We process information, discern complicated solutions to sometimes simple problems in different ways. Sitting around the coffee table several mornings ago with a group of professional men and women in Seattle—doctors, lawyers, educators, journalists, and a labor organizer, I was asked what informs my decision-making process. Most of the people sitting around the table had […]
Federalist Number 10 written by James Madison famously warned about THE VIOLENCE OF FACTION. Madison defined “faction” as being a number of citizens either in a minority or a majority that were united in a common interest adverse to the rights of others or to the wellbeing of the “common good”. This violence doesn’t need […]
I have never received more e-mail and phone requests from readers of The Gem State Patriot, than I have received regarding articles I have written in the past about civil and government corruption. In the coming weeks, I will write about specific events that have occurred in Boise, and Garden City. In this article, I […]
There are certain basic principles and ideas that form the moral predicates upon which all societies in all parts of the world are grounded. In the Western World these “pillars” upon which societies have been built have been progressively subjugated and are no longer part of the curriculum in public and many private—even Christian schools. […]
The country club class and The Chamber of Commerce Class may own our country, but they don’t run our country. For almost 50 years they did. After World War II, an entire system of recapitalization of our economy grew from the model of what President Eisenhower called the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Instead of demand signaling […]
A recent article in both PLOS ONE and NEWSWEEK reported on a study, noting a correlation between political ideology and self-reported mental health. My 47 years of practicing medicine and surgery included only 3 months of formal psychiatric training as a medical student, but those 47 years did give me what I think is a […]
Life goes on in the Plantation. We are dealing with an issue that many of you have written to me about and our situation is happening all over Idaho in large and small communities. Our quite peaceful neighborhood is soon to become a construction site and dump for a new “project” of high-density housing that […]
Over the past several years I have written about the evolving changes in medicine that have occurred with the replacement of traditional medical ethics—think the Hippocratic Oath for example that is almost never used anymore at Medical School graduations, with a secular humanistic ethic that early in the nineteen sixties evolved into medical consumerism and […]
I received an e-mail today from a friend that was very critical of Benjamin Netanyahu. Here are some of his words: He tried to “Make himself an essential war-time leader, in order to put off facing criminal charges? That has a familiar ring to it.” Here is my response: The Netanyahu family has served the […]
People who have followed my articles regarding Medicaid and Medicaid expansion will recall that five years ago, and early in the game, I sited the “Oregon Medicaid Experiment” as proof that the claims of The Affordable Care ACT (Obama Care), specifically as they were applied to Medicaid and Medicaid expansion, were untrue. In a series […]
Has there ever been a group of people bound by a political false narrative that have been consistently wrong over many years, and be able to survive as a politically significant entity? In retrospect there were observations to be made that could have been used to define the moral predicates that were behind the faux […]
Please don’t tell my wife. Today after doing a PERPLEXITY AI search, I changed my mind. My mother used to say that if I didn’t have an opinion about something then give me 10 secs! I found out that Division 1 College athletes graduate at a higher rate than Division 3 athletes. The numbers used […]