The Lakeville Patch reported the sad news : “It’s time for them to start to get serious and raise money. That will be a very expensive Senate race,” John Kline said. “Al has shown he can raise money. He’s got money and he can raise money. Whoever our candidate is, they need to be able [...]
A just released report from Silicon Valley Bank on the Medical Device Excise Tax (MDET) has more bright spots than Erik Paulsen’s (R-MN-03) persistent yapping would lead you to expect. Executives from device companies seem to feel optimistic, even though they expect the tax to delay profitability. The spin on the medical device tax is [...]
“The trouble with sequestration is that there is no ability to set priorities. They just cut and so you can have very, very good programs that take a cut and a poor program that is executing poorly right next to it takes the same cut. We would rather have the ability to adjust those.” – [...]
So the Strib polls says that President Obama’s lead is within the margin of error and now the Romney campaign is touting that it will advertize in Minnesota ($30,000 by the campaign and $1.1 Million by his SuperPAC friends) …. hmmm … but wouldn’t he do better to escape SuperStormSandy and visit Minnesota … or [...]
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 [...]
The MN GOP candidates have consistently held anti-women and anti-immigrant positions. When they tell us how much they are ‘on our side’, or ‘reaching out to us’——–do they think we don’t notice their positions? Is their strategy our ignorance? Are they so used to the Fox News misinformed and ignorant voter, the ideology fact averse Republican [...]
If THIS is what it takes to ‘save’ European culture, if this is what ‘European culture’ condones, it should not survive. From what I have seen of Europe, this has no connection whatsoever to their culture, and the act of blowing up innocent people, the act of hunting down unarmed innocent children and shooting them [...]
What does it say about someone that sponsors a bill acknowledging “I don’t want to take the power away from the presidency; I want to take the power away from this President” ? That’s the message behind the HR 2497 … the HALT Act … as the bill only suspends statutory provisions and the discretionary [...]
Last night, the House of Representatives took a vote that tells us a lot about America’s future military. Included in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, the amendment easily passed 341 to 85 (included in the NO group were John Kline (R-MN-02) and Michele Bachmann (R-MN-06) as the other Minnesotans voted in [...]
The big headline last week was that the State of Arizona had enacted new legislation that gives broad powers to local police to require citizenship documentation be carried on person. It can be debated whether this legislation is long overdue or a quick political reaction to the murder of Robert Krentz and his dog who [...]
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