May 23, 2022

James Bama, American artist

James Bama, a nationally regarded painter, died in Cody, Wyoming four days short of his ninety-sixth birthday.  I regret being out of touch with him for most of the last fourteen years since I moved to Idaho. Jim was certainly a friend, ...

March 31, 2020

Can Trump Solve America's Wild Horses Crisis?

The West has been home to wild horses since the days of the conquistadores.  For instance, the 1680 Pueblo rebellion that expelled the Spaniards from New Mexico for twelve years scattered large herds into the hands of the tribes of the Sout...

December 20, 2019

Trump as a Hamiltonian

Using the framework of the U.S. Constitution, Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in inventing the America that we live in today. With that liberty providing guidance, he fashioned the nascent American economy and its multifaceted engines from Wall S...

October 26, 2007

The Western Inferno

The 2007 forest fire season is ending with a costly bang in Southern California, and it is another record breaker. This year much of the American West was under smoky skies for most of the summer. Even before the California catastrophe, as of October...