Yesterday the US House passed a debt ceiling hike that, for the first time since 2009, had no other spending or policy concessions included in it. Today the Senate followed suite. In the House, Rep. Kevin Cramer voted against the hike saying he couldn’t approve of one without conditions attached. “I could not in good…
Obama's Minimum Wage Argument Is Bunk Says…White House Slide Show?
President Obama has been making a heavy pitch for increasing the minimum wage, even going so far as to use his executive power to mandate a $10.10/hour minimum wage for federal contractors, but data compiled and presented by the White House itself undermines many of the President’s claims. “The White House prepared a slideshow dated February 12,…
Kudos To Senator Heidi Heitkamp For Pushing Normalized Relations With Cuba
According to a recent (though controversial) poll put out by the Atlantic Council, a majority of Americans support normalizing relations with Cuba. If that’s not true, it should be, because while Cuba remains in the grips of an autocratic socialist dictatorship, the best way to undermine the grip of that dictatorship is for countries like…
Glawe Column: Drones Issue Doesn't Get Coverage It Deserves From ND Media
Williston once again was given the Wild West treatment last week. This time with an evangelical twist courtesy of a local pastor and Charlie LeDuff, author of the longest obituary in American literature. If I were from North Dakota this is where the indignance would begin, but I’m not and it won’t. While LeDuff fell…
Obama Making It Up As He Goes: Obamacare Provision Delayed Until 2016
Another day, another massive delay for Obamacare: The Obama administration announced another delay Monday in the requirement on businesses to provide health coverage, giving some employers a reprieve next year while phasing in the mandate for others. The administration had already delayed the implementation of the so-called employer mandate by a year, presumably pushing the…
NAACP March Against Voter ID Law Requires Protesters To…Bring ID
You can’t make this stuff up. In North Carolina, the NAACP scheduled a march to protest “racist” voter ID laws. But as one keen observer points out, they are asking marchers to bring a photo ID to participate. #MoralMarch will protest NC's new "racist" #VoterID, but you're req'd to bring photo ID to the march.…
Can We Just Legalize Gambling Already?
Here are a couple of stories illustrating the absurdity of anti-gambling laws. In Minnesota, the state has expanded its lottery to online games that might as well be slot machines. “A player sees a tic-tac-toe-like game board and uses a computer mouse to click on squares, hoping to get three 7s in a row,” reports…
95% Of Models Showing Global Warming Are Wildly Inaccurate
When skeptics of the anthropogenic climate change theories pushed by the left give voice to their skepticism, the argument from the left is usually something along the lines of “it’s science so shut up.” But what if the science those theories are based on was wrong? Really, really wrong? Dr. Roy Spencer, a climatologist and…
Could Farmers Farm Without The Farm Bill?
The Grand Forks Herald today is declaring victory over the free market. “[I]f the Farm Bill vote is any indication, it’s conservatives turn to nod in the liberals’ direction — this time on the idea that the government isn’t always the problem after all,” writes Opinion Editor Tom Dennis on behalf of the newspaper. Dennis…
In Defense Of Doing Nothing
Earlier today I caught this tweet, re-tweeted on North Dakota Lt. Governor Drew Wrigley’s always amusing Twitter feed, and it provided impetus for something I’ve been wanting to write about for a while. Not because I wanted to pick on the tweeter, or Wrigley, for posting it, but because I think it would be healthier for…