North Dakota

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Saturday Diversion: Little Feat

Business As UsualCome home last night wishin I could unwind Turned on the news ya know it blew my mind Current affairs got me in a spin People everywhere doin' each other in Fussin' and fightin' from dusk till dawn Lyin', stealin, wheelin', dealin', it just keeps rollin' on Nothin but bad news and it's wearin' kind of thin With every news situation sems to be a ...
NorthDecoder.com - Sun 10:21 a.m.

Theodore C. Olbermann, Rest In Peace.

A sad note from Keith Olbermann:Theodore C. Olbermann, 1929-2010 (http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/03/theodore father died, in the city of his birth, New York, at 3:50 EST this afternoon.Though the financial constraints of his youth made college infeasible, he accomplished the near-impossible, becoming an architect licensed in 40 states. Much of his wor...
NorthDecoder.com - Sat 8:44 p.m.

A Tale Of Two Couples

(Crossposted with permission from The Prairie Blog. (http://theprairieblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/tale-of-two-coup headline across the top of the front page of the Bismarck Tribune this morning reads “Legislator arrested again for domestic assault.” It was above the story about Bismarck Representative David Weiler being charged with assaulting his wife for the second ti...
NorthDecoder.com - Sat 11:43 a.m. - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Hoeven Adopts "One Free Beating" Rule For Legislators

When North Dakota Governor John Hoeven (R) learned, today, that Representative David Weiler (R-Bismarck) had been charged with assaulting his (Weiler's) wife -- an employee in Hoeven's office -- for the second time in one year, Hoeven drew the line in the sand.Nicole Weiler is an aide in Gov. John Hoeven’s office. Hoeven believes if David Weiler is convicted of the second assault cha...
NorthDecoder.com - Fri 11:41 p.m. - 6 clicks 6 clicks

David Weiler Arrested For Assault Again

UPDATED at the bottom of this post... Developing...Representative Dave Weiler (R-Bismarck) is in jail this morning (http://www.kfgo.com/KFGO_Top_Story_News_Headlines.php?ID=00 Again.Weiler was arrested about a year ago (index.php/Bismarck-Legislator-Dave-Weiler-Arrested.html), after assaulting his wife. He entered a guilty plea (index.php/Why-is-Dave-Weiler-Still-a-Legislator.html) a...
NorthDecoder.com - Fri 9:48 a.m. - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Questions For Candidates: Question #1 for Kevin Cramer

We're going to try a new series here. It's just going to be a simple question I'd ask a candidate for office if I ever got an exclusive interview. Our first question would be for Kevin Cramer, a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. It's a pretty straight-forward question. If Cramer or any of his campaign staff reads this (and they do, FYI), they should fe...
NorthDecoder.com - Thu 1:09 p.m.

Lieutenant Governor's Moonlighting Gig

Yesterday's big North Dakota news -- so big it made page 3B of today's Bismarck Tribune -- is that Dakota Grower's Pasta Company is being sold to a Canadian company for $240 million. Viterra Inc. is offering to buy Dakota Growers Pasta Co. for $240 million, which would put the Canadian food processing and grain handling company into the pasta business.Viterra's board of directors e...
NorthDecoder.com - Thu 10:08 a.m. - 5 clicks 5 clicks

The United States of Goldman-Sachs

If you read nothing else about America's economic problems over the past couple years, read Matt Taibbi's piece in the Rolling Stone about the banksters and their assault on the American taxpayer.On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming America's pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain, the CEO...
NorthDecoder.com - Wed 7:22 a.m. - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Let's Talk Budget Reconciliation

A lot of argument is swirling around right now about budget reconciliation(not to be confused with plain old reconciliation, which is what the House and Senate do in conference committee to merge a bill that has passed each house in different forms) and if it should be used to pass healthcare. A lot of it is misinformation and I want to take some time to explain the process, the reason that ...
NorthDecoder.com - Tue 1:22 p.m. - 2 clicks 2 clicks

The Blog Post That Wrote Itself

[UPDATED X 2] I'm not going to write this blog post. It's not that I'm too lazy or that I don't understand it. I'm just not going to write it. The commenters should write this blog post.I will tell you just a little about what this is: This is a single page from the working papers of the audit that was done of the North Dakota Department of Commerce by the State Auditor'...
NorthDecoder.com - Tue 12:29 p.m. - 9 clicks 9 clicks

Bell Lake and Bullion Butte

NorthDecoder.com - Mon 3:29 p.m. - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Saturday Night Diversion: Counting Crows

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 6

Saturday Diversion: Toto

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 6

Republican Party's Official Campaign of Fear

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 4 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

NDGOP Whoring Itselt Out To Insurance Industry

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 4 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Corporatist Republicans Attack Their Own Health Plan

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 4 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Doug Goehring's impressive campaign website launch

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 3 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Is Clay Jenkinson Considering U.S. Senate Run?

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 3 - 8 clicks 8 clicks

Heidi Heitkamp Not Running For U.S. Senate

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 3 - 5 clicks 5 clicks

NY Gov. David Paterson = ND Gov. John Hoeven

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 2 - 7 clicks 7 clicks

North Dakota's Cowardly Newspaper Editors

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 2 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Democrats Cave on Unemployment Benefits

NorthDecoder.com - Mar 1 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Saturday Diversion: The Church

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 27

Hoeven's Out-of-state Corporate Money Party

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 25 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Bring Back The 50 State Strategy

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 25 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

The answer to obstruction is reconciliation

The time for playing nice is over. ...
Common Sense Has A Voice - Feb 24

Thin Skinned John Hoeven Goes Negative

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 24 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Corey Mock's Announcement

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 24 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Corey Mock Announcing His Electoral Intentions for 2010

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 22 - 5 clicks 5 clicks

The Right Wing Media's Muddled Message

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 22 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Breaking News: Teabaggers Don't Read Books

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 22 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Saturday Diversion--Eric Clapton

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 20 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

2010 District Convention Update

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 19 - 6 clicks 6 clicks

North Dakota: A Stimulus Success Story

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 18 - 8 clicks 8 clicks

Republican Obstructionists Have Won The Healthcare Reform Fight

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 18 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Republicans Dishonest About Teabagger Involvement

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 15 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Saturday Diversion:Dan Quayle

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 13 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

An Anti-Bachmann Radio Ad In North Dakota Today

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 12 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Bachmann Hoeven Overdrive

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 12 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Does John Hoeven Have A Spine?

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 9 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Grassrootsiness in the North Dakota Teabagger Movement

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 8 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

2010 District Conventions

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 8 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Original Boston Tea Party Not About Taxes

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 7 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Saturday Diversion: Ray Charles

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 6

Two Friends And A Possibility

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 5

Listen to Sen. Tracy Potter's Press Conference LIVE

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 5

North Dakota Has A U.S. Attorney Nominee

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 4 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Tracy Potter Running for Senate?

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 4 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

I Weep for North Dakota Journalism.

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 4 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Mainstream Media: Cutting Corners. Cutting Jobs.

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 2 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Doug Goehring: Haulin' in the Cash!

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 2

Why There Are So Few Rational-sounding Republicans

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 2

Ok...No...

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 1

What's It Take To Be A Republican?

NorthDecoder.com - Feb 1

Sunday Diversion: Elizabeth Warren

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 31

Hoeven: Complaining That Federal Budget Increases Too Small

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 28 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

State of The Union

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 27

States Rated For Recovery Act Transparency

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 27

What's a "Crack Van"?

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 26

Sometimes You're Paranoid...

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 26

John Hoeven (Opportunist-ND) for US Senate

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 25 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

WARNING: Being a Vikings fan may be hazardous to your health

Being a Minnesota Vikings fan should come with a warning label. ...
Common Sense Has A Voice - Jan 24

The Week In Review (2010 Jan 17-23)

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 24

Sound Familiar?

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 22

Over $10,000,000 in Tax Money for Hoeven's Political P.R. Firm

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 20

A New Appropriator For North Dakota

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 20

Berg Making Argument For Supporting Pomeroy?

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 19

NDGOP Cancels Convention, Primary and Election

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 18

Martin Luther King Jr. -- I Have A Dream

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 18

Saturday Diversion: Sir Elton John

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 17 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Saturday Diversion: Bob Schneider 2

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 16

Credit Where It Is Due

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 15

Haiti

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 15

"Very angry" Pomeroy confronts House Dems on health care reform

In its feature story this morning, 'Very angry' Democrat sounds alarm, the website Politico is reporting that a "very angry" Rep. ...
Common Sense Has A Voice - Jan 15 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Insurance Industry Manipulating North Dakotans

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 14 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

NorthDecoder.com on the Radio

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 14

North Dakota Teabaggers Are All Bark and No Bite

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 14

Shepherd Smith to Pat Robertson: Shut Up.

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 14

Hoeven Was For The Stimulus Before He Was Against It

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 14

DKos/R2K poll... moderately good news for Democrats

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 14

John Hoeven's Mustache

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 13 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Major League Baseball should restore Maris's home run record

Mark McGwire deserves the single season home run record like Tiger Woods deserves the "Husband of the Year" award. ...
Common Sense Has A Voice - Jan 12

Is Someone At The NRA Researching Governor Hoeven's Daughter

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 11 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Dem-NPL fires a warning shot at Hoeven

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 11

Kevin Cramer: Typical Republican Opportunist

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 11

Hoeven to finally come out from under his desk!

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 10

The Return of the Saturday Diversion: Paul Simon

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 9 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Rudy "9/11" Guliani forgets about 9/11

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 8

Help Wanted

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 8

ND Teabaggers Take Credit For Dorgan's Decision

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 7 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

No time for politics: DeMint holds up key national security appointment

If someone is trying to burn your house down, you certainly wouldn’t grab a knife and slash the tires on the fire trucks rushing to the scene to put that fire out. ...
Common Sense Has A Voice - Jan 5

Dorgan announces his retirement

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 5

Byron Dorgan is not Running For Reelection

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 5

Christian Values

NorthDecoder.com - Jan 4

Digging out in central North Dakota

Common Sense Has A Voice - Dec 26

ND Governor John Hoeven Is Lying

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 17 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Change I'm Starting To Not Believe In Anymore

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 16

The Big Right-Wing Crack-Pot Tent

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 16

Can't Tell Where The Insurance Industry Ends And The North Dakota GOP Begins

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 14

The Grinch who stole Christmas

Common Sense Has A Voice - Dec 14 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

North Dakota Republicans Are Birthers

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 14 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Lets get behind our Senator

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 12 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Democrats In North Dakota Are FINALLY Pushing Back

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 11

Ed Schultz Isn't Happy With Obama

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 9

Why Do Republicans Hate Veterans?

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 4

No time for tables: What Obama should have learned from Nixon

Common Sense Has A Voice - Dec 4

Blue Cross Blue Shield to Elect New "Consumer" Representative

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 3 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Obama's Dilemma

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 2

An Exodus Of Semi-Rational People From The Republican Party

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 2 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Things To Take Off Your "Funny Things To Write About" List: Rape

NorthDecoder.com - Dec 1 - 5 clicks 5 clicks

Karl Rove's Fingerprints In North Dakota

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 30 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Welcome to the future: "I should've used the backhand"

Common Sense Has A Voice - Nov 29

N.D. Farm Bureau: Turn Food Production Over To China Too

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 25 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

I Support Dan Ruby's Personhood Bill

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 25

Right-Wing Political Feedback Loops

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 24 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Worst Pollster In The World - Zogby - Releases North Dakota Poll Results

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 21

Rogue, baby, rogue! Palin's tell-all makes much anticipated debut

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 20

Where's Hoeven On Health Care Reform?

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 20

What's Wrong With The Health Care Reform Debate

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 20

Rogue, baby, rogue! Palin's tell-all makes much anticipated debut

Common Sense Has A Voice - Nov 19 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Another Day, Another Astroturfing Front Group

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 19

Blue Cross Wants More Money

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 18

Book Review: The Tyranny of Dead Ideas

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 18 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Palin's Book -- $4.97 -- Still Overpriced

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 15

Guess Who's Four?

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 14

An Open Letter To All Teabaggers

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 13

Keeping an open mind, and applicant pool, in search for next NDSU president

Common Sense Has A Voice - Nov 12

Guess Who's Behind the Ads Attacking Earl Pomeroy

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 12

Thank you, Veterans

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 11

Republicans Took Away Your Liberty

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 10

ND Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill President Obama

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 10 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Health Care Reform Forum

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 9

Have You Ever Felt Like You Were Being Followed?

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 9 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Republican Rudeness on the House Floor

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 7

Tomorrow's Big Health Care Reform Vote

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 6

Mr. President, the jury is ready, release your inner @$$hole

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 6

Classic Jon Stewart: A Glen Speck Fix

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 6 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Harbinger Of Things To Come: 5 Keys To Watch Headed Into 2010

Common Sense Has A Voice - Nov 5

Jasper Schneider Resigns the Legislature

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 5

A Bad Day For Teabaggers

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 4

Sunday Diversion:Daniel Powter

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 3

NorthDecoder.com in the Classroom

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 3 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

The Dumbing Down Of Dialogue

Common Sense Has A Voice - Nov 2

WSI Whistle Blower Litigation Drags On

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 2 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Interested?

NorthDecoder.com - Nov 2

Black is White; Peace is War; Heaven is Hell

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30

Saturday Diversion: Various Artists

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30

Pomeroy On Board With Health Care Reform

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30

Doug Goehring Hospitalized

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30

Nine Courageous North Dakota Legislators

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30

So Glad The Republicans Are In Charge

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30

Update on Doug Goehring

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Bill Moyers: The Leveraged Buyout of Congress

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30

Fox News Learns of Obama's Nobel Prize

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30

Sunday Diversion: Keb' Mo'

NorthDecoder.com - Oct 30 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Standing Ovation: President Chapman Is North Dakota State

Common Sense Has A Voice - Oct 30

Pomeroy Highlights $700 Million In Stimulus Spending In North Dakota

Common Sense Has A Voice - Oct 30 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

It's The Norwegians! The Call No President Wants?

Common Sense Has A Voice - Oct 30

Fox Hunt: White House Mounts Attack On Its Biggest Attacker

Common Sense Has A Voice - Oct 30

Liberal Groups Target Conrad For Health Cooperative Plan

Common Sense Has A Voice - Oct 30