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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

DENNIS STILLINGS: A THEATER REVIEW - THE NOT-SO-TRUTHSOME TWOSOME

Ex-Governor Ed Schafer and Lloyd Omdahl have recently teamed up to inflict a much-ballyhooed powerhouse dog-and-pony (fox and weasel?) anti-Measure 2 magic act on North Dakota voters. It is based…...

Monday, January 02, 2012

DENNIS STILLINGS: THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING — AGAIN! BE PREPARED!

Well folks, the notorious year 2012 A.D. has arrived—the year the world is supposed to end, according to several sources.  Unlike many end-of-the-world predictions—and there have been many—this “end” has…...

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

DENNIS STILLINGS: PROPERTY TAXES AND THE OMDAHL SNOW JOB

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. —Samuel Johnson   Nearly 30,000 citizens of…...

Friday, April 15, 2011

DENNIS STILLINGS: PROPERTY TAX REPEAL WILL BE PASSED - A REPLY TO LLOYD OMDAHL

"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty." — John Adams I have great sympathy for Lloyd Omdahl.  I too am getting old and set in my…...

Monday, April 04, 2011

DENNIS STILLINGS: CALIFORNIA - NEITHER HERE NOR THERE

Over the years I have accumulated an impressive file containing evidence that California does not really exist—at least not in the normal sense of “exist.”  California is an example of…...

Monday, October 11, 2010

DENNIS STILLINGS: THE WITCH OF NOVEMBER

  “The lake it is said Never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy. ...   … And every man knew And the captain did too…...

Thursday, September 30, 2010

DENNIS STILLINGS: THEOLOGY OF THE ATOM BOMB

What is below is like that    which is above,and what is above is like    that which is below,to accomplish the miracles    of the one thing.— From the Emerald Tablet of…...

Friday, July 30, 2010

DENNIS STILLINGS: DOES OBAMA SUFFER FROM ASPERGER’S SYNDROME?

“Harry, I have a gift.” —Barack Obama   Some months ago a friend of mine proposed the notion that Obama was possessed of some physical and psychological quirks that might…...

Friday, May 07, 2010

DENNIS STILLINGS: CELLING MY SOUL - CONFESSIONS OF A CRANK

It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated,…...

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

DENNIS STILLINGS: LLOYD OMDAHL - LORD OF THE HICKS

“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”—Sigmund Freud   “People believe what they want to believe.”  This “very profound [sic] conclusion” is the theme of Lloyd Omdahl’s Tuesday,…...

Monday, April 12, 2010

DENNIS STILLINGS: EARLY COMMENTS ON OBAMA’S MILITARY DEFENSE POLICY

… [P]erhaps the day will come when a people, distinguished by wars and victories and by the highest development of a military order and intelligence, and accustomed to make the…...

Friday, January 01, 2010

DENNIS STILLINGS: SENATOR CONRAD - DO NOT WHIZ ON MY LEG AND TELL ME IT’S RAINING

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." —Mark Twain   Senator Conrad has published a “Guest view” article on how “Health-care reform helps North Dakota.”  This item…...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

DENNIS STILLINGS: WHY ARE THER LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES?

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why...  I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" — Robert Kennedy How is…...

Saturday, November 14, 2009

DENNIS STILLINGS: OF NOISE AND NIMBYS

If a wind turbine spins on the prairie, and your ears are stuffed with money, can you still smell pig manure?   —Dennis Stillings     Of Noise and NIMBYs…...

Thursday, October 01, 2009

DENNIS STILLINGS: PINWHEEL SCARS ON THE PRAIRIE SKYS

Wind farms are going up all over this area. Nearly 200 turbines are under construction north of Luverne right now, and another large phase of development, Ashtabula III, is scheduled…...

Sunday, September 20, 2009

DENNIS STILLINGS: PRAIRIE CUISINARTS?

Because of the potential to kill millions of birds from global warming emissions, we're going to kill millions of birds with wind turbines. — Bob DeGroot A short time ago…...

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