OPINION: Your child’s safety

The culture war rages on multiple fronts, and for decades, conservatives who champion traditional values have been losing ground. The battle surrounds us, and on May 20, it will appear in the polling booth camouflaged as a community library trustee election. It is a seemingly minor election with only a few local issues on the ballot. No big names or high-profile national races. People forget that the most impactful politics is local politics because it has a direct impact on our lives. If you fail to participate, you will be governed by those that do.

OPINION: Better or worse?

Better or worse? How can we know? The 2025 legislative session is done and our citizen legislators have come home. We thank them for their service. We will hear stories of the bills that were passed, the problems solved, and the issues addressed. Some will say it was a good session, perhaps even great, while some will be less enthusiastic. How are we to know if we are better or worse off for the legislative work that was done?

OPINION: Hey Grok, what is trespass?

People who are pushing a false narrative about the February Town Hall are trying to distract you with irrelevant Strawman arguments. To get a neutral answer I asked the Grok AI a clear question.

OPINION: The truth will keep you free

What should be the consequence if a law enforcement officer concealed the truth to facilitate an arrest?

OPINION: Problem paradox

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” Albert Einstein

OPINION: The wave

Legislators may campaign as true conservatives but once elected they usually drift toward the establishment deep state. Surprisingly the reason is psychological.

OPINION: Invincible ignorance

“There are none so blind as those that will not see.” John Heywood

OPINION: Party Dysphoria

“It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. It’s not. It’s not criminal. It’s not a crime. It’s not a crime.” Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas

OPINION: Lessons learned

Wisdom is the thing you get right after you need it.

OPINION: WARNING! New Portland ahead

“So what do we do if someone is unruly and interrupts the meeting?”

OPINION: Who runs Bartertown?

Can a rogue judge stop a president from doing his job?

OPINION: Golden age

We are on the cusp of either a Golden Age or ruin. Will we have the judgment and fortitude to make the right decisions?

OPINION: Tariff-ic solution

Some people are concerned or even panicked about President Trump imposing tariffs on the products of other countries. Progressive economists and world government proponents have loudly opined that tariffs are the destructive option that will harm us more than “them.” In reality there is little cause for concern.

OPINION: Whining

The Trump victory has resulted in a seismic shift in the direction of the country. Domestic, regional, international and economic policies have taken a new direction for the better. Trump has accomplished more in the first 100 hours of his administration than other presidents accomplish in their first 100 days.

OPINION: Winning

Jan. 20, 2025, was one of the best days for Republicans, and the country, in a long time. We now have an actual president, not a titular sock puppet that signs Executive Orders without knowing what they are about. We have a president that can converse freely and unscripted with the press while demonstrating his knowledge and command of the issues. We have a fully functional Commander in Chief.

OPINION: The right to choose

Now more than ever we need to innovate to survive. The Artificial Intelligence Pandora’s Box has been opened. We will have practical humanoid robots by the end of the decade. High minimum wages are incentivizing automation in the service and manufacturing sectors. The number of instances where people can work remotely has skyrocketed. The world’s economy is rapidly being transformed. The only constant, it seems, is change.

OPINION: IDGOP winter meeting

The Idaho Republican Party (IDGOP) State Central Committee meets every 6 months to receive reports from our party officers and to consider new rules and resolutions. The Winter Meeting was held last week in Boise and was well attended.

OPINION: Immigration sanity

America is a land of immigrants, which isn’t unique as this can be said about virtually every nation. Unless your ZIP Code is The Garden of Eden, we are all either immigrants or descended from immigrants. Beginning with the first humans, we have roamed the entire planet and now, facilitated by our technology, occupy every environment. Archeologists tell us there is trace evidence of humans in North America 30,000 years ago during the middle of the last Ice Age when sea levels were 400 feet lower than today and New York was under a mile thick layer of ice.

OPINION: Government opacity

Much of what our government does is designed to hide the truth. The bureaucrats, lobbyists and lawyers that actually run the government act as if they don’t want you to see or know how they are performing, by design. I say “design” because if the true goal was transparency then we would see the system evolve towards that goal. But we don’t see that. What we do see is repeated behaviors that are specifically engineered to hide the truth.

OPINION: Back to College

On Tuesday it was my great honor to participate in the Electoral College as one of Idaho’s four electors. Most people have heard about the Electoral College, with the path to 270, and have heard pundits praise and bemoan its existence. But how does it all work and how does someone become an elector?

OPINION: The demise of identity politics

“Identity Politics” is a blanket expression covering elements such as Social Justice, Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Cultural Sensitivity, Implicit Bias, Critical Race Theory, Tokenism, Structural Inequality, etc. where the focus is to classify individuals into ever shrinking groups based on some attribute. The very nature of Identity Politics dooms it to ultimately fail. The only question is how many institutions it will drag to their demise.

OPINION: Big stick energy

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" - Theodore Roosevelt

OPINION: NIC win-win

Now that the North Idaho College trustee election is over we can set aside the rhetoric and review the facts.

OPINION: Trump flashback

I wrote this in December 2015, nearly a year before Trump was elected the first time. How did it age?

OPINION: Democracy needs election standards

Design is destiny; the standards we set determine the quality of what we achieve. Our Constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government relies on free, fair, and honest elections to select our representatives and leaders.

OPINION: MAGA mania

Traditional Main Stream Media has committed suicide, but the corpse will be with us for a while.

OPINION: NIC accreditation facts

You can never really understand a situation until you understand the people involved and their financial interests.

OPINION: KCRCC recommendation facts

You need to make decisions on how to vote in the upcoming local election on Nov. 5. Who should you listen to for advice?

Former CLN trustees, Kootenai County GOP settle lawsuit

More than a year after two former Community Library Network trustees sued the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee and several of its members for defamation, the matter has been resolved.

OPINION: They told us

They told us that Trump’s 2016 win was not legitimate and the result of Russian interference. Turns out that the Russia conspiracy was invented by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

OPINION: Evaluating polls

In the run-up to the November election we are bombarded by polls allegedly telling us how the candidates are doing. Results often vary widely which makes it confusing and difficult to understand the true situation. If you know how polls are done and what the numbers really mean you can better evaluate the information.

OPINION: DEI would strangle North Idaho College

It is a Darwinian fact that North Idaho College, or any organization which embraces Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) is doomed. I will explain why.

OPINION: Candidate recommendations

The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) held a special meeting on Tuesday to review the candidates for the November election and then to vote by secret ballot on which candidates the KCRCC would recommend.

OPINION: Why RCV is BAD

Ranked Choice Voting will be on the ballot in November as Proposition 1, but what is RCV and what will it do to Idaho and you?

OPINION: Prop 1 fact check

About a third of all the visitors to the Republican tent at the North Idaho Fair had no idea about Proposition 1 and were unaware it was going to be on the November ballot. So what is Prop 1 and why should they or you care.

OPINION: Ignorant, brainwashed or lying

When I hear a progressive say something that is obviously untethered from the truth I consider whether that person is ignorant, brainwashed or lying. Ignorant if they simply do not know the truth. Brainwashed if they have been convinced their fiction is fact. Lying if they know the truth, but simply chose to ignore reality.

OPINION: True cost of Prop 1

Do you want Idaho to spend $40 million dollars on new electronic vote tabulation machines made by Dominion Voting Systems? According to the Secretary of State, Phil McGrane, if Proposition 1 passes this may be our new reality.

OPINION: Democrat democracy

From the president on down, the Democrats have been claiming that Donald Trump will “end democracy.” There are two problems with this claim. One is that they won’t say HOW Trump would end democracy and the other is they don’t tell us what they mean by “democracy.”

OPINION: Lather rinse repeat

Most of the country is brainwashed and about half are severely brainwashed to the extent that they no longer operate in reality. Of course, YOU are not brainwashed…or are you? How could you tell? Here is a test.

OPINION: Natural born leader

“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five Years, and have been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.” The Constitution of the United States, Section I of Article II.

OPINION: Trifecta of lies

Biden’s now infamous performance in the presidential debate was devastating to the media narrative and a shock to those they had brainwashed. Biden supporters were confronted with the fact that their media outlets had been lying to them for years and that Joe Biden was significantly cognitively compromised. Subsequent Biden-isms that could have been dismissed are now on full display as the supports and donors rush for the exits.

Regan: Assassination try 'galvanized' party

Says mood at Republican convention is one of resolve

Regan joined Idaho delegates and other party leaders at the convention in Milwaukee to show their support for Trump.