Blog Profile / Say Anything Blog
| URL : | http://sayanythingblog.com | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Conservative | |
| Posts on Regator: | 26692 | |
| Posts / Week: | 95.4 | |
| Archived Since: | February 7, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
CBS Journalist Has A Good Idea About Who Hacked Her Computer
CBS has confirmed what reporter Sharyl Attkisson has been hinting at in the media for weeks now: Somebody hacked her computers. Who did it? Attkisson isn’t saying, though she’s making sure to stress that the hacking occurred while she was working on stories that embarrassed the Obama administration and the Department of Justice. And the [...]Show More Summary
City Official: New Protections For Homosexuals Will Make Little Difference
Despite the attention the issue gets, there’s little actual data to suggest that there’s any real problem with housing or employment discrimination against homosexuals. On the issue of housing discrimination specifically, I spoke with then-Labor Commissioner Tony Weiler back in April who told me that complaints over discrimination against homosexuals were not only minimal in [...]Show More Summary
City Plans School Building Spending Spree With State Property Tax Relief Payment
To be fair, the Minot School Board is considering more than one option when it comes addressing school growth in the city, and the impact they calculate for property taxes doesn’t take into account the city’s growing property tax base, but even so this illustrates perfectly the problem with trying to solve the property tax [...]Show More Summary
Cramer: “Politics” Keeps Heitkamp Silent On Spirit Lake Child Abuse
The Spirit Lake Indian Reservation has dire problems, most recently manifested in the death of a young child that is being investigated by the feds. When a news crew from NBC affiliate Valley News Live went on the reservation to report on the story of the child’s death, they were attacked. A few months ago, [...]Show More Summary
In The North Dakota University System, The Presidents Are The Problem
Yesterday SAB broke the news about outgoing Chancellor Hamid Shirvani raking several of North Dakota’s university presidents over the coals in his first, and last, evaluation of them (Shirvani will leave his post for two years of golden parachute time in the middle of next month). Many of Shirvani’s critics responded to the evaluations as [...]Show More Summary
President Obama Is Asking For Trust In A Government That Hasn’t Earned It
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about government, it’s that the power it has tends to get abused. We can talk about recent scandals (the IRS targeting conservatives) or old ones (the IRS targeting Nixon’s enemies, the spying on the civil rights movement, etc., etc.), but we know it happens. So it’s cold comfort when [...]Show More Summary
Chancellor Shirvani Blasts Minot State, UND And NDSU President In Evaluations
Chancellor Hamid Shirvani may be on his way out the door, but per his contract buy out agreement he’s still in-office until the middle of July, and he had some choice words for some of the university system’s presidents on the way out the door. Specifically, he’s requested full evaluations for the leadership of Minot [...]Show More Summary
To Lower Crime At Colleges, Eliminate Underage Drinking Laws
I’ve long been an advocate for getting rid of age restrictions on alcohol consumption. By postponing the ability of younger Americans to use alcohol until age 21 – a ridiculous age given that you can vote, buy guns and be trained to kill by the US military by age 18 – we’re simply protracting the [...]Show More Summary
Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Voter ID Law
The Supreme Court has struck down an Arizona law which required that people prove their citizenship before getting a federal “motor voter” registration form. The 1993 law “requires states to offer voter registration when a resident applies for a driver’s license or certain benefits.” The people filling out the form are required to swear they [...]Show More Summary
Both Of North Dakota’s Senators Attended NSA Briefing That Most Senators Skipped
Last week The Hill reported that, despite the NSA domestic spying scandal making big headlines and grabbing the attention of American citizens, most US Senators chose to skip out of Washington DC early rather than attend a briefing on the intelligence programs. The Senate held its last vote of the week a little after noon [...]Show More Summary
Are Summer Trips By North Dakota State Leaders Really Work, Or Exotic Expenses-Paid Vacations?
It’s summer time, and for most American families that means vacation time. The weather is warm, the kids are out of school, and it’s time for some travel. Even for our political leaders, it seems, who have taken a number of trips to exotic locations with the tab picked up by the taxpayer and/or special [...]Show More Summary
Obama’s Approval Drops 8 Points In A Month, 17 Points Among Those Under 30
The laundry list of scandals the Obama administration is facing – from Benghazi to the IRS targeting conservatives, from the NSA scandal to the DoJ spying on reporters – appears to be having a poll on President Obama’s job ratings. Over the last month, the President has seen a remarkable 8-point plunge in this CNN [...]Show More Summary
A Father’s Day Lament
Father’s Day isn’t quite the same as mother’s day. Every year statistics, well-worn but still true, are cited to prove it. There are more collect calls on Father’s Day than any other day of the year. About 140 million moms receive cards for Mother’s Day, compared to just 90 million dads getting Father’s Day cards. [...]Show More Summary
Are Conservatives About To Do A Hypocritical Turn-About In Trust In Government?
The NSA domestic spying programs don’t violate the privacy of American citizens, says the Obama administration. And you know who agrees? Dick Cheney, the bête noire of the American left for more than a decade now. “What information [was collected]?” asked Cheney on Fox News Sunday. “And the answer is phone numbers and who contacted [...]Show More Summary
Absence Of Profit Motive Is Exactly What’s Wrong With Student Loans
Senator Heidi Heitkamp is on a statewide tour aimed at ingratiating herself with college students by talking about the student loan issue. In the Senate Heitkamp has opposed introducing some market forces to the heavily-inflated student loan market,and here in North Dakota she’s seemingly arguing against any sort of market forces for student loans. “Everybody [...]Show More Summary
Democrat: “It’s Not Fair” For Congress To Be Subjected To Obamacare
Obamacare is ok for the average American, but not for Congress, at least according to one Democrat: Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting. The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the [...]Show More Summary
On NSA Scandal, Bush Has Obama’s Back
Civil liberties advocates have been saying for some time now that there’s not a lot of daylight between George W. Bush’s spying tactics, reviled by the left and even Obama himself just a few years ago, and President Obama’s anti-terror efforts. But that’s not just an opinion now. With George W. Bush riding to Obama’s [...]Show More Summary
Heidi Heitkamp Has Been A Good Investment So Far For The Trial Lawyers
Heidi Heitkamp’s campaign for the US Senate last year was very dependent on a big influx of cash from trial lawyers (including those at the law firm of a lawyer she granted a lucrative appointment to back when she was attorney general). Heitkamp even set up a special campaign fund to serve as a landing [...]Show More Summary
Shirvani The Scapegoat Is Gone, North Dakota University System’s Hostility To Transparency Remains
“So Shirvani is gone now, and lo and behold in Friday’s edition of The Press ran the headline, ‘Another illegal meeting for state higher ed board?’” writes Klark Byrd for the Dickinson Press, noting that the former chancellor who had quickly become a scapegoat for all the ills in North Dakota’s university system isn’t around [...]Show More Summary
Life Is Less Expensive In North Dakota
According to prototype data from the federal government, North Dakota is among the cheapest places to live in the country. While some North Dakotans may grumble a bit about that – a roaring economy and soaring personal incomes are driving prices for goods, services and housing up in the state – it’s absolutely true that [...]Show More Summary