February 8, 2017 PRESS RELEASE: Custer Museum Director details suicides, human cost of BLM raids In 2005, and again in 2008, Chris Kortlander, Founding Director of the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, MT, was the victim of similar Nazi…
February 7, 2017 Colorado’s Southern Ute tribe backs repeal of BLM ‘methane rule’ Existing regulations “already protect air quality” and the BLM’s methane rule should be abolished, Clement Frost, chairman of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, said…
February 7, 2017 Why should ordinary Americans care about what happened to LaVoy Finicum? “As I spoke to these folks I realized that they weren’t hateful or on the fringe. Instead, they were neighborly, they love each other…
February 6, 2017 Free the Hammonds: A letter to the President from a family friend A year ago, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, LaVoy Finicum, and their friends arrived in Oregon and camped at the Malheur Refuge to protest the…
February 5, 2017 Letter to Zinke: Bears Ears is a special interest ‘scheme,’ not the will of the people As the details emerge of the new Monument, it is clear that scheming special interest groups have been crafting the details of this Monument…
February 4, 2017 Will BLM agent Dan Love misconduct cripple federal prosecutors in Bundy trial? Whipple represents ranch owner and Bundy family patriarch Cliven Bundy, 70, whose years-long feud with the federal government over cattle grazing rights on federal land culminated…
February 4, 2017 EPA employees using encrypted messaging to skirt open records laws? A conservative watchdog group filed an open-records request with the EPA on Thursday demanding the agency explain whether its employees are using encrypted messaging…
February 3, 2017 Millard County Utah: A case study in urban ‘values’ infringing on rural property rights Although Millard County is the literal definition of rural, “urban” values increasingly seem to dominate local thought processes and resulting public policy. Despite lip…
February 3, 2017 Citing bias, Oregon Standoff defendant seeks new judge for case In a trial last fall, jurors found standoff leader Ammon Bundy and six others not guilty of felony charges. Prosecutors decided despite losing to…
February 3, 2017 COMMENTARY: Rights taken for granted could become rights lost The truth of the matter is that it really doesn’t matter who occupies the White House, the governor’s mansion or your county courthouse; “We…