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Al Gore: Hurricane Sandy Was Totally Because Of Global Warming
Repent, global warming skeptics, lest ye be attacked by the weather! Former vice president-turned-climate-change-activist Al Gore warned Tuesday that the storm that ravaged the East Coast Monday is “a...
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Guest Post: “All Of The Above” Is A Slogan, Not A Strategy
Despite the rhetoric and circus of side issues, the presidential election really comes down to one thing—jobs. While Governor Romney and President Obama have been fairly vague on their proposed...
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Obama And Democrats Going To Get Credit For Economic Recovery He Had Nothing...
I write often about America’s energy boom – the explosion in oil and gas development made possible by innovations like fracking – but I’m not sure how many people realize the profound impact it’s...
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Hoeven Votes With Democrats For Expensive Military Green Energy
We are a nation that’s more than $16 trillion in debt, and running an annual budget deficit of well over $1 trillion. Our national credit rating has already been downgraded once because of debt...
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By 2040 Fossil Fuels Will Still Be Providing Over 80% Of America’s Power
According to the Department of Energy, the future of fossil fuel energy in America is still very bright. Energy sources like oil, gas and coal will continue to provide, by far, most of the nation’s...
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Thanks Fracking: Carbon Emissions At Their Lowest Levels Since 1992
In a column for The Detroit News, Professor Mark Perry writes about efforts by college students at campuses across the nation aimed at convincing university officials to divest their endowments of...
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Burning Fossil Fuels Is Greening The Earth
Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.), gives this fascinating lecture on Reason.tv about how fossil fuels is actually resulting in greening the planet. Which is...
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Teddy Roosevelt’s Descendent Says Slow Down North Dakota’s Oil Boom
Winthrop Roosevelt, the great-great-grandson of former President Theodore Roosevelt, has partnered with Bismarck Tribune columnist/environmental activist Clay Jenkinson as well as the George...
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Reservation Drug Bust Gets Blamed On Oil Patch
Big news in North Dakota today is the bust of a drug ring by federal officials, but the headlines about the bust are a little misleading. “Federal indictments accuse 22 people in drug ring in N....
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Quebec Train Derailment Might Be The Best Argument Yet For The Keystone Pipeline
Yesterday a train carrying Bakken crude oil from North Dakota derailed in Canada. As of the time of this post, 13 people are confirmed dead and another 37 are still missing. Thanks to the rapid...
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On Television: We Can Develop Fossil Fuels And Protect The Environment
I was remiss yesterday in not posting my weekly television segment with Chris Berg from Monday. Not surprisingly, given the news which broke that day, we talked about the EPA’s proposed regulations for...
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Another Company Cuts Back Spending, Drilling In North Dakota Due To Oil Prices
More ugly news for a state that has an aggressive spending budget built on oil tax revenues, despite what Governor Jack Dalrymple has claimed. Two days ago Oasis Petroleum announced that they were...
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North Dakota’s Tax Revenues Did Not Actually Decline 46 Percent In The Third...
Yesterday evening I wrote about a report from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, picked up by Reuters, which described North Dakota’s tax revenues as declining 46.7 percent in the third quarter...
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NDSU President Used Girlfriend’s Email Account To Avoid Open Records Requests?
NDSU President Dean Bresciani is rather famously hostile to government transparency. “Either Dean Bresciani went to the Lois Lerner school of email management, or she went to the Dean Bresciani school,...
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Credit Where It’s Due: Dickinson Press Stands Up For The Public’s Right To Know
I often get accused of being too negative, of only writing about what’s wrong and not what’s right, so let me take a few moments of your time to applaud some people who are doing the right thing....
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Everything You Wanted To Know About North Dakota’s Tax Trigger
With oil prices in a rout, North Dakotans are obviously concerned about what impact that may have on the state’s budget. Governor Jack Dalrymple and lawmakers have increased spending aggressive in past...
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When Environmentalists Obstruct Solutions To Environmental Problems
Very often I get the feeling that environmental groups care far less about the environment than they do about advancing certain political agendas. Case in point, the battle over NORM (or naturally...
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John Dorso: Feds Should Stop Meddling In Local Law Enforcement Matters
That President Obama and his AG Eric Holder are adding to the racial tensions in this country is a point some may argue with. What isn’t being discussed is the insertion of the Federal government into...
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Shauna Theel: Wind Becoming A Valuable Part Of North Dakota’s Energy Boom
The renewable energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) has helped spur private investment in projects that help American workers make more of our energy right here at home, and North Dakota has seen the...
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Kevin Cramer: “Arbitrary Emission Standard” Puts American Power Supply At...
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com “I don’t think many people know how close we came,” Rep. Kevin Cramer said on Fox News Business yesterday, referring to last year’s “polar vortex” and...
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