This show was recorded on April 29th, 2009, and features the music of the Giving Tree Band, with a phone in interview with Ed Wiley, an activist in West Virginia hoping to save 240 children at a school in Rock Creek, W.V., as well as put a stop to the pollution and destruction of the Appalachian Mountains.
Unless you are a polar bear, or a member of one of those “polar bear” swim clubs, the idea of mixing an ice fishing trip with a January swim probably leaves you cold. Continue Reading »
Why Does the National Rifle Association Leadership Support Congress’s Biggest Opponents?
As the self-proclaimed “largest pro-hunting organization in the world,” the National Rifle Association has long claimed to represent America’s hunters and shooters in the fight to protect one of America’s oldest traditions. The NRA’s bylaws include an article setting a core goal “to promote and defend hunting…as a viable and necessary method of fostering the propagation, growth and conservation…of our renewable wildlife resources.”
But it turns out that its by-laws are just empty rhetoric. Continue Reading »