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By Dog Gone, on April 10th, 2012 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
Follow this link to read more of: Anders Breivik isn’t crazy after all;
but he is very similar to the exreme right in the U.S.
in several important ways
By Dog Gone, on March 12th, 2012 I will be writing more on the failing of the vetoed Shoot First legislation separately, but I was struck this weekend by the racist overtones of a fatal shooting of a black teen by a white man with a violent past in Florida who had a legal carry permit. It is an incident that is pertinent,
Follow this link to read more of: The Right Wing Wants to Institutionalize Hate
to make it LEGAL to wrongly harm others even kill them
By MNCentral, on March 1st, 2012 The Republican-managed Do-Nothing House took a break during debating HR 2117 – PROTECTING ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN HIGHER EDUCATION ACT, to allow Representative Steve LaTourette (R-OH-14) to interrupt : 3:42:30 P.M. (By unanimous consent, Mr. LaTourette was allowed to speak out of order.) Mr. LaTOURETTE. I thank my colleagues for their attention. Madam Chair, sadly, in
Follow this link to read more of: After A Moment of Silence For Chardon Shooting, House Praises Cabot Guns
By MNCentral, on November 28th, 2011 The Do-Nothing tag that has been applied to the Republican-managed House of Representatives will get another exemplar when the G-G-G-G.O.P. moves to a vote on H.R. 1801 – the Risk-Based Security Screening for Members of The Armed Forces Act. [See Below for other examples of G.G.G.G.O.P] When the House returns on Tuesday after the failure
Follow this link to read more of: G.G.G.G.O.P. Plans Vote on Cravaack Bill
By Dog Gone, on November 24th, 2011 I was brought up with the wise advice to prepare for entertaining conversation at holiday dinners and other social events. It provides a person with something to fall back on for a change of subject, if conversations get a bit tense among family and friends, as social occasions sometimes do. In that context, I hope
Follow this link to read more of: Happy Halaliday
By MNCentral, on October 30th, 2011 In July, Jeremy Herb of the Star-Tribune did a profile noting that Raymond “Crash” Cravaack (R-MN-08) and the 112th Congress has mostly been a “do-nothing Congress,” which made “it difficult for freshmen like Cravaack to rack up legislative accomplishments.” One of Cravaack’s biggest moments in the D.C. spotlight occurred when he accused the Los Angeles
Follow this link to read more of: MN-08 : Cravaack Fails To Do Homework on Iranian Mining
By MNCentral, on July 25th, 2011 The Republicans promote the “Cut, Cap and Balance” concept as a way to restoring fiscal discipline. The premise is that spending should be cut to FY 2008 levels … of course, since the Republicans control the House of Representatives; they could start doing that now as they are approving appropriations bills for FY 2012. But
Follow this link to read more of: Proof That GOP Not Serious About Cutting Budgets to 2008 Levels
By MNCentral, on July 4th, 2011 Last week, while Michele Bachmann was keeping bloggers busy fact checking and Mitt Romney was doing his best No I Didn’t Say What I Said impression, Tim Pawlenty was doing what Republican candidates do … talking Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. During the Q&A, “Soon-To-Be-President” Pawlenty was asked if his foreign policy
Follow this link to read more of: Circa 2013, Pawlenty Celebrates Independence Day
By MNCentral, on June 10th, 2010 John Kline (R-MN-02) traveled along with Representatives Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Larry Kissell (D-NC), Frank Kratovil (D-MD), and David Reichert (R-WA) to visit troops in Afghanistan involved in Operation Enduring Freedom. This was first congressional delegation to visit Kandahar City ever … (and remember the war began in 2001.) The group had an
Follow this link to read more of: MN-02 : 75 Reasons Kline Failed to Mention in Key Afghan Question
By Mario Piperni, on May 19th, 2010 . Crooks and Liars wonders why this story has not received national attention. On May 10th, a middle-aged man carried a can of gasoline and a pipe bomb into the Jacksonville Islamic Center of Northeast Florida during evening prayers and detonated it. Fortunately, there were no injuries to people, though the bomb did damage property.
Follow this link to read more of: Florida Mosque Gets Bombed
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