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When dancing with the devil, the powerful partner should lead

November 28, 2018 Jim Jones

Saudi Arabia may have lots of oil and idle cash, but that country is in the peanut league compared to…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: North Korea, Presidential leadership, Russia, Saudi Arabia

On the auction block now—America’s moral standing in the world

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The United States is showing a new face to the world and it isn’t a pretty one. No more Mr.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: America's moral standing, foreign relations, President Trump

Let’s give thanks for the Americans who fought in the Great War

November 19, 2018 Jim Jones

The furor has died down over the President’s failure to attend a ceremony at Belleau Wood on November 10 to…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Belleau Wood, Thanksgiving, WWI

Nothing is certain in this world except death and taxes

November 14, 2018 Jim Jones

The old saying about the certainty of death and taxes is not entirely true anymore. A talented tax lawyer can…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: advance care directive, Idaho

America wins by fighting resource degradation in poor countries

November 8, 2018 Jim Jones

With the increasing world population, and the substantial environmental changes that will result from a warming planet, protection of the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: climate change, foreign aid, population migration, resources

How to keep faith with America’s military veterans

November 5, 2018 Jim Jones

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns fell silent on the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized, Veterans Filed under: Idaho, veterans, WWI

Inflammatory political speech can be a call to action for some

October 31, 2018 Jim Jones 5d Comments

When I was taking over as Idaho’s Attorney General in January of 1983, the Aryan Nations group was on the…

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Posted in: inflammatory rhetoric, Uncategorized Filed under: demagoguery, hate speech, nationalists

Is ticket splitting a mortal sin?

October 23, 2018 Jim Jones

  Back in the early 1960s, when I was studying political science at the University of Oregon, I first encountered…

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Posted in: politics, Uncategorized Filed under: Cindy Wilson, Idaho, Lawrence Wasden, ticket splitting

The gaming initiative–deja vu all over again

October 17, 2018 Jim Jones

In the immortal words of that baseball great, Yogi Berra, the historical horse-racing initiative, Proposition One, is “deja vu all…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: initiatives, Park-mutuel gaming, slot machines

Building an unbearable hothouse for future generations

October 10, 2018 Jim Jones 2d Comments

  Earth’s future generations will undoubtedly spend a good deal of their time cursing us for condemning them to an…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: climate change, extinctions

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