About

 us 

   My name is Bill, and this is my wife Cathy.  Cathy is a Boise, Idaho girl, and I’ve lived in Washington’s Puget Sound area all of my life. 

   Cathy and I have dreamed of moving back to Idaho for a number of years, and in late 2005 we took the steps necessary to accomplish that.  We are so blessed to be able to do that, and to make a new life here. 

  We’re Free In Idaho!

Freed from…

  • sin condemnation
  • big corporate silliness
  • even sillier politics
  • the Pacific North-wet

Free to…

  • shoot, hunt, and fish
  • bike, hike, and camp
  • work hard at new careers
  • write what interests me
  • praise God!

We live in Southwest Idaho and we’re busy enjoying life and building new careers.  If someone said to you “what would you like your life to look like” what would you tell them?  And if it didn’t look like what you wanted, would you change it?  We did. 

Our daughters live on the coasts, one in Rhode Island San Francisco, and one in Washington… Idaho is a little boring for them right now, but we find it perfect.      

You can email us at    BillH  at  FreeInIdaho  dot  com

Remember to be thankful in all things…

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

-Daniel Defoe

Remember that what we have is given by God, not some big nanny government…

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”        —William J. H. Boetcker

And remember what John Adams said about defending yourself and your liberty…

“Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.”
- John Adams

Remember the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in D.C. vs Heller June 26, 2008

The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.

Which is fine, as far as it goes, but remember that the decision was 5-4 and left the door wide open for “common sense gun laws”.  There is NO SUCH THING as a “common sense gun law”.   What is “gun control”?

Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.”              
— L. Neil Smith

The Second Amendment is not about hunting, and it isn’t just about defending yourself in your home.  Thomas Jefferson meant it when he said

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
- Thomas Jefferson, proposed Virginia constitution, June 1776.

Remember not to buy the lie that America is finished, or our best days are behind us

When all is said and done, Civilizations do not fall because of the barbarians at the gates. Nor does a great city fall from the death wish of bored and morally bankrupt stewards presumably sworn to its defense. Civilizations fall only because each citizen of the city comes to accept that nothing can be done to rally and rebuild broken walls; that ground lost may never be recovered; and that greatness lived in our grandparents but not our grandchildren. Yes, our betters tell us these things daily. But that doesn’t mean we have to believe it.
- Bill Whittle