Liberal in the Land of Conservative

• I'm Sorry And I'm Out...

  To whom it may concern,
  
  I recently joined with five other bloggers who I count as friends in the hope that we could create a different kind of blog. A blog that was less about pandering to one side of the political spectrum and more about a discussion of [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  

• More On That Revealing Tweet...

  On Sunday I posted an interesting tweet from Representative Tom Emmer indicating that he would have Minnesota not participate in a "federal health plan". From the statement, it was unclear as to which federal health plan he was referring and I patiently await an answer to clear things up.
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:00am EST
  

• Best Thing On #tcot

  I am learning something about this world of #tcot. The vast majority of tweets are to simply express solidarity with some other person who has tweeted something outrageous. That being said, here we go again...
  
  
  
  Wait, what? We have hijacked the term Christian? I've' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  

• More TEA Party FAIL...

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  You can read all about the details over at I Don't Hate America but you can view the video right here. While it's slightly difficult to hear at times, this super guy is about to tell you that the Violence Against Women Act is little more than a way' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:00am EST
  

• Best Thing On #tcot

  Bring on the crazy...
  
  
  HA HA, that guy called President Obama a prostitute AND a drug addict. Wait, isn't the guy retweeting this the Secretary of the SD15 Republican Party here in Minnesota? Yep, that's him. You stay classy Leo!
  
  
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  

• A Revealing Tweet...

  An interesting tweet scrolled across my screen yesterday from potential Republican Gubernatorial nominee, Tom Emmer, in regards to "federal health care plans":
  
  
  
  What is not clear from this particular tweet is to WHICH federal health care plan Mr. Emmer is referring. Is Emmer [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:13am EST
  

• TEA Party FAIL...

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  A huge thanks to DJ from I Don't Hate America and Sally Jo from Bluestem Prairie for documenting this event at the Capitol:
  
  Watch the slack jawed look on the faces of protesters by the end of the speech. PRICELESS...
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:05am EST
  

• What's Missing From Gary's Head?

  I just visited Gary Gross's website just to "check it out" and not at all to see if there was something, ANYTHING that I could piss and moan about in regards to Gross. While I couldn't put my finger on it right away, I just KNEW there was something missing [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:00pm EST
  

• Best Thing On #tcot...

  Yesterday I rolled out a brand new feature here on Liberal in the Land of Conservative seeking out the stupidest, funniest, or down right craziest comments to be found on the #tcot (top conservative on twitter) stream. Remember, if you run across one of these, then simply send me [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  

• On Those Broadview Commercials...

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  Have you seen them? The ones that show upper middle class homes being terrorized by intruders. The ones that are supposed to make you so scared that you will invest in one of their security systems. Every time I see one of these I have to roll my eyes and [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:46am EST
  

• Best Thing On #tcot...

  Don't know what #tcot is, you say?
  
  It is a hashtag used by those people on twitter who want their tweets added to a specific stream of tweets thus making them easier to find. There are humorous hashtags, event specific hashtags, and what I would call long term' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:11pm EST
  

• Libertarian Paradise!

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  h/t to twitter user, @schmiss for this video...
  
  
  
  Seriously, I wonder all the time why, if a libertarian economic system is the best according to Republicans and conservatives, I cannot find a single country in the world actually using such a system. Come on conservatives, help [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:01pm EST
  

• That's My Representative...

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  Aren't we proud here in the 6th District of Minnesota? While Democrats came to the floor yesterday prior to the debate on Health Care legislation for simple procedural statements, our very own Michele Bachmann tripped over herself to object to each and every one. In some cases objecting before the' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:53am EST
  

• Mob Rule

  By Taxpayingliberal
  
  Michelle Bachmann held a press conference on the steps of the Capital last Thursday. It was called a press conference because she failed to get a permit for a rally. Freedom loving Americans won’t allow legal technicalities to get in the way of their right to [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:12pm EST
  

• Demanding Apology From Bachmann...

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  Representative Steve Israel is calling on Representative Bachmann to apologize for the use of Holocaust imagery during the rally she organized against health care reform on Thursday, November 5th.
  
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:12pm EST
  

• Walz Talks Afghanistan On Hardball

  Rep. Tim Walz was on Hardball w/Chris Matthews tonight discussing Afghanistan:
  
  
  
  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:47pm EDT
  

• Soda Tax!? Oh the injustice!!

  By Jeremiah Liend
  
  So I’m watching CNN, because I like pain, and this commercial comes on. This lady is shopping and her son comes up and asks to get a book, and she says, I’m afraid not, it’s not in budget, and the child is sad, but he knows [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:59am EDT
  

• I Brought You Into This World...

  I can take you out!
  
  I assume that most of us at one point or another growing up heard this phrase from our parents. It was that warning to you that you had better behave yourself and do what you are told or else you might be punished by [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:17pm EDT
  

• The Bachmann Top Ten...

  The Week Magazine, which if you have never heard of it is worth a look, has compiled a Top Ten List of Michele Bachmann moments in response to the recent glowing review by George Will:
  
  1. On ethnic riots in Paris (November 2005): On the face of [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:34pm EDT
  

• Lionization FAIL

  Don't you think if you love Ronald Reagan that much and would like to create a new political party using his name that you should SPELL HIS NAME CORRECTLY:
  
  
  
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
  

• Care For The Poor, A Liberal Principle?

  I caught this tweet from a local conservative:
  
  
  
  
  Now perhaps I am reading this wrong but it looks like this particular conservative is telling us that providing care to people who don't have the ability to pay for that care is a' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:59pm EDT
  

• Rise Of The Conservative Media OR Hyperbole?

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  I like Media Matters but I wonder if this is just a little but too hyperbolic...
  
  What do you think?
  
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:17pm EDT
  

• Wherefore Art Thou, St. Cloud Times?

  In the Sunday issue of the St. Cloud Times there appeared an article about an Otsego man who took the government for $53,000 by filing fraudulent tax returns.
  
  Roland Chapaye Pour, 35, plead guilty Oct. 19. Pour, a tax preparer, filed 13 false U.S. Individual Income Tax returns [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 6:05pm EDT
  

• Living Room Candidate

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  My first year teaching Civics, I was searching for a resource on the internet that had a variety of examples of propaganda using campaign commercials. What I stumbled across was from the Museum of the Moving Image and its 'The Living Room Candidate' collection of what I assume is [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:54pm EDT
  

• The Photo Op Representative

  This coming Monday in St. Cloud we will see the re-opening of the De-Soto Bridge and as such there will be elected officials on site to get their photo taken and take some level of credit for its creation:
  
  The event starts at 8 a.m. Attendees are encouraged [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 6:00am EDT
  

• Fox News' War On The White House

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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 4:59pm EDT
  

• Kiffmeyer Bank Shut Down

  Back in June, Blue Man and I reported on the troubles of a bank in Otsego which is at least partly owned by Representative Mary Kiffmeyer. At that point the bank was merely in trouble and being told by the government to "increase its capital after allegedly engaging" [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 11:08am EDT
  

• Anti-Strib Pwned!

  OUTRAGED I TELL YOU! The folks over at everyone's favorite bigot site in Minnesota, Anti-Strib, are really super mad because that President Obama supposedly wrote something really bad about the Constitution in a thesis paper (prepare yourselves to be OUTRAGED!):
  
  Brian Lancaster at Jumping in Pools' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 10:19pm EDT
  

• On Minnesota Matters...

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  In case you missed it, I was on the Minnesota Matters Show on AM950 last night. Check it out HERE [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 7:15pm EDT
  

• Something Completely Different...

  Caught this headline in my rss reader from the BBC:
  
  'Epic humpback whale battle filmed'
  
  Being male and enjoying animal on animal violence, I immediately clicked onto the article to read about this EPIC battle and view the video:
  
  A BBC natural history crew [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 6:03pm EDT
  

• Birthers Run SD15 Republican Party...

  A couple of weeks ago over at Bluestem Prairie, Sally Jo Sorensen took a look at potential birtherism within the ranks of the Republican Party in the 6th Congressional District. In particular, Sorensen questioned whether a member of the Executive Committee here in SD15, Leo Pusateri, was [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 8:30pm EDT
  

• Stay Classy Mitch Berg...

  I regularly hop over the political divide into the realm of conservative political blogs for reasons of research but also because, frankly, some of them are interesting and well written. One of those conservatives that I visit almost daily, Mitch Berg, is regularly vilified by those on my side of [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 7:38pm EDT
  

• There's A Rep For That...

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  This political take on the iphone "There's an App for that" campaign is hilarious:
  
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 6:09pm EDT
  

• The Future Governor

  By Jeremiah Liend
  
  The future governor will be a creature evolved past politics. He who governs least governs most leaves us a governless people. The future will be commanded by pioneers, not by politicians. We have given them their chance and their system a fair shot, but we cannot [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 10:14pm EDT
  

• A New Contributor...

  For some time now I have been on the lookout for an addition to this blog. I am pleased to announce that after considerable searching in the deepest darkest recesses of Minnesota, some negotiation, and perhaps a bribe or two, there will be another writer here to bore the crap [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 8:12am EDT
  

• When You Are Right, You Are Right...

  Regardless of politics, Dave Thul is right on this one:
  
  Grace hits the military derangement trifecta, showing ignorance of the military (the uniforms worn are clearly wrong), ignorance of a thing called Google, which shows that the 'new' photos have been floating around the internet for several years, [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 7:38am EDT
  

• You Voted For Rape? Seriously?

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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 6:46pm EDT
  

• Clark Counter Fundraising...

  Just received this in my inbox from the Clark Campaign:
  
  

  Earlier this week, Michele Bachmann sent an emergency email to her radical supporters asking them to "send a message" to the rest of us. It raised more than $100,000 for her reelection campaign.

  Now I’m [...]

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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 11:11am EDT
  

• Gross Inaccuracies Pt. 4

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  So this is perhaps less of an episode of Gross Inaccuracies and more of reminder to Gary Gross about the things he conveniently left out of his most recent hit piece on Tarryl Clark.
  
  Apparently now you only have to be in the room with single payer advocates [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 8:47am EDT
  

• The Gottwalt PR Blunder...

  The local grocery store in St. Cloud, Coborn's, and their public relations guru, Steve Gottwalt, have been taking a bit of a hit lately after it was revealed they were sending letters to employees about health care reform and unionization urging them to oppose them.
  
  From the St.' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 8:56am EDT
  

• Send A Message To Bachmann

  I noticed today that Representative Bachmann sent out a fundraising blast (obviously because she was scared into it by the fundraising numbers of Tarryl Clark):
  
  Send them a message they simply cannot ignore. Make a contribution today to the woman that drives the Left CRAZY. Please give what [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 4:50pm EDT
  

• Did They Call It The GOP Felony Forum?

  So did you catch these tweets from our good friends Marty Seifert and Paul Kohls this past weekend?
  
  Well that seems pretty innocent, another gubernatorial forum hosted by some candidate running for the state legislature.
  
  Yes, but it was hosted by JEREMY [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 5:58pm EDT
  

• Entenza Wins Ranger Straw Poll...

  According to Aaron Brown of Minnesota Brown, the premier blog covering northeastern Minnesota, there was a straw poll held in Itasca County on Thursday, October 8. Given that we have two range candidates on the DFL side, you would think that one or the other would come away as [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 5:47pm EDT
  

• Severson For Secretary of State

  I caught this little piece of 2010 election news in my google reader today:
  
  Severson ponders secretary of state bid
  
  SAUK RAPIDS — Rep. Dan Severson of Sauk Rapids has filed the paperwork to explore a run for secretary of state.
  
  Severson would be seeking the [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 6:16pm EDT
  

• And They Accuse US Of Propaganda?

  I noticed today that Barbara Banaian wrote a piece about the recent protests held at Lake George here in St. Cloud. How coincidental that Barbara is the spouse of King Banaian at SCSU Scholars who spoke at the event and is good friends with the event organizers, [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 10:33am EDT
  

• Entenza At Drinking Liberally...

  While I have never been to Drinking Liberally (maybe someday), I notice that Matt Entenza stopped by last week and gave a great speech about why he is running and how we will solve a few of the problems we currently face in the state of Minnesota.
  
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 5:27pm EDT
  

• Bachmann Out Big City Liberals Clark

  Are you kidding me? Is the new Brodkorb drone over at Minnesota Democrats Exposed REALLY trying to tell us that the location of a fundraiser gives us a clue as to the ideology of the person for whom the fundraiser is held?
  
  Tonight, Tax and Spend Liberal Senator [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 6:25pm EDT
  

• On Losing Faith...

  Over the past two months I have written a total of 14 posts. The majority of those being repostings or brief postings with little of my own writing. At first, I chalked it up to being very busy with the start of a new school year and a new teaching [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:30pm EDT
  

• Entenza For Governor

  If you had asked me this summer who I liked among the numerous DFL gubernatorial candidates and potential candidates, I would not have had a clear answer as I have been frustrated by the seeming lack of a viable out state candidate. However, there was one name in the group [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 6:00am EDT
  

• An Open Letter To Michele Bachmann

  Let me begin by saying that there are few people out there who enjoy a good obsessive crusade more than I. Being able to demonize and tear down another person, organization, or entity is truly one of the most enjoyable and noble pursuits one can engage in. In fact, I [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 4:46pm EDT