The legislature kicked off today with the usual pomp and circumstance. The only remarkable thing about Gordon's speech was what he didn't talk about--climate change. He probably thought that'd be unpopular so instead he lectured legislators how they should do things his way. He also promised that he would always defend Wyoming's right to export our resources.

Too bad, the legislature gave him the money to do that in 2019 and he vetoed the bill.

Also, you know you've made it when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court refers to your show in the State of the Judiciary speech. All I can say is I'm not the one full of misinformation.

Sen Eric Barlow helped found the non-profit 501c(3) Edible Prairie Project. Its goal is to get locally sourced goods into the hands of needy families. A laudable goal to be sure. The problem is that Eric Barlow is a sitting Wyoming Senator, was on the board of EPP and used the non-profit to buy meat from his own sheep!

This is exactly the type of insider behavior that voters are sick of.

The Freedom Caucus has been accused of being told how to vote by some shadowy figure in DC. It's been said that all of their political activities are run out of a clandestine office in our nation's capitol. None of it is true.

I tracked down the President of the State Freedom Caucus Andy Roth to get to the bottom of all the smears the likes of Sen Ed Cooper, Ogden Driskill, Albert Sommers and others have been spreading.

The Wyoming left is apoplectic about the possibility of their vote buying machine going away. For years, the Wyoming Business Council has funneled millions of your dollars to dubious projects--often losing millions. In one case, they lost $20M on a berry farm. In another, they gave $2M to a cosmetics company that already sold their products at Sephora.

Now, Albert Sommers and Gail Symons are claiming the reason we have to keep the WBC is for community infrastructure. The problem with that argument is we already have another office that handles that.

Appropriations Chairman Rep John Bear, also known as Lex Luthor, joined me for the entire 2 hour live program on Friday. Anything you want to know about the hot-button budget issues, we probably talked about it.

Gubernatorial candidate Brent Bien called in to talk with Rep Bear. He was conspicuously absent from a Wyofile article about all those running for governor.

This is a great, really long form interview with the guy crafting the finances for the next two years. It's well worth a listen!

There are a lot of problems at the University of Wyoming; not the least of which is how they've been hiding really destructive courses from the legislature. After publishing the most recent episode on it, I got what I thought was a random social media message.

Turns out, it was from a member of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. Dr. Jenna Robinson is the president of that organization. She joined me on the show to talk about what can be done to fix a lot of these programs and the center she leads.

I spoke with Rep Hageman right before she was to cross examine Jack Smith. We had time to walk through her decision to run for the U.S. Senate and discuss some of the bigger issues happening right now.

In previous interviews Harriet has called herself a "free speech absolutist." So, I wanted to ask her about the the Trump Administration's FCC's decision to 'go after' talk shows that favor liberal guests. To me, that smacks of the fairness doctrine and 'net neutrality' that conservatives have been fighting against for decades. Why are we the ones suggesting it now?

At length, we discussed some of the issues she planned on asking Jack Smith about. At the end of the program, you'll find out what happened to him when he sat across from our Representative.

Earlier this week, J.D. Wasserberger of Lusk, WY distributed a deceptively edited video of Rep Ken Pendergraft. It purports to show the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Ken said in committee. This is the type of politics that most of us really despise--the politics of personal destruction.

Using my sources, I tracked down Mr Wasserberger and called him. He claimed that it was he who was sent the video and he only forwarded it on. Whether he made the video or not, it is clear from the phone conversation that he knew it was taken out of context. When asked about it, he said, "That's just politics."

Not exactly, it's the WORST kind of politics.