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Warpath: Obama’s Indian Policy Threatens All Americans, Both Tribal and Non-tribal Citizens

“I do solemnly swear that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Montana, and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity (so help me God).” — Constitution of the State of Montana, Article III, Sec. 3 A profound and […]

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Set Education Free

A friend recently shared a photo with me in an email that caught my attention and prompted me to ponder, once again, the matter of education. In the picture, a child is asking her mother: “Why do I have to go to school?” To which the mother replies: “So you can be molded into a […]

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Armed Domestic Terrorist Groups Take Americans Hostage in a Co-ordinated Series of Attacks: The Terrorists Refuse to Release Them

That should be the headlines. It did happen here. As a matter of law, it is a fact. But, that’s not what the conventional media is reporting. Such a headline doesn’t fit the narrative of the programming we are fed. It is not what the owners and managers of that media want you to know. […]

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DHS Considers Taking Over Elections in Name of Security

— Published with permission from The New American.com — “The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.” — Thomas Jefferson With news of the intrusion of unnamed hackers into the computerized election […]

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‘The High Price of Socialized Medicine’ by Dr. James W. Brook

“The High Price of Socialized Medicine: A History of Government Meddling in American Health Care, and How a Free Market Would Solve Our Problems” by Dr. James W. Brook

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State Senate Candidate Bill Rutherford: Public Education Funding in Idaho

Editor’s Note: We are providing this opinion piece by Bill Rutherford, the Democrat Candidate for Idaho State Senator in District 20, in order to assist our readers in understanding their political options. Our publication of this article does not constitute an endorsement of Mr. Rutherford or his positions. This is a story about how Undisclosed […]

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Don’t Pay for Corporate Welfare by Expanding Medicaid

Monday, August 29th, I spent an hour at the special committee meeting on Medicaid Expansion and listened to Dr. Jim Brook speak about how he has run a family practice in Idaho Falls for thirteen years where many of his patients fall into the Medicaid Gap. Dr. Brook has run his family practice without accepting […]

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Rising Conflicts as Religion Wanes and Racism Rears Its Ugly Head

Being born in the 1940’s I have had the advantage of seeing quite a bit in my life in terms of change. One of those is the slow but sure change in church attendance, and the slow but sure change in moral and ethical values. Some call it the decline of religiosity. If you look […]

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Important Notice of State Board of Education Meetings

These meetings are not well publicized – They hope you won’t attend. If You Want a Say in Your Child’s Education You Must Attend! Our thanks to Mary Ollie for putting this information together As citizens we all have a basic civic duty to follow the law. However we also have a civic responsibility to participate. By […]

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The Idaho Education Network mess goes from SNAFU to FUBAR

Your Crony Government Hard at Work Costing You Money Credit my brothers for introducing me to military jargon. SNAFU, TARFU, and FUBAR are said to date from the 1940’s and while crude expressions, these do a better job of summing up a situation than any essay on the subject. I think the terms fit well […]

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You Thought the NSA was Invasive? Schools are Worse!

Parents Upset about Invasive School Registration Questions Across Idaho, parents are discussing the kinds of school registration questions being asked about their children and they are not happy. During the past week parents have expressed concerns about the amount of information they have to enter into Power School – a registration and data management software […]

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Reasons to Oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Donald Trump correctly opposes the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) because it would destroy individual liberty, jobs and national independence. Hillary favors TPP. TPP is 5,554 pages of regulations. Over 500,000 American jobs are estimated to be lost as more foreign migrants and refugees will provide cheap labor. Hillary wants to greatly increase Muslim, largely […]

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