June 19, 2016

The Modern Enemies of Native Americans

North America’s native tribes are as complex and diverse as the immigrants which now populate the continent. Historically, the federal government sought devious and violent means to control indigenous populations, and ultimately segregated most...

May 27, 2016

Sierra Club Driving Final Nail into Coal Industry's Coffin

The Sierra Club is not only one of America’s most radical environmentalist non-governmental-agencies (NGOs), it’s also one of the richest and most influential. In a recent email to supporters, the Sierra Club expressed an urgent need t...

April 28, 2016

Snake oil from foes of public lands transfer

Groups opposing the Transfer of Public Lands are waging a war against Western Statehood Equality with the equivalent of rhetorical sticks and stones.  Without facts to reinforce their hysterical arguments, they are increasingly reliant upon ad h...

March 31, 2016

(RS) 2477 and Western lands

Several Western states, including Utah and Colorado, have been ground zero for state vs. federal government clashes over road closures by federal agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).  Closures...

March 11, 2016

Prosecutor Bullies Ammon Bundy’s Attorney

Mike Arnold, the outspoken attorney defending the key figure in the Oregon Malheur Refuge “occupation” story, Ammon Bundy, is facing an ongoing barrage of complaints from the prosecutor in the case about his outspokenness. Following hi...

February 17, 2016

San Jose State poly-sci professor Apparently left death wish on Bundy Ranch Facebook page

Sons and supporters of Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who rebuffed agents from the Bureau of Land Management and FBI as they attempted to confiscate his cattle in 2014, traveled to Burns, Oregon in an act of civil disobedience to bring attention to...

November 27, 2015

Distrust of federal land agencies escalates with conviction of Oregon ranchers

Ranchers in the West are engaged in 21st-century range wars, but their adversaries are not the rustlers and cattle barons of lore. Federal land management agencies, overzealous officers, and self-righteous judges are the foes western ranchers fear th...

November 17, 2015

Is federal control the best approach to conservation of land and water?

Raising the ire of some environmentalist groups and proponents of federal public lands acquisition, the chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, Rob Bishop (R-Utah), allowed funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LCWF) to expir...

October 2, 2015

Planned Parenthood vs. the Military

A standing Defense Department memo recently sent to military families and civilian personnel, warning that a “government shutdown” could result in servicemen and contractors alike going without pay. A summary paragraph reads: ...

September 30, 2014

Confucius Shrugged

Helen Raleigh’s cleverly titled book Confucius Never Said is an instructional primer in Randian Capitalism contrasted against a bleak mural of Communist ingress. Raleigh, a first-generation American whose great-grandfather was persecuted by the...

March 15, 2014

Opening Up the Reagan Files

The Reagan Files: Inside the National Security Council (2nd Edition) is a highly satisfying fix for even the most avid Reagan addict.  Jason Saltoun-Ebin’s written documentary is an exhaustive compilation, provided with help from staffers ...

July 29, 2012

The Man Who Quit Money: Of Parasites and Men

Mark Sundeen's book, The Man Who Quit Money, has been called "a thought-provoking and respectful account of one man's search for meaning in a world preoccupied with money and the things it buys" (Deseret News 3/10/12).  The A.V. Club website say...

December 18, 2011

The Lone Politician Who Stood against Japanese Internment

"Jap," "the Yellow Peril," and "slanty-eyes" were a few of the cruel and very common epithets used to identify Japanese-Americans in post-Pearl Harbor America.  Within two months of the bombing by the Japanese government of the Naval Base at Pea...