From the Editor: I first attended Alan Savory and Stan Parson's "Rancher School" in Albuquerque, NM in the early 1980s. Since that time, and throughout my academic career, I have advocated, taught and practiced the principles of the "Savory Grazing Method (or SGM)" as it was called in those days. Only a short time after I completed the school, Alan and Stan decided to dissolve their partnership and go their separate ways. Alan founded Holistic Management International and Stan the Ranching for Profit School. SGM (now Holistic Management) is a "method" and "methods" cannot be patented. As a...

"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." - Jeff Cooper Call for a pizza, a cop, and an ambulance and see which one arrives first. In Warren v. District of Columbia the court ruled, and the Supreme Court upheld, that "(T)he desire for condemnation cannot satisfy the need for a special relationship out of which a duty to specify persons arises." Because the complaint did not allege a relationship "beyond that found in general police responses to crimes," the court affirmed the dismissal of the complaint for failure to state a claim. The...