May this holiday season be a time of reflection, gratitude and renewed goodwill toward family, friends, and country. Peace, charity and goodwill are wishes for most Americans, yet they are hard to find in today's political environment. Reflecting on ways to find and encourage those who demonstrate them can be a rewarding holiday activity. 

  Rep. Tenney is not giving us the truth about her votes, but pitches the reasoning simply in hopes that we’ll accept her claims.  Back in mid-November, Rep. Tenney voted for HJR130, a resolution that opens 800,000 acres of Wyoming land and 4.7 million acres of mineral rights managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to mining.  Her newsletter stated she voted yes because “Critical mineral resource access is a national security priority, and this resolution is a necessary reversal against the Biden administration’s broader agenda of locking up public lands and stifling domestic industrial capacity”.   Too simple to be true. Let’s look at that. The more complex truth is that the BLM’s 2015 Resource Management Plan (RMP), under the Obama administration, permitted mining.   However, that mining was found by a court to violate the National Environmental Policy Act.  The Western Organization of Resource Councils sued the BLM when the plan was made public. ...