The Real Problem: My good friend Tom Munds often talks about how big government has control of our lives and Mark Meckler insists emphatically that we need a constitutional convention so we can change our lives by changing the constitution. The real problem is we have a bunch of crooks running our country who do […]
Dear Friends, I need to bring your attention to a shocking development happening in Idaho schools. The state Health and Welfare Department has backdoor-ed a program into Idaho High Schools to teach sex education. This is no birds and bees biological introduction to human sexuality or anatomy. If you were to show children some of […]
I stumbled across a map of Idaho’s Mining Districts and couldn’t help notice the multitude of Districts and their coverage across our minerally endowed state. You might as well be surprised to discover that the lands encompassed by the Salmon-Challis National Forest are among the most prolifically populated with mining districts. Who would have guessed? […]
No matter what your personal beliefs on the effectiveness of vaccines, I want to raise awareness of Big Pharma’s influence on dissolving our nation’s most valuable founding principle: FREEDOM. It is happening right here in Idaho, right now. On January 10th, the Idaho House Health & Welfare Committee voted in a 7-6 decision to allow […]
Last week in the Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee, after much debate and controversy, an administrative rule was passed by a 7-6 vote to mandate 12th-grade high school students receive the Meningococcal vaccine. This rule is not required to be heard or debated by the entire body of the Idaho House or Senate and […]
Representatives Fred Wood, Jarom Wagoner, Marc Gibbs, and Laurie Lickley, Today [January 10, 2019], I watched as you voted ‘yes’ to mandate the meningitis vaccine for children. In other words, you voted ‘yes’ to increase government and to limit parental rights and personal responsibility. With this vote you joined the ranks of big government Democrats, denied the party to […]
I’m much obliged to the USFS for their accurate and compelling description of those local residents who attended a USFS sponsored meeting held in Salmon, Idaho last Spring to discuss the Salmon-Challis Draft Assessment for a new Forest Plan as “Angry Villagers”. The mediator for the forum, without hesitation or forethought of consequence, summed up […]
Too often, the Idaho State Board of Education gets it wrong. The Idaho Statesman was recently debating whether the Board should be split to create a separate board of higher education. The Board has a history of trusting university officials blindly; this creates problems with distinguishing the responsibilities necessary to protect minors versus protecting constitutional […]
Idaho’s General Election takes place on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Please consider the following recommendations and endorsements. Proposition 1 (Restore Historical Horse Racing): No Recommendation Proposition 2 (Medicaid Expansion): NO Local Vehicle Registration Fees (Ada County): NO College Of Western Idaho School Plant Facilities Reserve Fund Levy (Treasure Valley): NO United States Representative—District 1 Russ […]
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.” — GK Chesterton As many people work to escape states that have wandered far from the well-known American foundation, we are fortunate to already be right here in Idaho—our home built on traditional values and solid conservative principles. I want […]
If you think it is acceptable for the Board of Ada County Commissioners to keep unspent property taxpayers’ dollars at the end of each fiscal year for several years, place them in a slush fund for future use, and then spend them on a large capital project while providing few details and little or no […]
Dear Gem State Patriot: This letter is in response to Robert Le Roy Trenery’s comments on my conservative record. First, I would like to thank him for pointing out that I have the most conservative voting record according to the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the American Conservative Union and Project Vote Smart. I’ve also had the […]