March 16, 2010

As the 11th hour nears in the battle for the GOP nomination for the US House seat in North Dakota, some perspective might be good. Two battles have been raging and been the talk of both campaigns and many delegates. It started with the revelation that ND GOP supporters who were [...]

March 15, 2010

Strange as it seems (given all the popular and political unrest we’ve witnessed since then), but it was just a little over a year ago when the so-called moderate leaders in Washington were standing in line to pay tribute to the new charismatic President, and his promises of hope and change. A few months [...]

March 12, 2010

Well the party delegations are coming up, the battle lines are being drawn and the democratic process is alive and well in North Dakota. It’s all boiling down to a crucial election year that your Chairman believes will transform our state’s political landscape. Each candidate faces tough opposition, and nothing should be taken for granted….so [...]

March 10, 2010

I seem to recall a statement Speaker Pelosi made back in 2006, when the Republicans lost control of Congress: “Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.” Too bad Americans are judging her on her actions, not her intentions. Hi friends, I’m Scott Hennen, Chairman of the [...]

March 09, 2010

The convention countdown is on! Hi Friends, I’m Scott Hennen, Chairman of the Common Sense Club with a commentary about joining the process as an insurance policy: never, ever again will we be in this position be a Republican and or a Democrat. You should not like the position that we find ourselves in [...]

March 08, 2010

The ballots are closed, the votes are tallied, and the results are in for the 2nd annual Common Sense Club North Dakotan of the Year competition. Time to unveil the winner. Hi friends, I’m Scott Hennen, Chairman of the Common Sense Club sounding off. In a minute well tell you who it is, in today’s [...]

March 05, 2010

Sufferin’ sunspots! Did anyone read Al Gore’s op-ed in the New York Times last week? It’s a 1,900 word tirade about three times the length of a normal op-ed. Lord knows he’s had time to work on it, for as coincidence would have it, the former Vice President has been in hibernation the last few [...]

March 04, 2010

Former Governor, Ag Secretary, and self-appointed “Office Boy” of the Common Sense Club Ed Schafer has been under fire lately, with a new attack ad put out by ND Democrats and their trial lawyer leadership. They claim Ed has mischaracterized the delegation’s role in funding “abortion on demand” when they voted for the Senate version [...]

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March 03, 2010

There’s an alarming dichotomy forming in our country today, and it’s upsetting the economic relationships that have made America the world’s preeminent superpower since the conclusion of WWII. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the expansion of government and the contraction of the free market. Since 787 billion dollars in stimulus bonanza passed last February, the [...]

March 02, 2010

Safe to say, not all the political decisions being made in Washington are embraced here in the Common Sense Club (“Tell me something I don’t know, Scott”). As this administration (and their North Dakota allies in Congress) continue to display precious little regard for capitalism, the Constitution or even their very own campaign platitudes, at [...]