In the last few years it became “inside the beltway” sport for some to denigrate the kind of journalism that Dave Broder practiced for so...

Expelled from Politics On Tuesday, the Idaho House approved the most political piece of State Superintendent Tom Luna’s “education...

More than any other of the games that command the attention of the dedicated sports fan, baseball is a game of memory. Memories of dads...

George Will has finally written what many Republicans are thinking: these folks aren’t ready for prime time. In his Sunday column, Will...

Idaho’s most conservative Republicans got what they long wanted yesterday with the decision by U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill throwing...

Lots of reaction and remembering, very appropriately, to the weekend passing of one of Idaho’s political icons Sen. Jim McClure. Most of...

History will record that Sen. Jim McClure, who died Saturday at the age of 86, was one of the most significant politicians in Idaho’s...

Noted documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has waded into the fray over eliminating federal funding for the Corporation for Public...

How many times have you heard someone say – usually a politician – “Americans have the best health care in the world.” Or this one – no...

The Daily Beast website has a fun series of short profiles of the presidents who were most in love with books. You would guess, of...

They celebrated Jefferson Davis’s inauguration yesterday in Montgomery, Alabama. Actually, it was a day late. One hundred fifty years ago...

Like most everyone, I suspect, I had a favorite teacher growing up. (Actually, I had a hopeless crush on my high school chemistry...

This just in: Civil War still rages. From nullification battles in Idaho and several other states to a Mississippi proposal to remember...

You’ll hear a lot of politicians making speeches over the next few days regarding the imperative of getting the federal budget under...

In 1832 when the always frisky state of South Carolina objected to tariff legislation passed by the Congress and signed by President...

The great Nebraska Senator George Norris (that’s him in the photo) had many ideas during his long years of public service. His ideas and...

The great Nebraska Senator George Norris (that’s him in the photo) had many ideas during his long years of public service. His ideas and...

We have become accustom to former presidents writing their memoirs, establishing the presidential library and undertaking a good cause...

It was probably inevitable given our overheated politics. The Pima County, Arizona sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, has become the target – I...

I only had the chance to see Ronald Reagan in the flesh a handful of times. I distinctly remember when he came to Idaho to campaign for...