Martin C. “Red” Fredricks IV is a husband, father of three, proud Fargoan (N.D.), small business owner, reader, writer and progressive. He's also the founder of the IV Words Blog (ivwords.com) Finally, he's a ginger; ergo the “Red.” Living blue in a deep red state is tough, but somehow, day by day, he gets by.
Senator John Hoeven, R-N.D., has allegedly been involved in insider trading, and yet he’s trying to tell us that he’s done nothing wrong.
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In the early morning hours of Independence Day 2020, I’ll be standing there, Old Glory in hand, wondering not which way is up, but how and when up became down. The Flag & The Union: Up, Down or Out? If ever
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Notes from the forced march toward a Gulag Here’s How Totalitarianism Happens ForewordHow It’s Been Happening Already Let’s start when and where Donald Trump made his fascist proclivities public. In announcing his
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Even after adopting anti-LGBTQ language in its platform for three successive election cycles, what the N.D. GOP truly regrets is the bad publicity. Forgive my language, but the denials of bigotry are
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It’s easy to lose track of the colossal damage Trump is doing to environmental protections and the impending devastation of climate change. But we can’t. Trump Is Ripping Away Decades of Protections
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Vengeance is not a noble pursuit. It is an evil that feeds back on its practitioners. The State That Kills Its Killers Is No Better Than They Were Capital punishment is not
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Image: “Stalin and colleagues, 1929” from the Library of Congress. Stalin is in the center. Trump Declares War on U.S. Cities Masked men. Insignia-free uniforms. No probable cause. No Miranda. Hoods. Unmarked vans.
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“Reopening” Shouldn’t Even Be Part of School Planning Right Now What states and school districts are developing now are actually “Limit Illness and Death” plans. Unacceptable. The Oxymoronics of “Smart Reopening” The
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CELEBRATE! Courage, righteousness and tenacity have overcome wealth, greed and cronyism in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. For now. Every now and again, the good people win. On Monday, a
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The world needs consensus-builders and compromise-finders, but not when it comes to wearing masks to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. Sorry, Conciliators, There Is No Middle Here The world needs conciliators, people who
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In the early morning hours of Independence Day 2020, I’ll be standing there, Old Glory in hand, wondering not which way is up, but how and when up became down. The Flag
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I am a patriotic American. BECAUSE I AM – I believe life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are unalienable rights. For everyone. I believe all people are created equal, regardless of
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