Samuel T. Francis
Championing
Western Civilization
and the great legacies of
Sam Francis and Joe Sobran
and their allies
Joseph Sobran
A Voice from Fly-Over Country
Robert L. Hale is an attorney, an entrepreneur, a builder/developer, and the director of a public interest law firm.
Since 1976, he has been a successful builder and developer, operating
single and multifamily housing in addition to actively building and
operating retirement and assisted living facilities in the upper Midwest. He
is president of Spectrum Care, LLC; Vision Management Services; and
Oak Tree Decorating Center.
He served as vice president of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties (the local affiliate of the National Association of Homebuilders) and on the board of the Seattle-King County Apartment Association.
He is founder and president of the Northwest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit public interest law firm. For more than three decades, he has been involved in drafting proposed laws and counseling elected officials in ways to remove burdensome and unnecessary rules and regulations.
He served on the board of directors of both the Western Center for Law and Religious Freedom and the Ward County (ND) Farm Bureau, and he is a member of the Heritage Foundation National Legal Strategies Forum.
Mr. Hale has a B.A. in Business Administration and a minor in Sociology from the University of Washington (Seattle) and a J.D. from Gonzaga University Law School in Spokane, Washington. He resides in Minot, North Dakota, and maintains homes in Seattle, Washington, and Maui, Hawaii.
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Archives: A Voice from Fly-Over Country:
• March 22, 2019 – The Obama Legacy
• September 1, 2017 – Dianne “Ms. Snowflake” Feinstein
• August 25, 2017 – Where Have All the Statesmen Gone?
• May 25, 2017 – Trump and Brexit: a Revolt Against the Elites
• March 30, 2017 – Philippines’ President Wages A Real War on Drugs
• June 22, 2016 – Is There Hope?
• June 15, 2016 – When Being Nice is Stupid
• May 19, 2016 – Conservatives, Liberals, and Trump
• April 28, 2016 – Is This A Woman with a Plan?
• April 14, 2016 – Failing to Understand Islam Could be the West's Final Failure
• April 07, 2016 – "SCOTUS": An Acronym Likely To Go Down in Infamy
• September 17, 2014 – America's Greatest Enemy: Public Education
• September 2, 2014 – There Is No Other Answer
• August 26, 2014 – The Real Lesson of Ferguson, Missouri
• June 11, 2014 – U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as Dysfunctional as U.S. Congress
• May 9, 2014 – The Insanity of It All
• March 21, 2014 – Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones, but Names…
• December 4, 2013 – The Obama Games
• November 20, 2013 – Our Community Organizer-in-Chief Is At It Again
• November 5, 2013 – The Politics of Poverty
• October 29, 2013 – Decline of America — A Brief History
• October 14, 2013 – Our Malthusian President
• October 8, 2013 – Governed by a Community Organizer
• September 25, 2013 – Why Not Shut Down the Government?
• September 16, 2013 – Brain Drain? — Comedy of the Absurd!
• August 15, 2013 – Is Our President Turning America into a Second-World Nation?
• August 6, 2013 – Oh No! Not Another Conspiracy Theory
• July 29, 2013 – Abolishing Privacy and Securing Tyranny
• July 22, 2013 – America Has Become a Fool's Paradise
• July 17, 2013 – Obama — At War With America
• July 15, 2013 – To Make It So, Just Say It's So
• June 26, 2013 – Policies Have Consequences
• June 17, 2013 – If the Constitution Were a Computer Program…
• June 12, 2013 – Sexual Assault: Scourge on the U.S. Military
• June 10, 2013 – America's Destructive Love Affair with Multiculturalism
• June 3, 2013 – Consequences of Ignoring Reality
• May 28, 2013 – "Many Republicans Do Not Believe in Government"
• May 4, 2013 – The Biggest Lie in American History?
• May 4, 2013 – Why Does the Government Borrow Money?
• April 15, 2013 – Governed by Nincompoops
• April 11, 2013 – "What's Yours Is Ours" — The Government
• April 1, 2013 – "It's Not Your Country Anymore, It's Our Country…"
• February 15, 2013 – "Stop Crime: The Government Doesn't Like Competition"
• February 6, 2013 – Why the 2nd Amendment?
• January 8, 2013 – Climate Change — The End of Mankind As We Know It?
• December 27, 2012 – We're the Government, and We're Here To Help You…
• December 19, 2012 – The Oracle of Omaha and the Secretary of the Treasury Speak…Should We Listen?
• December 12, 2012 – Taking Bitter Medicine
• November 5, 2012 – The Case Against Public Education
• October 17, 2012 – Giving the Bird to Taxpayers
• August 8, 2011 – “We Can Just Print Money”
• August 3, 2011 – Grinding Sausage
• April 6, 2011 – Unions — The Manufacturing and Political Demise of America
• March 30, 2011 – It’s Time We Stop Pretending
• March 22, 2011 – U.S. Treasury Secretary — U.S. Must Incur More Debt!
• March 17, 2011 – Mexico — It’s Time to Support Its Revolution
• December 30, 2009 – Wag the Dog
• December 22, 2009 – Global Warming – The Real Agenda
• December 2, 2009 – Putting America’s Small Businesses in Intensive Care
• December 1, 2009 – What’s Our Real Federal Income Tax Rate?
• November 25, 2009 – Leaving Soldiers in Harm's Way
• November 17, 2009 – Representative Government?
• November 9, 2009 – America’s Health Care “Holocaust”
• October 20, 2009 – Government: You Can’t Vote with your Pocketbooks!
• October 13, 2009 – Is It Time for Taxpayers to Bailout?
• October 6, 2009 – 100% Solution for a 15% Problem
• September 29, 2009 – Global Warming: The New Word for Mandates and Population Control
• September 22, 2009 – Tempest in a Teapot: A Lost Opportunity
• August 19, 2009 – Representative Democracy? Something We Don’t Have!
• August 6, 2009 – Where Did Women’s Self-Respect Go?
• July 23, 2009 – Putting the Cart Before the Roads
• May 19, 2009 – Those Who Don’t Learn From History . . .
• May 13, 2009 – While We Still Have a Democracy, Let’s Use It
• April 7, 2009 – Outraged?
• March 30, 2009 – North Dakota Catholic Bishops Opt to Preserve Roe v. Wade
• March 11, 2009 – Abortion Rights: Back to the States?
• February 27, 2009 – “… Because Nobody Messes with Joe”
• February 26, 2009 – Certificate of Need: An Opportunity for Greed
• February 12, 2009 – The 12-Step Cure: Can We Take It?
• January 28, 2009 – From Freeman to Taxpayer to Slave in 60 Years
• December
30, 2008 – Cow Tax Could
Destroy Livestock Industry:
EPA Says Cattle Pollute Air
• December 12, 2008 – Is Anything Really “Too Big” to Fail?