Jinx Pyle
Recent stories
- Busy cowboy decides to stop writing column
- October 2, 2009
- For some time now, my wife Jayne has been running our Git A Rope Publishing Company with little or no help from me.
- Government health care will be a monopoly
- September 18, 2009
- The federal government ignores the fact that the competition problem with health insurance companies could be solved by trashing the federal law that allows states to ban health insurance sales across state lines. If we truly wanted to protect consumers of health insurance it would be done the same way we protect consumers of screwdrivers, bread and motel rooms. Give them the power to tell their insurance companies, “I’m taking my business down the road to the next state.”
- Longest night of this cowboy’s life
- September 11, 2009
- Nine years ago, 09-09-2000, I suffered the worst wreck of my life. I was living with my mom, Dorothy Pyle, on our Canyon Creek Ranch in New Mexico. I threw a saddle on Jetson, a Quarter Horse Paso Fino cross, and as my dad would have said, “a hell of a wagon” meaning he was a good traveling horse. I waved goodbye to Mom intent on making a little circle, taking the Flying V Trail into the Middle Fork of the Gila River, riding down the river for about six miles then turning up Canyon Creek to home. I wanted to check on the salt in the Bull Pasture and roll up some downed barbed wire at the old Flying V Headquarters in the bottom of the Middle Fork.
- Anti Jinx Alliance wants to silence cowboy
- September 4, 2009
- Taped minutes of the Anti Jinx Alliance (AJA) meeting, Aug 30, 2009.
- The Conservative’s Declaration of Independence
- August 28, 2009
- Obama, who campaigned as the great facilitator, and pledged to unite us all — Republican and Democrat, red and blue, black and white, conservative and liberal — has instead polarized this nation like no one before.
- A conversation with Mr. Bureaucrat
- August 21, 2009
- The problems with Obama’s health bill are numerous as quills on a porcupine’s tail, but the one that has finally caught the attention of the American people can be found in section 1223. This 10-page segment states that the elderly be required to submit to euthanasia counseling sessions in which a bureaucrat (I’m sure he would be a well-qualified bureaucrat with the best of intentions) would help them understand their relative and declining value to society.
- Intruders trying to control our lives
- August 14, 2009
- Health care was pretty simple when my folks were kids in Payson. If they had any problem that you couldn’t take care of with turpentine or baking soda, someone sent for Dr. Risser. The Doc was accommodating. He would make house calls or patients could come to him. He preferred money for his services, but if it was not available he would accept anything from grape jelly to a live pig in payment.
- Old-time Rim cowboys were conservative by nature
- August 7, 2009
- Growing up in Payson during the 1940s and 1950s I was on a first-name basis with lots of the old cowboys of that era and I wouldn’t class any one of them as a liberal. To a man they minded their own affairs, took care of their cattle or their boss’ cattle and resented interference or even uninvited help from anyone else including the government. On more than one occasion some of the ranchers told the government exactly where to go.
- ‘Sam’s Plan’ had far-reaching consequences
- July 31, 2009
- Back in the 1880s there was a little cowtown on the Red River that sported five bars, four churches, a bank, and a schoolhouse.
- Get on the ball if you don’t want to be clobbered
- MY HORSEBACK OPINION
- July 24, 2009
- I was recently contacted by someone who called himself a neoconservative Republican and warned me about my extremist, old-fashioned Republican views.
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