The deaths of three Dickinson State University students in a single-car accident have stunned the people of North Dakota, particularly the 16,035 residents of Dickinson. Suddenly, the fragility of life and the randomness of calamity have percolated in us all. The instantaneous burst of natio…
Nov 11, 2009 | 9:05 am | (0) Comments
''U.S. Homeland Security officials are working with groups around the United States to head off any possible anti-Muslim backlash following the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas."
Nov 11, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
It's something everyone has, and I don't care how organized or wealthy they are - million-dollar homes have Junk Drawers, the same as the tiniest cracker box.
Nov 11, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is "too high" - either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to lower those costs, and much that is being proposed is almost certain to increase the c…
Nov 10, 2009 | 2:00 am | (10) Comments
When our bosses at 2ManCab, Matt and Diane, offered us tickets to see Herman’s Hermits at Prairie Knights Casino recently, we were cautiously optimistic. When we found
Nov 10, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
There are more books than ever before being turned into movies. This always raises the question: "Is it better to read the book or see the movie first?"
Nov 10, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
Wednesda marks Veterans Day, a time to honor the service and sacrifice of America’s 25 million military veterans.
Nov 09, 2009 | 2:00 am | (1) Comments
Republicans are celebrating two high-profile electoral successes Tuesday; Democrats are licking their wounds. But the results and dynamics revealed long-term problems for both national parties.
Nov 08, 2009 | 2:00 am | (1) Comments
Clothes in Bismarck will no longer be Martinized. Not that they really ever were.
Nov 08, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
WASHINGTON - Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent. Britain's intelligent Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives scary precision to t…
Nov 08, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was dangerous to leave town. When you got back, it could have become someplace else.
Nov 08, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
The United States Supreme Court ruled (Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire - 1942) that: "No person shall address any offensive, derisive or annoying word to any other person who is lawfully in any street or other public place, nor call him by any offensive or derisive name, nor make any noise or…
Nov 08, 2009 | 2:00 am | (3) Comments
The first Medal of Honor recipient for heroism during World War I was from North Dakota.
Nov 08, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
I am a bowler. In fact, I have bowled on leagues and in tournaments every season for the past 22 years. In all that time, the thing that most bowlers strive for, but only a handful achieve, has thus far eluded me: The 12 strikes in a row that result in a perfect 300 game.
Nov 08, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
The number of millionaires in North Dakota went up 18.5 percent in 2008. There were 473 North Dakota taxpayers reporting adjusted gross incomes of more than $1 million. In terms of analogy, it would be as if everyone in Strasburg was a millionaire. Strasburg should be so lucky.
Nov 07, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
Dogs pant with their tongues hanging out, young men sweat by the bucket, and aging geologists just fall over on our faces in the shade on a hot summer’s day. But is there a way we could choose to cool the whole planet in a few decades if we really need to?
Nov 07, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
BOSTON - It's been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. "This is a doctor," she said, pointing to one picture. "This is a teacher." It was impossible to tell one woman from another under the burqas enforced by their Taliban rulers.
Nov 06, 2009 | 2:00 am | (2) Comments
The wide-eyed optimism and delight of childhood has been beating me over the head considerably in recent days, especially as it relates to the movie “Where the Wild Things Are” and Halloween. Kids can put on a homemade wolf suit, run around the house, biting the dog and howling at the …
Nov 06, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
So far this fall it’s been a big “O-fer” as far bird hunting goes.
Nov 05, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
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