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Governor Little signs HB 93 Creating Parental Choice Tax Credit Program
State Capitol | Feb 27 |
Governor Little signed House Bill 93 on February 27th, creating a $50 million school voucher program for private and homeschooled children in Idaho.
Over 85% of the input received by Governor Little's office requested that he veto HB 93
State Capitol | March 3 |
Governor Little signed House Bill 93 into law last week creating a $50 million school choice tax credit fund. It was revealed by the Governors office that there were over 32,000 requests that he veto the bill, and around 5,000 requests that it be signed.
Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force makes arrests in Canyon County
Canyon County | March 3 |
Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador discovered that there was a backlog of over 1500 tips of internet crimes against children when he took office in 2023 and rebuilt the task force dedicated to stopping these crimes.
Woman forcibly removed from local Republican Committee town hall meeting hires legal council
Coeur d'Alene | March 3 |
A woman was forcibly removed by private security from a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee town hall after allegedly disrupting the meeting. There has been significant backlash in the community, including revoking the business license of the private security company involved.
Justice Department files motion to dismiss lawsuit against Idaho's abortion ban, motion blocked by district judge
Washington, D.C. | March 5 |
On Wednesday, Trump's Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration against Idaho's statewide abortion ban. The enforcement was immediately blocked by a district judge in a same day emergency hearing.
Make Executions Efficacious Again
State Capitol | March 5 |
The Idaho Legislature has passed a bill that would make the firing squad a primary option for implementing the death penalty. Will Little sign it?
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"Meritocracy Must Not Be Our Goal" - An interesting article arguing that there is a common root flaw in meritocratic and diversity based structures.
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🏛️ Apologetics FactThe Fine-Tuning of the Universe: The constants of physics (like gravity, the strong nuclear force, and the cosmological constant) are so precisely balanced that even slight changes would make life impossible. For example, if the gravitational constant varied by 1 part in 10^60, stars and planets wouldn’t form. Apologists like William Lane Craig argue this fine-tuning points to intentional design by a purposeful intelligence, aligning with the Christian view of a Creator, rather than random chance. | 🗣️ Quote"Ambiguity is the fortress of heretics." – John Calvin |
🏅 Person: Godfrey of BouillonThe leader of the First Crusade and a man of incredible valor and faith, you can read more about him (and others) in Defenders of the West (Ibrahim, 2021). | 📕 Book: Starship TroopersOn the surface, the classic novel by Robert A. Heinlein is military science fiction, but just beneath the surface is a timeless treatise on leadership and political philosophy. |