Archive for: March 2007

With a stroke of the pen, Governor Butch Otter saved the state millions:

Gov. Butch Otter has used his line-item veto to slice part of the funding for a new eastern Idaho state park out of the state parks …

When I first got started blogging, I had many problems both in 2002, when I started my initial blog and 2004 when I started this one. In 2002, I didn’t know what I was doing. In 2004, I expressed frustration …

Mountain Goat Report takes issue with a recent Idaho Chooses Life commentary:
Well, if there was ever any doubt that the Idaho Republican Party is in some kind of turf war, this ought to help make it clear. …

A May 15 election in a Idaho School district is emblematic of a greater problem in Idaho and America.

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Wow, it’s Friday, which means it is time for Open Trackbacks. This is a themeless Open Trackbacks Friday, so just relax and join the Party.

First, the rules:

1) Post about anything that’s in good taste. No porn, no spam, no profanity.

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The calls for altering the Equal Rights Amendment to make it “abortion-neutral” are short-sighted at best.

At this point in our society, with the opportunities that have been opened to women and the laws already in place, the Equal …

Mountain Goat’s latest attack on the effort for party registration bears some response:

The Idaho Constitution guarantees “an absolutely secret ballot.”

ARTICLE VI SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS

SECTION 1. SECRET BALLOT GUARANTEED. All elections …

US News asks the question. Answer: If Democrats are in charge, no. They want to grow government and so they’ll attempt to kill the goose (the American Economy) that laid the golden egg, regardless.

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Congressman Sali reads the riot act to the Democratic Majority (via Right Mind):

How disheartening that Speaker Pelosi and her House lieutenants included in the bill the worst, rawest form of political bribery – spending on the parochial pet projects …

Improv Comedy at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner. Hey, that’s new. It’s the type of thing you’re supposed to see at these events, not partisan politics.

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