Trego's Mountain Ear

This chart show voting patterns of folks who migrated from California to Tennessee – kind of supports my feel that our own immigrants from California are more conservative than the Montanans they are becoming.  In Montana, you don’t have to register as Repugnant or Dim. The environmental impact from closing the nuclear plants: And,  this Read more

by Wade Rathke, The Daily YonderMay 19, 2016 Rural electric cooperatives have a history dating back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal. Congressional action fueled by federal loans and grants enabled membership cooperatives to connect the “last mile” and bring electricity to almost all of rural American within the early years of their Read more

I’m looking at an article that pummels  the dems “Kamunist” candidate for president and stresses that Harris’ father was a Marxist economist.  Now communism in the US is as old as the bloody pilgrims at Plymouth colony – and that was over 20 years before Karl Marx.  The Plymouth Colony was founded on communism – Read more

For the benefit of our younger readers, Idi Amin Dada was President of Uganda through most of the 1970’s.  He did walk across the world stage – and here are some of his thoughts, presented to demonstrate that there could be a worse choice for President than we are watching this election. Read more

As our election approaches, the largest advertiser I see is Jon Tester.  I’m tempted to rewrite that sentence, but it’s correct on so many aspects.  A 2006 NY Times article describes him as ‘just under 300 pounds in his boots’.   Open Secrets shows that his PAC has raised just under 43 million dollars – my Read more

Read the whole thing – It looks like, in Kansas, for the time being, possession of machine guns is legal.  I figure  Judge Broomes is going to see some serious efforts at having his decision overruled at the circuit court level.  Still, it is rather pleasant to see the second amendment treated as a serious Read more