The non-scientific Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandate to lower arsenic levels in drinking water from 50 parts per billion to 10 ppb is not based on scientific research, and will needlessly cost taxpayers millions of dollars to comply.
Did you know that your individual liberty and national independence are being negotiated away by our State Department in new trade agreements? NAFTA has resulted in the loss of a million jobs and caused 40,000 factories to close or relocate out of the USA. The two new trade agreements will be NAFTA on steroids.
Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) were created in 1962 for cities with greater than 50,000 population to assist with transportation development and city planning.
It may be impolite to target UN affiliated lobbyists by assuming they are lobbying for UN interests. A more in-depth look is needed to review their activity and validate this accusation.
Nothing, except his fix. His fix is dangerously flawed and could literally terminate our sovereignty and our Republic.
— Reprinted with Permission of The New American magazine — The first Freedom Index scorecard for the 114th Congress is now available.
Welcome to the new, web-based Gem State Patriot newsletter. Instead of a single PDF file, this newsletter is interactive, allows comments and discussion, and can be easily shared via social media. Please enjoy the following articles included in this edition of the Gem State Patriot.
I am not a Hillary Clinton fan. I honestly don’t know how anyone could be. She has left a trail of lies, criminal behavior, and ineptitude spanning four decades. No matter how hard the left tries to whitewash Hillary’s past, the stains will never come out of the old pantsuit.
A bill to eliminate the mandatory SBAC test (central to the Common Core education program) never got a public hearing. You can thank Representative Reed DeMordaunt who was sent along with our other 104 legislators a petition from 35 Idaho organizations representing over 20,000 voters requesting a hearing on the SBAC test and Common Core.
The Deadly Failure of Gun Free Zones
Pro-Second Amendment Americans are not in any way enlightened by the recent tragedy at the Chattanooga military bases. Rather, we sit back and watch a bad version of the 1980s movie “Groundhog Day”, with a consistent replay of criminals killing helpless victims in gun free zones.
An Appeal to Heaven
I recently read the story of the “An Appeal to Heaven” flag, its history and the important philosophical concept behind it. Most of us don’t even know there was such a flag and even fewer understand its significance.
The Global Warming Scam
There has been no bigger lie perpetrated on the people of the world than that of man-made global warming. The integrity of climate research has been compromised by ideological, financial, and political interests.