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posted by Edward Felker, P-B Washington Bureau
Apparently you can say no by just showing up.
House Republicans on Thursday decided to protest being shut out of the drafting of the $162.5 billion Iraq war supplemental spending bill by voting "present" in large enough numbers to combine with anti-war Democratic opposition to [...]
He says he won't rule out running for U.S. Senate and he repeatedly ripped Franken and Coleman with some very [...]
"No one should be subjected to arbitrary arrests, detention or exile." Article 9, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be [...]
A small group of neighbors who live on Minneapolis' North Side gathered at the corner of 26th and Knox Avenues North early Thursday, May 15, to toast the demolition of Big Stop Foods. The boarded-up store, which had been closed for nearly two years, was long plagued by drug-dealing, [...]
President Bush must be thanking his dim stars that the Democratic election has become so heated it's taken precedence over any news about the ongoing Iraq quagmire. In fact, one the biggest Iraq stories in the news this week came only when Bush told reporters he gave [...]
Really, the senior moments of Senile John McCain seem to be coming more frequently. John McCain said today:
“I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the [...]
He makes the Iran-Contra scandal disappear!
No, seriously:
“Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain,’’ Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. “I believe that it’s not an accident [...]
How worried are House Republicans? In today's New York Times, Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse report in Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears. Some choice passages:
. . . Representative Tom Davis, Republican of Virginia and former leader of his party’s Congressional campaign committee, issued a [...]
The view from our hotel in St. Barts. MPR’s Polinaut has the press release from Team Franken announcing that Stephanie Schriock has been hired to be the new campaign manager. If you’re keeping score at home, this is Team Franken’s second or third campaign manager. Both Andy Barr and David Benson have been cited as the [...]
The giant international management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., which charted the restructuring effort of Minneapolis city government known as Focus Minneapolis earlier this decade, has lately turned its attention to the Minneapolis Public Schools. First, over the winter, came a McKinsey-led strategic plan for the beleaguered school system, [...]
The environmentalists and their back pocket politicians (U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (DFL) comes to mind off hand) that don't want us drilling in ANWR (who [...]
Pete Cushner took possession of a boat that was well known along the St. Croix River as ‘The Andiamo’ in 1994.
"There is some historic value to it, if it means anything to [...]
by Andrew J. Whitehead
On 8 May, the Chicago Tribune carried a news story about a mock hostage drill conducted by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
The drill apparently involved hostages, simulated explosions, and nerve gas.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamic terrorist supporting organization, has naturally [...]
