Wyoming Liberty Group

~~~By Sven Larson~~~ This is the first in a two part series. — The European Union is not just a giant, ailing and failing welfare-state project, but it is also a political machine aimed at expanding government power in other directions as well ...

~~by Maureen Bader~~ Both the City of Cheyenne and Laramie County governments have prioritized government worker pay hikes in this year’s budget. Both governments are rationalizing prospective hikes with employee pay studies, but these studies seem to be undervaluing, or leaving out altogether, the cost of benefits...

~~June 25, 2013~~ ~~by Steve Klein~~ About Steve Klein serves as Staff Attorney and Research Counsel for the Wyoming Liberty Group and frequent guest on The Morning Zone Program on KGAB. . Today, in a 5-4 decision the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against government shakedowns and simultaneously reinforced land rights in Koontz v...

Listen for another great show today. Here's the line-up 7:07AM MDT Kids-At-Risk: Child Advocate John Frentheway joins host Dave Chaffin again today as they take a hard look at this week's news that The Obama administration is accepting a federal judge’s ruling to remove all age restrictions for girls seeking to obtain the so-called “Plan B” morning after pill... Read More ...

Today on The Program: 7:07AM MDT: KIDS-AT-RISK...Child advocate, John Frentheway, joins host Dave Chaffin as they take a new look at the "Common Core Standards" accepted by The Wyoming Board of Education and being put in place, as we speak, in our Wyoming School Districts... Read More ...

Today on The Zone: 7:07AM MDT: Law enforcement columnist Jim Kouri joins host Dave Chaffin to discuss the latest. Russia is reportedly planning to deliver at least 10 MiG fighter planes to the Syrian government as part of a $1 billion contract... Read More ...

~~by Maureen Bader~~ Bureaucrats at the Game and Fish department continue to ward off calls for budget cuts. During a Travel, Recreation and Wildlife (TRW) committee meeting earlier this month, the department came on like a public-relations juggernaut with a 100-slide PowerPoint presentation apparently intended to convey all the wonderful things Game and Fish does on behalf of all wildlife and all

~~~ By Steve Klein ~~ (Steve serves as Staff Attorney and Research Counsel for the Wyoming Liberty Group and is heard frequently on The Morning Zone on AM650 KGAB and kgab.com). Even before the Internal Revenue Service scandal broke two weeks ago, WyLiberty resolutely opposed the federal government’s requirement that groups register and regularly file complex forms for the First Amendment right t

 ~~ By Maureen Bader, Wyoming Liberty Group~~ Mission creep: the gradual process by which a campaign or mission’s objectives change over time, esp. with undesirable consequences. When the Game and Fish Commission was created by legislation passed in 1921, the role of the Game and Fish department was to protect, propagate, preserve and distribute “Game animals, birds and fish of this State ... Rea

~~ by Maureen Bader, Wyoming Liberty Group~~ Governor Mead will soon start a laudable effort to study business regulations. Why laudable? According to the 2011 Utah Business Regulation Review, overregulation reduces entrepreneurship and productivity, which shrinks economic growth...