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• Pawlenty vs. DFL Legislature

  Yesterday, I said that Steve Murphy & Tony Sertich were foolish for saying that Gov. Pawlenty was irrelevant in the upcoming transportation debate. Aside from him being a highly skilled politician, Gov. Pawlenty is viewed far more favorably than the DFL legislature:
  
  

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  Posted: February 05, 2008, 3:17pm EST
  

• Will He Raise Taxes?

  That's just one of the questions I've got for Elwyn Tinklenberg after he announced his candidacy for the Sixth District seat currently held by Michele Bachmann. First, take a look at how he justified jumping into the race after saying he wouldn't:
  
  

  “I could not sit by and [...]

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  Posted: October 02, 2007, 6:15pm EDT
  by Gary Gross

• Rep. Kline Report: Amazing Results In Iraq

  Rep. John Kline just returned from his fifth trip to Iraq. Just like Keith Ellison's report in July, he's seen some amazing results. That's according to this Strib article. The funny thing is that Keith Ellison doesn't think that anymore. Here's what the Strib article reported:
  
  

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  Posted: September 26, 2007, 4:13am EDT
  by Gary Gross

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  Posted: September 23, 2007, 12:12pm EDT
  by Gary Gross

• It's Official

  Well, it's official now. I've finally made the move to my new site. Many thanks to Mike Jones for his designing it. Thanks to all the people who've faithfully stopped past Let Freedom Ring. Now it's time for you to follow this link to the new site.
  
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  Posted: March 27, 2006, 10:51pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Bush's Approval Rating Hits New Low

  It hasn't really. It's just a case of shoddy polling practices. What's surprising about this one, though, is that the polling was the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. Here's why I consider this poll useless:
  
  

  4. Do you think the Republicans in Congress or the Democrats in Congress would do [...]

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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 9:14pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Just When You Thought They Might Have a Chance

  Just when Democrats looked like they were sorta getting their stuff together, at least as much as that's possible with them, they revert to their old ways and the facade fades to oblivion. Take, for instance, Russ Feingold's stunt today on the Senate floor on censuring President Bush on [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 7:37pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Bush Didn't Lie

  That's what Newsmax is reporting in this article. Of course, that's old news to anyone reading the Right Blogosphere. Here's what Newsmax is saying:
  

  Newly translated Iraqi documents from Saddam Hussein's regime show that President Bush was factually accurate when he told the nation in his 2003 State of [...]

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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 2:39pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Harris to Make 'Major Announcement'

  The Orlando Sentinel's Tamara Lytle is reporting that Katherine Harris' withdrawal from the Senate race against Bill Nelson looks likely.
  

  In her statement, Harris acknowledged all the speculation, notifying Republican activists at a meeting in Memphis that she was canceling her scheduled appearance there Saturday night "as I prayerfully [...]

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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 12:48pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• BDS Still Afflicting Feingold

  Russ Feingold, who fancies himself a Beltway powerhouse, is pushing a censure measure against President Bush in the Senate.
  

  The five-page resolution to be introduced on Monday contends that Bush violated the law when, on his own, he set up the eavesdropping program within the National Security Agency in [...]

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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 11:48am EST
  by Gary Gross

• 1994 All Over Again?

  That's the crux of Michael Barone's latest column in today's Jewish World Review. To say that he doesn't agree with all the rumors flying back and forth within the media would be understatement.
  

  In this cycle, many reporters have been contemplating the possibility that Democrats will take it [...]

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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 10:43am EST
  by Gary Gross

• Schieffer: Don't Blame Media for Iraq Failures

  That's a deal, Bob. We'll just blame the media for not getting the stories out accurately. Here's how Schieffer closed his 'Face The Nation' program:
  CBS "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer lashed out at the U.S. military on Sunday, saying top generals need to "stop blaming the media"' [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 1:33am EST
  by Gary Gross

• A Fitting Tribute To Kirby

  I hope that my writing this week has shown me to be an unabashed Kirby Puckett fan. As I watched tonight's tribute to Kirby, I often felt a lump in my throat, usually because former Twins players like Dan Gladden, Al Newman and Kent Hrbek reminded us of what it' [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2006, 10:27pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Clashing Cultures; Priorities Diverging

  That's what the homeschooling vs. public school debate boils down to. Nowhere is that divergence made more clear than in Nathanael Blake's latest column for Townhall.com.
  When I tell people about my plans for my (hypothetical) children, I invariably hear the same infratentorial objection, which is that they [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2006, 3:22pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• U.N.: Milosevic's Death 'Pity for Justice'

  This is what the U.N. really boils down to. They express their "pity" about Milosevic dying without being convicted but they're the same idiots that put process before results. They're the ones that rail about having a dignified process with little regard for the victims.
  
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  Posted: March 12, 2006, 2:31pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Giving McCarthyism A Bad Name

  That's Chuck Colson's first impression of Defcon's attack ad against Ralph Reed, Jim Dobson and Lou Sheldon. I couldn't agree with Mr. Colson more. DefCon is the George Soros-funded hate group that bought the ad in the NY Times. Here's the most objectionable line in the ad (titled' [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2006, 2:33am EST
  by Gary Gross

• Chicago Tribune Series

  The Chicago Tribune's John Crewdson has written a devastating indictment of the CIA's ability to keep their operatives secret. He also ridicules the CIA in the Valerie Plame fiasco with an article titled "Plame's identity, if truly a secret, was thinly veiled".
  
  Here's a glimpse of [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2006, 11:26pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Phoney Polling

  The AP's Will Lester is reporting that an AP/Ipsos poll shows that "70 percent of Republicans and 90 percent of Democrats" think that "it's likely that a civil war will break out."
  
  Unfortunately, he's right but only because the media's coverage has been awful. If the American people [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2006, 7:24pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Milosevic Found Dead in Jail Cell

  The AP is reporting that "Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader who orchestrated the Balkan wars of the 1990s and was on trial for war crimes, was found dead in his prison cell near The Hague, the U.N. tribunal said Saturday. Milosevic, 64, apparently died of natural causes, a" [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2006, 11:34am EST
  by Gary Gross

• Political Cowardice Vs. Substance

  That's what the House Appropriations Committee's 62-2 vote amounts to. Gone is the attitude of weighing the facts of the matter, coming up with a logical plan and setting a sensible policy. It's all about political panic and cowardice. If a genie granted me three wishes, I'd (a) wish [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2006, 12:29pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Time For a Pep Talk

  Tuesday night, I went to the GOP precinct caucuses. I'm glad I did. One of the resolutions we passed in our precinct was to support President Bush for his proactive policy in the GWOT. It passed unanimously, if I recall correctly.
  
  Another benefit of attending was meeting people' [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2006, 10:39pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• When Ignorance Hurts

  When was the last weekday that you didn't hear a poll claiming some alarming message? It seems likea ages to me. Most of the time, I read them, fisking them in my mind just to stay sharp, then discarding them as having been manufactured for political purposes.
  
  Monday' [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2006, 8:40pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Sipping Roberts' Vinegar

  This week, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion in the "Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights" case. In his opinion, he gave FAIR a dose of some bitter vinegar, though it starts out relatively 'vinegar-free':
  “Accommodating the military's message," Roberts wrote, "does not affect the law' [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2006, 5:59pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Iran Threatens U.S.

  In what might be its dumbest statement yet, Iran has threatened the U.S. with harm and pain. Here's the summary of the U.S.-Iranian exchange:
  "The United States has the power to cause harm and pain," said Ali Asghar Soltanieh, a senior Iranian delegate to the IAEA. "But the United'" [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2006, 3:14pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Dems: Data Mining OK to Identify Democratic Voters, Illegal to Identify al Qaida

  Alright, I admit that not all Democrats think that data-mining, which is an integral part of the NSA intercept program, should be outlawed but alot of them screamed to high heavens when they first heard about it. It seems, though, that they're more than comfortable using data mining techniques' [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2006, 10:53am EST
  by Gary Gross

• Iraq: The Untold Truths

  I've enjoyed Ralph Peters' reporting from Iraq immensely. He's now returning home so this is his last article from the trenches. Fortunately, he saved his best for last:
  What actually happened last week, as the prophets of doom in the media prematurely declared civil war?
  The Iraqi army deployed' [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2006, 12:45am EST
  by Gary Gross

• Chevron Boosting Oil, Gas Production

  I wonder how Democrats, especially of the envirnmental extremist ilk will react to this:
  Chevron, the country's second-largest petroleum producer, told Wall Street analysts concerned about the company's growth that daily output would rise from 2.5 million barrels per day of oil equivalent in 2005 to 3.1 million barrels [...]
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  Posted: March 07, 2006, 4:59pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• What's the Rush?

  A NY Post editorial headline caught my eye. The title is " THE GRAND RUSH TO DECLARE DEFEAT". It's an editorial on what's happening in Iraq. Here's a glimpse into the Agenda Media's heated rush to declare defeat:
  Violence following the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra two [...]
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  Posted: March 07, 2006, 3:57pm EST
  by Gary Gross

• Democratic Obsession: Denying al-Qaida

  Michael Barone asks why Democrats keep insisting that there was no connection between al-Qaida and Saddam's regime even though there's sufficient proof of that connection. Here's his theory on why:
  Democrats fear that more Americans would support Bush and the war effort if they believed there was. The career' [...]
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  Posted: March 07, 2006, 11:10am EST
  by Gary Gross

• Kirby's Gone

  WCCO-TV is reporting that Kirby Puckett, the most popular athlete in Minnesota sports history, died this evening. It's a loss every Twins fan will feel.
  
  By this time tomorrow, there will literally be thousands of Kirby stories being told. Almost all of those stories will be told with' [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2006, 8:24pm EST
  

• Anti-Flag Desecration Amendment To Receive a Vote in The Senate

  Matt Margolis just emailed the bloggers on the GOP Bloggers blogroll that Sen. Frist will "announce that a constitutional amendment giving Congress the power to ban the physical desecration of the American flag will receive a floor vote in the United States Senate. The vote will occur during the" [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2006, 4:58pm EST
  

• PDB (Peters' Daily Briefing)

  Here's some interesting facts from today's Peters' Daily Briefing from Iraq, entitled Infantry Patrol:
  Instead of collapsing into sectarian strife, the brigade's area of operations had become quieter since the Samarra bombing. The people do not want any part of more violence. The zone's big event had been a' [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2006, 4:05pm EST
  

• Dean Called on Spending Priorities

  It seems that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid called Howard Dean on the carpet for his spending habits. Their complaint: Dean's spending money in strongly red states when he should be putting more money into competitive races. That's what happens when you have a chairman who thinks that Democrats [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2006, 12:50pm EST
  

• Time to Challenge Murtha

  It's time that someone challenged John Murtha's reckless lies. NOW.
  
  It isn't surprising that John Murtha is spewing the same lies as before several soldiers disgraced him in town hall meetings settings. What's surprising is that he's now upped the ante by calling Pete Pace, Chairman of the' [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2006, 3:19am EST
  

• Pray For Kirby

  Earlier today, the best player to ever wear a Twins uniform, Kirby Puckett, suffered a major stroke. The prognosis isn't good. I ask all my readers to keep Kirby in your prayers. This is what the Strib's beat writer for the Twins, LaVelle E. Neal III, said in his [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2006, 1:38am EST
  

• Sunnis Ready to End Boycott

  It's welcome news that the AP is reporting that Sunnis are willing to get to the negotiating table so that a government can be formed.
  

  Sunni Arabs are ready to end their boycott of talks to form a new Iraqi government if rival Shiites return mosques seized in last [...]

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  Posted: February 27, 2006, 2:17pm EST
  by Gary Gross