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Jeff Fecke is a freelance writer who lives in Eagan, Minnesota. In addition to his own blog, Blog of the Moderate Left, he also contributes to Alas, a Blog, Minnesota Campaign Report, and AlterNet.
The idea that Barack Obama is a failure with no accomplishments to speak of has always struck me as ludicrous. Once health care reform is passed (and it will be), Obama will be the most consequential Democratic president on domestic issues since Lyndon Johnson. Continue Reading
North Star Liberal, which decided to launch by calling Margaret Anderson Kelliher fat and mannish. Of course, it’s okay because they also mocked the appearances of male politicians, which, er, only makes things worse. Continue Reading
I am trying very hard to see where Newsweek’s choice to use Sarah Palin’s Runner’s World photo as their cover is a horribly sexist decision that belittles women everywhere. Continue Reading
On July 1, over at local righty superblog True North (“Pointing Minnesota in the Right Direction”), Kevin Ecker decided to use his time to highlight an anti-immigration rally in Austin, Minnesota: Continue Reading
If you know enough about Minnesota politics to be reading my blog, you probably know who Margaret Anderson Kelliher is. She’s the current Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, the second and longest-serving woman to hold the position. She’s also one of the DFL candidates seeking to replace incumbent Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2010. She’s considered one of the front-runners for the DFL nomination, along with a handful of others, like former Sen. Mark Dayton, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak (who has not officially announced, but who is widely expected to run), and former Minnesota House Minority Leader Matt Entenza. If nominated, she’d be the first woman to head a major-party gubernatorial ticket in the state’s history. Continue Reading
One of the more bizarre sub-plots from the bizarre story that is the faked balloon voyage of Falcon Heene is the YouTube video in which Falcon and his brothers claimed to be “not pussified.”
Debbie Schussel is best known for her rabid hatred of anything that can even tangentially be connected to Islam, up to and including falafel. So it’s nice to see her branching out into some good old-fashioned hatred of other things.
What has made Debbie angry? Well, it seems Disney’s messing with a character. Continue Reading
I don’t know if Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize quite yet, and I’m actually serious when I say he won it in no small part for simply not being George W. Bush – for seeking to reengage with the world in the sort of way that decent, non-rogue countries do. That said, who cares? Continue Reading
Jeff Fecke is a freelance writer who lives in Eagan, Minnesota. In addition to his own blog, Blog of the Moderate Left, he also contributes to Alas, a Blog, Minnesota Campaign Report, and AlterNet. Fecke has appeared as a guest on the “Today” show, the Alan Colmes radio show, and the Mark Heaney Show. Continue Reading
I swear, at some point in the next few days, I will stop posting on Roman Polanski. But it shines so many interesting lights on so much of the sexism in our culture that it’s impossible to ignore it. Continue Reading