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.
On Thursday, Idaho House District 1 Representative Heather Scott held an event in a church in Kootenai, live streamed for those who couldn’t attend, announced in an email with the subject line, “Smut in Our Idaho Libraries and What You Can Do About It.” A game plan, she wrote, to remove inappropriate materials from our…
Those of the far right failed in insurrection yet have with great success subverted the grand old Republican Party to the point it is not recognizable anymore, and nigh bereft of the ideals for which it once stood so proudly. Give them fools credit. They have legitimized easily refuted lies and wrongly undermined, without proof,…
A definition of the word stupidity is “behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment.” Too many who do possess good sense have tolerated abject stupidity in our politics and in our politicians for far too long, and we now find ourselves on a precipice as the stupid aggressively assert their supposed dominance…
We live in interesting times, times in which the word “liberty” means the exact opposite of the definition given in the dictionary, in which “patriots” are the very people our forefathers fought against and warned us about and where the proud flag of our nation has come to denote the antithesis of the principals upon…
