by admin July 15, 2010 One of the last true bastions of true liberty is coming under attack – the Internet. The Federal Communications Commission is proposing new rules that would give the federal government nearly unlimited power to control the Internet and World Wide Web. Wyoming Liberty Group has signed on to the below open letter calling on those in Washington D.C. to keep the Internet open and free. ••• AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT, U.S. CONGRESS, AND FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION URGIN Read More by admin July 12, 2010 By Susan Gore, WLG Commentary At Wyoming Liberty Group's June Commonsense Sovereignty Meeting, Senator Cale Case noted a pending federal grant of $1.5 million to fund the alignment of Wyoming's private insurance regulation with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [Obamacare]. Had Wyoming accepted the federal grant, it would have radically altered Wyoming law in that state government would have been given the power to decide whether health insurance rate changes were “unreasonabl Read More by admin July 10, 2010 by Benjamin Barr Somewhere around the Fourth of July, Governor Freudenthal threatened to sell an attractive parcel of state land located in the confines of Grand Teton National Park. For more than a decade, Wyoming has worked to strike a deal with the federal government to exchange other parcels of federal land for this piece of trapped property. Try as it may, no deal has been struck, leading the governor to openly suggest selling the land with a price tag hovering around $125 million. Read More
by admin July 8, 2010 By Benjamin Barr In my last post, I described the benefits of the Supreme Court’s opinion in McDonald v. City of Chicago while taking issue with the Court’s adopted mode of analysis. The Court also released Christian Legal Society v. Hastings College of Law at the end of its term. While the case had the potential to be a solid victory for supporters of free association and the exercise of religion, something went wrong along the litigation track. The constitutional question Read More by admin July 1, 2010 By Benjamin Barr  With the close of the 2009-10 Supreme Court term this week, friends of freedom have much to celebrate. In January, the Court struck out in bold support of the First Amendment in Citizens United v. FEC, overturning two significant, and significantly bad, cases. At the end of its term, we should be likewise thankful that the Court affirmed the importance of the Second Amendment in McDonald v. City of Chicago by recognizing that the Amendment protects an individual’s Read More by admin June 11, 2010 By Charles Curley, WLG Commentary Apparently Wyoming dentists don't give up. That's good when it comes to extracting all the fragments of a broken tooth, but not so good when it comes to doing a complete walletectomy on you. First the dentist said they wanted a monopoly on making and fitting dentures. So far, the legislature seems to agree with their desire for a monopoly, as Senate File 38 failed introduction this year. But kudos to Sen. Geis for introducing and Senators Case, Geis, Haste Read More |
by admin July 23, 2010 (Editor’s note: This is the first in an ongoing series designed to inform the public of the activities of the Wyoming Legislature’s interim committees. If you would be interested in attending and covering a one of these meetings, contact Charles Ware, charlie.ware@wyliberty.org) By Charles Ware The meeting’s content, originally planned for two days, was presented in one day to accommodate a tour. Committee members and guests took a tour the of energy projects in the Campbell County Read More by admin July 16, 2010 By Sven Larson, Ph.D. If man ever built a machine that could defy the laws of nature, that machine would be the government. Our politicians and tax-paid bureaucrats are not that far into the skies yet, but they have certainly learned how to defy the laws of logic. The latest evidence comes from Denver, where the city is taxing medical marijuana at 7.72 percent to pay for public preschools and mass transit. Now a councilman wants to add an additional six percent to fund youth drug prev Read More by admin July 9, 2010 By Sven Larson, Ph.D. It has been said so wisely that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Similarly, those who cannot learn from others' mistakes are condemned to repeat those mistakes. In the case of health reform it is painfully obvious that the Obama administration and its Democrat followers in Congress have not learned anything from Europe's long history of socialized health care mistakes. Germany provides the latest example. The country still has private Read More by admin July 7, 2010 By Sven Larson, Ph.D. Wyoming is beginning to adjust itself to the Obamacare reform, despite many uncertainties still remaining about the effects and contents of the reform. As part of the adjustment process the state is taking temporary federal grants that are supposed to pay for the transition into Obamacare: Wyoming is applying for up to $4.1 million in federal grant money to temporarily offset insurance premium increases for state workers who retire early. And that's just the st Read More by admin July 2, 2010 By Charles Curley, WLG Commentary   Ever notice that we refer to "The Fourth of July". Every other holiday has a name. How often do you say, "We're celebrating the 25th of December"? No, it's Christmas. Or Newton's Day, if you prefer.   Some holidays float, so you couldn't refer to them by date. Thanksgiving is always on the last Thursday on November (in the US). This year it's on November 25. Next year it's on the 24th. And let's not get into lunar calendars.  Read More
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by admin July 10, 2010 by Benjamin Barr Somewhere around the Fourth of July, Governor Freudenthal threatened to sell an attractive parcel of state land located in the confines of Grand Teton National Park. For more than a decade, Wyoming has worked to strike a deal with the federal government to exchange other parcels of federal land for this piece of trapped property. Try as it may, no deal has been struck, leading the governor to openly suggest selling the land with a price tag hovering around $125 million. Read More by admin July 8, 2010 By Benjamin Barr In my last post, I described the benefits of the Supreme Court’s opinion in McDonald v. City of Chicago while taking issue with the Court’s adopted mode of analysis. The Court also released Christian Legal Society v. Hastings College of Law at the end of its term. While the case had the potential to be a solid victory for supporters of free association and the exercise of religion, something went wrong along the litigation track. The constitutional question Read More by admin June 29, 2010 By Sven Larson, Ph.D   In a world where government spending only goes one way, the tiny city of Douglas, WY is showing unusual fortitude in actually cutting government spending. After a series of infrastructural investments, during which the city almost doubled its budget, the city council has done what most politicians could never do: they masterfully resisted a temptation to make the temporarily high level of city spending permanent. The Douglas Budget reports on part of the city's ef Read More
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