Boots On

• Fort Hood Shootings In a Nutshell

  I’m going to play amateur psychologist and sum up the Fort Hood shootings. Army Major Nidal Hasan is a practicing Muslim who opened fire on his fellow soldiers, killing many, wounding many. Let’s be frank. He was not insane. This was premeditated. He did not expect to survive. He fully [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:58pm EST
  

• America's Queen Michelle I

  What's next--hereditary royalty? Maybe Michelle hopes the hubby will get a second term and by the end of that, she'll have been able to get him crowned King, and someday we'll see Queen Sasha ascend the throne after daddy has passed on.
  
  Look at the list of the 26' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  

• Blue Dogs Beware

  President Obama proved that he can smooth talk his way into making history. That was then, this is now.
  
  Since taking office, Obama has introduced the nation and members of his own party to Rules for Radicals Politics -- Chicago style. His inaugural proclamation ending the petty grievances and [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

• New Brighton Elects New Mayor, Re-Elects Council Member

  New Brighton mayoral challenger Dave Jacobsen defeated incumbent Steve Larson. Jacobsen received 57% of the vote to Larson's 43%. Larson did a little better today than he did two yeas ago when two challengers split the opposition vote.  Update: Larson received 45% of the vote in 2007. He did worse' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:55pm EST
  

• Get Out and Vote Today!

  Please make every effort to get out and vote today. We have the opportunity to elect Dave Jacobsen as our new mayor and to return Gina Bauman to the City Council. If all of us who support Dave and Gina get out and vote we have a good chance of [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:35am EST
  

• Mounds View School Board Election

  Mounds View School District 621 (Mn) elections are tomorrow. Three seats are up for election.
  
  The incumbents:
  Greg MadsenMarre Jo SagerJon Tynjala The challengers:
  Jack BrunellTimothy Husnik For more info, check out HD50B.com. Here's a teaser. Marre Jo Sager is opposed to any form of vouchers, saying she wants the' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:52am EST
  

• Gina Bauman Sets the Record Straight

  As in most political contests it is starting to get ugly out there. In a post on Enlighten New Brighton Council Member Gina Bauman corrects some of the misconceptions that are apparently being spread by the competition in the New Brighton City Council and Mayoral races.
  
  As [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:26am EST
  

• New Brighton Mayoral Race - Job Performance Matters

  In the real world of the private sector, after one has been on the job in their chosen professional career long enough potential employers look at a candidate's job performance as the primary criteria for deciding whether or not to hire. For example, consider an applicant for an engineering position' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:58pm EST
  

• Meet and Greet Dave Jacobsen and Gina Bauman - Today

  Found this on the candidate's sites (sorry, I should have checked the sites more often):
  Bring any questions, concerns, comments you have about the issues and discuss them with Gina and Dave in an informal setting, or just stop by and say hello.
  
  All are welcome.
  
  TODAY! [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:00am EDT
  

• New Brighton "Non-Partisan" City Elections - A matter of picking the right partisans

  (Final post of the series)
  
  The previous posts of this series highlighted three of the nine candidates involved in the New Brighton Mayoral and City Council races, pointing out just how partisan these candidates are in the "non-partisan" election. As I noted in the introductory post to the [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
  

• Words of Wisdom from Mr. D...

  Mark, aka as "Mr. D", over at Mr. Dilettante's Neighborhood makes a concise but very good point about the upcoming New Brighton elections.
  
  Well worth checking out and keeping in mind as you try to make sense of all of the campaigning that will be coming at' [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 11:04am EDT
  

• New Brighton Races Non-Partisan? Exhibit C: City Council Candidate Char Samuelson

  (Part 4 of a series)
  
  Char Samuelson is a former member of the New Brighton City Council as well as a two-term State Representative from District 50B. On her run for the Minnesota House she ran as a Republican. So, are we looking at a partisan Republican right-winger [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:06pm EDT
  

• BOOT the Mounds View (I)s

  A local city council member of the Republican persuasion recently said within my hearing that we should go with the incumbents in the Mounds View school board races. His basic idea is that we should take the bad we know over the unknown since MV's finances have been handled prudently,' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
  

• Why informed citizens are a career politician's worst nightmare

  A New Brighton resident notes in an open letter to his fellow residents what was not asked or said at the last mayoral candidate forum, but really should have been...check it out here.
  
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 11:19am EDT
  

• New Brighton Races Non-Partisan? Exhibit B: City Council Candidate Graeme Allen

  (Part 3 of a series)
  
  Graeme Allen appears to be a nice, thoughtful young man running for his first elected office. He is obviously well educated, polite, and affable. So what wouldn't there be to like? Well (a little nostalgic throwback to the days when we had a' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 6:30pm EDT
  

• The LWV New Brighton Candidate Forum - Superficially Revealing

  The League of Women Voters Candidate Forums have always been a poor source to glean information about the candidates due to the restrictive format, but this one was a bit more tedious than usual. Nothing against any of the candidates for participating, as for all practical purposes they are pretty [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:15pm EDT
  

• New Brighton Candidate Forums Next Two Mondays

  There is a candidate forum Monday 10/19 at 7:00 PM at New Brighton City Hall. This event will be moderated by the League of Women Voters.
  
  Another forum is scheduled for next Monday 10/26, also 7:00 PM at City Hall. This event is a production of Twin Cities North [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 9:55pm EDT
  

• It's a beautiful day in Mr. D's Neighborhood...

  ...as it always is.
  
  In case you're not familiar with it, Mr. Dilettante's Neighborhood, located in good ol' New Brighton, is a great source for political commentary at the local, state, and national levels as well as for "just for fun" stuff and serious social commentary. I highly' [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 12:03pm EDT
  

• New Brighton Elections Non-Partisan? Exhibit A: Mayor Steve Larson

  (Part 2 of a series)
  
  Our current mayor, Steve Larson, is a text book example of a liberal DFL hack who tries to portray himself as a mainstream moderate. In spite of his defensive "I'm not a liberal!" outburst at a New Brighton town hall meeting a few' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:58pm EDT
  

• New Brighton City Elections: Non-partisan is Nonsense!

  A friend and I were talking the other day about the upcoming New Brighton city election and the discussion turned toward its purported "non-partisan" nature. Many candidates over the years, particularly those whose candidacy would generally not impress the contributors to, or the majority audience of, this blog have stressed [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:40am EDT
  

• New Brighton Votes November 3rd

  Endorsement Time!
  
  Two New Brighton city council seats and its mayor's throne are up for election this year. The council seats in question are currently held by Gina Bauman and Sharon Doffing. The throne is occupied by Steve Larson.
  
  After six years of loyal service dedicated to protecting' [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 2:13am EDT
  

• Enlighten New Brighton

  There's a new blog in town and it threatens to light up the city of New Brighton with truth, logic, and reason. It's called Enlighten New Brighton.
  
  City elections are around the corner. How will candidates deal with a financially blighted plan to rebuild the Northwest Quadrant during [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 11:07pm EDT
  

• Why Pawlenty Should Give It Up

  A few days ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who has been making significant presidential noises lately, gave us another piece of evidence in what is now a long string that he is politically out of touch. Having in the past tried to suffocate the idea of taxpayer funding for a new [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 12:32pm EDT
  

• I Told You, Knuth and McCollum and Klobuchar et. al.

  (I refuse to include that gross nincompoop, Al Frankenstein, in my list of representatives.)
  
  I have been in relatively frequent touch with my representatives, explaining to them the folly of continuing to spend so as to necessitate what the monetarists call "quantitative easing." They haven't listened. Did you? When' [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 9:49am EDT
  

• If You Spend It, the Mooches Will Come

  I hope you all noticed the headline in the Pioneer Press:
  "Census: Minnesota among Leaders in Welfare Spending"
  
  I first heard it briefly mentioned on the radio. The gist is, Minnesota is THIRD in proportion of state spending that goes to welfare, barely behind Maine and Rhode Island. [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 12:33pm EDT
  

• SV Press Finally Called to Account

  I have heard local conservatives complain numerous times about the rotten policy of the Shoreview Press to allow public figures, mostly elected officials, full-length editorials, without comment or fact-checking by the editorial board or a reply by someone holding opposing views. Today's SV Press contains 2 letters to the' [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 5:07pm EDT
  

• Truth, Lies, and a Presidential Address to Congress

  A rare thing occurred last night. President Obama addressed Congress and a truth was delivered. Of course, not by Obama, but by South Carolina Republican Representative Joe Wilson when he blurted "you lie" after the President falsely asserted that Obamacare will not cover illegal aliens.
  
  Wilson's outburst drew the [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 7:51pm EDT
  

• Amazing Fair Response

  I happened to catch a quick Channel 5 snippet over the weekend. They were interviewing Fair attendees who listened to the Republican candidates for governor forum. A couple of responses were bland as usual but one of them wasn't.
  
  An older woman said forcefully:
  
  "I'm here to" [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 2:27pm EDT
  

• They may not call it a Death Panel...

  ...but no matter how advocates of Obamacare try to sanitize the terminology of their fiscally and morally bankrupt scheme the outcome is still bad.
  
  Read how well the British system "works" for an premature baby who just missed the window of "viability" as defined by the National Health [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:52am EDT
  

• Quarantine Power Grab

  I don't have time to be writing this, but the alarm needs to spread on the government's preparations to deal with the fall flu season. As ZeroHedge blogger Project Mayhem shows with strong evidence, either there's much more to the problems H1N1 carries than the government is disclosing, or it's [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
  

• Cheney lays the smack on Obama Anti-terror Policies

  Why wasn't this man president?
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:48am EDT
  

• What's Really in the Socialized Health Care Bill

  Just a quick post to get some info out about what's really in the train wreck the liberals in Congress and the current occupant of the White House are attempting to ram down our throats.
  
  The actual House bill (HR3200) is a natural predator to trees, weighing in [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
  

• Boots On – The Song by Randy Houser

  Country star Randy Houser's latest hit is a song called "Boots On". The song has nothing to do with this blog. Still, it's a fun diversion from politics and the video features a great performance by a toddler named Drake Dixon. You gotta watch this!
  
  
  
  For' [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2009, 8:01pm EDT
  

• Obama's Gang Is Taking Over

  You can take the politician out of Chicago, but you can't take Gangster Politics out of the Chicago politician. President Obama and his left-hand man Rahm are determined to run the country. Not govern, mind you, but control all that they can grab.
  
  There are many lessons to be' [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 9:54pm EDT
  

• Grand Theft Election - Senator-select Al Franken

  The Wall Street Journal pretty much sums it up in the subtitle of their piece in todays edition: Franken wins by changing the rules.
  
  In good journalistic fashion, the first and last paragraphs of the piece provide a good summary of the debacle (emphasis mine):The Minnesota Supreme Court [...]
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  Posted: July 01, 2009, 9:38am EDT
  

• The Ideal Republican Candidates for 2012

  Call me crazy but the ideal ticket for Republicans in 2012 would be Chuck Norris for President and Bill Cosby, Vice-President.
  
  First of all, Republicans are going to need celebrity because no politician on the horizon is popular enough or communicates well enough to win even if Obama falters [...]
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  Posted: June 30, 2009, 5:07pm EDT
  

• A Mysterious County Appointment

  Bob Benke has been appointed to the Ramsey County Charter Commission.
  
  Just what is his motivation for this? Why would he want it?
  
  Bob Benke is the past Mayor of New Brighton. He's a friend and adviser to the current Mayor. He was co-chair of the re-election committee [...]
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  Posted: June 29, 2009, 6:04pm EDT
  

• Change the World--Irritate Government Workers

  As government at all levels moves toward total world takeover, I propose that one piece of the strategy to Starve the Beast is to make it no fun to work for the government. The people who work for the government should have to deal with cranky, non-compliant, detail-stickling, skeptical, slow-paying, [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2009, 2:07pm EDT
  

• Obama is the Appeasement President

  President Obama has quietly reduced the number of US warships in the Persian Gulf to its lowest level in two years. What’s more, no US aircraft carriers are anywhere near the Gulf region.
  
  Meanwhile, Russian warships made their first appearance in the Bahrain port of Manama, seat of the [...]
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  Posted: June 01, 2009, 12:43pm EDT
  

• Beware The American Community Survey

  The recent article on the American Community Survey below reminds me of my own experience two years ago.
  
  [www.nypost.com]
  
  I remember my wife was furious at the intrusiveness of the questions and so was I. In order to comply minimally with the law, we answered some basic [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2009, 11:04am EDT
  

• Dead Austrian's Prophecies Trump Gitmo Controversy

  Ludwig von Mises:
  "There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of" [...]
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  Posted: May 22, 2009, 12:36pm EDT
  

• Cheney Sets the Record Straight on GITMO and GWOT

  After listening to the self-serving propaganda of the Obama Administration regarding GITMO and the Bush Administration policies in the Global War on Terror, see the non-fiction version here as presented by former Vice President Dick Cheney.
  
  Remember when we had a real (not to mention competent) Vice President?[...]
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  Posted: May 22, 2009, 10:04am EDT
  

• Bush and Obama, Fulfillment of Prescient Beach Boys' Lyrics

  "You know, I hate to be a downer,
  but I'm the guy she left before you found her;
  Oh, I'm not sayin' you won't have a good love with her,
  But I keep on rememberin' things like they were ..."
  
  So sang the Beach Boys 50-odd years ago. As' [...]
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  Posted: May 21, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
  

• Jesse Jackson's Worst Nightmare

  He's hip and he gets it!
  
  HT: Macho Sauce Productions, where you can find more of this:
  
  
  
  
  or this:
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 10:44pm EDT
  

• Hail Pawlenty, the Conquering Hero

  Tim Pawlenty sometimes surprises me. His announcement that he will use the full powers of his office to single-handedly balance the budget if the DFL-controlled legislature won't seems to have pulled the rug out from under the DFL, who are now whining about "bullying" and "monarchy," having, as the [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2009, 11:50am EDT
  

• Outrageous Bailout Proposal For Teachers

  Education Minnesota and the Democrats are planning another kick in the stomach to ordinary taxpayers.
  
  It seems their pension plan is down -- and they want tapayers to bring it back up to "fully funded" level. To the tune of millions upon millions of dollars of course.
  
  Well, [...]
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  Posted: May 05, 2009, 12:11pm EDT
  

• Wells Fargo, BoA, Citi Lie to Us with Help From the Fed

  Sr. d'Anconia sent me the following infuriating tip:
  
  [www.youtube.com]
  
  Meredith Whitney is famous because she was the first to call the downgrade of Citibank's dividend cut long before anyone else could believe the financials were going down. She continues very bearish, to use Wall Street lingo.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 10:50am EDT
  

• Coleman Helped Justify Obama's Threat of Prosecution for Bush Admin. Lawyers

  A couple of years ago, I sent an e-mail to Sen. Norm Coleman's office expressing my disgust at his decision to vote in favor of expanding the federal government's role in prosecuting crimes, to include stepping in where certain classes of "hate" crime had been committed. The new special victims [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 8:54pm EDT
  

• Ho Ho Ho, Chris Dodd Must Go

  ... but so must Richard Shelby. See this piece from Forbes.
  
  When I saw the headline, I hoped I could write a post about how it's really the Dems who're raking in the dough from the banking oligarchy, but sadly, not so. The blame among the top [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2009, 10:05am EDT
  

• Pioneer Press hatchet piece on Council Member Gina Bauman was shoddy journalism at its worst

  In the span of two days the Saint Paul Pioneer Press published a poorly researched, highly biased hatchet piece on New Brighton Council Member Gina Bauman and the following day (actually within hours in the on-line edition) had to publish a followup to report that the charges [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 11:52pm EDT
  

• About 6 weeks ago, Ben Bernanke made ...

  About 6 weeks ago, Ben Bernanke made it perfectly clear that returning control of Congress to the Republicans will do little, if anything, to restore order and conservative principles to our governance, at least until the Federal Reserve is gone and replaced by some form of currency standard, so that [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2009, 2:43pm EDT
  

• Tax Day is Tea Party for Freedom Day

  
  
  It's about freedom.
  
  It's about liberty.
  
  It's about lawmakers excessively confiscating the fruits of our labor to benefit the coffers of their political futures.
  
  It's about taxes.
  
  And, it's about time to say ENOUGH ALREADY!
  
  Tax Day 2009 is' [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2009, 11:46am EDT
  

• d'Anconia, the Sage Source, Says Social Fabric Wearing Thin

  My sage source has kindly developed a suitable name for his appearances on this august publication: meet Francisco d'Anconia. You know, because he's my friend, and I'm John Galt (if you don't know what all that's about, get busy on your Ayn Rand homework).
  
  Cisco says, as he muses' [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 9:17pm EDT
  

• "Shoreview, Shove It" Update

  A postcard from the City of Shoreview removes all doubt about its intentions to take over your life: contrary to previously issued information, you are first assigned an appointment time for representatives of SL-serco (does anyone else think serpent when they hear that name?) to invade your home and do [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 8:46pm EDT
  

• Shoreview, Shove Your Meters Where the Sun Don't Shine

  A letter recently sent by the City of Shoreview to its citizens has reached my attention:
  
  "Shoreview is replacing all water meters and verifying that properties are compliant with the Inflow/Infiltration (I&I) regulations." The City is insisting that it must have its representatives, who work for the private company [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2009, 8:54pm EDT
  

• Obama Inherits Economy From Democrat Congress

  Two years of Democrat control gave us the economic mess that we are in today.
  
  In the posts below, John Galt aptly points out where Democrats and Republicans share the blame for fed banking policies and bailout fiasco's. But, there's more to the story. What changed during the last [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2009, 9:51pm EDT
  

• Democrats Aren't the Whole Problem

  This is a long one, but I'm trying to start an important argument, so please track with me:
  
  Some of the regular posters on this blog, and no doubt many of its readers, think that the economic mess we’re in is due mainly to the control of the' [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 10:05pm EDT
  

• This comic sums it up rather nicely...

  
  

  State of the Union
  
  
  
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  Cartoon courtesy of Comics.com and Creator's Syndicate. All copyrights acknowledged and observed.
  
  State of the Union is one of the few daily comics that generally looks at things from a conservative perspective. You can view it' [...]

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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 10:45am EDT
  

• Celebrate Electricity Hour

  We hereby declare 8:30 PM (local time) Saturday, March 28 to be Celebrate Electricity Hour. We have been blessed with the miracle of electricity, with the minds to harness it, and with a multitude of resources to generate it. So, celebrate it.
  
  For one hour, from 8:30 PM to [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2009, 11:49pm EDT
  

• Bachmann, Read This

  and all the rest of you, too. You don't have to like the tone, but you do have to read all eight pages and be assured that, useless swear words aside, the content is spot on. Who'd have thought we'd have to turn to The Rolling Stone to get' [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2009, 9:25pm EDT
  

• Obama, Fed Decree Last Days of the Dollar

  With the decision last week to publicly announce the monetization of the debt, the Fed sealed the fate of the US dollar (USD). The days of the USD as the world's reserve currency are short, and its days as our currency here in the US are numbered not much' [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2009, 12:12pm EDT
  

• Explaining Obamanomics and Socialism

  From my inbox, I found a great way to explain socialism: An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student, but had once failed an entire class.
  
  The class (students) insisted that socialism worked since no one would be poor and no one would [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2009, 2:23am EDT
  

• Obama: Thank me very much

  It appears like The One parrots whatever his teleprompter tells him to say.
  
  At least when Sara Palin's teleprompter got messed up at the RNC convention she had the smarts and skills to wing it without most people even being aware of a problem. Amazing what poise, original' [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2009, 9:38am EDT
  

• Kathleen Soliah got off easy...

  ...and deserves all derision and public ridicule that comes her way (Soliah's use of the very Minnesotan sounding "Sara Jane Olson" alias while she was on the lam is just too cute and cynical).
  
  Too many liberal activist judges and attorneys in our justice system can help put someone' [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2009, 8:57am EDT
  

• Succinct Statement of the Real Solution: Starve the Beast

  I recently rec'd a msg from a sage person, whose identity must remain undisclosed, offering this person's ultimate conclusion on the real solution to our governmental problems. I'm convinced this person, a nearly full-time student of the markets and Austrian School economics for at least 10 years, has hit upon' [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2009, 9:14pm EDT
  

• White House Enemy Number One: A Private Citizen

  Does anyone remember when President Bush launched an attack against one of his many critics in the media? No one? Of course not. You can't. He was the President of the United States and the President does not target a citizen for rhetorical attacks.
  
  But, that was then, this' [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 12:14am EST
  

• MN Liberals Should Oppose Real Estate Bail-Outs

  If the DFL really cares about the welfare of Minnesota, rather than the chances for power-grabbing by all Democrats nationwide, it should stand up and criticize President Obama and the leadership of the federal Congress for bailing out a few insane States at the expense of all the rest, who [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 2:30pm EST
  

• Now this is true Hope!

  Forget the bogus "hope" Obummer and the Socialists (sounds like a schlock rock band, doesn't it?) foisted on the electorate. This is a real sign of hope that there are at least some young people who have their act together.
  
  
  
  Lia, the 12 year old Canadian' [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 5:27pm EST
  

• Representative Kate "Chutzpah" Knuth calls for "Shared Sacrifice"

  Representative Kate Knuth's latest press release, dutifully published with prominence in the latest editions of both the Bulletin and the Sun Focus newspapers, is her latest interpretation of the DFL talking points. She plays pretty fast and loose with her use of "we" and "us" in trying to promote' [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 7:24pm EST
  

• SV Mayor Sandy Martin to Residents: "No Debate for You!"

  Like the Soup Nazi of Seinfeld fame, Mayor Sandy Martin and the Shoreview City Council are apparently easily annoyed. Disturbed by a citizen with property inside city boundaries whose frequent "attacks" at city council meetings became repetitive and "escalated in a way that it's disturbing," they have changed the rules' [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 3:10pm EST
  

• The Minnesota Department of Economic Suppression

  This story is about Lisa – not her real name – an enterprising young business consultant.
  
  Early in 2008, Lisa was visited by a well-paid agent of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. Let’s call him Mr. DEEDS. He announced simply, “I’m here for the audit.”
  [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 7:02pm EST
  

• Remember when we had a President who "got it"?

  "Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite."
  
  Ronald Reagan
  January 20, 2013 cannot come soon enough.
  
  HT: Liberty Quotes[...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 8:39am EST
  

• Department of Defense Contemplates Helping Civil Authorities Abrogate Civil Rights

  I hate conspiracy theorizing. Wild-eyed Rosie O'Donnell types who think, for example, the government could succeed in taking down two of the world's tallest skyscrapers, on purpose, and keep the secret both before and after the fact, and use the evidence that there is no evidence of this merely to [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 3:39pm EST
  

• A Canadian Does the Job the Mainstream Media Neglected

  A bit long but well worth the read:
  
  Obama's Revenge
  
  HT: Jim Quinn' [...]
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  Posted: February 20, 2009, 5:36pm EST
  

• Atlas Puked

  If you have not yet read Atlas Shrugged, a great piece of literature that the government schools tend to ignore, you really should. Although written in 1957 it is downright spooky in that the story parallels many of today's current events as perpetrated by the Obama Administration and the' [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 8:48am EST
  

• Buy Real Things, Minnesotans

  Two to four years. That's what I'm hearing, folks. Get it through your heads that the Federal Reserve Note is a ticking time bomb, and get rid of it. Buy things that will still be good 2-4 years from now, that you will consume if, by some miracle, the predictions [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 11:23am EST
  

• A Tale Of Early Media Bias -- Civil War Era

  This entry is longer than I intended, but please read on, I will make it interesting
  
  I was getting so sick of listening to Obama and his gloom and doom predictions, as well as the media playing him up as the messiah, that I sought some diversion. I watched [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  

• Unperverted Capitalism

  For your viewing pleasure--and a blast from the past--enjoy Milton Friedman explaining the basic guts of real capitalism (not credit capitalism as is currently being saved by Our Savior of Nothing) to the dimmer-than-a-13-watt-fluorescent-bulb Phil Donohue:
  [www.youtube.com]
  
  In contrast to the great Friedman's sparkling clarity, consider the muddle-headedness' [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 10:05pm EST
  

• Pogemiller More Conservative than Seifert?

  Well, no, probably not.
  
  But it's an illustration of what a sad pass things have reached when the Pioneer Press in the Friday, 2/6 edition, quotes Pogemiller reasonably observing, "You cannot put 40 percent of the budget [a conservative estimate of the education portion of MN's spending, I'd'" [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 10:59am EST
  

• Understand the Scope and Source of Securitization

  If you read this article (click post title) from early December, you'll begin to understand what's really going on in the economy. One caveat: just remember that one thing only made all this wild leveraging possible, and that was the artificially low interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 1:53pm EST
  

• US Government is Illegitimate

  because, like King John, it considers itself above the law. Time for a new Magna Carta:
  [online.wsj.com]
  Quoting from the above linked article:
  "Messrs. Paulson and Bernanke forcefully urged Mr. Lewis not to walk away, praising the bank's earlier cooperation -- but warning that abandoning the deal would be'" [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  

• Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

  
  Remember when we had a real president?
  
  After listening to the fear-mongering blather coming from the current occupant of the White House the last couple of weeks it is clear the President Reagan was correct when he stated Government is not the solution to [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 8:38am EST
  

• Obama's a Teflon Liar ... But Republicans Aren't Much Better

  This from the Australian Daily Reckoning, by Dan Denning:
  "We have on our hands a financial system that has used cheap credit and leverage to erect a systemically destabilising class of financial assets backed by debt. Our policy makers are trying to safe that system through a policy of" [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 9:45pm EST
  

• Is Obama Losing It?

  Obama's emerging incompetence is starting to, frankly, frighten me a bit.
  
  The fiasco that is his appointment process is the most obvious example of his incompetence.
  
  It was his second bite at the "I Won" apple yesterday that really sent a chill up my spine. He's decided to [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 12:22pm EST
  

• The big spenders in Ramsey County are at it again

  Check it out at [ramseycountyexposed.blogspot.com].
  
  So much for budgets being cut to the bone. [...]
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  Posted: February 04, 2009, 11:13pm EST
  

• Representative Kate Knuth to Hold Town Hall Meeting Tomorrow

  After a hiatus for the re-election season, which was actually a politically shrewd move given her legislative record, Representative Kate Knuth will hold another of her Town Hall Meetings tomorrow (Saturday January 31, 2009) from 10:00-11:00 at the New Brighton Family Service Center. The blurb in the local papers and [...]
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  Posted: January 30, 2009, 8:09am EST
  

• New Brighton Northwest Quadrant - The Non-Fiction Version

  Although most of us have had enough of elections and campaigns recently to last a long time New Brighton residents should keep in mind that 2009 is an election year for the Mayor and some of the City Council. As in the past few elections, the Northwest Quadrant project and [...]
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  Posted: January 25, 2009, 6:12pm EST
  

• Texas Welcomes President Bush

  Only FOXNews and CSPAN aired the warm welcome President Bush received in Texas and his comments to the crowd. An estimated 25,000 fans welcomed the former President. Click here for the CSPAN feed -- it is well worth the look.
  
  Grace, humility, sincerity, and a touch [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2009, 10:39pm EST
  

• Give Us The Geithner Tax Cut

  If Joe The Plumber's $1,200 tax problem was enough to disqualify him from asking then presidential-candidate Obama about his redistribution tax plan, then why doesn't Timothy Geithner's $34,000 tax problem disqualify him from running the IRS?
  
  Geithner failed to pay $34,000 in taxes owed between 2001 and' [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2009, 9:08pm EST
  

• The First Sign of Hope from the Obama Era

  In spite of all of the promotional hype from the "Office" of the President Elect (at least we no longer have to look at the silly sign on his podium) and his doting cheerleaders in the main stream media the Nielsen Ratings for Obama's /coronation inauguration were eclipsed by' [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2009, 11:36am EST
  

• Roe v Wade - The Carnage Continues

  One year has passed since my post on this anniversary of the legally and morally repugnant Roe v Wade decision that legalized infanticide and opened the door of further detriment to our society by activist judges legislating from the bench. With the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the most [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2009, 9:30am EST
  

• Obama Speaks, Government Grows, Hope Flies South

  Make no mistake. President Obama has just inherited his own recession and plans to use it for all its worth.
  
  HOW WE GOT HERE
  
  Democrats have controlled Congress for two years. When they took the reigns of government, unemployment was 4.4%, the deficit was on a steady fall [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 12:30am EST
  

• Dan Conry is Back on the Air

  A good Conservative voice that was abruptly cut off of Twin Cities radio last summer is back. Check out the details at [www.danconry.com].
  
  Dan does a good, common sense Conservative show that may be just right for those who find The War Room too "in your face, [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 11:12pm EST
  

• Ramos and Compean To Be Free -- Thank God!

  President Bush commuted the sentences of Ramos and Compean, the border guards unjustly prosecuted for shooting at a proven drug smuggler. Thank God.
  
  The humiliation for Ramos and Compean is not over though. Because they received a commutation and not a pardon, they will be on supervised release [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  

• Inaugural Lesson Of Ronald Reagan

  The last major recession was the byproduct of Democrat control of Congress and the White House. President Jimmy Carter, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill gave us higher taxes on bigger government. The result was double digit inflation and double digit interest rates. They [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 12:13pm EST
  

• President Bush Says Farewell

  A great man addressed the nation tonight. With class and humility, President Bush said farewell:
  

  I thank the American people for the trust you have given me. I thank you for the prayers that have lifted my spirits. And I thank you for the countless acts of courage, generosity [...]

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  Posted: January 16, 2009, 12:39am EST
  

• Biden Says Goodbye

  Biden said goodbye to the Senate and did so the Biden Way. He talked about himself ... and talked ... and talked. For 40 minutes.
  
  Perhaps the best part of the election is that Senator "Slow Joe" Biden will now fade quietly and silently into the woodwork [...]
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  Posted: January 16, 2009, 12:34am EST
  

• Red Star Notes

  I still subscribe to the Star Tribune. Through thick and thin I've stayed with it even as its subscriber base drops. I cheered when Katherine Kersten was added as a columnist in 2005.
  
  Now they are letting Katherine Kersten go. One of the only breaths of fresh air allowed [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 11:26am EST
  

• Welcome to Minnesota, the World's Coldest Banana Republic

  With the Minnesota US Senate "recount" now completed in favor of Al Franken look for the DFLers who control the process to move to end it as quickly as possible and get the senator-select seated. If nothing else, this unfortunate episode should emphasize the urgent need to fix our [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2009, 1:05pm EST
  

• Ramsey County Taxpayers Take Note!

  Jim Schottmuller has started the Ramsey County Exposed blog that focuses on the way Ramsey County does business and highlights the dire need for reform.
  
  Jim ran a great campaign in an effort to accomplish the near impossible goal of removing an entrenched incumbent County Commissioner and [...]
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  Posted: December 23, 2008, 4:28pm EST