John Kline (R-MN-02) held one of his favorite constituent outreach events on Monday, March 25th … a Telephone Town Hall. For those not familiar with the service, Mr. Kline sends your tax dollars to a company such as Citizen Dialog LLC in Alexandria Virginia so that you can hear him answer a few questions. Their [...]
The military’s mission is to fight and win. “The Army is focused on the short term — ‘I need a warm body manning a gun in a Humvee. That’s great — until that warm body is crazy and eats his gun.” – Peter J.N. Linnerooth, a Bronze Star-winning Army psychologist, who took his own life [...]
Today’s Mankato Free Press featured a heart-touching commentary concerning the Marriage Amendment. Your View: ‘Yes’ sign on amendment hurt Kevin Swanson, Mankato I arrived home to see your sign staring at me and my family. Your yard sign pierced through the darkness and cut deep. I have tried to steel myself against the “Vote Yes” [...]
Technically, the 520th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus will be this Friday, the 12th. I want to use the holiday to write about more than just good ol’ Christopher Columbus, specifically I want to address the notion of cultural dynamism versus stagnation, and the ideas of trans-cultural diffusion. I want very much to repudiate [...]
On his way to his estate on Lake Winnipesaukee on Thursday, Mitt Romney stopped to visit campaign workers who happened to be veterans. Asked by a reporter why he decided not to discuss the Afghanistan war on his party’s biggest stage last week, the AP story offers this assessment : Romney’s omission of Afghanistan in [...]
David Gerson, a candidate in Minnesota’s August 14th Primary Election for the Second District outlines his reason for seeking a seat in Congress : “I want to expose the last ‘elephant in the room’ in the Republican party—That the Bush administration and the current Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives was and is complicit in enacting [...]
When it was announced that George McGovern would speak at the very first FarmFest in Vernon Center, Minnesota, President Richard Nixon dispatched Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz to offer the Republican vision. Tit for tat is commonplace in election campaigns … one party does something, so the other wants to counter. But should election campaigns [...]
ADAGE : The LIE becomes the TRUTH when someone comes to believe it. LIE DETECTOR : PoliGraph and other FactCheck organizations. If you feel that you are TaxEnoughAlready, you probably did not like reading Brian Reed’s September 27, 2011 column in INVESTING ANSWERS – Building and Protecting Your Wealth through Education. The title of the [...]
“For a decade, Americans have quietly gone about their lives in relative peace, immune to the sacrifices common of a wartime society. There has been no rationing, no war bonds and no evening blackouts.” “This is just me — and this is probably a good way to lose an election, but that’s not the reason [...]
ADAGE : Liars Figure and Figures Lie. Raymond Cravaack (R-MN-08) has got friends … well, to be precise, Facebook Friends. The beauty of Facebook is that a post can contain just a short bit of information that may be linked to some other source and your friends get the message … it’s sorta like a [...]
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