Bundy Family at Sky Harbor Airport (PHX) Treated as DOMESTIC TERRORISTS

Ammon Bundy This morn­ing (Novem­ber 1, 2014) my twelve year old daugh­ter and I tried to fly to Salt Lake City from Phoenix for a spe­cial event of a loved one. We had to be there by 1:00 pm in order to be a part of the occa­sion. Every­thing was going as planned until we […]

STOP the Pacific Crest Trail Land Grab

Pacific Crest Trail Proposal Seeks to Steal Your Lands Stew­ards of the Sequoia are peo­ple who enjoy all types of recre­ation includ­ing: Off Road Vehi­cles, Moun­tain Bikes, Horse Rid­ing, Hik­ing, Hunt­ing, Fish­ing, Camp­ing, Wind­surf­ing, Boat­ing, Rock Climb­ing and more.…. See Stew­ards “Who We Are” video. We put our time and sweat into the trails we love […]

Dianne Feinstein proposes California national monuments

Piece by piece, filling in the Wildlands Network, and closing off America to Americans   Sen. Dianne Fein­stein relaunched a pro­pos­al to cre­ate two nation­al mon­u­ments on more than 1 mil­lion acres across the Cal­i­for­nia desert, say­ing her revised bill would set aside sev­er­al areas for off-road vehi­cles and ener­gy projects while pre­serv­ing oth­er areas […]

District Court Strikes Down Endangered Species Protections For Exceeding The Scope Of Federal Power

This after­noon (Novem­ber 5, 2014) a dis­trict court in Utah held that the fed­er­al pro­hi­bi­tion against “tak­ing” Utah prairie dogs — list­ed as “threat­ened” under the Endan­gered Species Act — exceeds the scope of fed­er­al pow­er under the Com­merce and Nec­es­sary and Prop­er claus­es. Here is how Judge Dee Ben­son sum­ma­rized his con­clu­sion in Peo­ple for the […]

Government claims about pocket gopher protection remain flawed

Sixth in a series on a new ESA list­ing. We will pub­lish addi­tions to the series if/as they are written. A new addi­tion to the Endan­gered Species Act, the Maza­ma pock­et gopher, is found to have popped up in the lush, rainy forests and moun­tains of the Pacif­ic North­west.  And who can blame him?  The forests and […]

The Government Is Controlling Private Property to Save Frog Species Not Seen in 50 Years

dusky gopher frog The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser­vice (USFWS) is seek­ing to pro­tect the dusky gopher frog on the Endan­gered Species List by des­ig­nat­ing over 1,500 acres of pri­vate prop­er­ty in St. Tam­many Parish, Louisiana as a “crit­i­cal habi­tat” for the embat­tled amphibian. But here’s the kick­er: The frog hasn’t been seen on the […]

Property Rights at Stake in EPA’s Water Power Grab

Thanks to the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, it soon may become far more dif­fi­cult to use and enjoy pri­vate prop­er­ty. The Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency and the Army Corps of Engi­neers want to make a water—and land—grab that should scare everyone. Under the Clean Water Act, the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has juris­dic­tion over “nav­i­ga­ble waters,” which the statute fur­ther […]

Secret Gopher Map Reveals Washington Agency’s Power

Fifth in a series on a new ESA list­ing. The author states there may be more com­ing in this series. A secret 2013 Wash­ing­ton Depart­ment of Fish and Wildlife map that was acci­den­tal­ly placed in Thurston Coun­ty Plan­ning‘s pub­lic files has been obtained by Watch­dog Wire.  The map pur­ports to show loca­tions of the new­ly […]

‘International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature’ behind pocket gopher hoax

Fourth in a series on a new ESA list­ing. Part Five will be pub­lished on Octo­ber 29, 2014. Lar­ry Weaver wants his gopher blood back. Lar­ry Weaver at his gopher “sub­species” habi­tat. Pho­to by Steve Genson That smidgen of gopher blood means the world to both Weaver and many in his Rochester com­mu­ni­ty in south­west Thurston Coun­ty, Washington. […]

Far-reaching “Waters of the United States” rule could be the most significant EPA regulation you have never heard about: opinion

In 1972, Con­gress enact­ed the Clean Water Act (CWA) to “restore and main­tain the chem­i­cal, phys­i­cal, and bio­log­i­cal integri­ty of the Nation’s waters.” The fed­er­al gov­ern­men­t’s legal author­i­ty to reg­u­late water is large­ly derived from the Con­sti­tu­tion’s Com­merce Clause, which the­o­ret­i­cal­ly lim­its the gov­ern­men­t’s juris­dic­tion to the type of nav­i­ga­ble water­ways where such com­merce occurs. Sad­ly, […]

PA Senate Amends Buffer Rule that Represented the Worst Sort of Government

A win for the little guy  Government’s role is to serve the peo­ple.  Amer­i­ca is a peo­ple with a gov­ern­ment, not a gov­ern­ment with a peo­ple. The people—their needs, their inter­ests, their rights—come first in all things. Our Con­sti­tu­tion pro­hibits gov­ern­ment behav­ior that is arbi­trary, capri­cious, abu­sive, or uncom­pen­sat­ed tak­ing of pri­vate prop­er­ty, among others. […]

Washington State Protects Endangered Gophers Better than Cops, Citizens

Third in a series on new ESA list­ing. Part Four will be pub­lished on Octo­ber 28, 2014. Do Wash­ing­ton State offi­cials believe that threat­en­ing exces­sive force against peace­ful cit­i­zens is jus­ti­fied if a rodent’s life may be in dan­ger?  Or that rodents have more rights and deserve more pro­tec­tion than under­staffed cops and the cit­i­zens they protect? […]

Can a Well-Endowed “Endangered” Gopher Really Drive a Tractor?

Sec­ond in a series on new ESA List­ing. Part Three will be post­ed on Octo­ber 27, 2014. In Wash­ing­ton state’s Thurston Coun­ty, bureau­crats won Endan­gered Species Act (ESA) pro­tec­tion for a tiny clus­ter of pock­et gophers because of their alleged super-sized penis­es. How­ev­er, nobody but local offi­cials appear to have seen this fea­ture.  They have offered no proof of this endow­ment, nor does […]

Gopher wins ESA Listing Based on Genitalia Size

First in a series on new ESA list­ing. Part Two will be post­ed on Octo­ber 26, 2014. Does size real­ly mat­ter? Accord­ing to the Wash­ing­ton State Depart­ment of Fish and Wildlife and U.S. Fish and Wildlife, it sure does. The odd claims of state and fed­er­al offi­cials have been enough to earn a small group of this incred­i­bly […]

YOU ARE A CRIMINAL UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT-A BEDTIME STORY

Just a few days ago the Mia­mi Her­ald, Flori­da, news­pa­per ran a sto­ry head­lined: Law­mak­ers To Con­sid­er Ban­ning Bio­met­rics in Schools.  The Pinel­las Coun­ty school dis­trict start­ed using bio­met­rics (iris scans, fin­ger­print scans, and palm readers…not the ones wear­ing tur­bans and ear­rings…) in the school cafe­te­rias.  When the Polk and Semi­nole Coun­ty school dis­tricts insti­tut­ed […]

The UN’s got the money, the UN’s got the water

Judi McLeod, Edi­tor, Cana­da Free Press No one, and most espe­cial­ly Detroit May­or Mike Dug­gan, should be sur­prised that two Unit­ed Nations lawyers came to town to scold city offi­cials for cut­ting off water to delin­quent cus­tomers, sanc­ti­mo­nious­ly describ­ing the water shut-offs as a “human rights” violation. The Unit­ed Nations vir­tu­al­ly owns cities and towns of […]

UN Calls for National Water “Affordability Standard” in America

As more than one bil­lion peo­ple oppressed under Unit­ed Nations mem­ber regimes strug­gle to live on less than $1 a day, the UN’s “human rights” brigades vis­it­ed Detroit this week — where the aver­age wel­fare ben­e­fits amount to almost $30,000 per year — to call for a nation­al “afford­abil­i­ty stan­dard” for water. Accord­ing to the […]

The Unalienable Right to Use and Enjoy One’s Property

Michael Shaw Pri­vate prop­er­ty is more than a “thing.”  Your body, your thoughts and your actions obtain for you the ben­e­fits of var­i­ous things, but it is the rela­tion­ship between you and those things that form the essence of pri­vate prop­er­ty. Our fore­bear­ers rec­og­nized the idea and the ide­al that every indi­vid­ual pos­sess­es unalien­able rights. […]

EFF Launches Updated Know Your Rights Guide

If the police come knock­ing at your door, the con­sti­tu­tion offers you some pro­tec­tion. But the con­sti­tu­tion is just a piece of paper—if you don’t know how to assert your rights. And even if you do assert your rights…what hap­pens next? That answer may seem com­pli­cat­ed, but pro­tect­ing your­self is sim­ple if you know your […]

Alameda County: I-580 political signs spark free speech fight

Activist Michael Shaw pos­es for a pho­to­graph at his pub­lic self-stor­age facil­i­ty in Cas­tro Val­ley, Calif., Wednes­day, Oct. 8, 2014. Shaw says that bill­boards he erect­ed there this sum­mer are con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly pro­tect­ed free speech against a gov­ern­ment con­spir­a­cy to abol­ish pri­vate prop­er­ty and crowd Amer­i­cans into high-den­si­ty “pack and stack” hous­ing in a car-less soci­ety. […]

The Making of a Mexico-to-Canada Wolf Corridor – Part 2

W. R. McAfee The South­west is the area where Cana­di­an and Mex­i­can wolves most­ly like­ly will meet and cross­breed. Accord­ing to USFWS doc­u­ments, the Mex­i­can wolf’s inbreed­ing con­tributes to small lit­ter sizes and low pup-sur­vival rates. Cross-breed­ing with the non-native Cana­di­an wolves would “solve” the Mex­i­can wolf’s gene pool prob­lem.  Call it a “nonessen­tial exper­i­men­tal […]

Wolves as Stalking Horses

Jim Beers is a retired Refuge Man­ag­er, Spe­cial Agent, & Wildlife Biol­o­gist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service The talk below on wolves, and their “reintroduction” by federal bureaucrats, was given at a Town Forum in Dorris, California, on May 18, 2014. Mr. Beers handed out copies of  his prepared remarks, published below. Jim Beers is […]

The Making of a Mexico-to-Canada Wolf Corridor

Part 1: Mex­i­can wolves can dev­as­tate a ranch eco­nom­i­cal­ly in ways not read­i­ly appar­ent or under­stood by the public The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser­vice (USFWS) is delist­ing and relin­quish­ing man­age­ment of their import­ed Cana­di­an gray wolves back to state wildlife offi­cials while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly propos­ing “new rules”1 to “save” the Mex­i­can gray wolf. These pro­pos­als […]

UN October Summit Reopens Grab for Global Internet Control

Accord­ing to a recent report by the French news orga­ni­za­tion Agence France-Presse, “US offi­cials are pledg­ing to fight a fresh effort to give a UN agency author­i­ty to reg­u­late the Inter­net, two years after a huge diplo­mat­ic bat­tle over the issue.” The AFP sto­ry refers to the upcom­ing Plenipo­ten­tiary Con­fer­ence in Busan, South Korea, of the […]