Our blustery President, in one of his fits of social media pique, suggested that perhaps the broadcast license for NBC News ought to be pulled based on some of their coverage: With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License?…
Jason Bohrer: The Clean Power Plan No Longer Threatens North Dakota’s Economy
Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, did a big favor for states like ours that use coal to generate electricity. His recent decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan lifted a massive regulation from our state’s economy, sparing our industries and households the effects from a weakened power grid, higher power prices and the…
Podcast: ND Tax Commissioner Says Trump Tax Plan Could Impact State Revenues
North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger says he generally likes what he’s hearing so far when it comes to the tax reforms President Donald Trump is pursuing. “I’m supporting the effort maybe even more so than a lot of the legislation,” he told me during an interview on my radio show yesterday (info on live…
Who Cares if Vice President Pence’s Walkout Was a Stunt?
On Sunday Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a 49’ers/Colts football game after several of the former team took a knee during the national anthem. Pence left right after the anthem was completed, and posted this to Twitter: I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects…
Your Right to Protest Does Not Make Your Protest Right
I found myself thinking of that old Stealer’s Wheel song about being stuck in the middle. The one with line about how there are “clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.” This controversy in the NFL – and now the MLB – over players kneeling or sitting out during the national anthem…
Let the Kids Mow the Lawns
Last week the country got a heart warming story out of the White House, a rare feat in any political age. Frank “FX” Giaccio, an entrepreneurial minded eleven-year-old with his own lawn care business sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking if he could mow the lawn of the executive residence. On Friday the kid…
Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s Voting Pattern Moves Away From Democrats the Closer She Gets to Election Day
Senator Heidi Heitkamp invests a lot of time in cultivating an image of herself as a centrist. A moderate Democrat. That’s why Heitkamp is playing patty cake with President Donald Trump, a man most of her Democratic base sees as a tyrant. But Republicans, and the NDGOP specifically, tell a different story. They argue that…
This Is Why Heidi Heitkamp Is Playing Patty Cake With Donald Trump
In my Sunday print column I pointed out the strange reality of Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp playing nicey nice with President Donald Trump. A man her (admittedly tiny) left wing political base here in North Dakota thinks of as some sort of a tyrant with a soft spot for white supremacists. Heitkamp flew with the…
Governor Doug Burgum: Make America Competitive Again Through Tax Reform
Actions taken by President Trump and his administration during his nearly eight months in office have been a wind at our back for North Dakota’s economy. Whether rolling back overreaching regulations that threatened our coal industry and our farmers’ livelihoods, providing relief for drought-stricken ranchers, or approving pipeline infrastructure that adds value to the North…
Pinkerton and Kamack: Bipartisan Support for Tax Reform Now
In Washington, DC, it can be a challenge for lawmakers to agree on something as simple as the day of the week. Yet, when it comes to an issue as complex as America’s business tax system, leaders from across the ideological spectrum are in agreement: it’s broken. As co-chairs of the RATE Coalition and former members of…
