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Spiritwood Energy, the plant is on standby, “fracking”, near catastrophe for the ND economy if the EPA, Tiny town allows tiny man camp, Happy Hunting Grounds, They came well-equipped for Black Friday, the bedlam and antics, ND’s largest farm advocacy organization, Newcomers will be the big political unknown, seven of the names can be traced to one man, UND plans to buy large quantities of refined glycerin, UND officials are warily eyeing the elves, The Kleinsasser scholarship?, ND was picked the #3 best-run state

Berg rightly rejects Senator Hoeven's backing of EPA's assurances

Congressman Rick Berg has justifiably come out in disagreement with Senator John Hoeven's support of "assurances" the EPA has made to not over-regulate the practice of "fracking" in the Bakken oil play.

Once a year, “the place was flooded with people. That time of year was Deer Season, when out-of-town hunters arrived like an incoming Army, loaded with rifles and bullets. ‘Army’ is a good metaphor, given that a large portion of the hunters were World War II vets. They came from the mills and mines of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. They came to shoot a deer.

This week hunters across America storm the woods loaded for deer. For yet another indication of how times have changed, consider this account of Deer Season a half century ago: …. My grandmother always took in boarders during Deer Season. In fact, the whole town did. Up and down every street, hunters knocked on doors asking if the home was taking boarders. Bear in mind, these were complete strangers carrying guns and lots of ammunition. And yet, there was never any fear that they were a threat to a household…. It was very different. There was also a general trust of hunters, a trust I believe is still merited and shared in those areas.

As early as October 2009 columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer charged President Obama with embracing America’s decline. Writing in the Weekly Standard, he said, “For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice.”

“In Mr. Obama, America gained a President with ambivalence, if not some antipathy, toward the singular greatness of the nation he had been elected to lead.” So said Dr. Shelby Steele, black writer and Senior Fellow from Stanford University’s Hoover Institute in a September 1, 2011 column he wrote for The Wall Street Journal.

Is President Obama intentionally presiding over the decline of America? Is he actively dismantling the America you and I once knew? Does anyone really want him to succeed?

“Jerry, Are you crying?”, "M-P stands for “many possibilities”, Steele is a Red River Valley county, ND was desperate for the current oil boom, a flood of people, Roads on the Fort Berthold Reservation, Another billion dollar baby, Spiritwood Energy Park, highest earmark dollars per  capita, Fargo Forum obituary page changed abruptly, An invaluable record is being lost, Did they think it through?, Clyfford Still is relatively unknown, UND and NDSU finished

It is not enough to be “thankful” and then to ignore the gift for which we give thanks.  This is hypocrisy.  If we do not use this gift we disparage it.  Recently a man told me that the only way to change things for the better is through prayer.  I submit that the venerable Pilgrims prayed while they cut wood, fed their chickens or planted their corn.  They did not just pray and then sit back and wait for results. 

ND Legislature did just that, full bag of negative labels, All of the students here are Fighting Sioux, a place for heavy drinking and crude behavior, we're basically playing catch-up, 5,000 to 8,000 trucks a day, little public planning and oversight, urgent care and emergency room visits have doubled, huge women’s purses, The North Dakota way! , Devils Lake swallowed most of his family’s farm, the state has a special shipping advantage

Despite attempts in recent years to debunk the Pilgrim Thanksgiving story, at least one vital historical event gives evidence of a bed rock foundation for the Thanksgiving spirit. This evidence won’t be taught in the classroom.

At this time of year it is appropriate to again read George Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation. He declared “...a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Watch the video to understand how 2.25 hours is “FOREVER” according to Judge Cynthia Feland

The FALSE claim that Spencer issues were part of the case “from the get-go” is repeated over and over to the North Dakota Supreme Court as well as to the Court’s Disciplinary Board Panel that heard the case of Cynthia Feland on June 29 and 30, 2011. It is especially significant as Sandy Blunt’s supposed refusal to obtain reimbursement of Spencer moving expenses was a primary aspect of Blunt’s trial and conviction. During that hearing, North Dakota Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Chief Council asks Judge Feland why Spencer was not a subject of the August 7, 2007 Preliminary Hearing.

It is crucial that we grasp this point: Atheists claim that everything is ultimately matter and motion, and yet in their reasoning they resort to categories which cannot be accounted for by matter and motion. This constitutes a contradiction at the very heart of atheistic thought.

In addition to the “Wahl Memo” which was the narrowly considered subject of the November 1, 2011 North Dakota Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Hearing Panel in the case of Cynthia M. Feland, lots of other discovery was withheld by prosecutors from defendant Blunt. Besides the Wahl Memo, four reports of investigation were created and withheld!

NONE OF THE FOUR BCI REPORTS AUTHORED BY QUINN WERE PROVIDED TO BLUNT

A MAJORITY OF THE MATERIAL AND EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE FROM THE REPORTS WAS WITHHELD!

ND students are just average, ND will take Minnesota to court, Fighting Sioux nickname issue, Jim and Sheri Kleinsasser, a Pyrrhic victory, The case of UND student Caleb Warner, “one day, it’ll fade", Minot will be Olive Garden’s third ND location, Smoot was found dead, A good day’s work, “marvelous display of visionary thinking”, an instant town called Centerville

We don’t need to hear one more word about taxes because given our debt and its service and the enormous cost of this overwhelming government bureaucracy that totters on the withering shoulders of our dwindling productive class, if we took the last dime from every millionaire, the last penny from every kid’s piggy bank, shook the lint out of every pocket of every homeless person and went through the upholstery of your sofa, we could not handle this debt.

So, taxes be damned.  Let’s talk about cuts.  Instead of hearing how Rick Santorum would build up our military, let’s find out what he will cut so as to keep the doors of West Point and Annapolis open, because at this rate they must close soon.

Veterans I’ve met, especially from the draft era (1973 and before), almost without exception remember with nostalgia their days of military service. This I find amusing since many were drafted reluctantly, although a few joined voluntarily and some even stayed in for a career. That speaks volumes in affirming their generally positive experience.

Veterans, especially those serving as youngsters, found the military to be a sort of finishing school as they transitioned from adolescence into adulthood. Many who wished to elude the draft were motivated to enlist in other services to avoid the rigors of Army field duty. Some people were never aware that the draft also populated the other services though not to the extent as with the Army. Either way, the vast majority served honorably much to their credit.

The clinical term is pathological….. Cynthia Feland is no longer the Prevaricating Prosecutor. She has become the Duplicitous Jurist – “The Lying Judge.”

To publically and repeatedly call an attorney, former prosecutor, and now judge a liar seems a very dangerous thing. And according to North Dakota law could be ruinous.

Claims like this are made by either the insane, the stupid, or one who has sufficient command of fact to verify such a contention.

Truth is the only protection against legal liability when one makes such an assertion.

So, who is lying? You decide.

North Dakota Standards for Imposing Lawyer Discipline 6.22, which provides suspension is generally appropriate when a lawyer knows that he or she is violating a court order or rule, and causes injury or potential injury to a client or a party, or causes interference or potential interference with a legal proceeding.

The "progressive" community - news media, politicians, and various moralists at large - is in a lather about "hate crimes," demanding federal legislation to combat them. The trouble is that nobody seems to know exactly what they are.

The concept of hate crimes is too nebulous, too subject to arbitrary application, to be a useful legal category. It's sufficient that murder is already a crime; especially heinous murders can be punished appropriately under existing laws. There is no need to give the state more discretionary power than it already has.

When you query atheists, you realize their insistence on God's non-existence is not based on reason, logic, evidence or science. Most skeptics deny the existence of God because they do not wish God to exist.

Atheism's shaky foundations can be in most cases easily exposed with a few pointed questions. After the pretension to objectivity falls away, what remains is mere personal opinion.

Wishing that God did not exist is everyone's prerogative. But one would hope for more intellectual consistency from those who claim a worldview informed by reason.

To implement or not implement ObamaCare - that is the question facing every state in the nation.  

Frank’s life as a soldier took a dramatic turn on November 2, 1944 in a bomb-run over Germany. He crammed into the tail of a B-17, wedged inside a flak jacket. The target was Merseberg, a major industrial area. He flew amid an air armada of 500 heavy bombers—each carrying eighteen 250-pound ‘general purpose’ bombs—escorted by 900 fighter planes. While the Americans were ready for business, so was the Luftwaffe.

For too long, guys like Frank didn’t tell their story. Frank is now willing to share. There are others like him, and they won’t be around much longer. A decade or two from now, they’ll be nearly extinct…. Men like Frank Kravetz have no regrets, but we’ll regret not pausing to record their history.

I don’t “stand with the 99%”, and certainly not downwind of them. But I’m all for their “occupation” continuing on its merry way. It usefully clarifies the stakes. At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement’s aims: They’re anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life – just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth.

Why do I do it? I sign onto the Bismarck Tribune on-line site to read and to comment on news articles, opinion letters, and Op Ed pieces. This has the sound of serious business, but it is not.

The Sioux, and all other Native North Dakotans, actually deserved a better “fight” from those taking huge pay checks to pretend to be concerned about the education of students who have paid 10% increases in tuition their entire academic careers. To surrender to an inept conglomeration like NCAA is stunningly gutless.