The EPA doesn't regulate farm dust but they do regulate and monitor allowable particulate matter in the air and those regulations have caused crack downs by state, county, and municipal governments on all sorts of activities that allegedly cause too much dust. Never mind that nature whips up some pretty good dust storms on her own, the greater threat is someone grading a dirt road or riding a dirt bike. It's no stretch to imagine that the EPA will come to the point of placing the importance of dust pollution higher than growing crops.

If the national media leaned any further left they'd fall out of their chairs face down in Obama's lap.

Hey, Wisconsin teachers! Higher premiums? Higher co-pays? Welcome to the world that the rest of us have to live and work in.

“We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.” – Osama bin Laden

California continues it's slide into the abyss of political correctness, failed multiculturalism, high taxes, and financial chaos. You elected those clowns over and over, CA voters, you're getting what you asked for.

For you non-Arizonans, the important part is to realize that the EPA has demanded that our local city and county create tough new rules governing the amount of allowable dust that can be created by farm plowing and business construction land grading in the area. The EPA is to dust what the TSA is to airport security.

Google the phrase Matthew Hess antisemitism and see what's really behind the anti-circumcision "movement." More of the old "Jew hatred" and not even well disguised this time.

Infidels! Behead those who... Oh wait, wrong religion.

From '71 - '77 I was in the motor pool of Co. B, 2nd Bn, 185th Armor of the CALARNG. Few of my memories of Ft. Irwin are good but many are funny. In the intermediate time in the '70s and after Viet Nam, being a weekend warrior was not a glorious enterprise.

We hated the nearly deserted Ft. Irwin, the 9 hour drive up from Vista, the 9 hour drive back on Sunday, and the unfocused training in the middle. Still, we managed to have a good bit of fun in ways that would probably fit right into the old "M.A.S.H" TV series.

I wound up as our CO's driver and one night while he was in one of the big, 6 holer outhouses perched on a bluff overlooking the training area, I started up the M151 and began to push the outhouse towards the edge of the cliff. He came out screaming and I was laughing so hard he finally gave in and admitted I had indeed scared the crap out of him. "I though it was a %$^^% earthquake and I going to die in the sh----r." Later I was promoted to E4 so I guess that shows that he didn't hold a grudge.

Several years ago I was pleased to see on TV that Ft. Irwin had once again become a proper training site for real desert warfare and our troops were learning top tactical skills on first rate equipment.