Updated 12:11 p.m. Oregon’s legislature grabbed some unwanted national headlines this week, as Republican state senators fled the state to avoid voting on a cap-and-trade carbon emissions bill — issuing a thinly veiled threat of violence against the state police that caused anti-government militia groups to flock to his support.* “Send bachelors and come heavily … Continue reading Militia threats just paralyzed Oregon’s legislature. The movement’s roots in Michigan run deep.