According to a recent CNN poll, when asked the question
Which of the following is the most important issue facing the country today
63% of respondents said “The Economy”. In second place was “Health Care” with just 9% of respondents.
So when Dr Maureen Hackett announces her entrance into the race [...]
For somebody that’s trying to get the DFL’s endorsement for the opportunity to run against Congressman Erik Paulsen in the 3rd CD, Dr. Maureen Hackett doesn’t seem to be all that big on the Democrat party.
From opensecrets.org
HACKETT, MAUREEN DR
MINNEAPOLIS,MN 55402 MAUREEN HACKETT M.D./FORENSIC PSYCH 1/20/04 $1,250 National Republican Congressional Cmte (R)
HACKETT, [...]
Back in 2007, when the Arctic ice field experienced a dramatic reduction in extent, Global Warming Alarmists declared that the Arctic had reached a tipping point. In the following August, even though the sea ice didn’t disappear as dramatically, Global Warming Alarmists declared that we were reaching the point of [...]
There is a feeling from some in the scientific community the Earth may be entering into a grand minimum, which is an extended period with low numbers of sunspots that creates cooler temperatures. The year without a summer, which was 1816, was during a grand minimum in 1800 to 1830 [...]
GM Marketing Manager: Hey guys, I’ve got a great idea. Let’s slap some cheap plastic pieces on to our crappiest vehicle, and call it an SS. That ought to boost sales.
[...]
This is how the Three Rivers Park District chose to mark an existing section of the Luce Line in Plymouth near the highway 55 overpass.
This is how the state chose to mark the trail.
The brand new Three Rivers Park District sign and [...]
The popular center right website “Shot In the Dark” has been hacked by juvenile assholes. Vocal conservative blogger and NARN radio host Mitch Berg’s website has been shutdown by fascist punks seeking to squelch the voice of a majority of Minnesotan’s at this critical point in our nations history.
When [...]
Sarah Palin:
“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are [...]
A real comprehensive study, whose value would have been absolutely essential, would have shown, even before the IPCC was founded, that humans have had [...]
State Senator Terri Bonoff (43-DFL) has been in the news for her unending support for public transportation projects. This time it’s for a proposed light rail line from Wilmar MN to Minneapolis. Although Terri doesn’t “know where this will fit in the [state's] overall transportation plan”, she feels that' [...]
From Wikipedia (click on the picture for the link)
The most common type of Black and Tan in the United States uses Guinness Draught (not Extra Stout) and Bass, though variations using Harp Lager or [...]
As I had revealed in this post, Using Social Networking to Lie to Constituents
Terri Bonoff made this statement, concerning her missed votes.
“I feel badly about not voting. I have never done that before.”
But, I was able to find two votes in 2008 that Terri had missed, one of [...]
On Terri Bonoff’s new blog terribonoff.com, Terri uses the social networking tool utterli.com to post a welcome message to her new blog. In the replies to her message a brief discussion occurs in which Terri explains her extended absence from the state capitol and makes the [...]
While doing a little research into the voting records of my SD43 representatives and neighboring representatives, I came across a pretty ineresting fact.
John Benson (DFL-43B) is a stinking, sniveling, hypocritical coward.
Here’s why.
The House DFL has a budget plan. It consists of spending decisions and revenue decisions. [...]
In my earlier post Modeling the Cooling of Global Warming, I facetiously developed a graphical prediction for the decline of belief in anthropomorphic global warming using results from three Rasmussen surveys. This model predicted a rapid decline in the belief that humans were to blame for global warming.
Now that [...]
In regard to the following article in the April 21, Star Tribune.
Klobuchar, Ensign spar over Minnesota Senate race
By BOB VON STERNBERG, Star Tribune
Bob,
A couple of lines from your recent article.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar saying the state “has that right to two senators.”
and
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada, who repeated [...]
Minnesota Congressman Jim Oberstar calls Federal Express “Un-American”.
“They don’t want to have to stand up and justify their getting a piece of the antitrust law of the nation?” Oberstar said of airlines to reporters after his speech. “That’s nonsense. That’s un-American.”
From Bloomberg News
Outrage from the left expected to happen [...]
Guantanamo Detainees May Be Released in U.S.
I’ve got an idea. Let’s forgive them, and then let them run wild in St. Paul
[...]Regarding Kathleen Soliah’s release from prison.
Found HERE, from Lynn Musgrave, a Twin Cities theater director and sound designer who directed Olson in a couple of productions,
“She is a different person now than she was,” Musgrave said. “We all are. We were all activists in the ’70s and expressed ourselves [...]
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. — Luke 17:3
That’s my answer to Doug Grow’s question “What happened to the concept of forgiveness in the Sara Jane Olson case?”posted on MinnPost. There’s an order in this process [...]
This is just a quick update to my earlier article about Jeff Rosenberg’s deceptive use of the 2009 Tax Incidence Study. In a Politics in Minnesota post by former City Pages editor ( and head propagandist for the special needs bloggers at Minnesota Monitor Independent ) Steve [...]
I’ve found that one advantage of procrastinating the writing of a new post for this blog is that if I wait long enough, I can usually find somebody who’s covered the topic more succinctly, with greater insight, and with far better writing skills than I posses. When it came to [...]
In two previous posts, here and here, I described a couple of examples of left leaning groups misusing the contents of the 2007 Tax Incidence Study to argue against cutting the corporate tax rate. It was presented that cutting the corporate tax rate would make Minnesota’s tax [...]
While politicians and lobbyists in Washington and in our own State Capitol make plans to best spend the nearly $8 billion in stimulus money targeted at developing the nations high speed rail infastructure, a Texas company quietly snuck into the Twin Cities and installed a modern high speed connection between [...]
The White House commands,
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs “‘The best question, though, is for you to ask individual Republicans whether they agree with what Rush Limbaugh said this weekend.”
and the Media obeys:
ABC Anchor George Stephanopoulos asks: “So the Rush Limbaugh approach of hoping the president fails is not [...]
Before even a penny of stimulus money is spent, evidence that the recession is already subsiding has appeared, almost as if by miracle. A private sector measurement of economic activity showed an unexpected jump in January, which was the second month in a row.
The New York-based Conference Board said [...]
the greatest weapon the United States has against terrorists is its moral authority and commitment to the rule of law.
“The enemy knows we track them and they know that if and when they commit acts against their people and government, we will take [...]
The Changing Arctic by George Micolas Ifft.
The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fisherman, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part [...]
Barack Obama — Oct 27, 2008
“we can choose hope over fear”
Barack Obama — Feb 5, 2009
“This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not [...]
The AP posts
Dozens of deaths have been reported and many people are pleading for a faster response to the power outages. Some in rural Kentucky ran short of food and bottled water, and resorted to dipping buckets in a creek.
Really, where is Sean Penn when you need him.
The Anchoress [...]
Erik PaulsenIn response to Governor Pawlenty’s call to reduce the corporate tax rate in Minnesota, DFL Party Chair Brian Melendez stated the following:
“Minnesota’s tax system is already unfair; Governor Pawlenty would make it even more unfair with tax breaks to corporations so that they can pay bigger bonuses to their [...]
il duce’ at Anti-Strib posts a LTE from a local lefty containing this little nugget of irrationality.
The same tried-and-true failures are being trotted out again to deal with yet another huge deficit on this governor’s watch — massive cuts to health and human services in a time when people [...]
As further evidence of the rapid cooling of the global warming hysteria that I modeled in a previous post, the Pew Research Center released the results of a survey in which they asked 1503 adults about the top issues that they feel the new Obama administration should [...]
In Governor Tim Pawlenty’s State of the State address last week. The Governor called for cutting the business tax rate from 9.8 to 4.6 percent.
Today, I’m proposing that we cut Minnesota’s business tax rate in half. This means reducing the current 9.8 percent business tax rate to 4.8 percent [...]
Did Democrat operatives purposely blur images of Erik Paulsen in order to frighten voters?
You decide:
Playing on 3rd CD voter’s inherent distrust of out-of-focus or “blurry” people is a manipulation of peoples’ prejudices. Paulsen’s eight percentage point victory over Ashwin Madia is a solid repudiation of this [...]
Gary Gross over at the Let Freedom Ring blog is reporting that recount canvassers at the Stearns County clerk’s office are going through the ballots again to look at the backside of the ballot.
The people there weren’t certain because they were now checking the backs of ballots.
I don’t [...]
Lori Sturdevant subtly begain the 2010 campaign season for the CD 3 congressional seat today. In a column titled “Education remains the elephant in the room”, Lori once again fulfills her role as cheerleader for the DFL by writing what will certainly be the first of many puff pieces [...]
