SELWYN DUKE: THE OLYMPICS AND FEMINIST-STYLE REPORTING
It’s difficult to say if the greatest drama of the 2012 Olympics has occurred inside or outside the athletic arena, but it’s hard for anything to compare to the controversy…...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: GRAND MUFTI EMANUEL’S CHICAGO VALUES
When Rahm Emanuel ascended to the top of Chicago’s political heap last year, it was thought to have been the result of a citywide election that won him the mayorship. …...
Thursday, July 26, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: WHAT EVERYONE FORGETS WHEN DEBATING GUN CONTROL
In the wake of the Aurora mass shooting, the usual pattern is playing out with respect to gun control. People such as Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Piers Morgan and Bill Moyers…...
SELWYN DUKE: THE AURORA PROPAGANDA AWARD GOES TO…
The New York Daily News. Hands down. The winning entry is an anti-Second Amendment Rights piece written in the wake of the Colorado tragedy, one in which virtually every line…...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: TEA PARTY TARGETED BY “ALL THE BOLSHEVIKS’ CHILDREN” (ABC)
It wasn’t just that ABC’s Brian Ross was wrong in suggesting that the “Jim Holmes” he found on a Tea Party website was the same man who committed the heinous…...
Monday, July 16, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: PLEASE, NO RICE WITH THAT ROMNEY
With the rumor that Condoleezza Rice is a frontrunner to be Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential pick, she’s the talk of the town. She’s so intelligent, so sophisticated, so statesmanlike and so…...
Thursday, June 14, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: THE UN-AMERICAN SIN OF PROPERTY TAXES
When North Dakotans went to the polls on Tuesday, they had a chance to strike a blow for freedom and make their state the first in the nation to ban…...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
RUBEN LACKMAN: DAKOTA SPRING
After agonizing over mind and heart-shattering local issues such as DSU and “Fighting Sioux”, I decided to lift my spirits by reading some of the “happy news from other states,…...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
TOM FREIER: MEASURE 3 - RESTORING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
As the sponsoring committee chairman, I would like to share, what in our view is the purpose and need for Measure 3, the Religious Liberty Restoration Amendment. Measure 3 simply…...
Friday, May 11, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: WHY THE HEALTH NAZIS ARE ON THE MARCH
They say “Jolly is the fat man,” but perhaps not when he’s being chased (and, I’m sure, caught) like a Frankenstein monster by the Body Cult crazies. And that is…...
Monday, May 07, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: HOKUMHONTAS WARREN’S STUPID HORSE MOMENT
Many critics have called Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren a "racist" for relating a family story about how her grandfather had "high cheekbones like all Indians do." But they're wrong. …...
Saturday, April 14, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: BIRMINGHAM NEWS DROPS THE BALL ON BLACK-ON-WHITE CRIME
This past Tuesday I reported on the stabbing of white truck driver Nick Stokes by members of a black motorcycle gang called the Outcasts of Alabama. It’s not merely a…...
Friday, April 13, 2012
JURIS CURISKIS: CRONYISM AND SPECIAL INTERESTS DRIVE OPPOSITION TO MEASURE 2
North Dakota’s Measure 2 is the most significant tax reform proposal in the last 99 years. It is so profound that we can, without reservation, apply the proverbial saying that…...
Thursday, April 12, 2012
LORIE McCARTHY: THE RIGHT TO OWN PROPERTY
Measure 2 isn’t about money, it’s about our right to own property. Let’s review some facts. Property taxes are based on the value of your home, not your income. If…...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: POLICE TO WHITE VICTIM: WE “DON’T MESS” WITH BLACK GANG
Most of us have heard about how the media won’t report on black-on-white crime. We also may know that authorities sometimes sweep it under the rug due to political pressure,…...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
JURIS CURISKIS: A DIFFERENT TAKE ON TAXES
Measure 2 is, without question, one of the most consequential policy questions that has been presented before the state... How many times have you heard that implication as a dooms…...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
JURIS CURISKIS: IGNORING NORTH DAKOTA TAXPAYERS
The opposition to Measure 2 is ignoring the taxpayers of North Dakota. They say that the elimination of property tax is a bad idea because the consequences have not been…...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: WHY OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE MATTERS, ESPECIALLY NOW
There was a time when someone could perhaps justify sitting on the fence on the matter of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. There were those on the left who could chalk…...
Thursday, March 08, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: WAS BOY IN K.C. FIRE ATTACK A VICTIM OF HIS SCHOOL’S RACIST TEACHING?
The boy raised his hand, eager to answer the question. "What would you know about it?" exclaimed the teacher dismissively. "You're not our race." This was not dialogue from a…...
Sunday, March 04, 2012
STEVE MOEN: HEIDI HEITKAMP HELPING TO IMPOSE OBAMACARE
I find it interesting to see Obama and his supporters including Heidi Heidkamp trying to turn an unconstitutional attack on the church, the mandating of birth control including the morning…...
Monday, February 20, 2012
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,…...
SELWYN DUKE: WHEN CONSERVATIVES WAX LIBERAL: IS SEX A QUALIFICATION
Is it a conservative position that only women are qualified to comment on abortion? A writer named Leann Horrocks certainly seems to think so. In an American Thinker piece entitled,…...
Sunday, February 19, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: ARE CONSERVATIVES WITH GINSBURG OR THE FOUNDERS ON THE CONSTITUTION?
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Egypt recently that she "would not look to the U.S. Constitution if [she] were drafting a constitution in the year 2012," it was no…...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: SAMUEL L. JACKSON DROPS THE ACT: ADMITS HE ONLY VOTED FOR OBAMA BECAUSE OF RACE
Hey, Jackson, is it Samuel L. or Jesse? Actually, it’s more likely that the actor was channeling Jeremiah Wright. In a racial-epithet-laced interview with Ebony magazine, the Pulp Fiction star…...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: A BEATING AND RACIAL SLURS – BUT NO HATE-CRIME CHARGES
Ah, the left-wing capacity for rationalization knows no bounds. While we’re told that even substantive criticism of Barack Obama is driven by the hatefulness the left has dubbed “racism,” a…...
Sunday, February 05, 2012
HAL HASE: REVIEW AND ESSAY - FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
This book, first published in 2000, had been rejected in its initial form by 27 publishers. It was made into film by Clint Eastwood in 2005, and republished in softcover…...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: IN PRAISE OF A “DO-NOTHING” CONGRESS
Here's a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn Congress for not growing it? "It's official: Congress ended its least-productive year in modern history…...
Thursday, January 19, 2012
SELWYN DUKE: IF REPUBLICANS WANT TO WIN, THEY MUST REBRAND “CAPITALISM”
One of the simplest rhetorical truths is that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate. Yet, amazingly, we still see experienced conservative politicians with access…...
Friday, January 13, 2012
DR, MARK W, HENDRICKSON: SPORTS, CONCUSSIONS AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CULTURE
If you follow professional sports, and especially if you are a football or hockey fan, you undoubtedly are aware of the rash of concussions that have rendered players unfit to…...
CHARLENE NELSON: FACING THE “WHAT IFS” OF ABOLISHING PROPERTY TAXES
Those opposing Measure 2 (the Initiated Measure to abolish property taxes, signed by almost 30,000 North Dakota voters) are imitating Chicken Little. They’re claiming that abolishing property taxes will effectively…...
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