The Pew Research Center is out with a new quiz probing just what we know about current issues and politics. Most folks who have taken the...

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday. The awards are an annual and much anticipated part of modern journalism, literature,...

With Justice John Paul Stevens retiring, President Obama has the opportunity to name his second justice in less than two years. How...

Ever wonder about the origin of the term “banned in Boston?” It originated with what was called the Watch and Ward Society, as in watch...

Fewer than a million souls live in Montana, the state that sprawls out under the Big Sky. Yet, during the 20th Century, Montana produced...

When Bob Abbey, the director of the Bureau of Land Management, testified before Congress last year during his confirmation hearing he...

The Roman Catholic Church has violated the first rule of addressing a crisis – again. That old and true rule: when you find yourself in a...

The image of the just re-elected Harry Truman holding the front page of the Chicago Tribune is one of the most recognizable photos and...

A new Rasmussen poll out last week, not surprisingly, shows Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter with a commanding lead over his Democratic...

My all-time favorite cartoon appeared in the New Yorker several years ago. In the cartoon, a fellow is settling into his big, comfortable...

Josh Beckett vs. C.C. Sabathia as the best rivalry in baseball tees up the season. This time of year – just before a new season unfolds –...

You have to wonder why Jerry Brown would want the job. California, among the biggest economies in the world, is flat broke; $20 billion –...

Major league baseball in Tucson ended yesterday with a routine ground out. Score it an Owners Choice. Tradition flies out to the...

It’s going to be a sad day at the ballpark today in Tucson, Arizona. Since 1947, a major league team has conducted spring training at...

The Idaho Legislature stumbled to adjournment on Monday after reducing state spending by 19% over the last two sessions. Now, you might...

In the old TV series, Perry Mason always wrapped up the case in the last few minutes of the show, tied a ribbon on the verdict and went...

The big news in southern Arizona on Friday was the reunion of John McCain and Sarah Palin in Tucson. The cartoon is the work of David...

I have started to believe that Idaho Democrats have been down for so long that they might be suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome....

Anyone who says they know with any degree of certainty the short and/or long-term political impacts of the health care/insurance reform...

Al Simpson, the former Republican Senator from Cody, Wyoming, is one of an increasingly rare breed in American public life. He actually...