Keep pushing
There is a group of people out there that are members of Ray Holmberg's inner circle. They know him and everything about him, and for sure by now, their i's have been dotted and the t's crossed. So the question is, What happens to that group? Do they get a pass while knowing everything he did, or even worse, possibly h...
Nov 21, 2023
The numbers don't lie
A person saying they'll skip the Republican debate when they're not being invited to the debate, are two separate things. North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum states that he was skipping the third Republican presidential debate, when in reality, he wasn't invited to it. There's a big difference between the two. Not being ...
Nov 09, 2023
Are there more?
There is a sort of check and balance that comes with power. It's called arrogance - and truth. Ray Holmberg, who was North Dakota's longest-serving state senator and chairman of the senate appropriations committee until he resigned last year following his jail communications with an inmate charged with child sex traffi...
Nov 01, 2023
They just don't like him
Governor Burgum, candidate for President, is a Republican in a Republican state. A state so dominated by the Republican Party that he shouldn't have to worry about anything. Everywhere he looks, there's a fellow Republican he should be able to count on. The problem is, he can't. The North Dakota legislature goofed up t...
Oct 25, 2023
Just do your job
How the hell do you vote for Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House not once, but twice?! That's exactly what Congressman Kelly Armstrong did. He voted for Jordan twice, when he knew that time and time again Jordan has never supported farmers. He voted against every farm bill that was placed in front of him. Republicans l...
Oct 19, 2023
They never cared
Hamas is responsible for what happened to the Israeli people. They initiated this war and are making other people pay for this war. Hamas never once cared what this might do to the innocent people in Palestine that had looked to them for leadership. And because of what they have done, thousands of people have been brut...
Oct 13, 2023
Integrity be damned
Donald Trump was convicted of sexual abuse, and the judge went as far as to call him a rapist. It's hard to find anything more disgusting than that, but every day we find out how hard he tries to outdo it. This week we found out that Trump directed people working for our country to never let a wounded soldier near him....
Oct 05, 2023
We still need him
Mitt Romney announced this week that he is not running for re-election to the United States Senate from Utah in 2024. He cited that, should he win, he'd be in his 80's in the next term, and it is time for a new generation of leaders. He's right and everyone knows it. As I have been saying on "News and Views,"...
Sep 14, 2023
She's Got Guts
If you were innocent of a crime that you had been charged with, would you request your trial date to be three years from now? Of course you wouldn't. But Donald Trump did. In Federal Court, Trump requested that his trial be set for some time in 2026. A time far enough out that he has an opportunity to pardon himself, a...
Aug 30, 2023
Here's what I believe
I'm not going to apologize for talking or writing about Donald Trump's indictments. Notice I wrote indictments rather than indictment, because he has now been indicted four times for multiple felonies. The fact that an ex-President of the United States of America has been indicted four times is historic, and it's news....
Aug 17, 2023
It came here
It came to Fargo just as most of us thought it would. And the price of this senseless killing was paid for by Officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes, as well as citizen Karlee Koswick, who will endure the physical and emotional injuries for the rest of their lives. And the last who paid the ultimate price with his own l...
Jul 28, 2023
They deserved better
Today on "News and Views," we focused on Friday's shooting in Fargo. We had Chief Dave Zibolski, Chief Steve Dirksen, Mayor Tim Mahoney, and Sheriff Jesse Jahner join us to give all the details of the shooting. At the end of the show, I also shared my thoughts on a certain local media's coverage of the shooti...
Jul 17, 2023
Don't blame him
It's not Governor Burgum's fault that his Republican Party has adopted such ridiculous rules to get on the debate stage. The rules they adopted are built for two things: to keep new people off the presidential debate stage and to bring more money into the party. And luckily for Burgum, money is something he has a lot o...
Jul 13, 2023
It took guts
The Fourth of July is a good reminder to think of the courage our Founding Fathers had as they formed our beautiful country. They fought while knowing if they didn't win the war, they and their families would be dead, as they knew King George III would never allow another uprising like that again. He would have hung ev...
Jun 29, 2023
Why we need him
The Midwest needs Jon Tester. His common-sense values and beliefs are exactly what this country needs, and is our last hope for bipartisan support in Washington, D.C. Senator Tester is up for re-election next year. Many of us thought he was going to retire from public service, but that's not the case. He decided to thr...
Jun 21, 2023
It should've been jeans
He should've wore jeans. I realize if you're going to hire a high-priced, out-of-state consultant, you should listen to them. But, a suit and tie isn't the image Doug Burgum has worked so hard to create. When people think of Governor Burgum, they think of a man that believes ties are for old men of a different era. Whe...
Jun 08, 2023
Money, money, and more money
The Republicans on the far right and the Democrats on the far left aren't happy, so this debt ceiling bill must be a good compromise. The debt ceiling will be raised, and America will pay its' bills. All because a Democratic President and Republican Speaker of the House hammered out a deal. A deal that freezes governme...
Jun 01, 2023
We need to remember
In my eyes, Memorial day is the start of summer. The nice weather is finally here that makes you want to go outside and do something. For me, it'll be something that gets dirt under my fingernails and forces me to find the sunscreen. It'll be the type of day that reminds us why we live here in the first place. But more...
May 26, 2023
Who pays the price?
Governor Doug Burgum recently joined me on "News and Views" to answer a few questions, and avoid answering others. In full disclosure, when Doug was deciding whether or not to run for Governor, he agreed to a meeting where I asked him to consider running as an Independent. His public positions were middle of ...
May 19, 2023
Would you look away?
The problem that Governor Abbott of Texas is having, is the mass shootings are happening too close together. Forget the fact that one should have been enough for legislative action, the one thing he and the rest of the Republican Party had going for them was America's ability to forget. Now the shootings are happening ...
May 11, 2023