Mike Weland has been reporting local news in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, the heart of Trump Country, since 1991. Unfortunately, despite being a moderate Republican since he could vote, he never fell for Trump. Instead, almost since Trump came down the golden elevator, he's used his online news sites to sound warning, drawing considerable ire from the local populace who are so proudly MAGA. Having given his news site away to the next carrier of the torch and now semi-retired, he launched this site on the eve of Donald John Trump's second term as president both to share what he's written and in anticipation of much more news to come in the interesting times ahead. All commentary on this site is Creative Commons, so if you feel anything here worthy, feel free to share, and please share the site with your friends.
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) has gone off the deep end, from one-time true Idaho conservative to full-blown Trump sycophant. He issued the following statement after the Senate confirmed, by a vote of 54-46, Pam Bondi to be the United States Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ): “Under the previous Administration, the…
“Trump and Elon are purging the filth that’s infested all levels of our government for decades,” a woman wrote with sincerity. “Removing the grifters.” How anyone can draw that conclusion watching the calamity from the oval office underway since January 20 defies my ken. That there are millions more who agree with her nigh overwhelms…
Dear teacher, I must ask that my child, Idaho “Conservative” GOP, be excused yet again this year, as he is pale as a sheet and still suffering terribly from a horrible MAGA infection, leaving him disordered, delusional and unbalanced. We haven’t stopped praying, but where we once asked for his recovery, at this point, we’d…
As fully expected by anyone with their eyes open, the world is watching the fall of a once great nation beneath the heel of a hateful egotist solely to assuage his lust for what he assumes to be power and his overarching need for vengeance — the 12-year-old boy pulling the wings off the grasshopper…
One week in office, and in a flurry of frenetic activity coming so fast as to be a blur, our former president, returned to office after a four-year hiatus, shows the American people how a real president fulfills his campaign promises with alacrity. “How can u not embrace Making America Great Again?” one Bonners Ferry…
According to a CNN article today, “Trump divided America as a candidate. So far, he’s doing the same as president,” voters say president Donald Trump is moving quickly to keep promises and he is far more active and visible than his predecessor. In the case of Trump, neither of those are good things, though a…
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) introduced today the Protect Equality and Civics Education (PEACE) Act to prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars to promote politically divisive concepts, such as Critical Race Theory, through the U.S. Department of Education’s American History and Civics Education program. The…
It’s a deliberate ploy and at present the MAGA GOP is winning the game of Chicken Little politics, not only in Washington, District of Crazy, but in nearly every GOP-controlled statehouse, county courthouse, city hall, school board, library board and coffee klatch across the land. Instead of doing the work of the American people, they’re…
While a good many MAGA are still stomping, clapping their hands and cheering themselves hoarse on this second day of Donald J. Trump’s second stint in the oval office, I’m sure at least a few are saying to themselves, “uh oh.” Fortified by over $60-billion from the sale of an imaginary meme-coin in the days…
Monday, January 20, 2025, will be a day of pomp and celebration for many. Not for honoring the legacy of a man who’d done so much to bring the United States a small step closer to the ideal of a nation whose citizens are all equal, but for the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump,…
Idaho Senator Jim Risch says that with the new year comes a new era in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump is returning to the White House, and Republicans will control Congress. We have a mandate to restore American greatness. I quote Sir Winston Churchill – “Thankfully, Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing,…
I stand before you humbled and penitent. For I have had an epiphany, and I hereby issue my apologies for close to ten years of dire predictions regarding Donald John Trump and the existential threat I said he poses to our nation’s constitution and system of governance. I no longer hold that fear. Instead of…
We human beans what are U.S. citizens are funny critters. We know a train wreck is imminent yet we try to convince ourselves the train’s moving fast just to get back on schedule, that everything’s just hunky dory and all will be well when the train reaches the station. We haven’t quite put our heads…
Before November 5, I often said that the 2024 election would be the most consequential since the election of 1860. The American people have spoken, and by our choice, we are once again putting to the test whether a nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, can…
“The people have spoken.” Yes, they have, and much the same as they did for Hitler and the Third Reich in the 1930s. And now, ten years of following Hitler’s playbook has worked to near perfection for Donald Trump, putting him within reach of what he’s wanted all along, total dictatorial power. Based on what…
On the day before the momentous 2024 general election, Idaho Republican Dorothy Moon waxes poetic about how beautiful the world will be with Donald Trump once again at the helm of our nation. I think we’ll finally know how the German people felt in 1936. A new dawn for America with Trump’s second term By…
The role of a political party is to help like-minded citizens more effectively present their ideas and ideals for the betterment of a nation’s government, provided, of course, that the nation affords its citizens a role. For a brief 248 years citizens of the United States, on the foundation laid by the U.S. Constitution, have…
Oh, how I’d love to see a return to the halcyon days of American politics when most who sought or held office of public trust recognized that the word “public” was all inclusive. Back when loyalty was to the U.S. Constitution. Today, far too many in seats of power make no pretense of representing their…
My last opinion piece, “Make America Great Again? No, let’s make her ever more perfect,” in which I call former president Donald J. Trump a liar, elicited a greater Facebook response than usual. Maybe some are listening? Before I go any further, I would like to try dispel the notions of many that I hate…
Most people I know will not long tolerate a liar, yet there are millions today who rally to protect and defend the greatest and most brazen liar of our time. It’s not all that rare for charismatic liars to gain the undue trust of those inclined to believe what they are hoping to hear. Think…
