Category: Current Affairs

On each occasion of contacting local elected democrats, it is common to be reminded that I’m not speaking with a democrat but an “Idaho democrat.”  I’m sure the response would be the same should I contact any elected democrat in the state.  In caveating their allegiance as Idaho democrats, we’re told that these Idaho democrats are different.  These aren’t the blue-haired crazies of San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle.  These are democrats of a different breed from an older generation.  Perhaps more in the mold of John F. Kennedy? To this, I say, nonsense!

I have written in the past about how it should be our objective to protect those things that make a locale worth moving to.  It is a commitment that my wife and I take seriously.  In Idaho, that means staunchly conservative.  It means low taxes, low crime, and a commitment to family values.  As a paleoconservative, in the mold of Barry Goldwater or Ron Paul, I have strong libertarian tendencies.  In general, I believe in the non-aggression principle and the idea of leaving people alone.  Unfortunately, the people whom you wish to leave alone often don’t reciprocate or hold the same values.  Where does this leave us?

Like children testing the limits of their parents’ discipline, actors in government will not listen until there are understood consequences.  That requires the public to demand accountability.  It starts with not voting for the same milquetoast politicians for some antiquated strategy of electability.  If you want bold and responsive leadership, you must vote for bold and responsive politicians.

For several years now, I have watched the unending drama unfold between the executive management of the City of Pocatello and its City Council.  In full discretion, I live outside of the city limits, and so even though my wife runs a business within city limits and pays city taxes, we do not get a say in how they run their operations.  I have generally ignored the city administration drama that headlines local papers.  However, the latest drama has caught my attention, and it deserves a response.

The deists believe that God, if He exists, sets the wheels of the universe in motion and otherwise doesn’t mingle in the affairs of man. This stands in contrast to founding Revolutionaries who found no redress in government and, heeding the words of 2 Chronicles, appealed to the highest authority they knew: an appeal to Heaven.

The reality is that burdensome progressive policy has been the best recruitment tool for conservative constituencies, and the Republican parties are just beneficiaries as the de facto alternative to the insanity. Given the short memory of the American voter, it remains to be seen whether this migration will become a net positive or negative for red America, and whether newcomers will default to the voting habits that led them to flee in the first place. One thing is for sure, as progressives migrate to freer climes, they’re bringing their horrible electoral schemes with them.

Typically, the nature of the abortion conversation tends to generate a lot of press around women and women’s rights and completely ignores the responsibility that men and young men hold in this conversation. In light of last week’s SCOTUS ruling, I think it’s important that we now address the responsibilities of men as it pertains to the abortion conversation.

Some time ago I promised some of my readers and social media followers that I was working on building a cited letter template regarding our economic downturn and the Great Reset Agenda. Readers can fill in the blanks and customize them to their liking, and send them to their representatives.  I completed this template today and in fact mailed out ten copies to my Federal and State Senators, Federal and State Representatives, County Commissioners, and Mayor.  Below you will find the template.  It’s important that we get government officials on the record for their position on this societal planning, and that we hold their feet to the fire to oppose it.

Whether it’s naivety or simply an aversion to conflict, the gentility of conservatives has worked to our detriment. A survey of the modern American political landscape paints a disturbing picture. The double standard in how the government has come to interact with the political left versus the political right is palpable, such that permanent government bureaucracy has become indistinguishable from the Democrat Party.

I am of the mindset that the second amendment is non-negotiable, and for myself, I have moved beyond this debate. I refuse to dignify arguments that the state is here in our best interest and I only need to submit my sovereignty to them. Gun control advocates know that opponents have both statistics as well as the moral high ground on their side, and so proponents must rely on exploiting the tragedies of the few to enact their control schemes on the many.

The end result of ham-fisted leftist censorship was a purge of the right wing from public debate and the rise of media and technology alternatives where ideological pariahs could speak freely. Out of this schism, Rumble, Gettr, and Truth Social were born. Free speech–supporting platforms like Gab, where the limitations of speech are the bounds of the law, saw exponential growth. This is where concern about government disinformation boards arises. If the law as written permits objectionable thought, then leftist objectors must work to prohibit that thought by law.

Casus belli is a Latin term that, literally translated, means a case for war.  Under the Just War Theory of St. Augustine, Christians subscribe to certain conditions that must be met to make a case for righteous warfare.  Just War Theory largely permits warfare in defense of oneself or the defenseless, and those who make war are keenly aware of this.  This is the reason why those who desire war must often shift public sentiment in their favor by enacting subversive schemes.

I sincerely wish that every week when I sit down to put ideas to paper that all I had to do was point out the obvious insanity that is the left spectrum of politics in America.  I couldn’t be so fortunate.  You see, there’s this problem that consistently gets in the way, and it’s my own side.  We are our own worst enemy.

In 1984, KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warned that the bulk of efforts to take down America would not be done as covert espionage, but rather by ideological subversion. He goes on to explain that despite open access to an abundance of information, Americans’ perception of reality would be “so inundated with disinformation, that they are unable to discern what is necessary to protect their way of life, their country, their families, themselves, etc.” We see this now in our disassociated culture. How can a nation that doesn’t agree on objective reality like biology, come together on ethereal ideas like freedom and liberty? They cannot.