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Farm Freedom can help animal ag, rural communities

Recently a bill was introduced by several North Dakota farmer-legislators to help promote animal agriculture and reverse decades of decline which have caused our state to fall far behind neighboring states. Farm Freedom legislation will remove the handcuffs that have held back our farmers and ...

Fufeng national security issue continues to raise concerns

North Dakota is home to two U.S. Air Force bases -- Minot Air Force Base and Grand Forks Air Force Base – both significantly important to U.S. national defense. Minot AFB, 13 miles north of the city of Minot, has the distinction of being the only dual wing nuclear-capable base in the Air ...

Do Americans even want liberty?

As Americans, our civil liberties are often in a perilous position. Encroached on every side from every partisan and corporation, with their only shelter being a pesky document called the constitution. Not that this document is always respected when it comes time for the highest courts in ...

Books Unite Us. censorship divides Us.

As of August 2022, the number of attempts to ban or restrict library resources in schools, universities, and public libraries, is on track to exceed the already record-setting counts from 2021, according to the American Library Association (ALA). This data was released as libraries nationwide ...

I’m off the train to cool town, and I love it

I was at dinner a few weeks ago when the cold hand of approaching death smacked me in the face. The blow came as I looked at a picture of my husband’s friend, a guy I’d last seen 20 years ago. “He looks so ... old,” I thought. Then, a horrifying addendum popped into my ...

How Chip Roy won the speaker fight

Republicans looked like they were heading for a no-win debacle on the House floor in their fight over speaker. Instead, Kevin McCarthy got over the top, achieving a long-held ambition after a daunting feat of political endurance, and his opponents got nearly every assurance and rule change ...