regulation

Rob Port February 14, 2013 12

Today the state House debate amendments to HB1422, which is a bill related to child care services. North Dakota has...

Rob Port February 13, 2013 11

Via Jim Pethokoukis, here's a frightening chart: Free markets depend on creative destruction. Old ways of doing things are constantly...

Rob Port February 7, 2013 27

The North Dakota House of Representatives defeated a bill on Wednesday, sponsored by Rep. Rick Becker of Bismarck, that would...

Rob Port February 3, 2013 23

Having solved all the really big problems in the federal government, the Obama administration has now turned to micromanaging the...

Rob Port February 2, 2013 6

Your legislators are in to the swing of things now. There are 468 House bills and 375 Senate bills which...

Rob Port February 1, 2013 127

There's an old joke among conservatives about government health care programs. It goes something like, "If you think health care...

Rob Port January 31, 2013 12

Perhaps the most interesting debate in the legislature today was over a bill that would have repealed the state's regulation...

Rob Port January 28, 2013 2

Here in North Dakota, Rep. Roscoe Streyle has introduced HB1183 which would prohibit the use of state resources to enforce...

Rob Port January 27, 2013 17

Yesterday I wrote about modern Luddites who argue that America's economy is suffer because too many laborers are being replaced...

Rob Port January 23, 2013 24

Last week I wrote about a bill introduced by Rep. Blair Thoreson which would allow business owners to submit to...