Plain Talk: North Dakota Senate Has Passed a Bill Hiding Presidential Vote Counts
The fighting over close national elections can be vicious. We saw that last year in the heated battle between Joe Biden and Donald...
Democrats Recruiting Corporate Giants to Silence Conservatives Is All Kinds of Wrong
MINOT, N.D. — In 2016, in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's win in the national election, Kevin Cramer, today a senator...
What Is Hating Ted Cruz Going to Accomplish?
MINOT, N.D. — We are not far removed from the grim spectacle of enraged Donald Trump supporters violently attacking the U.S. Capitol,...
Price Controls Are Not the Solution for Expensive Insulin
As has already been demonstrated by recent insulin price drops, the solution to this problem is more choice and more...
Plain Talk: ‘The United States Used to Be the Best Country in the World When It Came to Infrastructure’
Congressman Kelly Armstrong talks about power outages, energy infrastructure, working in Congress in the Biden era, and what drives intransigence...
The Political Tantrum Against Masking Grows More Obnoxious
MINOT, N.D. — Two political factors led to the North Dakota House of Representatives voting yesterday to ban mask mandates, be they...
Plain Talk: Sen. Kevin Cramer on the Texas Blackouts, Wind Power, Rush Limbaugh, and Ted Cruz
Power outages touched millions of Americans this week, including North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer. "I actually had a 45-minute blackout," he...
Friday Mailbag: Rush Limbaugh, Power Outages, Gerrymandering, and Donald Trump
MINOT, N.D. — It's Friday, my friends, and life is good here in the Port household. Nobody has COVID-19, and...
Plain Talk: Could North Dakota See Longer School Years to Make up for Pandemic Learning Loss?
"We have a bit of a crisis in K-12 education right now," North Dakota Superintendent Kirsten Baesler said on this...
Rush Limbaugh, and Speaking Ill of the Dead
MINOT, N.D. — De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est. Or, translated from the Latin, "of the dead nothing but...
