Those who idolize and love Fidel Castro, the iconic revolutionary from the Cold War era, gathered in celebration of the former Cuban president’s 85th birthday by throwing galas and musical concerts. Artists, journalists and even gay rights proponents (led by Mariela Castro) paid tribute to the currently ill Fidel Castro despite a lack of public appearance for his...

The following letter has been sent to Florida Governor Rick Scott and posted on Free Patriot Press http://www.freepatriot-press.com/2011/04/open-letter-to-governor-rick-scott.html Governor Scott, The Florida House of Representatives recently passed a bill stating qualified parties may not place a presidential nominee on the ballot unless they (1) are recognized by the...

In this part of the world we don’t have spring.  One day we’re getting desperate over the severity of the winter and a day or so later we’re dumped into early summer.  Or sometimes people say that winter is when the really bad days outnumber the good days and summer is when the balance tips over so the really good days outnumber the bad ones.  Because tongues...

A while back I was talking to an older businesswoman with many lawyer friends who is pretty hip about Montana.  I was telling her about our gravel dilemma.  Briefly, one of the people on the town council is the local gravel and excavation man.  The town needed gravel for some road work.  Because of a state-level rule, they could not buy it from the man on the council...

I’ll start out by saying, yes, many will disgree, and for all small, non conference schools out there, no hard feelings. In addition, I’d like to say I myself feel a little gypped by the BCS when my beloved Michigan Wolverines were denied a trip to the national title in 2006, but that’s a far different story. With that aside, the BCS is indeed the best current way...