Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “Lawyers who use the integrated bar to score political points do a great disservice to the profession and assure that collegiality will no longer be a welcomed feature of the practice of law in Wyoming.”
Ray Hunkins writes: “Nowhere is this more evident than in the open border and climate change policies that have proven so counter-productive and so unpopular with the American people.”
Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “Regardless of how strongly we feel about the barbaric rape of Ukraine we are witnessing, about the war crimes and the atrocities, the refugees, the carnage, Congress and opinion leaders should not be clamoring for choosing any course of action that needs skill and wisdom to achieve.”
Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “Though Jack may be a ‘son of Wyoming,’ he is also a grandson of Ireland.”
Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “The effect of the transfer rule is to discourage loyalty and unity in team sports and encourage, or at least allow, victimization and abuse of young athletes by the unscrupulous.”
On November 2nd, Republican Winsome Sears was elected Lt. Governor of Virginia in a major electoral upset, and in doing so became the first black female to win a statewide office in Virginia. She has a connection to Wyoming from long ago.
Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “Several illegal crossers apprehended already this year have been on the Terrorist Watch List. The nationality of illegal crossers has not been limited to Mexico and those countries in Central America.”
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The catastrophe that is our Southern Border has not abated. Indeed, the crisis has gotten worse.
Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “If ever there was a flimsy reason, and faulty logic to justify raising your taxes, it would be that, you have the “capacity” to pay more and the tax law and rates of a few other states prove it.”
Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “Human smuggling and its ‘progeny of evils’, sex trafficking and involuntary servitude, have become big business for the cartels and gangs that control illicit Border crossings.”
Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “Most would agree that tax increases should be a last resort and only considered after all alternatives have been found wanting. Has Wyoming reached the point where it has no alternative but to raise taxes? I believe the answer is, NO.”
Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “As we watched Josh Allen’s season come to an end Sunday night, I thought about the parallel disappointments of Allen’s last game of the season and the ending and aftermath of Trump’s 2020 campaign.”
Columnist Ray Hunkins writes: “Trump handed his political adversaries a gift. His supporters, as Attorney General Barr recently noted, were recipients of a betrayal. The election grievances were lost in the melee’.”
The most recent available statistics on state expenditures and state educational outcomes does not support the thesis that more money results in better outcomes.
The service academies are playing. BYU is playing. Even our Wyoming high schools are playing. The PAC 12 however, under the firm influence of California, Oregon and Washington and the politicians who run those states, opted not to play.
Criminalizing thought is a dangerous road to start down. Doing a criminal act ought to be enough to result in conviction if the act is proven, regardless of motive.
One hundred years ago, on August 26, 1920, the United States Secretary of State issued a proclamation declaring that thirty-eight states had ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, granting women the right to vote.
The idea that Platte County, where no cases have been reported, must obey the same orders as New York City, where 68,000 cases have been reported, is ludicrous.
Speaking only for myself, and as one who celebrated his 81st birthday this month, I would rather take the risk of contracting the virus than see my children and grandchildren experience a depression or worse.
At 224 pages, the new book, The View from Thunderhead by Ray Hunkins, is a delight. You almost wish it were even longer.
