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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We will be the first to admit that we have had our druthers about some of the past votes that Congressman Labrador has made, but he appears to have retrieved his conservative pants from the cleaners and has shown a rather solid streak of proper conservative voting in the past year. It is unfortunate that […]
Many of our readers have probably been wondering why we have not gotten on the bandwagon of the alleged sordid affair between Senator Jim Guthrie of District 28 and Representative Christy Perry of District 11 which has been the subject of several internet stories. Or maybe you just don’t know about it because it hasn’t […]
Welcome to Volume 64 of the Gem State Patriot newsletter published by Gem State Patriot News. Please enjoy the following articles.
PATRIOT: ‘A person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.’ The roots of America’s greatness are deeply steeped in the wisdom of our Constitution. Our many successes come from the attraction to and application of that very rule of law protecting the freedoms for personal ambition and […]
The reason for so much controversy over Free Trade Agreements like TPP and Trade Deficits is that economists, and for that matter legislators and their advisors, have lost perspective since the many changes that have taken place since the 2001 recession. Explaining the trade deficit: When trade deficits occur during periods when we are below […]
This new flap about gun owner’s support for Trump is about as low as you can go. They know they can’t attack the principles that Trump stands for so they attack him personally. Hillary’s policies will be four more years of Obama’s policies which means we will never dig ourselves out of the hole they […]
A couple years ago, while reading an article about some internal strife in my state’s Republican Party, I was surprised to read that, “the state GOP has a policy of not endorsing one Republican over another.” I had noticed that this seemed to be the party’s practice, but didn’t know it was an actual policy. […]