by Chris Dorsey | Jul 31, 2026
The federal government has once again fired up its most reliable engine of public policy: if it ain’t broke, form a working group to figure out whether it can be broken more equitably. This time it’s the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which has opened a...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 29, 2026
Somewhere off the coast of Florida right now, a mako is doing to a sailfish what a wood chipper does to a Christmas tree, and someone in the boat is filming it in vertical video for maximum emotional impact. This has become a genre unto itself. Scroll for ten minutes...
by Chris Dorsey | Jul 22, 2026
If someone asked me which conservation organization I would want standing beside hunters when the next political assault arrives, my answer would be immediate: Safari Club International. That isn’t because SCI is the largest hunting organization or because it...
by Chris Dorsey | Jun 19, 2026
At a time when Americans are wrestling with inflation, national debt, border security, housing costs, energy prices, crime, foreign conflicts, infrastructure failures, as well as the lingering mystery of why airport food requires a small-business loan to purchase,...
by Chris Dorsey | Jun 15, 2026
There is an old rule in politics, business, law enforcement, and virtually every other human enterprise where large sums of money mysteriously change addresses: follow the money. It’s not a complicated rule. In fact, it’s so simple that entire industries...
by Chris Dorsey | Jun 12, 2026
The proposed PEACE Act may be the most unmistakably Portland development in modern American politics: a ballot initiative so detached from practical reality that it sounds less like legislation and more like the product of a group hallucination that occurred during an...
by Chris Dorsey | Jun 8, 2026
NRA Foundation and the Art of the Steal: A Heist So Clever Donors Must Forget Why They Donated America has produced some remarkable business models over the years. Apple convinced millions of people to stand in line overnight to buy phones that were only marginally...
by Chris Dorsey | May 28, 2026
By the time Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to hunt and fish in 2024, the movement had already spread quietly across much of America. More than two dozen states now have some version of a constitutional Right to...
by Chris Dorsey | May 28, 2026
For years, many of America’s largest sportsmen’s organizations and media brands have carefully cultivated the image that they stand above politics. They present themselves as guardians of conservation, wildlife habitat, public lands, and the future of hunting and...
by Chris Dorsey | May 26, 2026
I walk toward an orange and white English setter that is as motionless as a leopard before the pounce, the dog puffing quail scent like a man drawing the flicker of life into a cigar. I am only a two-hour drive from Atlanta but feel more like a half century removed...
