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Jonathan Lange: How We Can Help Congress And Our Secretary Of State Keep Elections Clean
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Funneling campaign cash through 'straw donors' allows it to be laundered through people who have no idea they are being used. Stolen money or money from foreign donors can be injected into both national and local campaigns undetected."
Jonathan LangeOctober 04, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Why is Wyoming Not Joining States Investigating Child Sex-Change Rules?
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: “If the people of Wyoming have an opportunity to join other states in protecting children from snake oil, it should fall under the purview of one elected by her people. As it stands, Wyoming is glaringly absent."
Jonathan LangeSeptember 27, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Party Platforms Are A Voter’s Best Friend
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: “Bewildered voters just want to know how each candidate intends to act in office. Instead of tossing around inscrutable jargon, just tell me which principles are non-negotiable and which can be sold to the highest bidder.”
Jonathan LangeSeptember 13, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Compulsory Content For Preschool Is The Devil’s Playground
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: “Last year a bill that would lower the age for compulsory school attendance from 7 to 6 years old failed an introductory vote by 7-24. Now, the education lobby wants to compel not only 6-year-olds, but 3-year-olds as well. Parents are wise to be wary.”
Jonathan LangeSeptember 06, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Reflections On A Half-Million Acres Of Fire
Jonathan Lange writes: "A spontaneous government arose across county and state lines because people had an urgent task to accomplish. Should anyone attempt to hijack its power for personal gain, he or she would find that it dissolves as quickly as it arose."
Jonathan LangeAugust 30, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Thankfully, Two-Party Politics Has Returned To Wyoming
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The increasingly lopsided ratio of Democrats to Republicans has effectively turned Wyoming into an unhealthy one-party state. The emergence of two clear caucuses within the dominant party helps the voter make an informed choice."
Jonathan LangeAugust 23, 2024
Jonathan Lange: How To Know Where Candidates Got Their Money And Who's Funding Their Campaigns
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "For weeks, candidates have been making claims and counterclaims of “dark money” and out-of-state-interest groups backing their opponents. Now, voters have the means available to judge for themselves."
Jonathan LangeAugust 16, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Your Noble Approach To Politics Can Restore Its Beauty
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Partisan harping against the transgressions of others merely adds to the mudslinging. Removing the speck from your brother’s eye should not be a campaign strategy."
Jonathan LangeAugust 09, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Trust, But Verify
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Gov. Gordon’s recent text blast changed the game. Under the banner of, 'Trust, but verify,' he effectively made 50 endorsements in Republican primary races."
Jonathan LangeAugust 02, 2024
Jonathan Lange: The Future Of Drop Boxes In Wyoming
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "After bypassing the formal rulemaking process for five administrations, litigation may be the only way forward. By discovery, we can learn what happened. And by court authority, Wyoming voters can again be treated equally."
Jonathan LangeJuly 26, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Only Passionate Love Can Lower The Temperature
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "My heart aches for Melania and Barron Trump — and all of President Trump’s children. To them, he is neither a political target nor an icon. He is a husband, a father, and a grandfather."
Jonathan LangeJuly 19, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Wyoming Should Declare Independence From The Federal Health Bureaucracy
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Wyoming needs an "after action review" in the aftermath of COVID-19. Four years ago on July 1, Gov. Gordon issued the 7th continuation of 3 unprecedented Public Health Orders that were first imposed on March 19, 2020."
Jonathan LangeJuly 05, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Wyoming Voters Deserve Better Than The Circus In Cheyenne
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The real issue here is that Cheyenne mayoral candidate Vic Miller (the AI candidate) wants to appear on the ballot under a pseudonym. As a result, the state of Wyoming has become a national joke."
Jonathan LangeJune 21, 2024
Jonathan Lange: “One Nation Under God” Is Cornerstone Of America’s Republic
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "On this day 70 years ago, President Eisenhower signed a bill which added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge of Allegiance. Both chambers agreed unanimously that 'under God' should be added."
Jonathan LangeJune 14, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Wyomingites Should Question AG’s Opinion On Secrecy Of Election Records
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Despite their constitutional guarantees, the rights of Wyoming citizens to scrutinize public election records are being denied."
Jonathan LangeJune 07, 2024
Jonathan Lange: The Board Of Medicine Exists To Protect Patients, Not Practitioners
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Wyoming should be thankful for the integrity and courage of doctors like Eric Cubin. His persistent voice against the groupthink of our day is what the Board of Medicine needs most of all."
Jonathan LangeMay 31, 2024
Jonathan Lange: FDA Unlawfully Approved Chemical Abortion Drugs, Eviscerated Crucial Safeguards
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "A new report reveals that more than a million babies were aborted by the 'formal healthcare system in 2023.' Of those, 63 percent, 642,700 lives, were taken by so-called 'chemical abortions.'"
Jonathan LangeMay 24, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Thankfully Wyoming Is Fighting Back Over Title IX Rule Changes
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The rules harm Wyoming citizens not only by forcing young women to disrobe in the presence of males. They also coerce teachers and students to parrot pronouns or risk fines, loss of tenure, and harassment charges by the school’s thought police."
Jonathan LangeMay 17, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Rachel Rubino, A Wyoming Treasure
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Rachel Rubino was a Wyoming treasure. But most who read this tribute have never heard her name. That is one of her greatest charms. She cared enough about Wyoming to serve her state tirelessly."
Jonathan LangeMay 11, 2024
Jonathan Lange: Women Impregnated By Rape Should Be Heard
Male columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Rep. Karlee Provenza shared her own story of rape and wondered, 'What would happen if I was pregnant?' Its a fair question. Even well-meaning people who speculate about the needs and feelings of such women, are only guessing. So, I sought out two women to give them voice."
Jonathan LangeMarch 09, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Wyoming Legislators Mulling Important Pro-Life Bills
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: Senate File 83 Prohibiting chemical abortions would protect Wyoming women from a corrupt FDA that is quietly stripping standard medical protections from women.
Jonathan LangeFebruary 18, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Sen. Wendy Schuler’s Trans-Athlete Bill Protects Women
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Wyomings High School Activities Association currently allows biological males to participate on female sports teams. Female athletes in Wyoming are sitting on the bench while males take the field.
Jonathan LangeFebruary 11, 2022
Jonathan Lange: It’s Time To Re-Visit Lincoln At The Springfield Lyceum
Columnist Jonathan Lange quotes Abe Lincoln: If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Jonathan LangeFebruary 04, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Stand With Päivi Räsänen Against Censorship
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: There is legitimate censorship and there is illegitimate censorship. Civil discourse requires that we know the difference."
Jonathan LangeFebruary 01, 2022
Jonathan Lange: In Today’s World, Do You Suppose That Pandora’s Box Unleashes War?
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: That, I think, is why the song is so famous. It captured a feeling in the air. While revolutionary events are in process, few contemporaries notice. Stills did, and his words beckon us to do the same.
Jonathan LangeJanuary 13, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Now Here Is A Winning Idea, In 2022, Let’s Keep Our Oaths
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: Most recently, an anonymous whistleblower has made unsubstantiated claims that over 200 Wyomingites including several high-profile conservatives were once involved with the organization.
Jonathan LangeJanuary 06, 2022
Jonathan Lange: Why is Christmas on December 25?
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: No serious scholarChristian or otherwisedoubts that Jesus was born two millennia ago. But neither the Bible nor any other historical record names the season, month or day of his birth.
Jonathan LangeDecember 23, 2021
Jonathan Lange: Thankfulness In Hindsight Gives Hope In Foresight
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "I am grateful not only for the benefits previous generations accrued for me. Even more, I am thankful for the example they left me."
Jonathan LangeNovember 28, 2021
Jonathan Lange: The Wyoming State Bar should be accountable to voters.
Guest columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "The Wyoming Bar Association seems obsessed with overruling Cheyenne voters."
Jonathan LangeNovember 16, 2021
Jonathan Lange: School Boards Should Listen To Concerned Parents, Not Attack Them
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Parents are the primary educators of their own children. When they become upset enough to address a school board, educators should drop everything and listen."
Jonathan LangeNovember 05, 2021