DISTRICT 24 GUYS: GROTBERG, KIEFERT, AND WAGAR

Fun video put together by Alison Grotberg.

'FREEDOM SALUTE' SLATED FOR SOLDIERS

JAMESTOWN (AP) - Members of the North Dakota National Guard's 817th Engineer Company are to honored Sunday in Jamestown.

A LONG TERM STRATEGY FOR A FREE MARKET BAILOUT

It is time we started looking to the market place for solutions to our economic crisis. If we continue to look to the federal government to fix the problem, we will eventually corrupt and destroy America's free market system ... and lose ever more economic freedom.

DEMOCRATS SHOULDN'T CODDLE CHÁVEZ

If Mr. Chávez thinks he can go nuclear with no consequences it is because he understands the divided allegiances in Washington. One way to solve that problem would be for Democrats to come out and say whose side they are on.

OBAMA SOUGHT HUD GRANT FOR DONOR

Sen. Barack Obama, who vows to change Washington by trimming wasteful spending and disclosing special-interest requests, wrote the Bush administration last year to seek a multimillion-dollar federal grant for a Chicago housing project that is behind schedule and whose development team includes a longtime political supporter.

NEW DAWN: HOW U.S. TURNED COUNTERINSURGENCY TIDE

Any Iraq combat memoir blurbed as a “must-read” by General David Petraeus deserves serious attention. Sure enough, Army Colonel Peter Mansoor’s account of his one-year post in Baghdad, where he commanded a 3,500-man brigade, is a valuable addition to the literature of the war.

LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST

THE BARRACUDA BITES BACK

Whatever it is, I'll have a hard time buying the line that Palin's a disaster until someone qualified enough to interview her does so. Last night's debate showed that McCain made a solid choice, one who shares a characteristic of his. She's at her most interesting when she's in a fight.

BIDEN TELLS 14 LIES DURING VP DEBATE

Senator Joe Biden lied at least 14 times during the vice presidential debate according to those counting at John McCain’s presidential headquarters.

PALIN HAS EVERYTHING THAT COUNTS

I must admit to being quite taken aback, last week, by Kathleen Parker's insistence that Sarah Palin do the Country and her Party the favor of withdrawing from this race. One is left to only imagine whether Ms. Parker is of the same mind today, or whether she will now be sending this advice to Joe Biden instead.

SARAH BIDEN: VICE-PRESIDENTIAL MELTDOWN

In response to Palin’s unbridled misstatements, journalists have coined the term “Palinism” — the serial voicing of sweeping declarations that are either insulting, or untrue — or both. No wonder rumors mount that Sen. McCain is now seeking a possible graceful exit for the gaffe-prone Palin, even as the Obama campaign continues to make the contrast with their own sober and circumspect Joe Biden.

OBAMA’S FISHY $200 MILLION

FUNNY MONEY

An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the analyst's requests have largely been ignored. "I can't get anyone to move. I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it."

THE CUBAN DIET

Food Rationing: The global warming scare isn't about the environment as much as it is about smothering capitalism and forcing Americans to change their lifestyles. A report out of Great Britain confirms this.

IN DEFENSE OF GWEN IFILL

It is quite possible that the appearance of a conflict of interest will actually work to neutralize the reality of such a conflict--that is, that Ifill, knowing her book puts her under additional scrutiny, will take extra care to be fair.

AN AUTOCRATIC SOUL

Whatever happens in Russia in the years ahead, we need to recognize that the current Russian regime has gone too far along the totalitarian road to share common goals with a democratic country like the United States. Any hope that goodwill gestures or concessions will be either well received or reciprocated is wishful thinking. Like their Soviet predecessors, the current crop of Russia’s autocrats harbor an unquenchable animus toward the United States and what it stands for. And like their Soviet predecessors, they prefer the friendship of gutter regimes like Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.

ACORN'S SENATOR

Barack Obama wasn't just the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac political contributions. He was also the senator from ACORN, the activist leader for risky "affirmative action" loans.

DUANE SAND NAIL POMEROY WITH NEW ADD

It’s about time someone brought these things about Pomeroy’s political finances (his connections to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac) to light. Certainly the North Dakota media isn’t about to do any such thing.

ARE OBAMA'S FUNDRAISING PRACTICES VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW?

A Newsmax review of the Obama campaign finance filings found that the FEC had asked for the redesignation or refund of 53,828 donations, totaling just under $30 million.

But none involves the donors who never appear in the Obama campaign reports, which the [Center for Responsive Politics] estimates at nearly half the $426.8 million the Obama campaign has raised to date.

BRUCE WALKER: THE UNSPOKEN CAMPAIGN MESSAGE OF OBAMA

Men who will do anything to win will end up doing nothing good at all. In college, it seems, Obama heard and spoke the word "power" as normal people would speak or hear the words "soul" or "honor" or "God." Power, alone, counts to him. He will do anything to win power, and men who will do anything to win power will do anything at all.

NEITHER A BORROWER NOR LENDER BE

Liberalism, as an experiment against common sense, undermines every institution it touches, including financial ones. In the age of political correctness, the conservatism of the banking industry was bound to give way to mindless multiculturalism and Great Society babble. Tried-and-true lending principles were deemed illiberal and imprudent loans became a form of "progress."