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When most of us don’t complete a task, or believe we don’t have it just right, we put in a little overtime. It is no different at the state Legislature. So if it takes a special session to begin reforming how this state spends our tax dollars, that needs to happen.   ...

Quite a few years ago, when I was a young man living in North Dakota, I had three buddies who worked on the railroad. Apparently, they did not listen to their mothers when these wise women told their sons that stealing was wrong and not to do it. Two of these young men decided to rob a bank and the ...

A frequent writer from Pine River seems to have a constant need to bemoan separation of church and state and persecution of Christians. Let me relieve her anxiety by saying Jesus, in his own words, supports separation of church and state. Reference Matthew 22:21... “Render therefore to Caesar the ...

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  Liberals are cast by the right as “Godless.” Listening to the daffy Michele Bachmann it’s “Gangsters.” Ann Coulter refers to liberals as “Demonic Mobs.” Tsk! Tsk! Gotta love those right side wing-nuts. The name calling is just an effort to soothe their frustrated souls, and defl...

Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann are both running for president  of the United States, great! They are Minnesota politicians that have done nothing for our state, and now they want to run for the presidency. How sad, but just maybe with them out of the way things will be much better! J...

I read in the paper this morning about a school district that wants to take unused space and convert it into some kind of a play facility and a day care. I listen everyday to reports of school funding being cut and bigger classes and laid off teachers but yet this district wants to spend money on th...

Really? I continue to be astonished at the notion that restoring a 2 percent tax on incomes of more than $250,000  to balance to our state’s budget, is somehow “punishing the rich.” We were taught, and still teach our children from the earliest stages of their lives, to “share” with o...

I went skateboarding today at the Jaycees Skate park while there were baseball games going on. But the park was full of unattended little kids using the ramps as slides.  Is it going to take a kid getting hit by a flying  skateboard for parents to realize that it's not a playground? Seriou...