OBAMA SHOULD TAP WRIGLEY TO SERVE

Why doesn’t Obama start by reaching out to Wrigley, who has served competently and well?

ECONOMY IMPORTANT IN ND ENERGY TALK

I hope North Dakotans understand that all energies are needed, not just renewables, if we are to continue to grow our economy while protecting the environment. Our state's lignite industry has a proven track record for providing affordable and reliable electricity while reclaiming mined land and keeping the air we breathe the cleanest in the nation.

CANDIDATES’ FAITHS REVEAL MUCH OF THEIR CHARACTER

One candidate has a strong pro-life voting record. He has been consistent in this area over the years. He’s a veteran, a patriot and has shown a lot of courage in his political life. You would think for these reasons alone most Evangelical Christians would consider voting for him.

AMERICAN PEOPLE BEING CONNED AGAIN

Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Bush, liberal Democrats and Republicans and the majority of leaders in state governments have one thing in common: They are con artists.

The people being conned is us, America.

EXTREMISTS BLOCK THE SEARCH FOR OIL

Our vehicles and economy run on oil. That isn’t going to change to renewables overnight. Congress should lift the drilling bans immediately. It should also clear the way for nuclear power.

DEMS ARE CONFUSED ABOUT VICE PRESIDENT

Fargo Democrats would have you believe that the role of the vice presidency is a negligible one. Recent history suggests otherwise. Over the course of the past eight years, Democrats have venomously assailed the current vice president as being too powerful. During the Clinton administration, Al Gore was a close confidant and adviser to the president until he sought to distance himself from the presidency due to the moral and ethical failures of President Clinton.

SEN. MATHERN IS A SPENDER

So when Sen. Mathern says he's going to give you a tax break with one hand, I'd suggest you pay close attention to what he's doing with the other. He's a tax-and-spend liberal, and that's something that's never going to change.

E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR LEGISLATOR EASILY FOUND

As to my adapting to new technology, I was the first GOP legislator to have my campaign Web site linked on the North Dakota GOP home page, where it remains as the first legislator Web site listed.

REPUBLICANS FAVOR AN ENERGY DEBATE

I had the good fortune to spend Aug. 5 on the floor of the House of Representatives, watching Republican representatives Mike Pence, Duncan Hunter and others talk energy and the need for debate and an up or down vote. From this experience, their message became clear.

GOP HAS ONLY ITS MODERN SELF TO BLAME

What ever happened to fiscal responsibility? The Gerald Ford model that I voted for has left the party. Bush could have vetoed any and all spending bills in his tenure; he had the votes to withstand an override.

Get real, and be as disappointed in the Republican Party’s fiscal irresponsibility as I am.

THE N.D. DEMS OUT OF CONGRESS

It’s time for North Dakotans to use the voting booth to storm the halls of Congress with pitchforks and torches. It is time to replace our representatives with those who are in tune with us.

Replacing Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., this fall with a representative who’ll vote “yes” on drilling in ANWR and off the coast would send a clear message.

BE PROUD OF NORTH DAKOTA BEEF

We have bought North Dakota Branded Beef products and were proud enough to use some of the products for gifts. I hope more people will do the same thing.Using their products for gifts is a good way of advertising for them. They also ship products.

TAX-CUT GROUP HAS N.D.'S INTERESTS AT HEART

Hellebust’s rhetoric attacking the “super rich” is the worn out and tired class-warfare rambling from an era long gone by, when most Americans had no stock equity and there was no such thing as a 401K.

I am a Grand Forks native, a UND graduate, the third name listed on the sponsoring committee list and proud of our grassroots, bipartisan efforts to rein in state government spending

JASPER SCHNEIDER USES ATTACK POLITICS

I’ve seen and heard the ad multiple times, and it’s nonsense to conclude that it’s political. In fact, the only thing political about the ad has been the response from Hamm’s opponent and his Democratic allies. Their partisan sniping about the ad is as predictable as a windy day in in North Dakota. And, given the fact that the Democrat officeholders in North Dakota have also appeared in public-service type ads, their sniping is also hypocritical.

NORTH DAKOTANS DESERVE A SHARE OF THE REVENUE

During the last legislative session, state spending increased about 23 percent. The government benefited last session. This session, it is time for the people to benefit. Remember, the 23 percent increase in spending was made possible from tax dollars paid in by the citizens. Don’t you think they deserve some of it back?

POMEROY DOESN'T SUPPORT DRILLING

I think you'll be hard-pressed to find an honest vote in favor of drilling cast by Congressman Pomeroy. Or perhaps he really voted in favor of drilling, before he voted against it.

OBAMA IS JUST MORE OF THE SAME

Lately, I've been noticing a turn in the Obama campaign that has not been reported all that much in the news. I noticed his position on change has turned into a position of the same thing, nation-building, maintaining the course, no troop withdrawal, and being a typical arrogant D.C. politician.

IT’S REASONABLE TO RESTRAIN ABORTIONISTS

Jennifer Baumgardner states in her book "Abortion & Life," "I think of pregnancy as life, but that doesn’t mean abortion is murder. If pregnancy is life, isn’t abortion death?" Abortion supporters like Baumgardner and Jane Bovard, the owner of Fargo’s abortion mill, explain their position by saying, "No one knows when life begins." They’re lying, of course. We’ve known for decades that the life of each individual begins at conception.

OIL POLICY AFFECTS FARMERS

It will be difficult to increase food production if the affordability and accessibility of fertilizer becomes a challenge. Farmers will have to spend more of their resources just to maintain their current production levels. And that’s not good enough: We need to break food production records every year just to keep pace with the demands of a growing global population.

SOLVING OUR ENERGY WOES

Could not scientists, academics, engineers, technicians and administrators be brought together to resolve those problems? Critical times call for critical measures. Critical times also call for bold leadership. Where is our Manhattan Project?