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BRENT McCARTHY: DOES THE LEFT REALLY CARE ABOUT ME?

Today a larger percentage of Americans live in poverty than before Democrats began their “war on poverty”. This is by design.



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Dennis Patrick
DENNIS M. PATRICK: TILTING LEFT

Under the Obama regime the Party lives on. Glimmers of Marxism should be evident to any moderate who lived during the 1930s through the 1980s.



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DR. PAUL KENGOR: ON SANTORUM, DEMOCRATS, AND “GOD’S WILL”

The hypocrisy of the press on this issue is staggering. All a Republican needs to do is mention God and secular liberals go wild.



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VASKO KOHLMAYER: TOLSTOY’S PAIN - WHY ATHEISM LEADS TO DESPAIR

If atheism is true life has no meaning or purpose.



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Schmid
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 24, 2012

. . . the name is honorable, not abusive; DSU should be reformed, not punished; there are dark figures lurking in the shadows; your money goes much further in ND; his path to priesthood was not a straight line; three young farm brothers from Starkweather; limited government and more freedom; Are 18:1 grants too generous?  bravos to the Carrington Cardinaires dance team; Consider avoiding ND if you have FCAS; And Corvettes? Yup, those too; failed miserably; DAKTOIDS



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JOE SOBRAN: ALL WE LIKE SHEEP - FLEECED BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT?

No, it's hard to make a melodrama out of a slow process. The government is less like a bank robber who storms in with ski mask and pistol than like a timid little bank clerk who quietly, over the years, embezzles a large fortune without setting off alarms or getting caught.





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DUSTIN GAWRYLOW: Tax Foundation Memo - A Roadmap to Improve North Dakota’s Business Tax Climate

Tax Foundation memo outlines ways to improve North Dakota's tax climate - will the legislature and governor listen?



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LYNN BERGMAN: EXPANSION OF THE BISMARCK CIVIC CENTER

America’s convention center business has been declining for two decades. The 126 million attendees in year 2000 fell to 86 million attendees in 2010. Meanwhile, the amount of convention space has increased from 40 million square feet in 1990, to 53 million square feet in year 2000, and to 70 million square feet in 2010. A former member of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority lamented last year that “Logic rarely has a place in the convention business.”

Local officials have changed their sales pitch, saying that convention centers should no longer be judged by how many hotels rooms, restaurants, and local attractions they help fill. Now the expansion of convention center facilities can “demonstrate to the world that we have unlimited confidence in our city and what it can do, not only as a convention destination but as the center of the most important trends in hospitality, science, health and education.”



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Dennis Patrick
DENNIS M. PATRICK: AMERICA AT RISK

The US does not live in a vacuum; we do live in a dangerous world fraught with risk. Here are the primary risks facing the US today in relative order of priority but not necessarily in order of occurrence. Multiple scenarios could evolve



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DR PAUL KENGOR: SATAN AND SANTORUM - PERSPECTIVE FROM REAGAN’S EVIL EMPIRE SPEECH

“Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought and humbly accepted,” Reagan maintained. “The American experiment in democracy rests on this insight.” He said the discovery of that insight was the “great triumph” of the Founders. Indeed it was.



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HERMAN CAIN IN BISMARCK


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LEON MALLBERG: WE NEED TO SUPPORT MEASURE 2

Have you noticed that most of those people against Measure 2 (Property Tax Elimination) are on the receive and spend side of property taxes.  As far as I can tell, they are the ones that ride in the wagon.  The average property tax payer could be considered the horse that pulls the wagon. 



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DR. PAUL KENGOR: WHAT WOULD REAGAN DO? THE HHS MANDATE AND A VERY DIFFERENT PRESIDENT

…. Many of you have been attacked for being single-issue activists or single-issue voters. But I ask: What single issue could be of greater significance?” Reagan said that if one is unsure precisely when life begins, one should err in a way that protects rather than robs life: “If there’s even a question about when human life begins, isn’t it our duty to err on the side of life?”



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DUSTIN GAWRYLOW: NDTA TO HOST PROPERTY TAX TOWNHALL MEETINGS

Discussions will revolve around Measure #2 on the June Ballot



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Selwyn Duke
SELWYN DUKE: WHEN CONSERVATIVES WAX LIBERAL: IS SEX A QUALIFICATION

That is to say, just as there is no such thing as "personal" morality, neither is there such thing as the group variety.  To say otherwise is to wax relativistic – as the left will – and implies that morality doesn't really exist; only personal preference does.  Morality, however, if it is anything but a confusing synonym for taste, refers to an absolute, universal and eternal standard for behavior that transcends not only individuals and groups, but man himself. 



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SALLY MORRIS: “STUPAKED” - WHY I WON’T SUPPORT AN “ACT OF CONSCIENCE” AMENDMENT

 The beauty of our form of government, our Constitution, our law, is that we are “a nation of laws, not of men”, meaning that we are not a personality cult, but a rational people governed by ONE LAW for ALL. The best guarantee of good law is that it is applied evenly across the boards. Bad law, on the other hand, gets to survive if the powerful are exempted from it and it applies only to the weak. If we are to have laws that are acceptable to the “important” or the “strong”, they must apply equally. There is great danger in these special exemptions.



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GARY EMINETH: WHY NOT NOMINATE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHOM YOU CAN TRUST?

Once again in America we are faced with a choice-it is a time for choosing. Just as Ronald Reagan spoke to a nation with many challenges and much at stake, so there are candidates touting solutions to the situation in this country today.



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Selwyn Duke
SELWYN DUKE: ARE CONSERVATIVES WITH GINSBURG OR THE FOUNDERS ON THE CONSTITUTION?

There is a reason why we have Supreme Court justices who have contempt for the document that is supposed to be their guiding light and a president who wipes his feet on the Constitution as he goes where no statist has gone before: they are following a trajectory that the nation was set on a long, long time ago.  They simply represent the latest version of republican decline: anti-constitutionalism 9.0. 



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VASKO KOHLMAYER: DOES HELL EXIST?

People have an intuition of higher justice: Wea sense there will come a time when wrongs will be repaid and evil deeds punished.



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SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT CCOAST - FEBRUARY 17, 2012

DSU was a “diploma factory”; the campus was administratively dysfunctional; issues at DSU raise numerous questions; Yah, sure, ya betcha; “Fighting Sioux”; I kind of like that logo. What do you think?”  the Brazilian Bombshell; A tall tale? If so, it’s a good one; racially-tinged Jamestown murder trials; Cave fingered Howard; Western ND has changed and become a less safe place; Bismarck is changing; DAKTOIDS . . .



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CHARLES G. MILLS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAROCHIAL EDUCATION

Although it was arguably unjust to make Catholics pay for two school systems, the policy was a blessing in disguise. The parochial schools took nothing from the government, and so they remained free to teach the whole truth without restraint from it.



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DR. PAUL KENGOR: WHAT IF WE REMOVED WARTIME CONSCIENCE EXEMPTIONS?

Have “abortion rights” become so sacred to liberals that they are willing to sacrifice conscience exemptions at the altar of Roe v. Wade? Do they really want to head down this road? I suggest they stop and think hard about what they’re advocating.



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Dennis Patrick
DENNIS M. PATRICK: CONTINUING POWER GRAB

It is wrong to think that Obama caved in to political pressure when he announced an “accommodation” at midday on February 10. In fact, he has no authority to either mandate or compromise. In reality, he is hacking away at our First Amendment liberties to promote the “change” he envisions.



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CRAIG TURNER: HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE - THE DEBATE

A law against homosexual marriage today is no more an instance of bigotry or prejudice than the laws against polygamy that the United States enacted in the 1800s.



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SELWYN DUKE: SAMUEL L. JACKSON DROPS THE ACT: ADMITS HE ONLY VOTED FOR OBAMA BECAUSE OF RACE

96 percent of blacks supported Obama in 2008.  Although, few are as honest as Jackson, who clearly is proud that he never lets politics get in the way of his bigotry.



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DR. MARVIN FOLKERTSMA: GOD AND MAN AT CPAC: FACING THE 2012 ELECTION

If History consigned the founding era to a status of historical irrelevance, who can say that progressivism, which is also a product of historical evolution of ideas, will not suffer the same fate? In short, why should we not believe that progressivism was simply the product of a bevy of severely misguided statists who, at the beginning of the 20th century, believed that a sort of benevolent totalitarianism was the wave of the future?



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DUSTIN GAWRYLOW: DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY FIASCO IS PROOF THAT ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS

The North Dakota University System is accountable to no one, especially taxpayers.



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DR.PAUL KENGOR: THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS V. OBAMA?  AMERICA’S “RATHER OLD CONSTITUTION”

What’s frustrated people is that I have not been able to force Congress to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change that I would like sometimes. But what I have been able to do is move in the right direction. And what I’m going to keep on doing is plot away, very persistent.



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Schmid
SCHMID:  LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Sen. John Hoeven “picked the right issue”; WDAY meteorologist John Wheeler punctured several myths; $1 billion of public; the faltering pace of economic development on Indian reservations; NDSU is suing nearly everybody; deaths and injuries in the oil patch; they’re looking for jobs, not women; bent out of shape about the Oil Patch; Two factors drive farmland prices; The government will make you healthier? DAKTOIDS



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LYNN BERGMAN: “TAX THE RICH” DISPELLED EIGHT DECADES AGO!

I finally caught up on my reading and ordered three great books; “The Myth of the Robber Barons”, “New Deal or Raw Deal”, and “FDR Goes to War”, all by Burton W. Folsom Jr. who is a professor of history and management at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Folsom has written numerous books and countless journal columns.

After excessive taxation of all tax venues forced venture capital into municipal bonds immediately following the war, and after increased estate taxes further drove venture capital into tax exempt foundations during the roaring twenties, it was probably the extensive excise taxes of the early thirties that put the final nails into the coffin of the Industrial Revolution, spawning The Great Depression.



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