Brent Regan
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OPINION: Trump flashback
I wrote this in December 2015, nearly a year before Trump was elected the first time. How did it age?
OPINION: Trump redux
In December 2015 I wrote an article that made the case for a likely Trump victory in 2016. I submitted it to our local paper and it was rejected as a “ridiculo…
OPINION: Power vs. Base
“Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage” Roger Walters, Pink Floyd Because of mining, ranching, farming and timber, 50 years ag…
OPINION: Republican summer meeting
The Idaho Republican Party wrapped up a very successful summer meeting held at the Living Waters Ranch in Challis. The facilities were superior, the food delic…
OPINION: Wannabe Republican
George Orwell notoriously observed that language controls thought and thought controls action. If you can control the words, you can control people. If there a…
OPINION: Too far
Neuroscientists will tell you that the prefrontal cortex, the part of the human brain responsible for impulse control, prioritizing, planning and generally mak…
OPINION: Primary solution
Earlier this year the legislature, with the approval of the governor, disenfranchised ALL Idaho voters from the 2024 Presidential Primary. The plan was to move…
OPINION: Relatively extreme
“Extremist” is a common pejorative often offered as a frame when discussing politics, as in “he is a right wing extremist,” but what does being accused of bein…
OPINION: Too clever by halfwit
The recently released Durham Report confirms what many on the right have known since 2013 and the Lois Lerner scandal, that government agencies have become pol…
OPINION: Cultural programming
It is axiomatic that in order to hold a position on a topic you must first think about that topic. A corollary to this is that if you want to persuade someone …
OPINION: Counterfeit candy
Investing in quality is sometimes a difficult decision to make, but it is an easy decision to live with.
OPINION: Call me crazy
In Saul Alinsky’s Marxist handbook “Rules for Radicals” Alinsky advises that “ridicule is your most powerful weapon.” This seems to be a lesson well learned as…
OPINION: School solutions
If your boss tells you it’s “not acceptable” that you failed to do something that they wanted you to do, you could reasonably take that as a threat to your fut…
OPINION: Library sophistry
Children are born with an amazing capacity for learning. Through observation, exploration and mimicry infants are able to decode human behavior. By age two, mo…
OPINION: For the kids
Imagine a typical North Idaho family, Shawn and Jane Doe and their three children Mary, Mike and Becky. Shawn is the assistant manager at a local division of a…
OPINION: Primary confusion
Idaho no longer has a presidential primary. The Idaho Constitution specifies that it is the duty of the Idaho Legislature to establish a system of free public …