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MY TWO CENTS: THE BUNDY RANCH & FREEDOM IN AMERCIA (Throughout the article, Click on any picture for a larger image) What happened in Clark County Nevada, north of Las Vegas, with the Bundy Cattle Ranch in late March and April of 2014 is a story that should be told to all Americans. We should all be proud of what firecly independent, God-fearing Americans accomplished there in standing up to Federal Government over-reach. Having been personally involved with other such incidents in the western United States over the last 15 years, I wanted the people of the United States to...

Appeals Court Considers Utah Amendment On Wildlife Conservation groups went before a federal appeals court Tuesday and challenged Utah's voter-approved requirement that ballot initiatives involving wildlife management get a two-thirds majority to pass. Lisa Watts Baskin, who represents the Initiative and Referendum Institute, Humane Society of the United States, the Fund for Animals and other groups and individuals, said the requirement is so difficult to surpass that it violates the rights of people interested in proposing ballot measures. ``They are forestalled at the outset,'' she told judges of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a rare full-court hearing....

Link Post: Geology Picture of the Week, May 18-25, 2003 (and nobody answered last week's WhereIsIt!) (also, click on the source link for a Space Station photo of the volcanic eruption plume from a Pacific island)

I vacillated a bit before posting this image. There's also a cool image of the eruption of Anatahan Island in the Pacific taken from the Space Station at the Earth Observatory link above. As for the picture below, click it to see the large version, which is gorgeous. You can even see some kind of phytoplankton bloom in the Salton Sea, and the Great Salt Lake has a variety of colors. As for the WhereIsIt?, in the first reply below I've reposted the URL. Nobody figured this one out yet!