The foundation supporting the Bismarck-Mandan gets its strength from long-term and charitable community programs like Open Your Heart. The American Legion project providing food and clothing to families in need began its work in 1929, the year the stock market infamously crashed.
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:00 am | (3) Comments
This is in response to the article pertaining to the James Norman lawsuit whereby he alleged that prison officials should have been protecting him. How ironic. Did Mr. Norman protect his ex-wife Pam when he hid in her house and, upon her return from work, he backed her into a corner and then…
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:00 am | (2) Comments
On behalf of the University of North Dakota College of Nursing, I want to extend our deepest appreciation to Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan and Rep. Earl Pomeroy for their tireless efforts in securing funding for the Quentin N. Burdick Indians into Nursing: Recruitment and Retention of A…
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
Thank you for your thoughtful editorial on Nov. 12 stating that "the U.S. Congress plays a dangerous game with health care reform." This bill obviously endangers the quality of our health care in North Dakota, as well as our total economy. This issue is so important that it should be postpon…
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:00 am | (11) Comments
Medicare was defrauded out of an estimated $47 billion in the last fiscal year. Roll that number around in your head. It's almost enough money to bail out another too-big-to-fail financial institution. It does provide empirical evidence that a government-run, public-option health insuranc…
Nov 19, 2009 | 2:00 am | (71) Comments
BOSTON — You have to hand it to Sarah Palin. I don’t mean you have to hand her the 2012 nomination. Nor do you have to hand her the $24.64 I overpaid for “Going Rogue.” But let us give credit where credit card is due. Remember back in the 1990s when Hillary Clinton described herse…
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:00 am | (1) Comments
It's the time of year when those little outdoor eight-legged creatures have begun to seek shelter of a warmer variety (aka, my house). This week alone, I have found several lurking in a corner of the basement here or scurrying along the kitchen floor there.
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
I'm positive there is a good movie buried somewhere deep inside "The Men Who Stare at Goats." Sadly though, I looked and I listened and, yes, I even stared, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
I saw the other day that George W. Bush is raising money for his proposed policy institute at Southern Methodist University. I did some research and found out that there are something like 3,000 policy institutes, most of them hosting convocations about nothing much and issuing papers no …
Nov 19, 2009 | 2:00 am | (6) Comments
PHOENIX - In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The institute, America's most potent advocate of limited government, em…
Nov 19, 2009 | 2:00 am | (0) Comments
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