Trego's Mountain Ear

So I ran across an X post by John Ringo, showing similarities between the current political situation and that of Andy Jackson.  Ringo’s whole article is here .  If you’re not ready to click immediately and read the whole thing, here are a few comments taken from his essay: Wilsonians are the Clinton wing of Read more

              It’s at least 50 years ago that Bob Brown and I listened attentively to Matt Himsl in Kalispell, as the old politician took out the sacred cow of the value of civil service, elegantly put it to death, and delivered it to the grill as he explained what Montana had lost by going to Read more

When we were first married, Renata and I ran across a group of folks in north central Montana who shot IHMSA – International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association, if I remember correctly.  The sport started in Mexico – south of the other border.  They silhouettes out of sheet steel – gallinas, javelinas, guajalotes and borregos (chickens, Read more

With the whole family catching one of the plethora of illnesses being passed around, the toddler’s gotten a bit more movie time than usual, and I’ve had a chance to evaluate more movies for the faceblind. The good dinosaur checks a lot of boxes: There’s a small cast, predominantly composed of animate dinosaurs, which are Read more

Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota A week after Hurricane Sandy flooded New York City’s streets and subways in 2012, the city’s schools were back in business. But schools in rural North Carolina did not reopen until almost a month after Hurricane Helene roared through in late September 2024. While natural disasters and Read more

Having just received plenty of snow, we’re now due for a thaw. Forecast indicates that we can expect freezing rain and ice; warm, slightly rainy days of melting followed by freezing evenings in which all of that water turns into a sheet of ice to greet us for our morning commutes. After a few days Read more