Before it became the site of the current standoff, residents Malheur County, Oregon, expressed a desire to become a part of Idaho. If my dream of splitting Idaho ever came true, I’d be dipping into Oregon to constitute the state of South Idaho (name possibly TBD). No plans to include Jefferson, however.
Hal’s thoughts on the standoff in Oregon are worth your time.
The two sides of devout Mormonism. I didn’t know that the Bundys were Mormon during the flap in Nevada, but as soon as I found out that they had a son named Ammon, things kind of fell into place.
I wish I were more unsurprised that the Oregon protesters haven’t gotten much traction from the GOP presidential candidates. A lick of sense is better than no zero licks of sense, though, to be sure.
It’s been really interesting to watch a lot of people on the left defend a sentence that the judge didn’t want to pass down but was required to by a law that the left broadly opposes.
A somewhat sympathetic take on one of the angry ranchers complaints by, of all outlets, Grist. I am sympathetic to the ranchers in this regard, but in the personal sense and not the shared-outrage sense. But even if I don’t quite buy it, it was a noble effort by Grist.