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?

PRIVATE-PROPERTY RIGHTS AT GREAT RISK

So, yet another law banning smoking has been passed in Fargo and West Fargo, further distorting the meaning of private property. And wouldn’t you know it, the nanny-state totalitarians are still not happy.

OIL PATCH GIVES TOO MUCH, GETS TOO LITTLE

In total, the state has collected more than $13 million in oil-related taxes and royalties from Wayzetta Township, and now the state is returning a paltry $150,000.

The Legislature and governor should establish economic development zones so the oil wealth can be used to develop future businesses to sustain these areas when the oil wells run dry.

MATHERN’S POSITION ON PRISON REMODELING IS A FLIP-FLOP

Now Mathern’s position basically follows the same approach Hoeven laid out from the start. Hoeven’s reuse plan would meet the needs at the state prison and utilize other facilities like the county jails. Mathern says we need new leadership, but he’s talked himself around to supporting Hoeven’s approach. It certainly is silly season when you set out to criticize someone only to imitate their leadership abilities.

‘GREEDY’ CAPITALISTS THE MOST GENEROUS

If socialism were the ticket, as Myhre suggests, I guess the United States would be the least prosperous of all the industrialized nations, and then as a result, we’d be the least giving. In my opinion, socialism appeals to two groups of people: those who don’t want the burden of taking care of themselves, and those who believe we should all share in the misery.

LET VOTERS APPROVE LEGISLATIVE PAY RAISES

North Dakota voters need to initiate a constitutional amendment that says our legislators can take a pay increase only upon voter approval. I think the people of this tate would approve it.

Any reform in government will only come from the bottom up, never from the top down. Think about it and be part of the reform.

REDUCE SALES TAX 2 CENTS FOR 4 YEARS

A reduced sales tax would encourage people who live beyond North Dakota borders to spend in North Dakota.

With a sunset clause, this would not make a problem for the 2013 Legislature if North Dakota finances should reverse.

LEGALIZE, REGULATE AND TAX CANNABIS

After educating North Dakotans on the science of cannabis for almost two years, I’ve seen a majority agree that cannabis prohibition is wrong. So, here are more facts about cannabis.

There are more than 600 medicinal and hundreds of hemp strains of cannabis. Their uses range from curing cancer to making plastic and biofuel. They’re not going away.