There is no crime more heinous than the cold blooded murder of innocent Americans while they exercise their constitutional rights, except perhaps the disgrace to their memories and ignorance to their sacrifices after the fact. If you have not been following the news, I am speaking of the recent debacle involving the sale…
Today our favorite sports stations have been overrun with police reports, leaked elevator footage, battery, abuse, and domestic violence. Women’s advocacy groups are calling for Roger Goodell’s head on a platter and the media is in a frenzy acting as if Ray Rice in the elevator was ground zero for the domestic violence epidemic. It’s…
It is absolutely everywhere. Every time you scroll through Instagram you come across at least one highly edited photo of a twinkling diamond sitting upon a perfectly manicured hand. After so many engagement announcements on Facebook and wedding invitations in the mail a girl has to think to herself at least once, “Well shit, what…
The totalitarian and oppressive heavy hand of the federal government is coming to get you. Or maybe it’s extending a helping hand and getting you through a tough time in your life. When asking Americans about their attitude towards government, either response is likely. Is one correct? President Reagan once took a side by saying,…
Pick up your trash. Monday night the cops got involved because people didn’t want to pick up their mess what should have been an easy fix soon came to blows. The solution is simple and obvious: pick up your mess. It’s relatively painless and takes only a few seconds. We are lucky to attend a…
The price of living the American dream is approximately $130,000. Repeat that number to yourself as you affix your jaw back into its socket. According to USA Today, that price tag includes the essentials (groceries, median house expenses, one car, two children, etc.), extras (entertainment, one summer family vacation, going out to eat) and taxes/investments…
Opinions, in their very essence, are divisive and we have no shortage of that in this country or this university. America is arguably more polarized than at any point in any living person’s time as polarized coalitions feud with no foreseeable compromises. When the Branding Iron ran staff writer Jeremy Rowley’s column on 9/11, it…
Do we like security despite the inconveniences? Police are here to help protect us. If we are not compliant with any of their requests then we need to reconsider our view on what we believe is unreasonable search and seizure. On campus there have been cases of search and seizure but what constitutes as a…
There are many things that preoccupy students, and no, I’m not talking about the staples of sex, drugs and rock and roll. I’m taking about something that may even rank higher up than doing homework or flirting with that cute special someone in biology: eating. Sometimes, it can be difficult to find the time to…
On Sept. 12 the Wyoming Senate Judiciary Committee approved firing squads as a method of capital punishment. In light of the recent Judiciary Committee decision and national events now more than ever is the time to take a look at if Wyoming should have the death penalty. Dennis and Judy Shepard asked for life without…
Larry Shyatt and Craig Bohl are two tremendous coaches. They are close to, if not the best, coaches the football team and men’s basketball team have ever had. But never in Wyoming athletic history have they had two stronger coaches that are coaching football and basketball at the same time. Craig Bohl is in his…
Years ago the most impending sign of the apocalypse was, “The British are coming, the British are coming!” But now people lock themselves in their panic rooms when they hear the phrase “Taylor Swift has a new song out…” And it’s understandable why. Doom is upon us, what, with all the Kim-Jong Uns, the Bashar…
