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Thursday, December 26, 2013

SALLY MORRIS:  TO KEVIN CRAMER – PERMISSION TO DROP OUT

As the year comes to an end it’s time to take a critical look at what North Dakota’s delegation to Washington has accomplished, what they said they’d do, what they…...

Thursday, November 28, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: CONTROL THE URGE TO CONTROL

Recently Grand Forks passed an ordinance outlawing refusal of a landlord to rent to “gay” couples.  Also recently, a lady was heard on talk radio championing the idea of imposing…...

Monday, November 25, 2013

SALLY MORRIS:  LEE HARVEY OSWALD SHOT JFK . . . AND I’M J. EDGAR HOOVER.

With all that has been said this past week on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John Kennedy, numerous unsubstantiated “facts” have been thrown about.  We’ve heard Rush…...

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: TIME FOR AN ASSESSMENT OF OUR POTENTIAL CANDIDATES

What say we – the Conservatives – target for un-election in 2014 the 87 Republican Congressmen and all of the Republican Senators who voted with the Democrats to fund Obamacare? …...

Sunday, October 20, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: AN OPEN LETTER TO CONSERVATIVES AND OTHER TEA PARTY PATRIOTS

I just got this note from Kevin Cramer (telling us that the budget resolution is just a "short-term solution") in my email.  You probably did too.  He is telling us…...

Wednesday, October 09, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: OFF YOUR KNEES, AMERICA!

Folks, the mask is off and this government and its pillars – Harry Reid and Barack Obama – are revealed as the monsters they really are.  For the past week…...

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: THE TACTICS AND STRATEGY OF RESOLUTION

Did you EVER think you would see so many angry Americans banding together?  Lifelong union members, tea party activists, nurses, physicians, small mom-and-pops shop owners, business leaders – all united…...

Monday, September 09, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: THIS IS AN ATTACK ON LOGIC

It is entirely possible that there are no “good guys” in Syria.  Unless, perhaps, you count the innocent victims of both sides.  But there is no real way for the…...

Friday, September 06, 2013

SALLY MORRIS:  HERE’S WHAT AMERICAN VOTERS CAN DO ABOUT THE WASHINGTON ELITE

Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI), on the Laura Ingraham program, has asserted that the disconnect between the people of America with the two major parties – who seem to be colluding…...

Friday, August 16, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: A REAL THREAT TO AMERICA

The discussion continues as to the proper function of the NSA, the National Security Administration.  Talk show callers never tire of the debate as to whether Snowden was a “traitor”,…...

Thursday, August 08, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: A TIDE TAKEN AT THE FULL?

Right now Congress is in recess.  Our Representatives and Senators are, presumably, back home connecting with the people who trusted them and put them in office.   It is most sincerely…...

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: THE RACE IS ON!

It might be a good time to look at a couple of our possible Republican Presidential candidates again.  It has been a while, now, and there are a few adjustments…...

Monday, July 15, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: FOLLOWING “ZIMMERMAN” WE MUST ADDRESS CIVIL RIGHTS

“Civil rights” seem to be prominent in our thoughts lately.  Indeed, the first minute out of the gate following the acquittal of George Zimmerman on all charges, Eric Holder stated…...

Monday, July 08, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: THE RATS ARE GNAWING; WILL THEY DROWN AMERICA?

Edmund Burke:  By gnawing through a dike even a rat may drown a nation. As Congress moves relentlessly and remorselessly toward passage of a desperately deadly immigration bill, which is…...

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: THE QUESTIONALBLE POSITION OF TED CRUZ

Last week, pundit and prolific political author Ann Coulter repudiated New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for the actions of his temporary Senate nominee, Jeff Chiesa, in first voting in favor…...

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: LAST CHAPTER FOR THE GOP

A lot of people have been asking themselves what we need the Republican Party for.  After all, the GOP used to be the balancing effect for the Democrat party.  It…...

Monday, June 17, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: TRUTH AND THE ART OF THE POLLSTER

A recent poll shows North Dakotans strongly supporting the currently discussed immigration “reform” bill.  Before we jump to too many conclusions here, though, we should examine the primary question posed…...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: EDWARD SNOWDEN - TRAITOR OR HERO? DOES IT MATTER?

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  (Benjamin Franklin, 1759) Before we decide that Edward Snowden is a “traitor”,…...

Tuesday, June 04, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY

Word has just come down from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s office that he has decided NOT to appoint anyone to serve out the late Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg’s term. …...

Monday, May 27, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: OUR MODEST HEROES

Memorial Day has rolled around again . . . the beginning of the glorious season of summer in America.  Along with the traditional observances of the day of the valor…...

Friday, May 24, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: UMBRELLAS VS. MEAT CLEAVERS – LONDON TODAY, YOUR HOME TOWN TOMORROW?

We in America tend to think of London as a storybook world.  The Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London, rainy streets…...

Thursday, May 09, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: DO WE NEED A “KILL SWITCH”?

San Francisco DA George Gascon, has weighed in with his idea on how to combat what is a raging problem in fighting crime – the theft of cell phones, and…...

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE BOSTON MASSACRE II

Is anyone else getting sick of the press attempting to make excuses for the Tsarnaevs?  Regarding these young men (and note, I did not say “boys”), it would seem that…...

Monday, March 25, 2013

SALLY MORRIS:  HOW ABOUT AN “AUTOPSY” ON THE CAREER OF REINCE PRIEBUS ?  AND MARK SANFORD?

We keep hearing about the “autopsy” being performed by Reince Preibus, Republican National Committee chairman.    He believes that, now, after a morals-neutral Progressive campaign has once again failed to deliver…...

SALLY MORRIS: A GOOD CALL FOR EDUCATION

Democrats opposing Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Lamar Alexander in their efforts to give parents choice in their children’s education and opportunities for low-income students to benefit from school choice,…...

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: IN DEFENSE OF THAT GREAT IRISHWOMAN, MOTHER MACHREE

I just read Mark Steyn’s “Song of the Week” feature on “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” and enjoyed his informative and erudite discussion of the remarkable Chauncey Olcott and a…...

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: PUT EDUCATION IN THE MARKETPLACE!

When you don’t have a superior product to sell, the last thing you want to offer is a choice. Education – or the lack thereof – has been much in…...

Thursday, March 07, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: AMERICA’S NOUVEAU-RICHE “ROYALS”

What could you do with an expense account of half a million dollars per year?  I don’t know about you, but most of my acquaintances could paint the world a…...

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AT THE FINAL CROSSROADS –MEND OR DIE

It is probable that we are witnessing the end days of at least one part of our political culture – the Republican Party.  It would seem that our extensive exploration…...

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: GUNS IN AMERICA – PART THREE – CLASS WARFARE; “ALL WANT IS A CHANCE”

President Obama went ahead and decreed that he and his family should enjoy lifelong Secret Service protection.  No one really argued with him.  It was undoubtedly one of his more…...

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