We have water problems; we have problems with long term drought, and we have problems with short term flooding. Flooding is the result of the too-rapid melting of our snow-pack, which does damage and which we then lose as run-off instead of replenishing our ground water. The MN GOP members of the legislature are whining [...]
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 [...]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, defined the strategy for the Farm Bill would be not to pass the five-year legislation that was approved in a bi-partisan basis in the House Agriculture Committee and to have the Congress to agree on a short-term extension … and to “Wait for the [...]
We’re talking here about the U.S. population, not Alaska versus contiguous states; I made the play on words in the title because some of the people I’ve talked with recently who hadn’t followed R-money’s latest mega-gaffe didn’t get the reference, mistaking it for the common reference to the location of states as in the ‘lower [...]
Patrick Condon has an interesting quote in a story about the Amy Klobuchar – Kurt Bills US Senate contest from Mr. Bills campaign manager, Mike Osskopp. Osskopp and other GOP critics in Minnesota think Klobuchar is popular because she played it safe. She has avoided controversial issues and tough challenges, they argue, to instead pursue [...]
Members of Congress get awards all the time … but which award should voters value more ? A.) Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) “Hero of the Taxpayer” award B.) Council for Citizens Against Government Waste “Taxpayer Hero Award” C.) National Tax Limitation Committee “Tax Fighter Award” D.) The Paul E. Tsongas Economic Patriot Award “Politics [...]
First an update, Tim Walz’s (D-MN-01) STOCK Act has now garnered 202 sponsors, but that still does not include Erik Paulsen (R-MN-03) … the most recent sponsors include such influential Republicans as Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Chairman of the Republican Study Group and noted fiscal-hawk Jeff Flake (R-AZ) …. While Mr. Paulsen has remained eerily [...]
RICK PERRY: “Pull back all the regulations. It’s the regulatory world that is killing America” MICHELE BACHMANN: “Our biggest problem right now is our regulatory burden.” HERMAN CAIN: “Then you get the regulators off of the backs of the banks” Just some of the comments made during the Republican Party Presidential candidates debate in Rochester [...]
John Kline (R-MN-02) states the problem simply : “The Minnesotans I talk to say Washington must stop spending money it doesn’t have. They and their families are doing more with less, and they expect Washington to do the same. We cannot afford to keep saddling our children and grandchildren with this growing mountain of debt. [...]
It’s a busy week in the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) as it addresses the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, but first thing first. First up is not agreeing with the Pentagon on cutting MEADS , no, it was re-establishment support for some old issues. For example, the Pentagon proposed increase of [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
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Union News: 10 articles from national union blogs
