With the announcement of Sona Mehring and Mike Obermueller candidacies to represent Minnesota’s Second District for the 2014 election, it seems appropriate to review the Star-Tribune 2012 Endorsement. There’s a long list of issues — health reform and tax policy top the list — on which we disagree with Second District Republican Rep. John Kline. [...]
The Minnesota Family Council apparently hates infertile couples who seek help in starting families. In North Dakota, they’re trying to abolish fertility procedures AND to outlaw some of the most popular forms of contraception. I’m struck by how the right, despite their abuse of the word Freedom, are consistently the ones who try to trample [...]
The statement from the White House says it all : Today, President Obama signed a bill that both strengthened and reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Thanks to this bipartisan agreement, thousands of women and men across the country who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking will be able [...]
John Kline (R-MN-02) is being challenged by David Gerson in the August 14th Primary Election. David Gerson has identifed the disintegration of the middle class as a problem, stating “John Kline has been complicit in causing these problems with his blind devotion to voting with house Republican leadership. John Kline has had his chance to [...]
Dear Governor; You have spent your entire term in office dividing people and oppressing people; it was your stated goal, to divide and conquer. People don’t like it. The people who actually live in Wisconsin are wise to you being a paid puppet for outside special interests. When it takes spending money at a ratio [...]
The subject is not over regarding contraception, women’s rights, commerce and the U.S. Constitution. It came up again yesterday on the April 8, 2012 hour long edition of Face the Nation. Cardinal Dolan is wrong. The debate about contraception and the role of the Roman Catholic church in dictating policy was resolved long ago. The [...]
cross posted from Penigma I thought the denial of information in Ignorance Only (what the right prefers to call the more modest sounding abstinence only sex ed) was bad. I thought the insistence that the Ignorance Only sex ed that FORCED teachers to provide medically, scientifically inaccurate information about topics like contraceptive failure was bad. [...]
QUERY : Does Freedom of the Press reject “We Report, You Decide” ? Well, the St. Paul Pioneer Press refused to publish Doonesbury (see below) in print because “[t]he editors have decided the commentary in some panels is inappropriate for the comics section in the newspaper” … thus, if they will not report it, you [...]
Apparently the New York Times’ motto, “All The News That’s Fit to Print”, is not shared by all newspapers as a number are not printing this week’s Doonesbury comic strip. The strip portrays a woman who turns up at an abortion clinic in Texas and is told to take a seat in “the shaming room”. [...]
I heard it on the radio news a few hours ago, and this article from the AP expanded on the information. Rush was just making ‘a joke’. NO, Rush Limbaugh was not making a ‘joke’ for three days; he was on a nasty, vicious rant that was intended to be critical and intended to be anything [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
Graphic artist and blogger Mario Piperni, that's who. Amazing graphics, great stories.
What’s Happening in Congress, Rick Nolan Union News: 10 articles from national union blogs
