BOISE — Idaho’s most populated cities and counties appear to be big winners under a new revenue sharing proposal that was introduced Wednesday in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jason Monks, R-Nampa, revises the formula used to distribute sales tax revenues to local jurisdictions. Barring any major decreases in Read More…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Repealing the death penalty, a non-starter in Wyoming each of the past five years, got a serious look Wednesday from a legislative committee that voted to advance the idea to the full Senate for what could be a last dash to the governor’s desk. Repeal proponents significantly outnumbered opponents in over Read More…
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana will travel to Iowa at the end of the week as he further explores a run for the Democratic presidential nomination, his Big Sky Values PAC told POLITICO on Tuesday. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat who just won his 10th term in November, will escort Bullock to a Read More…
A legislative committee has unanimously endorsed the Montana University System’s budget, including $24 million that would freeze tuition for Montana resident students for the next two years. The Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Education voted 7-0 Wednesday to approve the governor’s two-year budget proposal to spend $404 million from taxpayers on the University System. Read More…
Happy Sunday Everyone. Hope this week’s offering is satisfactory. Mike Misses Valentine’s Day Dinner As my friends know, a few years ago Her Majesty & I retired to a little cottage in Alabama, unfortunately 20 miles downwind from my Army buddy, Sam Pearson. The events of this past Valentine’s Day played out in and around Read More…
For as long as I’ve been following politics there has been a constant complaint from the right that professional journalists tend to slant their coverage toward the people they innately feel are part of their tribe. Since journalists overwhelmingly skew left in their personal politics, that almost always means they feel at home with the Read More…
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert withdrew her name from consideration for the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on Saturday. The State Department made the announcement in a release. ADVERTISEMENT “I am grateful to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump nominates ambassador to Turkey Trump heads to Mar-a-Lago after signing bill to avert shutdown CNN, MSNBC to Read More…
Chicago police now believe that “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett paid two men to stage an attack that the actor and his family claimed was perpetrated by men yelling racist, homophobic, and pro-Trump language. Two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that police now believe Smollett paid two men arrested previously and Read More…
(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) His “Empire” is falling. Breaking news out of Chicago this evening that law enforcement officials investigating the alleged racial attack on Smollett was planned by him. According to CNN… Two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that Chicago Police believe Jussie Smollett paid two men to Read More…
With the debut of the American Alliance of Football this year, opportunities opened up for a lot of players and coaches who weren’t finding work in the NFL. One question that couldn’t be avoided on week one was the fate of perennial gridiron problem child Colin Kaepernick. With as much talent as he’s regularly credited Read More…
Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s band of wannabe putschists delivered their sentencing recommendation for Paul Manafort: Special counsel Robert Mueller has recommended between 19 to 24 years in prison for President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. A sentence in that range would probably mean that Manafort, 69, would spend the rest of his life Read More…
Protesters have planned demonstrations across the U.S. for Presidents Day in response to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump nominates ambassador to Turkey Trump heads to Mar-a-Lago after signing bill to avert shutdown CNN, MSNBC to air ad turned down by Fox over Nazi imagery MORE’s decision to declare a national emergency for border wall funding. USA Today Read More…
Democrats this week used the one-year anniversary of the deadly Parkland, Fla., high school shooting to advance legislation cracking down on access to firearms in states across the country. Bills moved not in blue states, but in purple states like Nevada and New Mexico where Democrats hold newfound political power. ADVERTISEMENT And on Capitol Hill Read More…
There was a long period in America — perhaps up to the 1980’s and even 90’s — when Left and Right were largely political designations. Big government, small government, individualism, collectivism…voters differed in ways relegated to, mostly, what to do with money. Man, has that changed. The Left has attempted a coup. A revolution seemingly Read More…
In case you were wondering if Empire actor and singer Jussie Smollett is a Trump supporter, the answer is a strong no. Something that caught my attention during the whole drama over his alleged attack by red hat-wearing, MAGA yelling attackers is that he deleted a strongly worded tweet to President Trump from his Twitter Read More…
Pundits and media members debated tweets from several reporters covering a shopping trip Saturday by Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisNewsom endorses Kamala Harris for president Constitutional conservatives need to oppose the national emergency Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by America’s 340B Hospitals — Dems blast rulemaking on family planning program | Facebook may remove anti-vaccine content | Read More…
A former West Virginia official who lost her job in 2016 after she referred to then-first lady Michelle ObamaMichelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaGOP senator dedicates heart photo to wife from Senate floor for Valentine’s Day Barack Obama sends Valentine’s message to Michelle: ‘She does get down to Motown’ The Hill’s 12:30 Report — Presented by Kidney Read More…
New York State managed to draw significant national media attention this week when Amazon decided to cancel its plan to open a new HQ in Queens. AOC, who apparently now runs the Democratic Party, immediately declared victory, having ensured that a caravan of tens of thousands of new, well-paying jobs wouldn’t invade the area. But Read More…
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) has made a name for himself as an independent voice in Congress, willing to stand apart from his Republican colleagues and even President Donald Trump whenever the issue is in conflict with his libertarian views. Trump’s recent announcement that he would declare a national emergency in order to divert funds to Read More…
CREDIT: Burt Lancaster in Seven Days in May trailer. https://youtu.be/nwMjiArJFhM Back in 1964, Burt Lancaster starred in a Politico-Military thriller called “7 Days in May.” In that movie, Lancaster played the part of General James Matoon Scot, who plotted and led an attempted coup by military officers who disagreed with the elected President’s foreign policies Read More…
A fun look-in at the low-grade civil war within the Democratic Party over the Amazon bug-out. Maloney’s been representing part of Queens, the same borough where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district is based, since AOC was in kindergarten. It was Maloney’s district that would have hosted HQ2 and most of the jobs that it would have delivered. Read More…
Basketball star LeBron James told reporters on Saturday that he supports Colin Kaepernick after his collusion case against the NFL was settled this week. “I stand with Kap. I kneel with Kap,” James said. “I feel what he was talking about, nobody wanted to listen to. Nobody ever really wanted to actually understand where he Read More…
House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy Patricia D’Alesandro PelosiConstitutional conservatives need to oppose the national emergency House Judiciary Dems seek answers over Trump’s national emergency declaration Why don’t we build a wall with Canada? MORE (D-Calif.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHouse Judiciary Dems seek answers over Trump’s national emergency declaration Mandatory E-Verify: The Read More…
The Vatican made a dramatic move this morning ahead of the upcoming synod dealing with the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick got expelled from holy orders in a decision finalized by Pope Francis late yesterday and announced early this morning. McCarrick is the highest-ranking cleric to be defrocked over Read More…
Democrats and the Trump administration are beginning to hold talks on lowering drug prices as they look for a rare area of common ground. Both President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump nominates ambassador to Turkey Trump heads to Mar-a-Lago after signing bill to avert shutdown CNN, MSNBC to air ad turned down by Fox over Nazi imagery Read More…
An executive with Amazon on Friday invited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezDem lawmaker rips opposition to Amazon going into New York: ‘Now we’re protesting jobs’ Reporter says majority appears to favor progressive tax plans Trump tweets video mocking Dems not cheering during State of the Union MORE (D-N.Y.) to visit the corporation’s facilities after she denounced Read More…
California Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff is making the most of his moment in the spotlight. As chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Schiff has vowed to spend his days working to make things as difficult for President Donald Trump as possible and he’s been making good on that goal thus far. His latest Read More…
Vice President Pence was met with silence on Friday when he mentioned President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump nominates ambassador to Turkey Trump heads to Mar-a-Lago after signing bill to avert shutdown CNN, MSNBC to air ad turned down by Fox over Nazi imagery MORE at a security conference in Munich. “I bring greetings from the 45th Read More…
Screen shot of RBG action figure. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has returned to work. She even received a get well card signed by many of Hollywood’s most recognizable names including Stephen Spielberg, Bradley Cooper and Glenn Close. This effort had been organized by the directors of the RBG documentary, Betsy West and Julie Read More…
Some days Twitter will produce some awesome catfights. Yesterday was one of those days. A tweet claiming that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) hired her boyfriend as a staffer caught my attention. A podcaster and former NRSC staffer, as well as a Jeb! supporter, Luke Thompson sent out a tweet that brought a speedy reply from Read More…
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “If my fellow citizens want to go to hell, I will help them. It is my job.” What he was expressing is the limited role of courts in challenges to federal law. It is not their task as judges to sit as a super legislature to question the priorities Read More…
Presented by By early Friday afternoon, more than 50 House Democrats had asked to put their names on a measure to formally condemn President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, according to an aide familiar with the planning. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo DRIVING THE DAY THE LATEST ON THE WALL — SARAH FERRIS: “Democrats vow full Read More…
==================Promoted from the diaries by streiff. Promotion does not imply endorsement.================== Sophomoric is defined as: conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature; a sophomoric argument lacking in maturity, taste, or judgment; sophomoric humor And apparently, we have had a past government of sophomores. My (sadly late) best friend and I met in Read More…
A Washington state House committee on Friday passed a bill to ban the personal or philosophical exemption for the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) for school-age children amid an outbreak of the virus. The bill passed through the state’s Health Care and Wellness Committee, despite opposition from critics who say parents should have a Read More…
WASHINGTON — Standing in the Rose Garden on Friday morning, President Trump heaped praise on Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing radio show host, who earlier in the week gave his blessing to a bipartisan spending bill that did not include the money Mr. Trump had demanded for a wall. Read Full Article »