Articles

Strange days in our republic

Some years seem so long: 2011 is one of them; disasters such as the Japanese tsunami, the horrific American tornadoes (one of which damaged a farm a few miles from my home), the flooding in North Dakota and elsewhere, feel distant even though they happened just some months ago.

Nelson: US leads another illicit war

‘The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” So spoke candidate Barack Obama. Candidates Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden said much the same thing. Of course, once in power, their oaths to uphold the Constitution were quickly flushed down the same toilets their copies of the Constitution were first washed down even before they went to war with Libya.

• Ross Nelson

Nelson: You really don’t own your home

You don’t own your house, farm or business, even if you’ve paid for them. You will never own them or any kind of real estate as long as you must pay taxes on them.

Heaviest guilt falls on Israel

We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction … This is a plan that has already been authorized. – Israeli Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, October 2008

Columns

Nelson: Ethanol? I’ll supply the shovels

It’s hard to say if ethanol’s backers deliberately or just incidentally misunderstand arguments about their fuel.

• Ross Nelson

Nelson: Enough ethanol mythology

Russ Newman, vice president of Tharaldson Ethanol near Casselton, N.D., recently boomed ethanol again in The Forum’s pages.

• Ross Nelson

Nelson: Big money drives UND logo affair

What a bizarre pass the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname fight has come to: A wide majority of North Dakota’s Sioux want UND to keep their name while stuffed shirts across the state fight to drop it.

• Ross Nelson

Nelson: Kowtowing to tyranny and liking it

I last wrote that the 9/11 attacks not only killed thousands of Americans and led to perhaps 70 times that many Iraqi deaths but also finished off the America we old-timers used to know.

• Ross Nelson

Nelson: Sorrow over what we’ve lost

My wife woke me up a couple of hours early on Sept. 11, 2001.

• Ross Nelson

Nelson: UND logo fight ends in disgrace

So the last hurrah has been heard for the University of North Dakota’s Sioux logo and nickname.

• Ross Nelson

Nelson: UND can stand up, fight lies

When we examine the furor over University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux logo and nickname, we must start with and remember one thing: The NCAA’s stance against the emblems is palpably, tangibly, demonstrably wrong.

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Nelson: They do it because they’re men

Ho hum. Another month, another male politician in trouble for infidelity and stupidity.

• Ross Nelson

Nelson: Replace absurdity with fact on logo issue

Now that North Dakota’s chattering class and its allies are taking a breather from bashing supporters of the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux symbols, maybe we can introduce some facts and logic.

• Ross Nelson

Nelson: Did US take out right man?

The funny thing about the “USA! USA!” chant by celebrants at the White House fence after Osama bin Laden’s killing is that we don’t yet know if he was behind the 9/11 attacks.

• Ross Nelson