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Vaccines and the Health Care Freedom Amendment

Last year, the Health Care Freedom Amendment (HCFA) passed both houses of the Wyoming Legislature with greater than 2/3 majority, the requirement to send a  constitutional amendment to the people of Wyoming.  The amendment will be on the November 2012 … Continue reading

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Change Death Penalty Drug or Change the Method?

Hanging on the wall of Capitol room S-1 is the prison booking photo of Annie Bruce, a former inmate of the Wyoming State Penitentiary convicted in 1908 of murdering her father by slipping a massive dose of strychnine (rat poisoning) … Continue reading

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Will Old Media Become Extinct or Make a Comeback Tour?

Two pieces of legislation weaving their way through the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate came to a crashing halt after a blackout on the Internet caused an uproar among potential voters that sent politicians scurrying. The Stop Online Piracy … Continue reading

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Floundering Wyoming Health Policies Creeping Into Montana

Dr. Hank Gardner, the architect of Wyoming’s fledgling Healthy Frontiers Demonstration Project, as well as several other state-funded health programs in Wyoming, is reportedly eyeing Montana as the next testing ground for his health services projects. According to a Montana … Continue reading

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Old Media will have to Stifle the Internet Some Other Time

Yesterday, I wrote about a piece of federal legislation designed to stifle the Internet the Senate was going to vote on next Tuesday. Well I have some good news!  The Senate vote has been delayed. (Even better, similar Congressional legislation … Continue reading

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Wyoming Liberty Group files Friend of the Court Brief in Texas Free Speech Case

Happy Bill of Rights Day! Around the turn of the 19th Century, while covering a tort case that had reached appeal, the British newspaper The Spectator commented: “What may be the common law on the case we do not pretend … Continue reading

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Best Guess and Good Intentions Leave Taxpayers High and Dry

In 2007, legislators, trying to be nice and do nice things for voluntary emergency medical technicians (EMT), set aside $986,000 of other peoples’ money to fund a retirement plan for them. The 173 plan members pay $12.50 each month into … Continue reading

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Appropriations, Day 1: Governor Sets the Right Tone for Budget Talks

The Joint Appropriations Committee meets every day this week. The first day’s meeting centered in on Governor Mead’s presentation of his budget. The governor made two major points: times are uncertain and the federal government is cutting state-bound funds. He … Continue reading

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Mixed Message: Governor’s Budget Shows Good Intentions but Weak on Delivery

Governor Mead’s first biennium budget comes at a time when the fiscal future of the Wyoming state government is more uncertain than it has been in a long time. Forecasts of flat revenues are coupled with the growing threat of … Continue reading

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Compensation for Bone Marrow: One Big Stride for Medical Freedom

Our friends at the Institute for Justice continue to set the standard for liberty litigation, and have made a big stride for medical freedom.  (And in the Ninth Circuit, of all places!) Representing a group of cancer patients, their families … Continue reading

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