Approximate reading time: 4.5 minutes As I sometimes do while running errands, I tuned into the radio talk show of the hour. On this particular occasion, my errands ran longer than expected. By the time I got out of my car I was vibrating from an hour of ranting, raving, shaming and blaming (with an […]
Category: OP-ED
Congratulations, Magic Valley! Prop 1 was defeated and conservative legislators won big. We won an election. Now let’s win the war against liberal swamp policies, right here in the Magic Valley and in Idaho. So let’s not make the mistake of thinking that by having Trump in the White House, and Magic Valley conservative legislators […]
How the 18th century church stood for liberty and why it must do so again Approximate reading time: 4 minutes I just finished reading this most timely book. With our volatile election just days away now, I am seeing more and more news reports that our nation is vulnerable of being plunged into social anarchy, […]
Approximate reading time: 4.5 minutes “Congratulations, you are now hackable animals”, declared futurist Yuval Harari in a commencement speech in 2020. Lest you dismiss Harari’s declaration as the musings of a fringe globalist, think again. Dr. Harari is the number two mastermind of the World Economic Forum, the premiere globalist organization that coined, “Building back […]
Approximate reading time: 5:30 min. Abortion is healthcare. Males can have babies. Bidenomics is working. Criticizing mass migration is racist. Love is love. A totalitarian psy-ops operation is in full swing in our post-Christian, neo-pagan America. As I said in Part 1: The Courage to Tell Ourselves the Truth and Part 2: The Courage to […]
Approximate reading time: 5.5 min. As I said in my first installment in this series, Part 1: The Courage to Tell Ourselves the Truth, telling our selves the truth begins by bravely rejecting the convenient comfy lies of our day. Taking this first step of naked honesty ejects us from the comfy go-along-to-get-along route and […]
Approximate reading time: 4 min. I want to thank Magic Valley’s own Sen. Glenneda Zuiderveld for her latest Substack entry, “Are you a Warrior?” It finally got me to sit down and pen this first installment of what I hope to be a series on cultivating courage in these scary times. If ever there was […]
By Brian Smith, MVLA Board Member, July 17, 2024 To: Republican National Committee July 16, 2024Chairman Michael WhatleyCo-Chair Lara Trump Dear Mr. Whatley and Mrs. Trump, I am writing this letter to voice my disdain for the evil and corrupt ideology that has apparently infiltrated the leadership (you) of the Republican National Committee. Most notably, […]