by Michelle J. Benton | Feb 17, 2015 | American Minute
When the Eagles came out with their mega-hit “Hotel California” almost 40 years ago, I’m sure they never dreamt that their words would capture the essence of the economic and political nightmare that the nations of the European Union (EU) would be suffering through in...
by Michelle J. Benton | Jan 17, 2013 | American Minute
Judicial Watch Files Brief Opposing Government Stonewalling: Justice Department “has disparaged the public’s right to request records of its government” (Washington, DC) –Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a brief on January 15, 2013, in response to an Obama...
by Michelle J. Benton | Jan 16, 2013 | American Minute
According to Wikipedia: “United States Presidents issue executive orders to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself. Executive orders have the full force of law,[1] since issuances are typically...
by Michelle J. Benton | Dec 22, 2012 | American Minute
An oil and natural gas boom is underway in the United States, born of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” It has created tens of thousands of well-paying jobs directly, and hundreds of thousands more in hundreds of businesses that supply and...
by Michelle J. Benton | Dec 19, 2012 | Environment
The last woods bison in the United States was apparently shot by a hunter in West Virginia around 1835. For many decades, the woods bison was presumed extinct – until an airplane spotted an isolated herd in the muskeg swamps north of Alberta, Canada. My farm is near a...