Donkephant

I finally was able to attend a tea party.   The previous ones either landed on bad days, or on blizzards, so I was unable to attend.  I’m glad I made it to this one.  Not only was it a great rally, it was a huge success.  Estimates are that there were about 1000 people in [...]

Johnathan at j5mc.com seems to think it does. HB 1572 would literally make anything causing a human cell to die into a murder. So don’t even think about stem cell research.  Or cancer treatment.  Or surgery — wouldn’t want to carelessly slice away a few cells now. I normally don’t see too much fault with [...]

Welcome to the “Good Ol’ Boy’s” state I guess. The House voted to keep the North Dakota Pharmacy law as is. The current law states that any pharmacy must be majority owned by a state licensed pharmacist. It’s a holdover from a much older time and from much older concerns. Now, it only serves to [...]

You likely missed this, but he North Dakota House voted to increase the state mandated minimum insurance for cars this week.  It increased the minimums from 25k/50k/25k to 50k/100k/50k.  Doubled.  Not really that big of a deal to me as I already carry more than that on my cars, but it could mean someting to [...]

I’d like to give a few thoughts on some election results that are a little closer to me.  In my home state, one of the big races was the race for U.S. Congress between the incumbent Earl Pomeroy and challenger Duane Sand.  I voted for Sand.  He lost. There were two measures in ND that [...]

As election day nears, I start doing a little more research into who the candidates are and which ones that I will vote for.  I normally vote absentee just in case something comes up and I can’t make it to the polls.  I want my vote to count, so I don’t want to risk missing [...]