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Omdahl: Raining on the tax cut parade

It is not my wish to rain on everyone’s parade, but the huge tax cuts passed by the recent Legislature are neither wise nor conservative.

By Lloyd Omdahl , May 12, 2013

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Benson: Get out of Afghanistan and see what happens

In June 2010, the Afghan War surpassed the Vietnam War as the longest American war in United States history.

By William Benson , May 09, 2013

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Omdahl: Guy sealed the 2-party system for ND

‘Where Seldom Was Heard A Discouraging Word’ was the title chosen by Gov. William Guy for his summary of personal experiences during his 12 years as the state’s chief executive.

By Lloyd Omdahl , May 05, 2013

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Omdahl: Sus scrofa is the answer for leftovers, obesity

Dr. Oz, the TV guru on diets, has been touting all sorts of meals and concoctions to curb the obesity epidemic. In spite of his exhortations, Americans are continuing to balloon in their britches, raising the cost of health care for all of us.

By Lloyd Omdahl , April 28, 2013

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Benson: Mars or bust? Not for this Earthling

Benson: Mars or bust? Not for this Earthling Mars One announced startling news last week that it would receive applications from those willing to travel to Mars to establish a permanent colony on the Red Planet. A Dutch entrepreneur named Bas Landsdorp heads Mars One, and he hopes to send four astronauts to Mars by 2023, and then another four every two years thereafter. Landsdorp and his associates say, “This is not a hoax.”

By William Benson , April 25, 2013

Omdahl: Christians shouldn’t depend on government

After a couple centuries of government support, the Protestant mores that have dominated American culture are disappearing from the public square.

By Lloyd Omdahl , April 21, 2013

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McFeatters: The Navy’s new death ray, a la Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers’ career was mostly documented in comic books and the radio; his appearances in movies and on TV were limited and in black-and-white — which with today’s generation obsessed by high-quality video is almost the same as not existing at all.

By Dale McFeatters , April 11, 2013

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10 years after invading Iraq, questions linger

On March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush ordered Gen. Tommy Franks to invade Iraq. That day jets rained down bombs on military targets in Baghdad, and the next day the land troops marched into Iraq. Last week marked the invasion’s 10-year anniversary.

By William Benson , March 28, 2013

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Omdahl: Chancellor fight has put Higher Education in a hole

Any legislator who didn’t come to Bismarck with a bill to reform the Board of Higher Education was simply left out of the conversation this session.

By Lloyd Omdahl , March 24, 2013

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Erbe: Pope Francis’ encouraging embrace of simplicity

As an observer of the world’s major religious institutions — Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu and Jewish — I keep a skeptical eye trained toward religious leaders. Sure, they do much to help the world’s poor. But they also control immense amounts of wealth and have political sway and the very human capacity to do wrong.

By Bonnie Erbe , March 23, 2013

Schram: An Iraq invasion anniversary we forgot to mark

This is the week Washington’s media and cocktail-circuit cognoscenti are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the start of George W. Bush’s belatedly controversial Iraq War. But the talking heads are using the wrong date.

By Martin Schramm , March 20, 2013

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British courts to decide US drones do murder?

With the Obama administration insistently refusing to release its legal, constitutional authorizations for drone assassinations in Pakistan and other countries, a lawsuit in Britain is causing mounting anxiety among intelligence agents there and in other countries who have aided the CIA.

By Nat Hentoff , February 08, 2013

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NRA shoots down reasoned gun control debate

An organization I utterly oppose has bestowed upon me an honor of the highest order. The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action has put me on its enemies list, which it labels “National Organizations With Anti-Gun Policies.”

By Bonnie Erbe , February 07, 2013

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A few post-Super Bowl thoughts

According to ESPN, more than 108 million people watched Super Bowl XLVII. That’s about one out of every three Americans.

By John Crisp , February 07, 2013

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Taft, from president to mascot

One of the weirder and most popular traditions of the Washington Nationals baseball team is the Racing Presidents.

By Scripps Howard News Service , February 07, 2013

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