This is a bookend post to one written by my colleague Holly at the beginning of last week. My apologies to my colleagues, because I had promised this to be done earlier, to build on the theme of the early child. It is late, not because I failed to work on it, but because no [...]
The MN GOP has proposed a single solution that addresses multiple problems. We’ve seen the proposal that we arm school employees – teachers, principals, janitors, librarians, etc. Now the MN GOP proposes we make firearm safety and firearm proficiency mandatory, similar to the way it is taught in military-style academies. By doing away with gun [...]
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 [...]
We have a lot of debate and conversations about government. What it is – and isn’t, what it does, what it should and should not do – there is relatively little agreement, but a lot of opinions. Some of that opinion is better informed than others. This post presumes to take a look at some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
cross posted from Penigma Watch for our Minnesota Republicans to fall into the line of surrogate goats in support of Romney and Ryan, to manipulate the conservative sheep, especially pandering to the more ignorant Islamophobes. As we learn more about the intentional and unintentional distribution of the hate movie made by the far right wing extremist Christian felon and friends, [...]
cross posted from Penigma The only fraud in elections is the claim of voter fraud, made pretty much exclusively by the Republicans in order to try to justify voter suppression and to legalize election tampering by Republicans. I am particularly pleased with the timing of this study, because it addresses the crazy extremist who are making unfounded claims [...]
crossposted from Penigma.blogspot.com It has now come to light that the college psychiatrist who had been treating the (alleged) shooter in the Aurora, Colorado theater showing the latest Batman movie had alerted law enforcement that James Holmes presented a danger to others weeks before the shooting. Under ‘may issue’ practice, law enforcement can be more [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
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Union News: 10 articles from national union blogs
