Horse Apples And Constant Watering

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015  |  Ed Raymond

“If his IQ slips any lower, we’ll have to water him twice a day.”

Civil Rights: From Sundance, To Selma, To South Carolina

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015

Far from Sundance, but not so far from Selma, a real-life drama unfolded this week in a South Carolina courtroom, as the 1961 convictions of a group of civil-rights activists were overturned.

Let’s adopt the GOP’s national platform

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015

“The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the [Republican Party].” Eat your heart out, Scott Walker

Delicate decision making in the Saudi Royal Kingdom

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015  |  Jane Hoffman

Part One

Why I Skipped Super Bowl Sunday This Year It’s Just a Football Game, People!

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

I suspect that if we pro sports fans are honest with ourselves, very few of the hundreds of hours spent loyally watching professional sports

Mar-Tan Retires! Many Fans Wish Marshawn Would, And The Potpourri Of Sports!

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015  |  Marc Elliott

He is also considered by many to be the best puck handling goalie of all time as well and his style engaged the league to make a rules change as to how and where a goaltender may handle the puck.

UMD Teams Struggle

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015  |  John Gilbert

The top four, of course, get home ice for the first round of WCHA playoffs. But the jarring end of the Shannon Miller coaching era at UMD has only that one home series remaining, for certain.

Belief in the Backwards Doctrine moving US toward third world status-Part Four

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015  |  Forrest Johnson

There’s a big difference between being a luddite, an anachronist, and belonging to that group of people who simply believe that going backwards can sustain a democracy.

People, government, and spending money

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015  |  Melvyn Magree

“The people know how to spend their money better than the government.”  Really?

Lamar Buffalo Ranch: “We got the tablets here.”

Thu. Feb. 5th, 2015  |  Emily Stone

While bison survived the mass extinctions of other megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene, they fared much worse during the 1800s. Settlers, market hunting, sport hunting, and a U.S. Army campaign nearly eliminated these majestic creatures