by Pat Stuart | Nov 10, 2020 | Authoritarianism, Citizenship, Politics, Wyoming
Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns Recently Outed ‘Liberal Airhead’ Cody Enterprise, 10 November 2020 Authoritarian tendencies can be tested. More, according to an NPR interviewee, many Americans have taken such a test. It shows, he said, that 20% of us...
by Pat Stuart | May 19, 2020 | Citizenship, Park County WY, Politics, Wyoming
Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns VOTING: The Great American Experiment Powell Tribune, 19 May 2020 Back in Civics 101, we learned that our American revolution and our experiment in democracy was founded on a then untested idea—citizen voting. The Athenians had tried...
by Pat Stuart | Jan 7, 2020 | Justice, Politics, Wyoming
Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns THERE OUGHTTA BE A LAW Powell Tribune, 7 January 2020 “There oughtta be a law!” You hear that often enough. But, wait! There is a law or ten or fifty or fifty million. Last year our Republican-dominated Wyoming legislature gave...
by Pat Stuart | Nov 14, 2019 | Citizenship, Politics
Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns ON CITIZENSHIP AND CONSCIENCES Powell Tribune, 14 November 2019 It’d be a lot easier to be a good citizen– to determine good from evil and right from wrong–if only Washington didn’t present more as a three-ring circus than...
by Pat Stuart | Sep 24, 2019 | Economic Realities, Politics
Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns SAVING THE WORLD … ECONOMY Powell Tribune, 24 September 2019 I’ve been giving some thought to saving the world, thanks to a string of articles and TV news reports trumpeting warnings that seemed to put...
by Pat Stuart | Jan 29, 2019 | Politics
Pat Stuart Books and Columns WHAT BANG FOR THE BUCK: Wyoming’s Sovereign Wealth Powell Tribune, 29 January 2019 Here’s a stunning bit of not so trivial trivia: Wyoming’s sovereign wealth ranks among the 100 richest in the world. With a total of $20.8 billion,...