'Warner is choosing to stay silent'

'Wrong advice to their patient'

In response to a Federalist inquiry, not a single Democrat U.S. Senator called for the Virginia Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones to drop out of the race in light of his text messages fantasizing about assassinating Republican Todd Gilbert. “Put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets […]

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opened the oversight hearing of the Department of Justice (DOJ) pushing a new narrative Democrats have latched on to: the lie that ICE agents zip-tied children during a Chicago raid. “In the middle of the night, federal agents pulled women and children out of […]

Press Release from Idaho State Police

LEWISTON, Idaho — The Idaho State Police has extended the application deadline for its next trooper training academy as the agency continues to address staffing needs, particularly in District 1 (Coeur d’Alene) and District 2 (Lewiston).

The shortage of troopers in North Central Idaho has required other districts to fill shifts and provide coverage when needed. To strengthen staffing statewide, ISP is extending the deadline for applicants interested in serving their communities. The new deadline to apply is Oct. 17, 2025, and the next training academy begins in January 2026.

“If you have a desire to serve and make Idaho safer, we want you on our team. There’s no better time to step up, turn your passion for your community into your profession, and help uphold the safety and integrity Idahoans expect,” Captain Mike Mooney said.

The hiring process includes a written exam, physical fitness test, oral interview, background investigation, and medical and psychological evaluations. Qualified applicants must:

• Be U.S. citizens
• Be at least 21 years old
• Hold a high school diploma or GED equivalent
• Possess or be eligible for an Idaho driver’s license
• Successfully complete all required background checks

Recruits who successfully complete all required steps will be paid employees during the 22-week training academy, which begins in January in Meridian. To apply to become an ISP trooper, visit statecareers.idaho.gov/jobs/16400897-idaho-state-police-trooper.

'This is a pretext to stop the next election'

Tuesday on ABC's "The View," co-host Joy Behar predicted President Donald Trump would use the National Guard to "stop the next election."

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Florida's Department of Transportation (DOT) recently tore up the LGBT crosswalk on Miami Beach -- a move which comes as the state removes political street art across the state.

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President Donald Trump has extended the decision on when to fire federal workers as a result of the Democrat government shutdown.

Trump on Tuesday told reporters he will know which permanent jobs are being eliminating “in four or five days,” if the shutdown continues.

“It’ll be substantial,” he said, “and a lot of those jobs will never come back.”

On Oct. 1, presidential press secretary Karoline Leavitt said layoffs would start to occur within two days. She described the cuts as being “imminent, very soon.”

Trump said Sunday that firings are “taking place right now.” Leavitt clarified to The Daily Signal on Monday that he was referring to federal workers who have been furloughed.

“The president was referring to the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have been furloughed as a result of this federal government shutdown, both here at the White House and across the entire federal government,” she said.

“At agencies, across the board, there are federal workers who are staying home. Many of them work in the White House,” she said. “You know them, some of them sit just behind me at those desks. They are not unable to show up to work right now because the Democrats chose to shut the government down.”

A White House Office of Management and Budget memo was leaked, hinting of no guaranteed back pay for furloughed workers.

When asked whether furloughed workers deserve back pay, Trump said it depends which workers were being referenced.

“But for the most part, we’re going to take care of our people,” he said. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of,” he said, adding they’d be taken care of “in a different way.”

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'Simply unacceptable'

An illegal alien is accused of soliciting the murder of Commander at Large of the United States Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino.

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Politics & Common Sense — Column by John Spencer

Truthfulness is one of the most fundamental qualities of human character, yet in today’s society it often seems blurred, compromised, or even dismissed as outdated.

I was recently reading an article by Charles Stanley in which he wrote about ‘Truth’ and the fundamental relevance in our everyday lives. That article inspired me to dissect this very human challenge and how it affects us.

It is my opinion that we live in a culture where words like “spin,” “misrepresentation,” “falsehood,” or “alternative facts” are treated as softer substitutes for what they truly are— lies.

Why is it so difficult to speak the truth, especially when it causes discomfort or pain?

It is my belief that part of the reason is fear. We fear rejection, loss of reputation, or the conflict that truth might bring. When truth is absent, all is distorted. We cannot claim to be honest while only half-truths are present and very strategic omissions are obvious.

There is relativism, a notion that treats ‘truth’ as fluid, being shaped by an individual’s perspective. What maybe ‘true for you’ may not be ‘true for me’. This notion allows for the ‘drifting’ based on opinion and lacks any fixed compass of clarity.  It is my opinion that justice, relationships, and freedom cannot flourish when the ‘comfort of the moment’ is our truth.

The impulse to lie becomes apparent at an early age. We discover very early that twisting or embellishing the truth may help us avoid pain or punishment. I was ‘caught’ numerous times growing up, lying to my parents just to avoid getting into trouble.

 This impulse is probably instinctive and according to Scripture, is part of our nature. Truthfulness then must be intentional on our part and we should resist the easy path of deception.

Throughout history, humanity has affirmed that truth is the cornerstone of civilization.

From Scripture and the Commandment against bearing false witness, to the Declaration of Independence’s claim that “we hold these truths to be self-evident,” to our own U.S. Constitution and Federalist Papers published in 1787, assumed that citizens must discern and pursue truth through honest debate, not manipulation. Plato’s writings from the 4th century BC fostered the relentless pursuit of truth through dialogue, reason, and inquiry.

These enduring documents and other history, remind us that truth is not a passing preference but a permanent foundation for our country and society.

At its core, truthfulness is not only about the words we speak but also about the values we hold. Self-examination becomes crucial.  Should or do I alter the truth when it seems convenient? Do I feel threatened by the truth when it challenges me? Do I justify a lie if it does not appear to harm anyone?

These are uncomfortable questions, but they reveal much about how we actually value truth. If we feel unsettled after telling a lie, or if we feel betrayed when someone lies to us, then we already know, deep down, the moral weight of dishonesty.

Dishonesty damages relationships. Without truth, families falter. The same holds true in public life. When politicians replace truth with vague phrases like “misrepresentation” or “inaccuracies,” they are still lying. When leaders lie, the framework of society erodes because citizens no longer know whom to trust.

Truth should be based on reality.  Reality does not bend to convenience. A business that hides losses will collapse. A marriage built on lies cannot endure. A government that deceives its citizens will ultimately face distrust. To deny reality is to live in illusion, and illusions always crumble.

It is my opinion that we must recognize that truth is not an external weapon to be wielded against others, but an internal discipline to be cultivated within ourselves. Living truthfully requires wisdom to distinguish what is real from what is false, strength to resist the temptation to reshape reality for personal gain, and courage to speak openly even when honesty may cost us comfort, approval, or ease.

Wisdom, strength, and courage are the foundations for integrity.

Very soon we will have another election here in Kootenai County. Candidates will project their message woven into promises. As citizens we will need to carefully dissect the messages and question whether their statements and promises align with their conscience.

When we know that those around us are truthful, when politicians are truthful, we will act with confidence. The personal reward of truthfulness is freedom.

I believe that truthfulness is not just another virtue but should be the bedrock of character. Families, communities, and nations cannot flourish when truth is negotiable and relativism is the norm.  The challenge before you and I, is to embody truth as a way of life, not only when convenient, but always.

Democrats on the House Homeland Security and House Judiciary committees are demanding a federal investigation into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after agents arrested dozens of illegal aliens in the South Shore of Chicago, Illinois.

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Then-Vice President Joe Biden suppressed concerns from Ukrainian officials about his family’s corrupt business dealings in the country, newly declassified records show. Released Tuesday by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the heavily redacted documents indicate U.S. intelligence officials squashed an intel report that revealed Ukrainian officials worried about Biden’s visit to the country in December 2015. […]

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans are again condemning Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger for her history teaching at an Islamic school funded by Saudi Arabia and tied to Hamas, which graduated students who went on to commit acts of terror.

“Abigail Spanberger can’t be trusted,” Peyton Vogel, press secretary for Spanberger’s Republican opponent Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. “While Winsome Earle-Sears wore the uniform to defend America, Spanberger worked for a Saudi-funded school tied to terrorism. Virginians deserve a governor who stands with our country and our Commonwealth.”

Earle-Sears served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1983 to 1986. Spanberger worked at the CIA from 2006 to 2014. She taught at the Islamic Saudi Academy as a substitute English teacher for two semesters in 2002-2003, while undergoing a background check for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, where she worked before joining the CIA.

The Republican Party of Virginia tied Spanberger’s brief teaching career to her stance on Jay Jones, the Democrat candidate for attorney general, who sent text messages fantasizing about shooting the Republican speaker of the House of Delegates. While Jones apologized for the remarks and Spanberger condemned the texts, she has stopped short of demanding that he drop out of the race, which many Republicans have demanded.

“Fake Moderate Abigail Spanberger’s failure to denounce the policies and activities of the Islamic Saudi Academy where she taught—what some have called ‘Terror High’—is yet more evidence of her unwillingness to take accountability for the radical company that she keeps,” the party told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.

“We have seen this lack of moral character again in recent days as Spanberger has failed to call on Democrat Attorney General nominee Jay Jones to drop out of the race following text messages showing that he wished death on his political opponents and their children, as well as reporting that he hoped police officers would be killed,” the party added. “Virginians simply cannot trust Abigail Spanberger to make sound judgements and keep them safe.” 

Jay Greene, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation‘s Center for Education Policy, expressed concerns about Spanberger’s history.

“I think her being a teacher at a radical Islamic school is quite alarming,” Greene told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. “She would have to have known the extremist views being taught. And she did this job as an adult while waiting for clearance to start work at the CIA.”

“If she was mature enough to be entrusted with protecting our country, this participation in extremist indoctrination cannot be dismissed as a youthful indiscretion,” Greene added.

‘Terror High’

As Jerry Dunleavy reported at Just The News, news outlets had reported the Islamic Saudi Academy’s terrorism ties and concerning textbook passages about Jews before Spanberger took a job there.

In March 1997, The Washington Post reported that Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, the first chairman of Hamas’ political bureau, had sent his kids to the academy. The State Department designated Hamas a foreign terrorist group later that year.

In October 1998, the Post reported that Ismail Selim Elbarasse worked as a comptroller for the academy before he got arrested for refusing to appear before a grand jury investigating money laundering. Agents were reviewing the funds Elbarasse handled, including bank accounts he shared with Marzook. A search of Elbarasse’s northern Virginia home in 2004 provided evidence in the terrorism financing Holy Land Foundation case.

In March 2002, CNN, The Washington Post, and others reported that Israel had denied entry to Mohammed Osman Idris and Mohammed el-Yacoubi, both former academy students, in December 2001. The Israeli government suspected they were planning a suicide attack in Jerusalem. While the men did not ultimately face charges for any such attack, their story might have given Spanberger pause when she considered teaching at the school.

In February 2002, The Washington Post reported that the academy’s textbooks tell students that “the Day of Judgment can’t come until Jesus Christ returns to Earth, breaks the cross and converts everyone to Islam, and until Muslims start attacking Jews.” An 11th grade textbook reportedly stated that one sign of the Day of Judgment will be that Jews will hide behind trees, and the trees will say, “Oh Muslim, Oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come here and kill him.”

“I wouldn’t be surprised if some teachers are sometimes anti-American or anti-Semitic,” one student’s mother told The Post. “But I don’t want it to be that way.”

Multiple students told the Post that teachers instruct them to “shun and even to dislike Christians, Jews and Shiite Muslims.”

The Washington Post reported in 2008 that the academy used textbooks “that compared Jews and Christians to apes and pigs” as recently as 2006.

The terrorism ties would continue after Spanberger’s teaching stint.

In 2005, a jury convicted the school’s 1998 valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, of plotting with Al Qaeda operatives to kill President George W. Bush and hijack airplanes. In 2009, authorities arrested 2003 graduate Raed Abdul-Rahman Alsaif for trying to board a plane in Tampa with a concealed butcher knife.

Spanberger’s campaign did not respond to The Daily Signal’s repeated requests for comment about how much she knew about the school before teaching there and whether she would condemn the school’s terror ties now.

How Spanberger’s History Came Out

The Virginia Republican Party first published Spanberger’s connection to the Saudi academy in 2018 after the Republican opposition research firm America Rising obtained it in a job application Spanberger submitted to the Postal Service. The Postal Service later admitted it should not have turned over Spanberger’s application in response to America Rising’s Freedom of Information Act request, The Washington Post reported.

“I am proud of my background and my service, and not ashamed of the information I submitted,” Spanberger wrote in a cease-and-desist letter that year. “I have nothing to hide in my background,” she added, but noted that she was concerned about her privacy, particularly about the potential disclosure of her Social Security Number.

The Islamic Saudi Academy closed in 2016, and the King Abdullah Academy that replaced it closed earlier this year. The Daily Signal reached out to the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington, D.C., which funded both academies, for comment.

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In the little over 100 years since its founding, the American Bar Association has transformed from an organization designed to promote best practices in the legal profession to one promoting partisan political positions that are immoral, illegal, and unethical. 

But despite its woke commitments, the ABA has remained the nation’s only nationally recognized law school accreditor. On top of that, many states specifically require that those who sit for their state’s bar exam must first have graduated from an ABA-accredited law school.

The ABA long ago ceased to promote best practices for legal education—leading my colleague at The Heritage Foundation and me to call for federal and state actions to end the ABA’s accreditation monopoly.

In April, President Donald Trump issued an executive order explicitly criticizing the ABA’s accrediting arm for its problematic DEI practices and ordering the Department of Education to “hold accountable [consistent with applicable law], including through denial, monitoring, suspension, or termination of accreditation recognition, accreditors who fail to meet the applicable recognition criteria or otherwise violate Federal law.” 

Trump clarified that accreditors violate federal law by “requiring institutions seeking accreditation to engage in unlawful discrimination in accreditation-related activity under the guise of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ initiatives.”

That’s after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi had already notified the ABA it was likely breaking the law by pushing its DEI policies.

Last week, Texas became the first state to adopt our main state-level recommendation, with its supreme court eliminating the requirement that an individual has to have graduated from an ABA-accredited law school to sit for the bar in that state.

“The Court is of the tentative opinion that the ABA should no longer have the final say on whether a law school’s graduates are eligible to sit for the Texas bar exam and become licensed to practice law in Texas,” the Texas Supreme Court wrote.

Now, it falls to the Texas Supreme Court itself to decide whether a law school qualifies as an “approved law school” eligible to have its graduates sit for, and become members of, the Texas bar.

The change won’t take effect until early in 2026—after a period for public comment—but this is undoubtedly a step in the right direction.

Texas isn’t the only state considering such changes.

Florida’s Supreme Court is considering a similar step, and other states will likely follow suit—as they should.

After all, the ABA tried to bully George Mason University’s law school into discriminating against students based on race—even going so far as to threaten the school’s accreditation unless it applied different admissions standards based on race. 

The ABA has pushed policies that likely violate the First Amendment by restricting what attorneys can—and cannot—say.

And it even—absurdly—claimed the Equal Rights Amendment had become the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution.  That position proved so radical, legally untenable, and dangerous that even President Joe Biden’s own archivist (the official responsible for formally recognizing new constitutional amendments) rejected it, as did the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Thankfully, Texas has taken a first and important step toward eliminating the ABA’s undue and unwarranted influence on legal education and the legal community more broadly.

Stay tuned, because there’s likely more to come from other states and the federal government.

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'I pray for full healing so I can get well'

For the fifth consecutive month this year, President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released zero migrants into the United States interior.

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