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By now, it should be pretty obvious that when Donald Trump calls something “FAKE NEWS!” what he really means is “news that makes me look bad.” But Americans are both believing and spreading “FAKE NEWS!” stories like never before—though, it should be noted, a recent study showed that about 80 percent of false stories supported Trump and his administration. A recent example pulled from Trump’s Twitter, “39 percent of my nominations, including Diplomats to foreign lands, have not been confirmed due...
Not sure how many of you may have been following the recent news about the digital data firm Cambridge Analytica, so first, a brief round-up: Cambridge Analytica (CA) is owned by Donald Trump’s biggest backer—well, no, that would be Russia; let’s say, then, his biggest American backer—Robert Mercer, who founded CA with Steve Bannon, Trump’s former guru and campaign manager. Mercer made a fortune as a pioneer in artificial intelligence and is the major financial supporter of Breitbart...
Let's forget about politics for a week, shall we? I mean, it's Olympics time! Or, more accurately, it was Olympics time. But I was lucky enough in the last week to score a visit from Grand Forks native and UND alumni Jocelyne Lamoureux, otherwise known as The Identical Twin Sister Who Scored The Gold-Medal-Winning Goal In Sudden-Death-Shootout-Time-Against-Canada-At-The-Pyeongchang-Olympics. (And I was so excited that I wore my old-school UND hockey jersey to work to celebrate the occasion.)...
Every day, the dominoes start to fall more and more regarding Russian interference in our elections, what Trump and his associates may have known about it, and whether or not they may have aided and abetted this attack by a foreign adversary on our fundamental right as a democracy. By all indications, Special Counsel Robert Mueller seems to be heading up what could be the biggest and most important investigation of our lifetimes. The results up to now: 19 people and three companies have been...
First things first: Thanks for your emails—both pro and con. Some of you have written to say thanks for a column that you consider to be an informed (and opinionated) news source—and some of you have written to tell me lay off the President, whom you consider to be an honorable man using his God-given talents to move our country forward and defend our Constitution. Ha! Just kidding with that last part! Even Trump’s fervent supporters don’t think like this—though some of you have expressed...
Let’s start with something we’re not supposed to talk about, shall we? The most recent* shootings in America: A 15-year-old boy with a handgun killed 2 students and wounded 17 others at a high school in Benton, Kentucky. One of the injured students willlikely need his arm amputated. The day before that, a 16-year-old boy with a handgun shot a 15-year-old girl at a high school in Texas. *I put an asterisk next to “most recent” above, because in the time between me writing this and you reading...
On Monday, January 8, the President of the United States read a speech off the teleprompter at the annual Farm Bureau convention in Nashville, Tennessee. It was a speech that had been anxiously awaited by many farmers around the country—and, to his credit, the President actually showed up—the first American President in more than two decades to do so. The reasons for this are twofold: First off, farmers and farm families, by and large, elected Trump to be President, and it only makes polit...
In the spirit of the holidays-the joyous birth of Jesus Christ, the divine miracle of the after-Christmas-big-discount sales, the annual resurrection of the lefse and the lutefisk, the Holy Day of the Ever-Increasing Waistline, and the general spirit of renewal fostered by the arrival of a new year, let's dispense with politics for a moment-oh don't worry, my next column is due in two weeks-and focus on the things that are closer to the heart, or at the very least simply more dang fun. It a...
