You gotta love Texas. The plurality of Texas voters (47%) support Governor Rick Perry’s opposition to accepting the state’s $17 billion share of the national economic stimulus package. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 40% think the governor should accept the money, an...

I heard from a friend in Bismarck who attending the hearing about HB1572, which would essentially define a human being as anything with genome of homo sapiens.  Which, of course, would be unborn children. He said the committee went extreme well, and that the pro-abortion advocates in attendance...

The Bismarck Tribune says we shouldn’t, and that there are better solutions for the problem of traffic accidents among teenagers: North Dakota has a larger population of older citizens than most states and, therefore, a larger percentage of the population of senior citizens that drive. Likewis...

Am I the only one thinking that a credit card company offering debit accounts for students to put their “excess financial aid” in for spending is an indication that we are subsidizing higher education entirely too much? This is happening at the University of North Dakota, apparently, and...

A transcript from a television news report about gas prices last night: (Sen. Byron Dorgan/ D-ND) “We need to work to put downward pressure on gas prices. This is a ridiculous situation.” Senator Byron Dorgan says the plan announced last week by fellow Senator John McCain to have a holid...

So says Democrat candidate for Governor of North Dakota Tim Mathern: We all know that people who do not have health insurance live in fear. They may have to go into debt to pay for health care or forgo medical care altogether. But, what many people don’t realize is that a lack of health insurance ...

That’s right.  Democracy Radio (the outfit which syndicates Ed Schultz’s show) CEO and husband to Democrat US Senator Debbie Stabenow Thomas Athans has admitted to cavorting with hookers. Thomas Athans, the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and cofounder of a liberal talk radio n...

Yesterday Barack Obama was talking about how Iraq war spending is a “drag” on the US economy.  He asked “How much longer are we going to ask our families and our communities to bear the cost of this war?” Of course, the reality is that the $500+ billion we’ve spent...

Yawn… Grand Forks – Senator Barack Obama will bring his message of hope and optimism to North Dakota as the keynote speaker during the Democratic-NPL nominating convention this April in Grand Forks. Senator Obama will help open the convention with a speech on Friday, April 4. North Dakota De...

From an editorial in the Bismarck Tribune calling for harsher punishments for businesses that sell tobacco - even mistakenly - to minors: At some point, all employees selling cigarettes and other tobacco stuff have to take personal responsibility and tell themselves that they’re going to be mo...