In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been hold up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

Randy and his wife Vicky thought the government

was an agent of Satan on earth. When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government

had spent millions of dollars to catch one man. We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge

unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

What should we do about white supremacists? Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring

myth for the far right? And whose fault was it anyway?

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I've been thinking a lot lately about

Back to the Future Part 2.

In the 1985 classic, Marty McFly makes a brief visit to the future, or, well, to 2015.

And while he's there, he buys this sports almanac.

He takes it back to the past, tempted by this idea to make money off of upcoming games.

The only problem is it's Biff Tannen, the McFly family's generational bully who gets his hands

on the scores, and he uses them to cheat his way to becoming one of the richest guys in America.

It doesn't end well.

Discover how in 1979 Biff successfully lobbied to legalize gambling and turned Hill Valley's

dilapidated courthouse into a beautiful casino

hotel. You just want to say one thing. God bless America.

Is this story about a millionaire tearing down a public government building to put up a giant

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