Dear Friends: We at the Gem State Patriot are a not-for-profit service for the people of Idaho. We have been serving Idahoans for nine years and we seldom, if ever, ask for donations. Unfortunately, like so many other conservative organizations, we suffer from time to time from a lack of recognition of the services we […]
Who Will Pay for the Power Upgrade? A conservative doesn’t oppose growth. But a conservative does insist that the people who build private facilities pay their own way instead of handing the bill to the grandma down the road. Drive past Kuna and you can see the future being poured in concrete. Meta is building […]
The core conservative argument is economic and geopolitical. The American Enterprise Institute’s work frames AI primarily as a growth engine. In their analysis of whether AI could cause “explosive” economic growth, scholars like Tamay Besiroglu put meaningful odds-on AI dramatically raising productivity potentially many times the roughly 2% annual growth the U.S. has averaged for […]
Three subjects anchor this episode: the Proposition 1 abortion measure on Idaho’s November ballot, a Charlie Kirk memorial held on the Capitol steps, and a working economics lesson on whether new technology destroys jobs. On Proposition 1, the episode makes the case that the measure would push Idaho’s abortion law past where it stood before […]
In the previous post, Firefighters for 9-11 Truth (FF911Truth) and Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (ae911), challenged the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conclusion about what caused the World Trade Center 7 (WTC7) collapse, and the 9/11 Commission Report about the cause of the World Trade Center Twin Towers (WTC) collapse. The rebuttal discussion […]
What is the moral condition of a nation that allows an entire category of its people to be murdered, one by one, without due process? How is that nation affected when, over time, the population loss is 66 million – greater than one-sixth of the country’s current population? Imagine if everywhere you go, one in […]
BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador is defending the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, urging the Ninth Circuit to affirm a federal district court ruling against California policies that allow public schools to facilitate a child’s gender identity and social transition and actively conceal it from their parents. […]
Dear Friends, In 2024, New York passed the Climate Change Superfund Act, claiming that the companies producing America’s oil, natural gas, and coal owed the state $75 billion for fuel they produced between 2000 and 2024, and it passed a law to collect. Idaho joined 21 other states to challenge that law, and a federal […]
Last week, I had the honor of leading Idaho’s delegation to the first-ever Republican Party midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. Speaker after speaker, from President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, told the story of how Republican leadership is […]
There are real—and in many cases seemingly irreconcilable—differences over the moral standards and enduring principles that should undergird not only our legal system and form of government, but also the way we treat one another in daily life. Moral standards are the principles by which conduct is judged right or wrong, good or bad, just […]
Now that the 9/11 remembrance ceremonies have been held on the 25th anniversary of that event, and we have once again kept those who were lost on that day in our hearts, it might be a time to reflect on questions that continue to linger for some. It isn’t always easy listening to challenges of one’s beliefs. But […]
Dear Friends, Twenty-five years ago today, America changed forever. I can still remember that morning. When I arrived at work, people were gathered around the television, watching in shock and disbelief. As I joined them, the second plane struck the South Tower. In that instant, we understood that our nation was under attack and that […]
25 years ago, our world changed forever. Radical Muslim terrorists hijacked four airplanes, crashing them into the two towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. 2,977 people were killed in the worst terror attack in American history. For the victims and their families, it was a shocking tragedy. Men […]