Rod Miller

Rod Miller: There Are Two Kinds Of People In This World, The Cow Crew Figures

Columnist Rod Miller writes: “Rawhide from Rawlins, who had a year of community college under his Stetson, offered his educated opinion. ‘The only two kinds of people in the world are men an’ woman. I read that in a biology book once.’”

Rod Miller: Remembering Yellowstone On Fire In '88 

Rod Miller writes, "I was working in Governor Sullivan’s office when the Park caught fire in ‘88. As the news spread around the country, it caused the same sort of visceral reaction among folks. Yellowstone was on fire!"

Rod Miller: Blooming Flowers & Political Hypocrisy In The Cowboy State

Rod Miller writes, "For my money, it is Cowboys (capital C) like Scott Harnsberger who may be the only thing that saves the Wyoming Republican Party from spiraling down into an authoritarian abyss of gnarliness that would make the Founders of the U.S. and Wyoming, both of whom cherished plurality and free speech, puke."

Rod Miller: REAL Republicans & Broncpeelers Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Rawhide from Rawlins exclaimed, 'I got a text from ‘em, the Wyoming GOP I mean, an’ it said iff’n I didn’t swear to be a REAL Republican, I’d come down with a case o’ cooties from a Haitian hooker. They invited me to a rally to take the blood oath.'"

Rod Miller: Stewing Pumpkin Spice Liver & Onions

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I want Cowboy State Daily readers to know that Clair McFarland is not the only writer in the stable who can pen warm scenes of domestic tranquility that take place in the kitchen."

Rod Miller: Beer and Chinwags With Dead Folks Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, “'Supposin’ ya had a time machine,'” blurted Little Joe the Wrangler, out of absolutely nowhere, 'an’ you could go back in history an’ have a beer with anyone you want. Who would ya have a beer with?'”

Rod Miller: A Big Stone House In Wyoming Sand

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I grew up in a house made of native stone situated on the biggest active sand dune system in North America. The house was built around 140 years ago. Lowes and Home Depot didn’t exist back then, so those old-timers had to improvise to get building material to the site."

Rod Miller: Hey, Pharmacy Board: It's Government's Responsibility To Listen

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Wyoming Board of Pharmacy, with armed Highway Patrol officers providing security, were at no risk of life and limb from an unarmed crowd of Wyoming citizens exercising their rights under the First Amendment."

Rod Miller: The “Nouveaux Elite” And Democracy By The Numbers In The 307

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "A scant 24% of voting-eligible Wyomingites took the time to cast their ballot in America’s Great Experiment in democracy. That mathematically changes the concept of 'one person, one vote' into 'one person, four votes.'"

Rod Miller: Recollecting Doug !@#%ing Crowe

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Crowe pulled out the frozen carcass of a muskrat. He blended the rodent with tequila and triple sec into the sixth or seventh pitcher of hooch. Reports vary from 'nobody knew the difference' to 'the dog wouldn’t even touch it.' Draw your own damn conclusion."

Rod Miller: Rumors Around the Ol’ Campfire, Part Deux

Columnist Rod Miller writes: “Gossip around the ol’ campfire surmises a sudden vacancy in the Secretary of State’s office, a new gunslinger in town and scorched earth dessert.”

Rod Miller: The Achilles Heel Of The Wyoming Freedom Caucus Is Cowboy Football

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If the Freedom Caucus wants to trim UW’s DEI budget, then most folks in Wyoming won’t quibble. But they’ll shoot themselves in the foot if their efforts result in Cowboy football becoming a Division II program."

Rod Miller: Tyin’ the Knot – Wyoming Style

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "It is a little-known and under-appreciated fact around the ol’ campfire that I am a man of the cloth, and am ordained to perform weddings, circumcisions and exorcisms. I have officiated at five weddings to date. All five couples are still married and happy together."

Rod Miller: New Faces Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Straggling in to take their places around the campfire, our cowboy crew griped about the day they just had. Breaking in a new trailhand is never easy, but today was the first day riding herd for a dozen or so tenderfooted newbies."

Rod Miller: Peevish Populace Poses Problem for Puzzled Politicians

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "As the dust settles over the shifted tectonics of Wyoming politics after the primary, one factor at play in the election stands out to me: voters in Wyoming are pissed."

Rod Miller: Sam Western’s “The Spirit of 1889” – Essential Reading in The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Wyoming's constitution is so progressive that it collectivized resources like water and wildlife, and preserved them in public hands. Today’s Republicans would hoot and holler at 1889’s GOP and call them socialist at best and Chinese Communists at worst."

Rod Miller: The Wyoming Freedom Caucus Wins Some Big Pots

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When the voters dealt the river card in Tuesday’s primary election, the Wyoming Freedom Caucus hit some inside straights and walked off with a lot of chips. All the bluffs and tells of the game were over."

Rod Miller: A Brief Refresher Course On Wolf Reintroduction In The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Over beverages at the Buckhorn, my old amigo Walt Gasson and I reminisced about the 'return' of wolves to Yellowstone. We agreed that it is a sordid tale of western love and betrayal. All it lacks is a high noon shootout on a dusty street."

Rod Miller: Lines Drawn in Wyoming Soil Should Not Be Crossed

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Two examples of folks crossing a line in Wyoming and suffering for it popped up lately. I view this as very heartening. Its important to know that lines still mean something in a society where it seems that anything goes."

Rod Miller: Political Statesmanship In The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "An incredibly graceful act of political statesmanship occurred in Wyoming the other day, and we all should know about it. And we should all think about it."

Rod Miller: The Wyoming Freedom Caucus Elected Me Their New Chairman

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When folks who read Casper Planet or other sources of satire wring their hands and whine that somebody should do something about all the lies, they’re correct. And the somebody who should do something is the reader."

Rod Miller: Wyoming Is a News Desert With a Helluva Lot of Rain

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "To call Wyoming a news desert is fake news. More folks are reading Wyoming news today than ever before. They’re just not getting ink on their fingers as they read it."

Rod Miller: Mail Call Around the Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Joe the Wranger pulled a glossy door-hanger from his chap pocket. It says that Wyoming is fixin’ to be taken over by baby-eatin’ Bolshevik bombthrowers, an’ if we wanna save our Wyoming Values, we gotta vote fer these Freedom Caucus knuckleheads that came here from back east.”

Rod Miller: Wyoming’s Shameful New Political Club – The Cowards Caucus

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Several Wyoming legislative candidates are refusing to engage in political debates this season. The reasons they give for their refusal vary, but it all boils down to political cowardice, pure and simple."

Rod Miller: This Cowboy’s Hat (With Apologies to Chris LeDoux)

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Cookie stopped washing dishes long enough to say, 'Some folks can wear a cowboy hat, an’ some purely cain’t. That’s jes how God made the world, and there ain’t nothin’ that li’l sumbitch can do about it.'"

Rod Miller: When Transparency Wins, Wyoming Wins

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "You may not realize it but you, as a Wyoming citizen, won a landmark court victory the other day. The Wyoming Department of Education and its leadership were slapped down hard before the bar of justice for trying to keep secrets from us."

Rod Miller: Term Limits And Vox Populi In Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I hope that the Supreme Court will reject anyone telling Wyoming voters whom they can and cannot vote for. I hope they affirm the right of the individual Wyoming voter to support whatever candidate they damn well please."

Rod Miller: Don Bolles, Nosy Investigative Journalists and Your Right to Know

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Wyoming needs more not fewer investigative reporters turning over powerful rocks to see what lies beneath, regardless of how loudly the powerful will howl. Too many folks are willing to turn a blind eye toward corrupt power."

Rod Miller: Counting Hands Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Supper was over and our favorite crew of cowboys sat around the ol’ campfire enjoying roll-yer-owns and the simple pleasures of a Wyoming night. Then the talk turned to politics."

Rod Miller: 2000 Mules Around the Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "'I saw that li’l Secretary of State feller in town the other day,' said Panhandle, 'He was walkin’ kinda funny like he had a bad buck-off.' 'Naw,' Cookie answered, stirring the beans, 'He just got his ass kicked by the County Clerks again...'"

Rod Miller: The Presidential Debate, Democracy and the Law of Entropy

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Here we are, a nation of 350 million people, living in a democratic republic, and these two old farts are the best we can do? Give me a break!"

Rod Miller: Backtracking For Lost Things in the Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Most horses have some realization deep within their equine hearts that God created them to work cattle and I could tell this li’l guy would make a good one."

Rod Miller: From Beavers to Coal, Five Wyoming Booms

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When fur trappers of the 1830s stood hip-deep in the numbing waters of Wyoming’s far west side, they began our first industry. International demand for beaver fur for fashionable headwear created wealth where none existed before."

Rod Miller: A Special Session of the Ol’ Campfire Caucus – The Fight Against America’s Silent Killer

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Sourdough dogwhistled into the night and cowboys’ heads snapped to attention. 'This Special Session of the Ol’ Campfire Caucus will come to order,' he growled."

Rod Miller: Keeping an Eye on AI (While AI Keeps an Eye on Us)

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "My son Vic’s AI-assisted campaign for Cheyenne’s mayor has a lot of folks scratching their noggins. Count me in that crowd. Anything new or unknown creates fear among humans. That’s instinctive and healthy."

Rod Miller: Searching For The Center Of The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Ask anyone where the political center of Wyoming is located and all you’ll get is confused glances. The political center of Wyoming does not seem to be where it used to be. But that’s not true. The center hasn’t moved. Only people’s ideas of the center have moved."

Rod Miller: Do Artificial Brains Wear Artificial Stetsons?

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "It was an instructive and interesting exercise to 'work' with artificial intelligence to crank out a column. You saw the result. It was hyperbolic, exaggerated and full of cowboy vernacular. Campfire gossip on steroids."

Rod Miller Told An AI Bot To Write His Column; It Came Up With This

Rod Miller's mind-bending experiment of the week was to tell an artificial intelligence bot to study his past columns, then write one for him. This cowboy concoction was its answer.

Rod Miller: Another Nuclear Boom in Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Wyoming might be on the cusp of a new energy revolution that will see radioactive minerals and rare earths supplant hydrocarbons as the targets of choice for our shovels and drill rigs. We, in Wyoming, have perfected the art of dragging ourselves kicking and screaming from one change to another."

Rod Miller: Ebb Tide For The Wyoming Freedom Caucus

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "This election is where Real Wyoming stands up to the carpetbagging, out-of-state, gnarly orthodoxy of cowboy-cosplaying Freedom Caucus interlopers and affirms its roots. This election is where we prove that our colors are Brown & Gold."

Rod Miller: In Praise of Flawed Horses

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The poor guy had two strikes against him from the git-go. But he had something intangible that convinced me not to ship him. I can’t describe what that something was. Midnight turned out to be one of the best horses I ever rode."

Rod Miller: “Honor Wyoming” Dishonors Everything About Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "These Honor Wyoming videos weren’t produced in Wyoming by Wyomingites, and their message is more Hollywood than Hot Springs County. And the folks behind this snake oil show won’t stand up on their hind legs and claim responsibility for their work."

Rod Miller: Fake Electric Cows – A Cautionary Campfire Tale

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Stetsons were tipped back as heads were craned toward the black sky, eyes following a pin-prick of light that moved slowly among the stars. 'Is that it?' asked Rimrock, 'Is that Biden’s cow-trackin’ satellite?'"

Rod Miller: Tally Book

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "My granddad Kirk kept a small spiral notebook in the pocket of the wool shirt that he wore regardless of the weather. My own tally book was a tad fancier. It was a Daytimer with a leather cover..."

Rod Miller: NIMBY Version 4.0 – or – The 21st Century Invades Wyoming Along I-80

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The major projects in Kemmerer and Cheyenne will bring trainloads of money into Wyoming. But too many Wyomingites are too afraid of change and they’ll resist them because 'that’s not how grandpa did things.'"

Rod Miller: A Political Focus Group Around the Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "With the race for Wyoming governor a mere two short years away, dusty drovers sat around the ol’ campfire and pondered their roles as political pundits. 'Hey, I know,' said Sourdough, 'Lets form a focus group an’ help that li’l Secretary of State feller get elected.'"

Rod Miller: How I Acquired My Nonpareil Vocabulary

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I grew up around some pretty salty, down-to-earth cowboys out there in the Big Empty. My rustic tutors would whisper, 'Rod, go ask your Mom what %@$&#@ means.' I did this so often, you might conclude that I loved the taste of Lava soap."

Rod Miller: Experimenting With Political DNA In The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Wyoming Freedom Caucus, or Genetically Modified Republicans (GMRs), as I call ‘em, are the tragic result of a failed experiment in the laboratory of politics."

Rod Miller: Mavericks & Illicit Sex Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Yeah, they got it written in their bylaws or some such. If a cow strays from the herd, it means that their heart’s not in it an’ they lose the right to be called a cow.”

Rod Miller: Fun With the Wyoming Public Records Act

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If a city attorney - authorized and paid by the citizens - can keep secret from those citizens their legal advice to a city in Wyoming – a city authorized and funded by the citizens - that secrecy violates the very first principle of government that our Constitution laid out."

Rod Miller: Enough Already – Or – The Final Liberation Of Wyoming’s Political Parties

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Weston County contingent is proposing amendments to the Wyoming GOP bylaws that would complete the party’s transition from the legacy Republican Big Tent to a tiny blanket fort with room enough for only diehard fire-breathers who know the password and wear the secret decoding ring."

Rod Miller: Big Iron, Little Hips & Gunplay Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "'Where the hell is my big cookin’ pot?' Cookie brandished a butcherknife at the hands gathered around the ol’ campfire. Latigo Lou from Lingle answered, 'That li’l Secretary of State feller, the one that wants to be governor, he took it down to the creek for target practice.'”

Rod Miller: A Broncpeeler in Drag

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I have dressed up as a woman exactly twice in my life. And I didn’t do it to be sexually attractive to anyone, and I didn’t dress in drag to make any sort of a political statement."

Rod Miller: Bride Of Chucky – Or – Advice To The Lovelorn From The Ol’ Campfire

From the campfire, columnist Rod Miller writes, "That li’l feller who was here the other night, our Secretary of State, is he really runnin’ for governor?” Joe the Wrangler said, “Yep, but it’ll be a tough go for him. He’s single. Ain’t got no wife.”

Rod Miller: An Easy Win for the Wyoming Freedom Caucus

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Joe Ricketts intends to build a chi-chi destination resort for other zillionaires in a pristine corner of Wyoming, and -- get this -- he wants to change the name of Bondurant to 'Little Jackson Hole.' I kid you not!"

Rod Miller:  “We the People” And Our Marching Orders

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "It rubs me the wrong way when some folks take a phrase from our Constitution and use it out of context for their own political gain. That displays a cynical lack of understanding and respect."

Rod Miller: Keep It Real, Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes "Logan Gilbert pitches for the Seattle Mariners and doesn’t believe that Wyoming is real. There’s also a Reddit group that disbelieves Wyoming as well, and there are over a thousand members."

Rod Miller: Flip-Flops Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes: “'They’ll mine this gravel over my dead body!!' squealed the Secretary. 'They’ll pry that gravel from my cold dead hands!' The Kid stood and asked, 'If you don’t want it mined, why the hell did you lease it in the first place?'"

Rod Miller: Ban Human Ignorance, Not the Free Press

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If politicians are worried about surveillance of the American public, they need to repeal the Patriot Act. I’m less worried about Facebook spying on me than I am about my own government doing the same damn thing."

Rod Miller: The Invasion, Redux

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "My message to the Wyoming Freedom Caucus is, if you can’t find good homegrown candidates and you need to import out-of-state ringers to run for the offices you covet, Wyoming sees you. Weakness like that is hard to hide."

Rod Miller: Saving Daylight Around the Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Dawn was still just a milky rumor in the eastern sky when Cookie started the campfire. Drowsy cowboys snored in their bedrolls, sounding like a chainsaw fight."

Rod Miller: Should Government Really Operate More Like A Business?

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "How many times have you heard someone say in frustration, government should operate more like a business. That’s like saying that if a saw isn’t cutting the way you want, use a hammer."

Rod Miller: Wyoming’s Freedom Caucus Grinches

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Wyoming Freedom Caucus should be called the Big Empty Coalition of the Easily Upset, and their flag should display a string of tightly clutched pearls. Their grumpiness is what will limit them as a political force."

Cat Urbigkit & Rod Miller: The Lookout At The Halfway Mark Of The Legislative Session

Columnists Cat Urbigkit and Rod Miller discuss the Wyoming budget session as they see it shortly after the halfway mark. Both agree there are too many non-budget bills introduced and too many peacocking gubernatorial hopefuls.

Rod Miller: Remembering Pat O’Toole, Wyoming Visionary

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "My old friend Pat O’Toole has ridden on up ahead of the herd to scout a new countryside for water and good grass. You can bet your bottom dollar that, when we catch up with him, he will have picked out the perfect spot to rest."

Rod Miller: Will the Real “Establishment” Please Stand Up?

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Does hot water come out of your sink faucet when you turn the handle? Yep, you guessed it...'The Establishment' again, the ones who built the infrastructure to bring to your home the blessing of indoor plumbing. The Freedom Caucus had absolutely nothing to do with that miracle."

Rod Miller: Rep. John Bear Puts His Foot In His Mouth

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I hope the citizens in the small communities east of Gillette are as pissed off as I am. To tolerate John Bear as their representative is just like tolerating Dr. Kevorkian as the family doctor."

Rod Miller: Stampede!! - Or - A Runaway Convention In The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Because of the muscle-flexing of GOP chair Oral Eathorne and the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, the Wamsutter Convention Center and Monster Truck Arena has been designated as the venue for the Convention of States."

Rod Miller: Walt Gasson’s “Craven Creek” – Dispatches From The Beating Heart Of The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The cottonwood is the official state tree of Wyoming. In his collection of essays, 'Craven Creek,' Wyoming author Walt Gasson makes a strong argument that it is, in reality, the Family Tree that shades us and roots us deep in the thin Wyoming soil."

Rod Miller: Taylor Swift And Trump Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Right after Jewish space lasers, devil-worshipping pizza pedophiles, Cuban mind-control particle beams, zombifying pharmaceuticals and hidden Sumerian messages in dirty books, who comes down the pike? Taylor Swift, sent by George Soros and Bill Gates. Wake up, people!”

Rod Miller: Zombie Werewolf Commie Voter Fraud And Chuck Gray To The Rescue!

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "As a champion of limited government and individual freedom, Chuck Gray is proposing a government solution to a problem that really doesn’t exist by imposing restrictions on the individual. That, saddle pals, is the epitome of hypocrisy."

Rod Miller: Border Wars and Politics – A Modest Proposal

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The border between the U.S. and Mexico leaks like a firehose today and 'border security' is nothing but a myth along that southern line on our map."

Rod Miller: Naked Campfire Politics in The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Hey, did y’all hear that Rep. Wood Chip is gonna introduce a Genital Intimidation bill? It's a law against intimidatin’ other folks with yer equipment."

Rod Miller: Good Dog Henry’s Only Job

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Good Dog Henry barks at a lot of stuff that really ain’t there. Vampire zombies, Jewish space-laser intergalactic terrorists, ghost grizzlies, undead proselytizers, juju men and political canvassers from the Other Side..."

Rod Miller: Of Milking Stools and Politics in the Cowboy State

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "While it's early yet, it appears that the centrists are noticing that there are barbarians just outside the gates and are pushing back with their checkbooks."

Rod Miller: In Memoriam -- Bob Johnson, Outlaw Wrestling Coach

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "'Coach' has always been a term of deep respect to me. It means teacher, mentor, trail boss and, in rare instances, friend. Bob Johnson was my wrestling coach at Rawlins High School, and he was all that and more."

Rod Miller: The Sport Of Kings In The Home Of The Horse

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "It is a little known factoid that the horse was born in Wyoming. The earliest fossilized ancestor of the modern horse, Eohippus, was found in the northern Big Horn Basin, at the foot of the Pryor Mountains. Eohippus was a dog-sized critter, hardly the magnificent animal that we know today."

Rod Miller: Baseball, Lightbulbs and Carbon County

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I hail from Carbon County, one of the five original counties in territorial Wyoming that stretched from Colorado to Montana. And I want to tell you why, when we approach the Pearly Gates, we’ll be met by God driving his dusty ol’ ranch truck with County 6 plates."

Rod Miller: The Thousand Dollar Horse

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Marlboro Man showed up at the ranch at the crack of dawn with a horse trailer. While we normally raised our own horses, Darrell Winfield had a proven eye for horses and it was always worth taking a look."

Rod Miller: Football Fever In The Big Empty & The Swamp

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Pokes will play in a mid-range but respectable bowl, somewhere between the Rose Bowl and the Dental Floss Bowl. I fully expect our lads to send Coach Bohl into retirement by whupping Toledo like the family mule. Go Pokes!"

Rod Miller: Apologia of a Booksellin’ Cowboy

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I liquidated my net worth -- state retirement, my stock in the ranch, drained my piggybank and opened Joe Pages Bookstore & Coffeehouse in downtown Cheyenne."

Rod Miller: Barbarians At The Gate Or A New Dawn for Wyoming?

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, as they themselves predict, actually runs the table during next year’s election, what can we expect? Don’t laugh, it could happen."

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Rod Miller: Mark Gordon Ain’t No Will Kane

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Give me a break. Saying you’ll duke it out and then backing down? Any respect I had for Mark Gordon as a political leader vanished with his 'lets get it on' followed by his 'no mas.' Maybe he just wasn’t cut out to be a cowboy."

Rod Miller: The “Cowboy Diaspora” & Deep Wyoming Roots

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When our young cowgirls and cowboys hanker to stretch their legs and see what lies on the other side of yonder ridge, we should encourage ‘em. We should pack ‘em a lunch and let ‘em know they’ll always have a home to come back to."

Rod Miller:  The Kelly Parcel -- Fertile Ground for Creativity

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Under an auction, the Kelly Parcel could wind up in the hands of some fatback greedhead developer who would slather the countryside with McMansions, strip malls and roundabouts. Or a Russian oligarch or a Saudi prince could snap it up and do God knows what with it."

Rod Miller: Debate in the Cowboy State? Great!

Columnist Rod Miller says he does his best to help with climate change. "...all those bubbles rising in a frosty glass of Pabst Blue Ribbon are bubbles of that dreaded gas. When I drink it all down, I am sequestering carbon in my body, thus doing my part to save humanity."

Rod Miller: The Media Landscape in Wyoming is Changing

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If you mount up on a tall horse and survey the media landscape in Wyoming today, you’ll see an unavoidable truth. The venerable old institutions of newsprint journalism are mere shadows of their former selves."

Rod Miller: Schroeder And Inner Circle Broke The Law Besides Looking Like Nincompoops

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Not only did [the Wyo Dept. of Education's] secrecy look sketchy as hell on its face, their reluctance to divulge information violated the Wyoming Public Records Act. It took an order from a District Court judge to pry the requested records from their sneaky hands."

Rod Miller: The Wyoming Public Records Act At Work

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "It's a disturbing video. Graphic, violent and a man dies in it. But the public has every right to see it. I'm referring to the deputy’s body cam video of a fatal confrontation that Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak recently released." 

Rod Miller: Can Wyoming’s Center Prevent An Outbreak Of D.C. Fever?

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "What Matt Gaetz and his fellow House conspirators attacked was not just a sitting speaker of the house, but also the institution itself."

Rod Miller: The Center Must Hold – In Wyoming And The World

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The siren song of extremism is seductive. It offers a sanctuary where the human mind can take it easy and just go with the flow of some belief system imposed by others. Extremism requires no mental labor, just blind obedience."

Rod Miller: Police Misbehavior And The Critical Role Of The Free Press

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland has broken a couple of stories about police misbehavior in Thermopolis. We are watching a real life instance of the power of a free press play out before our eyes in real time."

Rod Miller: Politics Around the Ol’ Wyoming Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Chatter around the ol’ campfire devolved into hoots and hollers as each cowboy sang the praises of his own favorite candidate and called everyone else a bunch o’ damn RINOs. The campfire vocabulary was reduced to one and two-syllable words, and finally to grunts, growls and chest thumps."

Rod Miller: How Safe Are Our Persons And Houses In Wyoming? 

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "A cop in Thermopolis broke down a citizen’s door without a warrant of any kind and against the advice of the county attorney's office. A gunfight resulted, with the household resident dying and the cop being wounded." 

Rod Miller: Friday Night Lights in Wyoming’s Lower East Side

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Confession – I’m a sucker for high school football. My son Vic and I caught the first win of the season for the 2A Burns Broncs in that bucolic little southeastern town out on the edge of America’s amber waves of grain."

Rod Miller: The Empty Head of the Sagebrush Rebellion Raises Itself Again

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If the Freedom Caucus was too lazy or too proud to get involved in the fed’s planning process on the BLM’s Draft Management Plan from Day One, but then cry crocodile tears when the horse is out of the barn, they aren’t worth listening to."

Rod Miller: Government Secrets vs. The Wyoming Public Records Act

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "In a free society like ours, citizens should know more about government than government knows about us. Knowledge is power, right? When government keeps secrets from its citizens, it becomes a secret government."

Rod Miller: Rep. Lauren Boebert -- You Can Take The Girl Out Of The Trailer Park, But…

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Grand Old Party would be well -advised, when choosing their spear-carriers to represent the moral high ground when it comes to sex, to find a handmaiden who can keep her knees together, her hands to herself and her thong in place."

Rod Miller: The Ol’ Campfire & The Salvation Of Wyoming Politics

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I finally met Dan Sabrosky around the ol’ campfire when he came up to me and introduced himself. Dan and I have spent months lobbing “truth bombs” and laughing emojis at each other, behind our keyboards. But, after a firm handshake and looking one another in the eye, the dynamic changed."

Rod Miller: Transparency and Political Courage in the Cowboy State

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When it comes to the political courage to back up their hot air, WyoRINO is woefully lacking. I suppose that, if you lack cojones, you are better off concealing your cowardice behind a cloak of anonymity."

Rod Miller: Nels Smith - Another Tall Tree Gone From Wyoming’s Skyline

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When Sen. Al Simpson eulogized the passing of Gov. Ed Herschler, he said, 'A tall tree is gone from Wyoming’s rugged skyline.' When Wyoming’s titans pass, I always think of those words. And there have been damn few trees taller in our state than Nels Smith.

Rod Miller: A Better Mousetrap for Wyoming’s Flawed Election Code

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "A recent vacancy in the Sheridan County Commission set the wheels in motion for the Republican Party to once again behave like a dysfunctional HOA in a gated community full of rednecks."

Rod Miller: Old Men, Fire and Politics in the Big Empty

The herd had stampeded during a thunderstorm in the middle of the night. They scattered so severely that Rimrock, the night rider, dragged into camp to say, "They’re out there in little bunches. Some bunches have three or four in ‘em, some bunches have a dozen. But there are a lot of bunches out there than don’t have any in ‘em.”

Rod Miller: The Wyoming GOP Rides For Too Many Brands

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When I was a young lad learning to buy horses, the best advice anyone ever gave me was, 'Count the brands.' If a horse had more than one brand, it meant that he was a problem for somebody."

Rod Miller: We’re Not In Kansas Anymore, Toto. This Is Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When the police chief of Marion, Kansas, raided the office of the small local newspaper a week ago, he did nothing more than reinforce James Madison’s truism that the freedom of the press must not be abridged."

Rod Miller: U.S. Women's Soccer Team Comes Across Like Spoiled Losers

On the U.S. women's soccer team collapse, columnist Rod Miller writes, "Leave the politics to folks who are a lot better at it than you are, and forget about scoring points with identity groups who might look at you as their champions while the world looks at you like spoiled losers."

Rod Miller: That Time I Lost A Bet To A White Supremacist Knuckle-Dragger

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "This is a sordid tale about the doomed path of mixing gambling with fringe politics. There must be some obscure warning in Leviticus about this sort of dangerous behavior. Ma must have cautioned me about the risks. If so, I’ve clearly forgotten."

Rod Miller: A Connecticut Yankee At Frontier Days

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I just returned from the strangest journey. You’ll recall that more than a century ago, Mr. Twain rapped me sharply on the noggin and sent me back in time to Camelot. Maybe you’ve read about it."

Rod Miller: It's A Big Government Problem, Not A Free Speech Problem

Columnist Rod Miler writes, "Don’t for a minute think that your enemy is freedom of human expression. Books aren’t trying to replace you as a parent, big government is."

Rod Miller: Gordon Has A Chance To Be Great. Will He Take It?

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Freedom Caucus has presented Gordon with the chance to stand strong like a real First Amendment trail boss. If he wastes this chance and knuckles under to their demands, he will brand himself as nothing more than their stable boy."

Rod Miller: Celebrity Worship Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Things are getting just a tad weird around the ol’ campfire lately. While they try to dodge the smoke, my saddlepals are all gushing over this movie, or that song, or which famous person is speaking God’s honest truth."

Rod Miller: Chasing Rocks – Or - How Not To Look Like An Idiot 

Columnist Rod Miller got his first pair of glasses when he was out gathering cattle with his dad. "I thought I saw a bunch of cows off in the distance at the base of a ridge. When I got to the ridge, I found out they were only big rocks. I had to confess to Dad that I had wasted half an hour trying to round up rocks."

Rod Miller: “The Machine” And The Consent Of The Governed

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "It is an uncomfortable fact of life in a free society that dissent should not only be tolerated but encouraged as the natural leavening of our political system, regardless of whether it is the Left or the Right doing the dissenting."

Rod Miller: My Umpteenth Column About Free Speech

When I read Clair McFarland’s recent brace of articles about Biden wanting to censor freedom of speech on social media, it pissed me off. I get pissed off any time that government wants to strangle our most fundamental American liberty to freely speak our minds.

Rod Miller: “Affirmative Action” Is Unconstitutional In The Equality State

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "There is no waffle language in the Wyoming Constitution. And therefore no room in the Equality State for affirmative action or protected classes. Those might be noble concepts in other states where equality is subject to modifiers, but our founding document renders them moot."

Rod Miller: Methinks U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland Whines Too Much

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Merrick Garland is whining that criticism is a threat to the 'independence' of his outfit, the U.S. Department of Justice, and thereby a threat to democracy itself. It's hard to threaten something that no longer exists."

Rod Miller: Time Machines, Rattlesnakes and Rock & Roll in Carbon County

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "For my money, there is no more beautiful and peaceful place in the Cowboy State than where the Encampment River joins up with the North Platte to produce a the kind of green that makes Ireland ashamed."

Rod Miller: Higher Education, Free Speech And Hurt Feelings In The Cowboy State

Columnist Rod Miller writes, “Now UW finds itself hauled into court for abridging a preacher’s freedom of speech in the student union. … Let’ s be clear, free speech is often uncomfortable, annoying and offensive.”

Rod Miller: Stay Square, Wyoming!

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If Wyoming annexed a neighboring county, we’d just look weird. Viewed from above, it would look like we had suddenly grown a disturbing new appendage, or a tumor. Or a massive new zit."

Cormac McCarthy: An Evening Redness In The West

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I used to wait like a kid at Christmas for McCarthy to come out with a new book ever couple years or so. No more waiting for me. His work is done."

Rod Miller: Get Off Rod Miller’s Lawn!

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Don’t let a wet spell or two fool you into complacency; the high creeks and rivers you see in Wyoming today are nothing more than fossil water being recirculated. The need to conserve this essential but finite resource is as critical as ever."

Rod Miller: Cowboys and Teslas, a Cautionary Tale

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I have a healthy skepticism about newfangled electric vehicles replacing those gas-guzzling trucks on the ranch. I have an uneasy mental image of a one-ton crew cab 4WD pickup with a six-horse fifth wheel trailer powered by an electric motor struggling to make it out of the barnyard."

Rod Miller: Books! - Or – Johannes Gutenberg For The Humanity Hall Of Fame

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If you think books will corrupt your kids’ minds, be a better parent. If you think that reading Mein Kampf will turn Junior into a Nazi, or Das Kapital will turn Sis commie, then do a better job of teaching them to be Americans."

Rod Miller: The TikTok Generation Inherits The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "We need to pass along to the TikTok Generation a profound respect for nature. They need to have a sure and certain knowledge that this place will kill you if you are careless. And that survival often means relying on your neighbors."

Rod Miller: Josh Hawley Preaches “Manhood" In New Book And Wyoming Men Laugh

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Josh Hawley is the last person qualified to preach to Wyoming men about what it means to have a pair. The first glaring difference between Hawley and a real Wyoming man is that we don’t run away from a fight, regardless who started it, as he comically did."

Rod Miller: Identity Theft in the Big Empty – A Solution

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I’m not selling myself cheap! If you wanna be Rod Miller, you’ll need to open your wallet. If you are serious about acquiring my identity, then put your money where your mouth is."

Rod Miller: Advice to Politicians -- Think First, Then Speak

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Lord knows what prompted Casper Mayor Bruce Knell and Laramie Rep. Karly Provenza to hit the 'send' button before considering the possible consequences of their post. Perhaps they thought they could score easy political points with their base."

Rod Miller: Frankly Speaking About the Wyoming GOP

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Wyoming Republican Party will choose a new chairman here in a few days. Both candidates are named Frank, and both hail from the same county and wear cowboy hats. That’s where the similarities end."

Rod Miller:  Woke Fascists in Wyoming Or Political Speech 101

Columnist Rod Miller writes: Words like 'fascist' and 'woke' are used as pejorative shorthand for anyone who doesn’t adhere to one political view or another. Words like that don’t do anything to elevate our political conversation. Rather, they are used to emphasize and reinforce an 'Us vs. Them' mentality."

Rod Miller: Partisanship Is The Disease, Not The Cure

Rod Miller writes: “State Rep. Chris Knapp, a Republican from Gillette, says that Wyoming needs more partisanship in our public life, not less. That’s like your doctor telling you that you need more herpes in your body."

Rod Miller: Wyoming Should NEVER Hide Her Heritage!

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The two of the most powerful symbols of Wyoming’s heritage, Esther Hobart Morris and Chief Washakie, deserve to be back out in front of the State Capitol. Concealing our rich heritage and hiding these symbols of who we are as a state in some underground passageway is a slap in the face of our common history. It makes us appear ashamed of two of our giants."

Rod Miller:  Strange Dance Partners - Or - Friendship, Politics and Free Speech in the Cowboy State

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "In the midst of this shitstorm, Karlee Provenza found support from a very unexpected quarter. Sen. Anthony Bouchard publicly stated that he honors her First Amendment right to free speech. That took some serious huevos."

Rod Miller: When C.J. Box Killed Me (A Wyoming Tragedy)

It's no secret that Box likes to populate his novels with characters named after folks he knows in real life. That’s how I found myself transformed into Rodney “Mandan” Miller in his first book, Open Season.

Rod Miller: The Legacy of C.J. Box's Joe Pickett in the Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "There is an entire generation of red-shirted, green pickup-driving Wyoming game wardens who came of age reading about and identifying with Joe Pickett, and I found myself curious about how that has affected their work."

Rod Miller: The Case For Exclusion In The Equality State 

Columnist Rod Miller writes: Biological males should be excluded from all-female organizations such as the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at UW. No matter how firmly he is convinced that he is a woman, he is still a dude doing sleepovers in a houseful of women.

Rod Miller: Wolves, Bears, the Endangered Species Act and Bedtime Stories

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The root of the problem is an American public that views wolves, bears and feral horses as something other than what they truly are – resources needing human management in a fragmented and urbanizing West."

Rod Miller:  Eathorne’s Charge — The High-Water Mark of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Couple the Freedom Caucus losses in many Wyoming county elections along with their dismal record of success in the legislative session, and the writing is on the wall. Folks in the Cowboy State are starting to tire of Freedom Caucus bluster and bullshit."

Rod Miller: High Noon In Bondurant (or) Doug Vickrey Is Cowboy As Hell

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The cowboy is Doug Vickrey, a Sublette County commissioner who has had a bellyful of billionaire big talk and bullshit. Vickrey says, and I quote, 'I would like Mr. Ricketts to know that with all his wealth there are some things in this world money cannot buy, and by God I’m one of them.'"

Rod Miller: Stick It Where The Sun Don’t Shine

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Our elected representatives in Wyoming government still meet in secret to make side deals out of the public eye. They continue to try to pull the wool over our eyes and to hamstring the institution entrusted to keep the public informed – our free press."

Rod Miller: March Madness and Human History

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Participation trophies throughout history have included having your village plundered and burned, your land taken, your gods overthrown and your children sold into slavery by the winner. Knowing that alone should make you want to toughen up and hone your competitive skills."

Rod Miller: Fun With Nicknames and a Cartoon

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Youll recall that a week ago, I challenged yall to come up with a moniker for folks in the Big Empty who call everyone else RINO (Republican In Name Only) and you, friends and neighbors, didnt disappoint."

Shooting the Breeze With Cat And Rod: Final Throes of the Legislature

Columnists Rod Miller and Cat Urbigkit write: "Now about Romeo Bouchard. Hes Wyomings version of Marjorie Taylor Greene, but with an anger management problem..."

Rod Miller: What Do We Call Folks Who Call Other Folks RINOs? Conserpulists, Populervatives??

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "What do we call folks who call other folks RINOs? Its not logical simply to call them Republicans, since the Wyoming GOP defines Republican as anyone registered with the party."

Rod Miller: Drugstore Conservatives in Wyoming’s Freedom Caucus

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The Freedom Caucus wraps themselves in scripture and preach about a battle with Satan, and how Wyoming must be saved from atheist, baby-eatin communists. They confuse the halls of our legislature with the pulpit of their church."

Rod Miller: A Challenge To Sponsors Of The Moronic Crossover Voting Bill

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "For years we have watched the legislature try to impinge on the voting rights of Wyoming citizens by outlawing crossover voting, with each effort dying somewhere in the legislative process. But each time it fails, this wrong-headed notion crops up again like a persistent case of herpes."

Rod Miller:  An Open Letter to Frank “Oral” Eathorne

In an open letter to GOP chair Frank Eathorne, columnist Rod Miller writes: "Ill gladly dance on your coffee table and tell the world that you, Oral, dont amount to a gnat on Bud Brimmers butt and you aint worthy to carry Jack Speights jockstrap."

Rod Miller: Peddling Influence in the Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller decides to be a social media influencer like Alix Earle who was paid $70k last weekend just for strutting around Jackson looking cool. But first he had to get a full body wax...

Rod Miller: Kitchen Tables in Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If we believe that the family is the basic building block of our state, then families gathered around the table are our most effective legislature, our most solemn church. Here is where we teach our young the fundamental skills that life requires."

Rod Miller: High Noon in Drugstore Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes: Someone call John Wayne! Hordes of hippie celebrities from Hollywood, rainbow sodbusters from Sacramento, and beatnik bitcoin billionaires from Burbank are pouring across our unprotected square border to steal our rodeos."

Rod Miller:  “Coach” – Say It With Respect

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "His players revered Coach Young not only because he helped them win, but because he helped them become better men. Masculine virtue isnt only winning, but also becoming better men, fathers and citizens. A proud dad could ask for no better influence on his jock son than that."

Shooting The Breeze: Legislative Update With Cat And Rod

Two weeks in, Cat and Rod discuss the 67th Wyoming Legislature: "The good thing about the rules debate is that it took time away from everything else, and I think the less time spent developing legislative solutions to nonexistent problems, the better."

Rod Miller: “The Paradox of Plenty,” Dave Freudenthal’s Unfinished History of Wyoming

In reviewing former Wyoming Gov Dave Freudenthal's new book, Rod Miller writes: "Pardon the mixed metaphors, but Freudenthal eloquently describes the kicking-the-can-down-the-road, all-eggs-in-one-basket corner into which we in Wyoming have painted ourselves."

Rod Miller:  It’s a Small World After All

Gloomy columnist Rod Miller writes: "Overcrowding breaks the equilibrium of social order, resulting in Darwinism where only the strongest survive. I think thats what is happening in the world today."

Rod Miller: A Chinese Fire Drill in the House of the American People

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "It is doubly disturbing to read that Wyomings 'home grown' Freedom Caucus wants to closely identify with the D.C. version, and introduce that deconstructionist anarchy into our own legislature."

Rod Miller: In Memoriam — Bill Budd, Wyoming Cowboy

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Bill Budd left his bootprints all over the dusty flanks of the state he and we all love. His passing on Jan. 2 is cause for us all to mourn, but also to celebrate a life lived in service to Wyoming."

Rod Miller: It’s a NECKERCHIEF, Dammit, It’s Not a Scarf

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The kid could have worn stiletto heels and a bustier from Victorias Secret to the branding and not drawn more ridicule. But, like always, he worked like a demon and drank his share of beer."

Rod Miller: Ghosts Of Wyoming Governors Past

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Herschler hired me right off the ranch to work in his office in 1984. He interviewed me in the Cloud 9 Bar just a whisker before Happy Hour. There was likely a glass of Cabin Still & water in front of him..."

Rod Miller: Cold Snaps I Have Survived

Columnist Rod "Santa Claus" Miller writes: "Ive loved Christmas ever since I was a bundled up little kid, standing out in the windblown yard forty miles from town with snot frozen on my upper lip, listening for sleigh bells. Merry Christmas, y'all. Stay warm!"

Rod Miller:  In Praise of Disturbing Words

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Take hate speech, for instance. It is not the words that are doing the hating, the words are just symbols for human thought or emotion. Doing away with the words will do nothing to get rid of hate."

Rod Miller: We Can’t Let Trump Off The Hook For His Treachery Against Our Constitution

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Regardless of how many MAGA memes youve seen with Trump portrayed as some flag-draped, screaming eagle uber-patriot, the man places himself above the Constitution and isnt afraid to say so."

Rod Miller: A Fading Orange Sunset, and a Primo Political Prank

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Folks are starting to see through Trumps bullshit. The crowd is starting to realize that the emperor is buck naked, and it aint a pretty sight."

Rod Miller: Unsolicited Advice to Wyoming Democrats

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If your party needs two hundred-thousand votes to win a statewide office, but only fifty-thousand of your fellow Wyomingites buy into your message enough to cast their votes your way, then dont blame the voters. Blame your message."

Rod Miller: Thanksgiving And The Separation Of Church And State (What The Mayflower Really Brought To The New World)

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Ill go out on a limb here and say that Thanksgiving is NOT the favorite holiday of Neo-theocrats and Bible-thumpers, like those religious zealots in the Wyoming Republican Party."

Rod Miller: Of Men and Horses and Death

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "I have had to put down good horses that were injured beyond a vets ability to treat. I hated doing it, but it needed to be done out of compassion and yes, love for a suffering horse."

Rod Miller: Hypocrisy in the Wyoming GOP, The Sequel

Columnist Rod Miller writes: Where does Frank 'Briefly Oral' Eathorne get the gall to lecture us on the sanctity of marriage? He just went through a messy divorce because of his serial infidelities."

Rod Miller: Thunberg vs. Michelangelo and More Hijinx in Yellowstone

Columnist Rod Miller writes: The remains of Butterfly Isaaksen, a climate activist from Copenhagen, were found today near Fishing Bridge where she had apparently super-glued her hands to a badger."

Rod Miller:  Team Normal And Its Chances For A National Championship

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "We all love going to the circus, but we want to wake up in our own beds next morning. I think this is the point Liz Cheney made when she said that the humiliation of the 'Red Wave' was a victory for Team Normal."

Rod Miller: Harvest Time in the Field of Yard Signs

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Until the party of Herschler, Sullivan and Freudenthal can once again appeal to the center in Wyoming, then the hyphen D behind a candidate's name will remain the kiss of death."

Rod Miller:  My Imaginary Rich Friends Try To Steal My Identity

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Invariably there are two or three tempting offers from folks I dont know in Burkina Faso or the Ivory Coast who want to make a very rich man of me."

Rod Miller: Wyoming Education And The Cult Of Moloch In Cowboy Country

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The Left wants to use the classroom to turn out rainbow unicorns. The Right wants to convert the classroom into a public catechism."

Rod Miller: The Hypocrisy of the Wyoming GOP

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Today's GOP has turned its back on the voters of Wyoming as evidenced by its refusal to support Ogden Driskill, the clear winner of the primary in Senate District 1."

Rod Miller:  Bob Budd’s “Otters Dance” Belongs on Your Bookshelf.

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "I read Bob Budd's 'Otters Dance' as a cautionary tale, warning us against human hubris in the face of a natural world that we often try, and just as often fail, to control."

Rod Miller: 5G Connectivity In The Big Empty

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "My old coal-fired, steam-driven flip phone died the other day. This is the unit I got to replace the phone that a horse named Woody tried to eat, and drowned it in horse slobber."

Rod Miller: Hate Speech In Wyoming – A Solution

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If hateful speech offends you, then express yourself. Stop being a silent majority."

Rev. Rod Miller’s Sunday Sermon: Lauren Boebert Is A Hypocrite

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Rep. Lauren Boebert, Colorados lap dancer turned Congresswoman, wants the United States to be a 'Christian nation.' Sixty-one percent of her fellow Republicans agree with her."

Rod Miller: Observations At The Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "My dad, Frank Miller, was posthumously inducted into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame on Saturday in Cheyenne. My bro, Dr. Mark Segundo Miller and I agree that he was the best cowboy we ever saw or even heard about, and the best man we ever knew."

Rod Miller: Good Dog Henry & The Invisible Zombies

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "My roommate and bodyguard Good Dog Henry and I have a strategic alliance whereby I keep his food dish full, and he lets me know when someone is at the door."

Rod Miller: The Myth That The Horse Rode In On

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Until science came along with its pesky questions and demand for proof, myth had a monopoly on the human mind."

Rod Miller: Allow Me To Retort, Mr. McPhee

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If McPhee has evidence from the archaeological record that horses never left, he should present it. If not, he should confine himself to telling fairy tales to the kids around the campfire."

Rod Miller: “Wild” Horses, A Wyoming Fairy Tale

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "We need to see the feral horses in Wyoming for exactly what they are, an introduced invasive species that we imported ourselves. And we need to manage them accordingly."

Rod Miller: #72 On The 100th… Rod Miller’s Birthday Column

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Near as I can calculate, this is my 100th column for Cowboy State Daily. And its published on my 72nd birthday. When I played football for the Rawlins Outlaws, my jersey number was 72. The numerology boggles the mind!"

Luke Bell: The Passing Of A Wyoming Troubador

Cody, Wyoming's Luke Bell was a neon comet lighting up a honky-tonk sky who burned out too early, but showered us with rhinestones in his passing.

Rod Miller:  There Must Be Fifty Ways To Leave

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "All the State of Wyoming needs from any political party is a slate of candidates for the general election. The states involvement with partisan organizations should begin and end there."

Rod Miller: The Passing of a First Amendment Zealot

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Wyoming lost a card-carrying, sold out, fire-breathing First Amendment zealot the other day with the untimely passing of Jim Angell."

Shooting The Breeze With Rod Miller & Cat Urbigkit: Post-Election Punditry

In discussing the Wyoming Republican primary, columnists Rod Miller & Cat Urbigkit say there wasn't a "Red Tsunami," Wyoming's GOP has a far larger tent that Frank Eathorne would prefer, and how the Dorr brothers had an awful election night.

Rod Miller: Jousting With David Iverson

Columnist Rod Miller discusses his debate with Wyoming political podcaster David Iverson or as he calls him a "rednecks William F. Buckley."

Shooting the Breeze With Rod Miller And Cat Urbigkit: Pre-Election Pondering

Cowboy State Daily columnists Rod Miller and Cat Urbigkit make their predictions for the upcoming Wyoming primary election.

Rod Miller: A Guide to Post-Election Etiquette for Drugstore Candidates

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If you are a drugstore candidate and you lose your primary, the path has been laid out for you by everyone involved in the Big Lie, from Trump on down through the ranks. Heres what you do..."

Rod Miller:  Eating Green Chili With Proust At Rose’s Lariat

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Sad news from County Six as Roses Lariat has closed, because an auto parts store wants their space for parking. For the uninitiated, Roses Lariat in Rawlins has served the best Mexican food north of the Nueces River for fifty years or so."

Shooting The Breeze With Rod Miller & Cat Urbigkit

Cowboy State Daily columnists Rod Miller and Cat Urbigkit have teamed up to do a joint column to discuss Wyoming politics!

Rod Miller:  My Grateful Dead/Liz Cheney Column

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "It is entirely within the realm of possibility that, regardless of the outcome of the primary between Cheney and Trumps anointed turquoise handmaiden, Cheney will run for president in 2024 and win without carrying her home state."

 Rod Miller: Childish Politics in Wyoming — A Guidebook

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Self-styled patriots (small p) or vandals have recently defaced the campaign signs of Rep. Albert Sommers. Since these juvies obviously have no clue what theyre doing, here follow a few helpful hints for them..."

Rod Miller:  Writer’s Block and the Dog Days of a Wyoming Summer

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "My dog Henry is mimicking the behavior of one of our GOP candidates for Secretary of State who has raised barking at non-existent election fraud to an art form. Good Dog Henry is channeling Chuck Gray!"

Rod Miller: Will The Pillow Guy Get The Keys To Wyoming’s S-2?

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Do we really want to trust the keys to the Secretary of State's office to a Sasquatch-believin' My Pillow Guy surrogate?"

Rod Miller: The Trigger Law vs. The Wyoming Constitution

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "When the U.S. Supreme Court punted on abortion in its recent Roe decision, and dished this hot potato to the states, the ball landed squarely in Wyomings hands. And thats exactly where Wyomingites should want it."

Rod Miller: Will Wyoming’s Silent Majority Speak Up?

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If Wyomings Silent Majority comes down on the side of Oral Eathornes MAGA carnival, then we can expect a future in which Romeo Bouchard is appointed Superintendent of the State School for Wayward Girls, and the Wyoming Supreme Court is replaced by the Park County Mens Full Gospel Gun & Glee Club..."

Rod Miller:  If Wyoming PBS Can’t Host The Debate With The Public Attending, They Shouldn’t Host It

If Wyoming PBS is incapable of sponsoring a PUBLIC debate because it fears the public, then it should yield to field to an entity that has the courage and the will to get the job done.

Rod Miller: Political And Journalistic Cowardice In the 307

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Pardon my French but I'm pissed off. Wyoming PBS announced that the U.S. House debate will be closed to public. If the candidates decided to exclude the public from their debate because of personal or political fear, they are not worthy of the legacy of our Founders."

Rod Miller: Notes On The Apocalypse

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "But read the scriptures whether the Bible, the Koran, the Upanishads or whichever holy book blows your skirt up and youll find that our little experience as carbon-based units here on Earth has a 'use by' date. Pick your apocalypse. It is written."

Rod Miller: Death and Bureaucracy in Wyoming — My Father’s Day Column

Columnist Rod Miller outlines 7 points in his updated living will including: "Before any dirt is tossed on top of my faithful meat suit, I want to hear the Grateful Deads 'Ripple' and Bob Marleys 'Redemption Song' played loud enough to wake the dead."

Rod Miller:  Hometown Knucklehead Makes National News

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "I see that a hometown knucklehead got some national ink by being busted with the Patriot Front in Idaho. These stalwart patriots (small p) were crammed into a U-Haul trailer as they were on their way to disrupt a Pride parade..."

Rod Miller:  Real Estate Porn – The True Threat To Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If you want to understand why the state you love in changing around you, dont blame the library for carrying books that describe people diddling. Blame your doctor or dentist for purveying Real Estate Porn."

Rod Miller: Corner Crossing With Dollars

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The BLM just purchased 35,000 acres of private land near Casper. They did two things with this purchase: They increased the amount of recreational access to the North Platte and they proved the best tool for unlocking land is the good ol' American dollar."

Rod Miller:  Snake Oil Sales in Oil City or Why I Didn’t Go To Trumpfest

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "I dont think that Trumps Jello-Wrestln, Monster Truck- Pullin, Brandon- Chantin extravaganza made Liz Cheney lose much sleep."

Rod Miller:  Regulate Our Militia, And Regulate Them Well

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "We tried thoughts and prayers and kids keep dying in school. Let's try something else. Lets try a well-regulated militia for once."

“Romeo” Bouchard, “Oral” Eathorne and Big Table Politics OR There Ain’t Enough Democrats in Wyo for a Decent Orgy

When you play for high stakes at the Big Table, the chips get a lot heavier and the competition a lot less friendly. Frank Eathorne, the Ayatollah and Chief Cleric of the Wyoming Republican Party is learning that painful lesson very publicly.

Rod Miller: Rex Rammell And The Sagebrush Rebellion Redux, Version 2.0 — The Sequel

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Rex Rammell, a self-described 'constitutional conservative' should spend a bit more time reading the constitution of the state that he wants to govern. It wouldnt hurt him a bit to browse through Wyomings Act of Admission to the Union, either."

Rod Miller: Unintended Consequences Of Corner Crossing Case

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Lets look at the courts decision from another angle. According to that legal reasoning, airspace above private property is public. And if drones are hovering over your backyard while your wife and daughter sunbathe, or they peek into your windows at night with infrared cameras, theres nothing you can do about it."

Rod Miller: State Government Needs To Extricate Itself From Wyoming Political Parties

Columnist Rod Miller writes: No longer should the State of Wyoming have any statutory relationship with any political party within its borders. The business of the State of Wyoming is NOT the business of political parties! And vice versa."

Rod Miller: My Village Is Marked SAFE From Alien Space Goo and Liars! How ‘Bout Yours?

Rod Miller writes: "President Biden just announced his own cadre of comic book superheroes. sent into harms way to keep our village safe. Biden calls this new arm of Homeland Security the Disinformation Governance Board. Orwell called it the Ministry of Truth."

Rod Miller: The Wyoming GOP Is Its Own Worst Enemy, And Its Becoming Ours

Columnist Rod Miller writes: I am sick and tired (and I hope you are, too) of reading headlines about who in his party Frank Eathorne considers a RINO. With so much serious work remaining undone, that just makes the GOP look like blithering idiots.

Rod Miller:  Colter’s Run Through the Disneyland of Death, Version 2.0

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Instead of marketing Yellowstone as some sort of benign, Eden-like fantasy land, we should be honest and say that its one of the few places left on earth where we are not on top of the food chain. Im convinced that well attract a better, smarter bunch of visitors with that approach."

Rod Miller: Leaked Minutes Of Park County GOP Men’s Club Full Gospel Gun & Glee Club, Kanye West Chapter

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The following minutes are provided by one of my operatives, disguised as an arms dealer, who secretly and at great risk wore a wire to a recent meeting at an undisclosed location probably a garden shed behind a members moms house."

Rod Miller: The Many Flags Over Wyoming (And Why It’s Hard To Find Good Fish & Chips In Cokeville)

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "While we argue over whether the buffalo should face left or right on our state flag, or about how many of the stars on Old Glory represent communist sympathizer states, we often forget how many other flags have flown over Wyoming."

Rod Miller: Mark Gordon And Gattin’ Em Through The Gate Without A Wreck

Columnist Rod Miller writes on Gov. Gordon's first term: "First he had to deal with the pandemic and then the goofball wing of zealots in his own political party who were very publicly going batshit crazy."

Rod Miller:  Change Is Coming. Like It Always Has, Like It Always Will

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "There are the whispers when two women are seen holding hands, or the 'wrong' book shows up on the library shelf, or the 'wrong' candidate gets elected.whispers like 'this used to be such a good place' and 'our Wyoming values are changing.'"

Rod Miller: The Republican Firebrand “Gang of Six” of Wyoming and the Legacy of Liberty Valance

Columnist Rod Miller writes: Until 'Romeo' Bouchard, 'Boondock' James, 'Third Rib' McKeown and the rest of that noisy, ill- mannered crew can behave themselves and act like adults, they need to be relegated to the kids table where they can throw food and pitch hissy-fits at each other til the cows come home..."

Rod Miller:  Wyoming Needs More Outlaws… Like Number 14

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "One Outlaw, before he joined his team in celebration, trotted over to the stricken Bearcat and knelt by him, He put his arm over his fallen opponent and leaned down to whisper encouragement to him. He taught us all a lesson."

Rod Miller: WyGO Comes Out Of The Closet As The Queen of Cancel Culture

Columnist Rod Miller writes: By attacking David Iverson, a voice that should be its greatest ally, WyGO comes off like blithering idiots. When they go after his sponsors, they jump out of the closet as Wyomings queen of cancel culture."

Rod Miller: A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, or The Decline of Romeo Bouchard

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "When the Wyoming Senate voted the other day to strip Sen. Anthony 'Romeo' Bouchard of his committee assignment, the vote wasnt close at all. In political terms, it was a landslide."

Rod Miller: A Rumor Around The Ol’ Campfire

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The rumor around the ol campfire is that were fixin to get a visitor! Word has it that Oath Keepin Frank Eathorne, titular head of the Wyoming Republican Party, has announced that ex-president Donald Trump will grace the Cowboy State with his presence."

Rod Miller: Meal Team Six and the Lessons of Ukraine

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If the Ukrainians are able to repel Putins invasion and save their country through armed resistance, they will do more for our Second Amendment rights than the U.S. Supreme Court, Romeo Bouchard, and Wyoming Gun Owners could ever hope to do."

Rod Miller: Ogden Driskill’s Violent, Savage Attack of Tom James

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "It is clear that Senator James is very fortunate indeed to have escaped with his life. Violent savagery like Driskills shock and awe attack simply take the breath away!"

Rod Miller: Marlboro Men, Movies, and Money

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "House Bill 93 would have provided tools for Wyoming to compete in the film industry against other western states. We have no room to whine about money left on the table that someone else scoops up."

Rod Miller: All Members Of The Human Race Are Equal (At Least In Wyoming)

Rod Miller writes: "Cheyenne Councilman Richard Johnson's civil rights ordinance takes real political courage as the tenor of politics in our state and nation is increasingly based upon harassment and intimidation."

Rod Miller: Apparently Anyone Can Be An “Expert” In Education, Just Look At Who The Wyo GOP Picked

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "All 3 candidates the GOP picked could fulfill the duties of superintendent if the goal was snake-handlin', book burnin', marksmanship, and castin' out demons."

Rod Miller: Frank Eathorne Is On The Wrong Side Of History

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Eathornes credentials as a secessionist were recently bolstered when leaked documents revealed that he is a member of the Oath Keepers, the paramilitary organization whose leaders were just indicted for their role in inciting that attack on our capitol on January 6."

Rod Miller: Jackasses vs. Carpenters

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "January 6 was the Feast of the Jackasses when the cornerstone of our republic, every citizens right to self-determination through voting, was attacked by a horde of non-carpenters just because their guy lost an election."

Rod Miller: These Days, Nate Champion Is A Woman And Her Name is Liz Cheney

Representative Liz Cheney has inherited Nate Champions role as a cowboy standing in the breach, halting the advance of invaders whose orthodoxy is that of political road rage fueled by the toxicity of Trumpism.

Rod Miller: Ask Your Doctor If Tyrantafan Is Right For You

Columnist Rod Miller writes: For the millions of Americans suffering from the discomfort of democratic and cultural ennui, doctor-approved Tyrantafan (Tyrantiflor Fanaticacea) offers hope.

Rod Miller: Noisy Monday Morning Quarterbacks (And the Awesome Hush of the Jury Room)

Rod Miller writes: "Everyone should sit on a jury at least once in their lives and learn why a trial is different than a football game, and a jury of our peers is different than a gaggle of fans fired up by the media."

Rod Miller: Nothing Draws A Crowd Like A Good Political Bloodbath

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If you want to know where the violent political rhetoric that prevails these days comes from, look no further back than 1968 and the Democrats convention in Chicago."

Rod Miller: “No Gurls Aloud” in the Cramped Little Wyoming GOP Clubhouse

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Frank Eathorne and the GOP Central Committee are booting Liz Cheney from the GOP, revoking her secret handshake and demanding that she surrender her decoder ring."

Rod Miller: Wistfully Remembering Our Articles of Confederation

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The Wyoming Legislature recently called itself into special session to pass a state law more powerful than a federal action. They were about 240 years too late."

Rod Miller: “Tombstone”, “The Man of La Mancha” and Wyoming Political Theater

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "So far, the [special session] has produced a hot mic F-Bomb or two, a Halloween costume that got noses out of joint, a citizen falsely accusing a legislator of man-handling her, and a plea that we all fast and pray in hopes of a positive outcome."

Rod Miller — The Gillette Library: Bonfire of the Vanities, Redux

Columnist Rod Miller says: "The church militant in Gillette is clutching its pearls over books available to the public and is spouting scripture about who has the right to read what."

Rod Miller: Free Speech, Lava Soap and Wyoming’s Political “Firebrands”

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Troy Bray is among a number of GOP officials who are trying to hijack Wyomings political heritage and replace it with their brand of scorched earth politics."

Rod Miller: Wyoming’s “No Mas” Politicians and the Code of the West

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "We are seeing several declared candidates for Wyomings lone U.S. House seat quit the race because a former president endorsed someone else. These no mas politicians have choked as ignominiously as Roberto Duran."

Rod Miller: George “Doc” Frison, and Wyoming Heroes and Heroines

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "I want to tip our collective Stetsons to the thinkers that Wyoming has produced, those heroes who invested their sagebrush intellect in answering questions about ourselves, our world, and how we behave in it."

Rod Miller: Laughing Emoji, Wyoming and the Simple Folk Who Live There

Rod Miller writes: "Driving down the dirt streets of Laughing Emoji, Wyoming, one can see the workingmen trudging off to dig in the nearby Ivermectin mine..."

Rod Miller: Monkeying Around With Our Election Laws: Cui Bono Fuerit

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "It isnt difficult to discern those folks motivation for wanting to change how we elect our representatives. In both the last presidential election, and the last gubernatorial election, their guy lost."

Rod Miller: Confused About Ivermectin? Ask Me, Doctor Cowboy

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "If you or someone you know is concerned enough about the Covid vaccine and puts more trust in bovine medicine, then you should see a professional. Call up a cowboy like me."

Rod Miller: Rumsfeld’s Legacy — Our Longest War

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Not everyone in the world wants to live like us, and we have no business trying to impose our way of life on others.

Rod Miller: County 24 and the World As It Should Be

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Witness the recent resolutions by the Park and Carbon County Republicans to fire Rep. Liz Cheney. With a few keystrokes, the GOP in those counties removed a duly-elected member of Congress, vacating Wyomings only seat in the House. Man, THAT is power!!!"

Rod Miller: Cut the Apron Strings!

Columnist Rod Miller writes: Why on Gods green earth would anyone from the Cowboy State pay attention to this drivel from east-coast elites? Why would anyone holding an election certificate from the great people of Wyoming stoop to being a puppet for a demagogue like Donald Trump?

Rod Miller: Outlived His Usefulness

Guest columnist Rod Miller writes about the benefits major political parties enjoy in Wyoming.

Rod Miller: Finish the Wall…in Gillette!

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Let us, in our affirming our own rights to free speech, zealously protect the freedom of speech of transgender magicians and anyone else that might not think like we do. Our Constitutions, both U.S. and Wyoming, require that of us."

Rod Miller: Crossing a Line to “Protect” a Border and Scratch an Itch

Columnist Rod Miller says: Gov Kristi Noem, for purely political reason, is sending 100 National Guard troops to Texas. She's crossing a line.

Rod Miller: “We the People”, Mob Rule and Wyoming Town Halls

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Way too many of us stop reading the U.S. Constitution after the first three words. Thats like closing the Bible after the first three words. You miss the point entirely."

Rod Miller: Political Espionage & History

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "The revelation by the New York Times that the ultra-right wing of the Republican Party sent political spies to infiltrate their opponents in both parties wasnt a surprise. Just a disappointment."

Rod Miller: Election Integrity and Freshman Errors

When Representative Chip Neiman presented his pledge to fellow Republicans to sign (see last weeks column), he offered this rationale, for decades Wyoming has struggled with primary election integrity. Lets fact check that statement.

Rod Miller: Trains, Cows & Nukes

Columnist Rod Miller says conspiracy theorists are claiming Bill Gates is a "U.N. One-Worlder Lizard Person who is only coming to Wyoming to harvest baby parts" instead of rationally looking at the nuclear power plant proposal.

Rod Miller: Scorched Earth Politics and You

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "For all of our chest-thumping about We the People, we have failed to stop callous, spiteful candidates from hijacking our political process as they seek the lowest common denominator in politics."

Rod Miller: Romeo Bouchard and Politics 101

Rod Miller writes: "Romeo Bouchard has consistently styled himself as a champion of transparency, when hes not waving a gun around and channeling Aaron Dorr. But he is about the least transparent politician in the Wyoming landscape. Up until now."

Rod Miller: Liz Cheney And A House Divided

Columnist Rod Miller says: "Its time for a break-up and a new political party."

Rod Miller: What the Hell is Cheney Doing?

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Liz Cheney is making the fence a very uncomfortable place to sit. She is almost single-handedly obliterating the middle ground."

Rod Miller: Uinta County and Federalist #10

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "We have so bought into the Republican / Democrat dichotomy that folks drinking coffee in Farson or Alladin read about the Uinta County kerfluffle, convinced that the outcome has importance to them."

Rod Miller: We Need To Get This Right

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "We can and must craft a government in Wyoming that serves us, and doesnt serve national interests."

Rod Miller: Legislature Did Nothing On Education But Deserves Thanks For Public Lands Bill

Rod Miller writes: "The legislature did nothing to address education but they did ensure that every unborn child will have an AR-15..."

Rod Miller: Direct Democracy in the Cowboy State

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "I chuckle inwardly when I hear Wyomingites whine about the legislature screwing them over. Its almost like the whiners have never read our Constitution."

Rod Miller: Voter Apathy is the Enemy!

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Voter fraud is NOT the greatest threat to our republic, but voter apathy certainly is."

Rod Miller: The Model Is In Your Hand

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Maybe we DO need a statute that codifies our constitution with regard to civil rights. Thats a sad commentary on us, though. It means that we either dont know what our constitution says on the matter, or else we dont believe in it enough to act accordingly."

Rod Miller: Legislators Should Quit Wasting Our Time With Worthless Federal Land Bills

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "In the clear, harsh light of the law, Wyoming can NOT legally take ownership of federal land within our borders, no matter how fervently sponsors of this bill wish otherwise."

Rod Miller: I Am Nate Champion

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "From the Union Pacific, through the cattle boom, the oil boom, the uranium boom and the coal boom, Wyoming has been content to allow ourselves to be colonized by outside interests."

Rod Miller: In Praise of Whistleblowers

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "A traitors actions cause people to die, a whistleblowing tobacco executives actions prevent people from dying."

Rod Miller: The Brand New Party

An internal schism is rending the Republican Party asunder, as elements within it adopt a populist, nationalistic and divisive ethos that is in direct opposition to the history of the GOP.

Rod Miller: The Conservative Independent Republic of Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes: "It has been a year and a half since the State of Wyoming declared its independence and seceded from the United States."

Rod Miller: Eathorne Should Move To Texas

Rod Miller: "Frank Eathorne can take his seditious sentiments south with him. As for Wyoming, we are all better off with Liz Cheneys eyes on us."

Rod Miller: DC Riots, American Crisis Number _________

Columnist Rod Miller writes: I want to be among the first to say how much I admire and respect Liz Cheney's stance in this, the most important issue to come before her during her tenure in the House."