It snows a lot in the Rockies, even in relatively dry years, and some of the western national parks, such as Yellowstone, Glacier, and Rocky Mountain, require extensive plowing to open their roads in the spring. Yellowstone, for instance, closes…
What with the hysteria concerning the just passed sequester, I’ve been thinking about what the late Barry Goldwater — conservative Arizona senator and 1964 GOP presidential nominee — would make of it. So from the bookshelf I liberated (an apt…
“….the Roman government appeared everyday less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. The taxes were multiplied with the public distress; economy was neglected in proportion as it became necessary…. If all the barbarian conquerors had…
I’m as surprised as anyone, considering my recent TAS punditry on who would succeed Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior. Sally Jewel, 56, the CEO of Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), has no experience in public service, yet according to the…
To compare its trivial nature to our current fiscal mess and as a commentary on the media, Mark Steyn in one of his recent articles blasted ABC News for a story it ran in 2007 about a scandal at the…
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado By Wade Davis (Island Press, 176 pages, $22.95) The Colorado River holds a special place in the minds of people who know rivers because of its ambiguous wildness. Other than…
Barter is as old as human history. According to a story in the Wall Steet Journal, it is yet practiced as a facet of the 21st century global economy. Germany, for example, “sends coal to Brazil for coffee, and imports…
A link to a YouTube video taken from C-Span 2 appeared on the Drudge Report the other day. In it, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana) is seen addressing the Senate in what seems to be a drunken state: gesturing wildly and…
This is a bicentennial article about a man who occupies a prominent place in American history, and whose life is tinged by myth. This man was born in a Kentucky log cabin in 1809. He rose from an early hard…
There’s a scene in Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in which, as the two are robbing a train, they’re surprised when the door of a boxcar bursts open and down a ramp rides…
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