Archives for June 2014

BLM and USFS Lack Enforcement Authority on Federally Managed Lands

The U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion and laws of Con­gress have nev­er pro­vid­ed for a gen­er­al grant of law enforce­ment author­i­ty to the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. Our nation­al gov­ern­ment was pur­pose­ful­ly cre­at­ed by our found­ing fathers to be a gov­ern­ment of “lim­it­ed” pow­ers. World his­to­ry has repeat­ed­ly proven that an uncon­trol­lable and intru­sive bureau­cra­cy destroys a free soci­ety. When […]

What the hell is a “technocrat,” and are you one of them?

You used to hear the word “tech­no­crat” a lot, refer­ring to a par­tic­u­lar kind of gad­get-lover. Bat­man has been called a tech­no­crat, and so have Tony Stark and the Doc­tor from Doc­tor Who. But what does this word mean, and why does it have the same suf­fix as “aris­to­crat”? The Tech­noc­racy Move­ment Before there was […]