Why Are NPS and the Feds Incapable of Cleaning House? BY DAVID S. LEWIS 10-27-16 In House Oversight Committee hearings this summer, ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings looked back and forth across the panel, to his left and right, and across the hall, wherein sat or had sat National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis, Deputy Director […]
The Outlaw State of Mind
And the Outlaw Mind of the State 05/12/15 BY DAVID S. LEWIS In the Old West, a thin line ran between law and outlaw. Look at Tom Horn, the Pinkerton detective hanged for murder, and Wyatt Earp, a legendary lawman, but also well disposed to pistol whipping suspects about the face and head—with the 12-inch […]