It’s amazing what politicians will say when they think no one back home will find out. Montana’s Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer, recently drew some unwanted attention when footage made its way onto the Internet from a speech in Ohio, in…

North Dakota has made headlines lately as the Saudi Arabia of the Midwest. Oil production in the state’s now-famous Bakken formation has reached stratospheric levels, approaching 600,000 barrels per day. Companies have been forced to create “man camps” to house…