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Why are we fighting so hard?

John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.” In response to the question of if the Constitutional Convention of 1787 had chosen a monarchy or a republic, Benjamin Franklin remarked, “A republic if you can keep it.” Since 1962, when prayer was taken out of school, there has been […]

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Plan to shut down Oregon dams portends disaster for environment, energy consumers

— Published with Permission of FreeRangeReport.com — PacifiCorp has made a deal with what is virtually no more than a shell-company with a fancy website called the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) to transfer their ownership of their operations at the dams to KRRC and have them destroy the dams since PacifiCorp was unable to […]

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Will Limousine Liberals Fix Social Security?

I have always been amused by liberals who consistently mire the working poor and lower middle class in all kinds of schemes that sound good in theory but have the opposite effect in reality. Life experience shows that having a positive mental attitude produces many excellent results, but instead, leftist politicians are convincing people they […]

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Ban: Boxes, Box Cutters, Pressure Cookers, Knives, Cars, Trucks, Fertilizer, Propane, Hammers, and Guns

I can hear the Diamond and Silk girls saying with tongue in cheek, “Oh ya honey, then we’d be as safe as folks living in Chicago on a Friday night because they have the strongest gun laws in the country. That’s right.” I also don’t hear anyone complaining about the fact that the Lone resource […]

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Please Stop the Sale of Avista Utility to Hydro One

I agree with the Spokesman-Review op-ed editorial by former Spokane Prosecutor Don Brockett. (See below.) As part of my testimony, I also agree with the excellent 2017 commentary from geologist Dave Boleneus which is included in this issue of Gem State Patriot News. See: Links for ‘Eye-Opening’ Info on Ontario’s Hydro One You Should Know […]

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Links for ‘Eye-Opening’ Info on Ontario’s Hydro One You Should Know BEFORE they Own Avista!

1. Hydro Rates in Ontario are killing small business and High hydro rates killed Ontario jobs: Study 2. Ontario’s Five Year Climate Change Action Plan 2016-2020 3. Rate data from utility websites in 2017 4. Increasing hydro prices are devastating rural Ontario 5. Auditor General, by Adam Beck on YouTube, Heated over Hydro One 6. […]

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UN uses expansion of tribal powers to gain control over America’s natural resources

— Published with Permission of FreeRangeReport.com — The House / Senate versions’ forestry measures embrace Euro-UN-Agenda 21 sustainable forest management principles, plus United Nations Indigenous Peoples Rights policies that would supersede the U.S. Constitution—while implementing unscientific climate change and sustainability objectives… Although the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2016 has been shelved […]

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The Clapper News Network

— Published with Permission of ConservativeHQ.com — The media always rewards its leakers. The late pundit Robert Novak used to say that government officials can choose to be either “a source or a target.” In other words, leak information to reporters and you can count on flattering coverage and protection from them. An added bonus […]

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Sustainable Development: Code for Reorganizing Human Society

— Published with Permission of AmericanPolicy.org — It’s in every community in the nation. We hear it talked about in county commission meetings and state legislatures. It’s even used in advertising as a positive practice for food processing and auto sales. It’s used as the model for building materials, power sources, and transportation policy. It’s […]

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The jihadi and the social justice warrior

What is the difference between a jihadi and a social justice warrior? Not much. The jihadi is an unapologetic soldier in Islam’s religious war against America seeking to reestablish the Muslim caliphate by internationalizing the world under one-world government ruled by sharia law. The social justice warrior is an unapologetic soldier in the leftist secular […]

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Terry Edwards Running for Idaho State Senate in District 25

Terry Edwards is running because a Freedom Index Score of “F” for District 25 State Legislators is unacceptable. District 25 and the freedom loving conservative folks of Idaho deserve better. If you thought the Swamp was only in Washington DC think again, it’s right here in the Idaho Statehouse. Republicans In Name Only must be […]

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If Trump is King Cyrus, What Does it Say About the American Church?

During the 2016 Presidential election, a number of Christian personalities began making a comparison between the ancient Persian King Cyrus, a heathen king who God used to release the Jews from their Babylonian captivity, and Donald Trump as a potential modern-day deliverer of American Christians. It seems that idea is still in vogue, at least […]

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