Sitting in one of my undergraduate classes at a much later stage in life than my fellow students, I was confused when the professor explained the tests we would take during this semester. What was an open book test? A young lady sitting next to me explained "It's a test you can use your text book for…" I was still confused, "What do you use the tex...

Facing and surviving an active shooter situation will probably be the most traumatic life event for most involved. The entire event and its aftermath will have life-long effects which should be prepared for in much the same way as preparing for the incident itself. The first step is to identify and be ready for the actions and procedures survivors ...

Active shooter attacks are happening more and more and, tragically, more and more are happening in schools and houses of worship. As with all natural or man-made disasters and emergency situations, the more we are prepared, the better we will fare. Family preparation for the active shooter situation must begin early as these events are happening to...

Whether a deranged teenager or a committed terrorist, the active shooter phenomenon is here and will continue to be a danger everywhere. Whilst Wyoming has not suffered many active shooter incidents in recent times, it would be very dangerous to assume it will not. The only thing a police officer hears more than "…it will never happen to me…" is "…...

"No man is an island, entire of itself" said English poet John Donne, and in today's networked, interdependent world, that has never been truer. We are heading rapidly into an unstable, unprecedented, and unpredictable future; it pays to make as much sense out of recent developments as we can.   The Ides of March are come but not yet gone, as ...

If your alarm bells are not ringing loudly, they should be. Plenty of reliable new media sources are talking about how bad things are and the risks of them getting much worse. The wildcards of international conflict, economic collapse and political crisis (or all three together) are all very real. We have plenty to say about the state of the Union,...

Sadly but truly, "everything is political." The first steps toward stopping and rolling back the Left in the culture war they have been waging for decades can be taken at the local level, and elected school boards are a great place to start.  Take back from whom? From the left-liberals with a mission, the activists and 'community organizers' w...

When you fly into Cody Wyoming and exit the airport into town, you will be greeted by a billboard which says "Don't California Our Cody". It was put there by Erik Prince, of the private military contractor company Blackwater fame. His family own a ranch nearby, in the North Fork of the Shoshone River on the way to Yellowstone. Lots of out of stater...

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." ― Margaret Thatcher Two decades after Hugo Chavez vowed to lift up the poor and promised a better future for all, Venezuela's once prosperous economy is in shambles, citizens pick through garbage looking for scraps of food, vital medicines are in short supply and m...

The principles of individual liberty and of representative, constitutional government are at risk in today's America.   Thomas Paine wrote the first of his series of pamphlets later published as The American Crisis in December, 1776 when the morale of American revolutionaries was at its lowest point – the Continental Army driven from New York ...