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Sec. Zinke’s hypocrisy could not be more Unbelievable!

The level of hypocrisy coming from Sec. Zinke could not be more unbelievable. In a recent interview on Breitbart, he blasted “…environmental terrorist groups that have not allowed public access…” to public land, not allowed timber harvesting or grazing, then claimed that “…public lands belong to everybody, not just the special interest groups.” Have these […]

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Forest Service takes credit for small thinning projects, shrugs off decades of disastrous wildfires

— Published with Permission of FreeRangeReport.com — …the Badger Creek Fire’s suppression costs exceed $6.3 million. That’s especially ironic when timber mills spent years trying to pay the Forest Service for the same trees that are now dead and burned. The government could have made money instead of losing money, and saved jobs, communities, watersheds, […]

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The nightmare of taxing carbon dioxide

— Published with Permission of cfact.org — A lot has been written about the proposed carbon dioxide tax bill introduced in the US House by republican Representative Carlos Curbelo. Many writers have pointed out that it is expensive, pointless and has no chance of passage in the present Congress. It is an election year gimmick at best. […]

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Who’s In Charge Here?

— Published with Permission of WesternWire.net — Restaurant owners may know that open-faced sandwiches are regulated by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), part of the Department of Health and Human Services. But if a second piece of bread is added on top, it is regulated by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). That’s because […]

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David and Goliath in the court of public opinion

The Goliath narrative in 1 Samuel 17 opens with the Philistine army gathered for war against Israel. “Saul and the Israelites are facing the Philistines in the Valley of Elah. Twice a day for 40 days, morning and evening, Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, comes out between the lines and challenges the Israelites to send out a champion of their own […]

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What the MSM Doesn’t Get About Trump’s Support

— Published with Permission of ConservativeHQ.com — Much to the amazement of the establishment media, President Trump’s job approval rating held steady despite former campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s conviction on tax and bank fraud charges and ex-personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s guilty plea last week, according to the results of two polls released over the weekend. […]

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Safeguard for the Supreme Court

— Published with Permission of KrisAnneHall.com — In light of President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the left hasn’t changed its playbook. So, it is no surprise to hear claims that appointing an “Original Intent” Justice will bring back Jim Crow and chattel slavery. A reasonable look at history (which is […]

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Sessions on life support as attorney general

— Published with Permission of ReNewAmerica.com — A few days after former Sen. Jeff Beauregard Sessions was confirmed as attorney general of the United States, I called him on his cell phone. The reason? I wanted to ask him to investigate the apparent wiretapping of Trump Tower by Obama’s Deep State intelligence agencies and the […]

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Ins and outs of the marijuana black market

Above: Ed Medina Jr., owner of A Better Way Medicinal Alternatives, speaks out in support of legal recreational marijuana sales and regulation in Klamath Falls at city council Monday, Aug. 6. — Published with Permission of HeraldandNews.com — Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series of articles regarding the upcoming ballot measure to sell […]

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Disparity Based Upon Race — Promises Kept and Promises Broken

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated and expanded from its original version. The 1850s in this country were important years of growth, expansion and uncertainty for our county. “Go West, Young Man,” was first expressed in 1851 in the Terre Haute Express and later magnified across the country by journalist, Horace Greeley. By the […]

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President Biden? – The Creeping Desperation of a Divided Party

— Published with Permission of LibertyNation.com — The fawning over Joe Biden’s presidential run is doomed to keep the Democratic Party divided. Former vice president Joe Biden has all the looks of a man who will be running for president in 2020, according to observers. A report in The Hill states that Biden’s campaign stops on behalf of […]

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What’s in It for Me? – George Washington’s Farewell Address

1796 “But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected […]

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