For those who attended the special session of the Idaho legislature, this report will be a painful reminder of the proceedings. For others who are barely familiar with the event, it may serve as a point of information, lost in the near distant past and a precursor of the future if nothing is done to […]
Do you own your mineral rights? That was a question that I didn’t think should be at the top of my list when I bought my house. Until that is I found out about HB 464 with a quick google search combined with the term “authority over all persons and property public and private”; that […]
It’s been said that we get the government we deserve. I guess we’ve been really, really bad for the last couple decades. The majority of Americans are utterly clueless about truth and reality while accepting the skillfully presented poisonous lies being fed us from the education sector, big media news and the entertainment industry that […]
The Declaration of Independence brought unique individual liberty to our country. It states that Man’s rights come from a Divine Creator and that government was to serve man and not enslave him.
— Reprinted with Permission of The John Birch Society — Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.” — Lord Acton
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed Trade Promotion Authority (TPA, better known as Fast Track) giving President Obama what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) admitted is “an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president.”
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.
Recently Secretary Duncan lambasted Oklahoma after the state repealed Common Core Standards. Without coming right out and saying that they will cut off federal funds for No Child Left Behind, which would have put him in a proverbial corner and you know how politicians are, never paint yourself into a corner. More states are choosing […]
We predicted this back in 2012 when our legislators were debating HB248 that if indeed they voted to put in a state health care exchange that not only rates for insurance, but fees would rise dramatically in the next few year. They did not heed our warning and instead did what the lobbyists who paid […]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR by Steve Ackerman. REPLY by Bob Neugebauer. On May 26, the Ada County Republican Central Committee held an election to recommend candidates for sheriff to the county commissioners. Randy Folwell and Steve Bartlett were presented to us. We reviewed the records of these two good candidates, listened to their statements, and asked […]
Benewah County Sheriff Dave Resser proudly co-sponsored with the Republican Liberty Caucus of Idaho’s (RLC) local chapter a constitutional seminar conducted by nationally renowned KrisAnne Hall on June 12 thru 14th. Sheriff Resser paid $150 of his own money for the rental of the Eagles hall and Hari Heath, Chairman of the RLC and his […]