Obama Killing Drilling In...NORTH DAKOTA?!

That's the goal. One of my friends in the energy industry passed the word. The Feds are sniffing around in North Dakota, making noises about shutting down oil drilling in the Bakken formation on the Fort Berthold Reservation. This land is home to the Three Affiliated Tribes, also known as the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara nation. Follow the road to Mandaree, North Dakota, and you're there.

You won't find this potential horror--yet--on Fox News or by Googling likely terms. So? You'd like to know how I know this? Okay. Fair enough.

Simply put, I have contacts actively working in the North Dakota oilpatch. I happened to call one such friend this morning. Before the conversation was over, he'd informed me in no uncertain terms that yes, the push is on to shut things down...with the excuse for authority in the matter being that Indian (Native American) Reservations are "federal lands" and the D.C. dimwits can therefore do pretty much anything they want in those areas. Go fish.

Now, folks, I'm not blowing my source's cover, so feel free to treat this as unsubstantiated rumor and blow it off if you like...but I know this man is never wrong, so I'm still going to tell you what I learned. It's not much, but it's scary enough. If you know a way to get the attention of Beck or Hannity or Rushbaugh or a gung ho college journalism student craving a Pulitzer, that would be good. As of last count (a few weeks back) there were 137 rigs drilling for oil in western North Dakota. We don't need a political shutdown on the Rez! And the Three Tribes definitely agree.  (To undestand why they would, check out their Oil and Gas Report for August 2010.) 

What I know to be fact:

1. No Executive Order proclaiming a drilling moratorium on the Rez has yet been issued, but the idea has been put forth.

2. The energy companies operating in the area are sufficiently concerned that they've already held a meeting in Denver (I do not at this time know the precise date or location). At that meeting, each and every company agreed to chip in to fund a defense against such a disastrous Obama Drama.

3. My initial contact--who works for one of these companies and is in a position to know--believes our side will prevail and that We the People most likely have nothing to worry about. I, however, am not so sure. After all, there was a point in time when it looked like Obamacare was dead in the water, too. Offshore moratorium moved onshore, anyone? Betcha Sarah Palin wouldn't have much trouble believing this one.

4. If a shutdown is forced upon North Dakota, the results will not be good. Right now, the North Dakota unemployment rate is under 4 percent, the lowest in the nation--due entirely to the ongoing drilling boom. With those jobs gone--probably to Canada, because the Bakken formation runs up into our northern neighbor; it's not exclusively our domain--one more state would join the ranks of the afflicted.

On the national level, of course, it would be one more nail in the coffin of our Constitutional Republic as the Progressive government-is-god juggernaut bulldozed yet another encouraging surge of free enterprise back to the Stone Age.

Few people have summarized President Barack Hussein Obama's neverending Crimes Against Liberty any better than David Limbaugh (brother to Rush) has done in his new book by that title. As he stated in a radio interview just yesterday, the biggest problem he and his publisher had with the entire book was putting the thing to bed--every day the Prez opens his mouth and more Crimes, Crimes, Crimes spill forth. They finally had to simply cut off the flow, call it a day.

But this one deserves to see the light of day before OzBama can figure out how to pull it off. My favorite grandmother, a step-grandmother to be sure, but still very much my favorite, was a fullblood Mandan resident of Mandaree and one of the most gracious Souls I've ever known. Her people aided Lewis and Clark; I would not like to see them betrayed by a Countrycide 'Bama.

Well, he's not a suicide bomber. Not killing himself, and mostly using Executive Orders rather than strapped-on dynamite. No, he's killing our country, so that's Countrycide. Countrycide 'Bama.

Remember in November.