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It is now the one year anniversary of the Minnesota government shutdown and proposals are flying off the shelf regarding what needs to be done to avert future budget impasses. Continue Reading
As Wisconsin goes, so goes Minnesota? Or perhaps is it California? The choice of Minnesota’s future and the fate of its two constitutional amendments this fall might lie in the lessons one learns from these two states when it comes to direct democracy and citizen’s initiatives. Continue Reading
President Obama won by losing on Thursday. Yes his health care legislation was upheld but it came at the expense of federal power and perhaps further losses down the line in terms of civil rights and other forms of federal power. Continue Reading
Whatever the merits of the Minnesota voter photo-identification amendment, chances are that it provisions will not take effect soon, if at all, even if adopted by voters this November.
Face it–progressive politics in America looks dead.
Bachmann is a Swiss Miss
In 2009 23% of the population did not believe Obama was a U.S. citizen. In 2011 Fox News poll, still a quarter of the population held this view with fully 40% thinking there is “cause to wonder” about his citizenship. Birthers remain unconvinced that Obama is an American citizen. Yet th ere is no debate–Michele Bachmann is a Swiss citizen.
I am an educator. Were I to assign my students three projects and they failed to complete them by the appointed time their grade would be an F. The same goes with the Minnesota state legislature.
Groucho Marx was declared that any club that would have him as a member I would not want to join. His sentiment perhaps captures my attitude toward presidential candidates–anyone who wants to be president I would not want to support! Continue Reading
It no longer appears if but when. Specifically, two questions now dominate the presidential race. First, when will Rick Santorum drop out. Second, when does the campaign shake the Etch-A-Sketch and switch into general election mode?
The End of the Road for Santorum
Barring a miracle, the individual mandate in the Obama health care act is dead. But even another possibility exists that the entire law may be voided by the Supreme Court. This should have never gotten to this point. But what if the act is struck, what then?