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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 public schools are awful. We are told this over and over, again and again, by politicians of both parties. They are terrible. They fail students. They are the reason America is not competitive. They are leaving children behind. Teachers in public schools aren’t accountable. They aren’t good. They don’t care. If you’re lucky, or rich, you can get your kid into a private school. Continue Reading
The Minnesota GOP today launched an attack on Mark Dayton that is sure to shock everyone. You see, it turns out the guy’s rich.
I think Spot has gotten to the nub of it:
Having the money to have access to the airwaves obviously helped Mark Dayton. But it wouldn’t have mattered at all if he didn’t have a message that resonated with DFL voters.
That’s very important to understand, because I absolutely believe Dayton wan his party’s endorsement because he spoke to the voters who would decide it: DFL voters. Continue Reading
So on Tuesday Democrats got together to choose a candidate to try to win back the governor’s mansion. And once again, the candidate chosen was not the candidate that the party endorsed at its convention.
This is nothing new. DFLers have turned their back on their party’s endorsee routinely over the years, and when they haven’t, the electorate as a whole has. Continue Reading
Lost in the whole Shirley Sherrod debacle was the impetus for Breitbart’s smear – the NAACP’s decision to call out the teabaggers for their unwillingness to disavow racism. Continue Reading
Jeffrey Lord has good news, America. You may have thought that Emmett Till and those like him who were killed by extrajudicial mobs were lynched. Continue Reading
One of the most important issues our state government will need to deal with in the next several years is education. Quite simply, education has been left to decay during the Pawlenty administration, with reduced funding and a deeply wrongheaded focus on high-stakes testing – one started by George W. Bush and lamentably continued under Barack Obama.
Convicted child rapist and fugitive from justice Roman Polanski was freed this week by a Swiss court, on the grounds that the American request for extradition might not have been sentenced to more than 90 days in jail, and that he really didn’t think he’d be arrested despite, you know, Continue Reading
I never knew that the way to get rich in America was to become a waiter. I mean, sure, I suspected; waiters are always driving those sweet ’99 Hyundais, rolling with fat stacks of Washingtons, and spending holidays at their vacation homes in their regular homes. Continue Reading
Al Gore has done a lot of good during his long career in public service. His work on global warming, for example, has been exemplary. His work as Clinton’s vice president to streamline government and make it run more efficiently was outstanding. And it’s hard to argue that America would not have been better off with President Gore than President Bush Jr.