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Okay, so we don’t have a Speaker of the House. And there’s no one stepping forward from the ranks of the U.S. House Republican caucus to grab the gavel. Well, no problem. The House can pick anyone it wants to be the Speaker, according to Article I, Section II, Clause 5, of the U.S. Constitution, … Continue reading Doug Burgum For Speaker?

Okay, this is kind of a big deal. I’ve been friends with Tweed Roosevelt for almost 30 years. We’ve hunted and fished and sat around campfires together in North Dakota, and we’ve spent wonderful days and nights at his home on Martha’s Vineyard. Now, this week, I’m just going to sit and listen to him. … Continue reading Another Roosevelt In North Dakota This Week.

I swear, I thought this was a spoof story, a la The Onion, until I got down to the bottom and saw this:  "NAGA president Eunice Davidson released a statement through thegroup’s media advisors Global Impact Campaigns. Global Impact Campaigns is run by marketing and PR veterans who have worked as strategists for various government, … Continue reading Bring Back The Name “Redskins.” Now I’ve Seen It All.

In a file cabinet at the Billings County Clerk of Court’s office in Medora there are four checks totaling $54,975 waiting to be picked up by members of the Short family, owners of a ranch about a dozen miles north of town. County Clerk of Court Juliana Hammerstrom is not holding her breath waiting for … Continue reading The Check’s In The Mail . . . Er . . . At The Courthouse

Note: This is a re-run of something I wrote a dozen years ago today, September 11, 2011. And now I'm going to forget what today's date is and have a good day in the garden. Yes, it has been a long ten years. On August 29, 2001, I sat beside my wife’s bed as she … Continue reading September 11 Thoughts Revisited

Okay, a couple of months ago I bit on Doug Burgum’s now-famous gambit to send $20 gift cards to anyone who would send him a dollar to help him qualify for the debate last week. I sent him a dollar on July 17. I immediately got an e-mail that said “Thank you for your donation! … Continue reading Gift Cards, Golf Balls, Toddler Shirts and Koozies. Good Grief.

Forty-miles-per-hour winds drove a pouring rain sideways outside the Billings County Courthouse in Medora last Thursday afternoon, washing the Bad Lands dust from a dozen or more cars and pickups (mostly pickups) parked on the streets outside. Inside, another storm was brewing, this one going on behind closed doors, as a handful of drivers of … Continue reading A Big Day In The Bad Lands

NOTE TO MY ONLINE SUBSCRIBERS: An earlier version of my story about Northern Lights contained a reference to being able to watch the movie online. Turns out that is a pirated version, missing much of the valuable footage from the original movie. So I removed that part of the story. But John Hanson says soon … Continue reading Oops.

An e-mail from an old friend, the filmmaker John Hanson, came out of the blue yesterday, the day before the newspapers all said we were going to have a Northern Lights display tonight. The front page headline in the Bismarck Tribune Wednesday blared “Solar storm to create Northern Lights.” Whoa. Not so fast. The correction … Continue reading Northern Lights

He was a handsome young Georgia Marine in spit-shined shoes, a white hat, and a sharply pressed dress uniform, a member of the United States Marine Corps Drill Team, stationed in Washington, DC in the mid-1950s. She was a pretty little country girl from North Dakota, working in the Washington office of a North Dakota … Continue reading And Then There Were None. RIP, Minot Mafia