Just perusing through the internet for a few hours today and it is stunning what you can find about the GOP candidates, for instance…… Linda McMahon, GOP candidate for Senate in Connecticut…..she makes $46 million as CEO of, get this, World Wrestling Entertainment and she has no clue what the minimum wage is; but she [...]
John Kline (R-MN-02) reports the results of his YouCut initiative in which his website collected 1,267 votes : Question: Please choose below one of the programs you would like Congress to cut. 1. Redirect IRS Direct Deposit fees toward deficit reduction – 172 (14%) 2. Eliminate funding for a government project that the private sector [...]
QUERY : IF Democracy depends for its survival on an informed electorate, who and how should we become informed ? For some business, it seems that idiom “Put your money where your mouth is” is being subtly and overtly on display. The MN Forward “Elect Tom Emmer” tee shirt keeps adding new logos … 3M, [...]
ADAGE : Nothing’s Free … somehow you are paying for it. FOUNDING FATHER’s ADVICE : War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. — James Madison, [...]
In 2006, a young upstart Democrat challenged an entrenched Republican incumbent in Minnesota’s First District. Other than a chance occasion when a voter would catch the incumbent at a County Fair, there were not a lot of opportunities for independent voters to question the Congressman and compare answers from the challenger who had been criss-crossing [...]
The Headline : Bachmann Maintains 9-point Lead Over Clark in 6th District The Story : No story here … Bachmann is gonna win, so don’t bother thinking about the issues. Move on to the next Headline. Push Polls have intended results … but there are also some polls that create there own unintended conclusions. Such [...]
The Good Neighbor, WCCO-830 AM, being called a Homer for its home biased reporting of Minnesota sports teams is the norm. After all, for Sid Hartman to ever saying anything critical about the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers sports programs will be an “end of the world” event. In some ways it’s understandable, bashing the [...]
Christine O’Donnell, the Republican candidate to represent Delaware in the US Senate, is getting a lot of attention … For example, candidate O’Donnell has been added to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Most Crooked Candidates list : “Ms. O’Donnell has had no discernable job for several years, and instead has lived the [...]
QUERY : IF a Team accomplishes a Goal, who wins and who loses ? The Goal as stated by Grover Norquist : “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.“ The Team as written [...]
Survey USA whittled down 1000 potential voters to determine that 656 were likely to vote this November. That’s the first bit of bad news … of the 1000, 926 were registered to vote … a very good ratio , but the drop-off is significant … in a democracy, it does no good to have people [...]
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