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Ins and outs of the marijuana black market

Above: Ed Medina Jr., owner of A Better Way Medicinal Alternatives, speaks out in support of legal recreational marijuana sales and regulation in Klamath Falls at city council Monday, Aug. 6. — Published with Permission of HeraldandNews.com — Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series of articles regarding the upcoming ballot measure to sell […]

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Disparity Based Upon Race — Promises Kept and Promises Broken

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated and expanded from its original version. The 1850s in this country were important years of growth, expansion and uncertainty for our county. “Go West, Young Man,” was first expressed in 1851 in the Terre Haute Express and later magnified across the country by journalist, Horace Greeley. By the […]

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President Biden? – The Creeping Desperation of a Divided Party

— Published with Permission of LibertyNation.com — The fawning over Joe Biden’s presidential run is doomed to keep the Democratic Party divided. Former vice president Joe Biden has all the looks of a man who will be running for president in 2020, according to observers. A report in The Hill states that Biden’s campaign stops on behalf of […]

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What’s in It for Me? – George Washington’s Farewell Address

1796 “But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected […]

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Revelations on the Avista Sale to Hydro One

Above: Over $50 million to be paid to Avista Executives Would you allow a foreign country to purchase 13 hydroelectric dams in the Pacific Northwest? There is a purchase of that number of our dams, the control of our water flows, electric and natural gas distribution to a foreign company in the works RIGHT NOW. Avista, […]

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Why Do Liberals Keep Hurting Themselves?

Liberals are so obsessed with Donald Trump. But maybe they should start looking in the mirror. The problem is they won’t like what they see. Donald Trump isn’t hurting you. You’re hurting and killing yourselves. You are your own worst enemies. You can never admit that, so you focus all your anger, bitterness, frustration and […]

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The media is generally ignoring the other story out of Charlottesville

— Published with Permission of ReNewAmerica.com — The one-year anniversary of the melee in Charlottesville, Virginia came and went recently. A poll found that most Americans feel that race relations in this country have worsened. Writing for cbsnews.com (8/12/18), Anthony Salvanto pens, “One year after the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, most Americans feel racial tensions have […]

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Conservation Easements and Land Trusts, the Ultimate Faustian Marriage

— Published with Permission of AmericanPolicy.org — “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the […]

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Rep. Priscilla Giddings Faces Kangaroo Tax Commission Hearing

We took the time this past week to attend an open Ada County Commissioners’ hearing for Priscilla Giddings, a state representative from Idaho County. What we found out was quite interesting and somewhat confusing. The lawyer for Mrs. Giddings presented a very cogent case stating all of the necessary requirements under Idaho law on what […]

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The ‘Enemy of the People’ Media were on the Wrong Side in the Revolution

— Published with Permission of ConservativeHQ.com — Yesterday, some 300 newspapers published editorials attacking President Trump for calling certain media figures and companies “the enemy of the people.” The effort was conceived by the Boston Globe and promoted by the American Society of News Editors, the New England Newspaper and Press Association and other groups. […]

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Medicaid Expansion is not the Answer

On the subject of Medicaid expansion: I would just like to reiterate that you will not solve our medical problems by throwing more money at them. It has already been tried in many states and in every one it has failed, however; it has significantly expanded their debt to the point where many of those […]

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Thank You President Trump

From the Editorial Board of Gem State Patriot News While 350 newspapers around the globe are writing fake news articles about President Trump, we would like to thank him for the many good things he has done to turn around our country from eight years of oppression by former president Obama. Since taking office, President […]

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