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• Who Shot David Strom?

  
  Across the Great Divide — Authority: 424
  Exactly one year ago today (11/11/08) MinnPost ran a story announcing that Pat Anderson was replacing David Strom as president of the Minnesota Free Market Institute (MnFMI). The story said Strom would stay on as senior fellow of the institute, and he did — making speeches, writing op/eds, appearing on TV and ...
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• What will Amy and Al do?

  
  Planned Parenthood Advocate Blog — Authority: 118
      by Karina Web Editor Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund A health care reform bill has finally passed through the house by a narrow margin. Unfortunately, the house bill contains an amendment, the Stupak/Pitts amendment, that is antithetical to health care reform’s major ...
  2 days ago

• What they’re saying about T-Paw’s red-hot, smokin’ Iowa speech

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 680
  Tim Pawlenty didn’t bring it. Or he did, depending on who you ask. Here’s a roundup of reaction to the Minnesota governor’s speech to Republican activists in Iowa over the weekend. But first things first. Below is the clip from the 2006 movie “Talledega Nights” that provided Pawlenty with one of his most ...
  3 days ago

• Marri[gay]age

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 565
  Your biweekly Kerdle from wordle.net. You know, sometimes I think her wordles open windows into her real obsessions. Click to read her actual post at your own peril, or just take my word for it that this Tom Toles ‘toon covers everything she has to say and then some. - A Day in the Life: Who is ...
  4 days ago

• Saving the plant for later

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 565
  Nothing like a late night meeting with an attorney to make me reach for the bottle and pipe. Not my attorney, but the meeting was about stuff I’ll have to help with so there you go. I did get some kind of potted plant to go with my retainer. Actually I was asked to throw it in the dumpster on the way out but it ...
  1 week ago

• 111 reasons to vote against the Democrat health care bill

  
  North Star Liberty — Authority: 405
  "As government expands, liberty contracts." —Ronald Reagan The nearly 2000-page Democrat partys "health care" bill creates no less than 111 new bureaucracies. Just reading the list alone should be enough to give all Americans pause over this unprecedented attempt to give American society an extreme makeover. ...
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• Flogstock

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 565
  I don’t always stay up to date on things like I should. Netroots Minnesota? Who knew? And who knew that I was going to be on a panel? I assume I’ll be the go to person for politeness strategies. . Actually I just learned that this is wrong, and that the panel will be on Saturday the 21st and is ...
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• Bachmann – If Your Congressmen Won’t Take Your Call, Pay Them A Visit

  
  Residual Forces — Authority: 538
  Congresswoman Bachmann is calling on us to help stop Pelosicare. If you were listening to Rush Limbaugh today, you probably heard him read an email from her about her call to action for Thursday. Bachmann says that Pelosi doesn’t have the votes yet to pass Pelosicare if the vote were held today. She also said [...]
  1 week ago

• On Michele Bachmann babysitting for Gretchen Carlson

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 680
  Imagine this notice tacked up in Anoka, circa 1970: “Wanted: Future Member of Congress to babysit future Miss America and Fox News host.” That’s just one of the rabbit-holes your mind can wander down if you ponder the fact that culminates George Will’s column about U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann: she was once ...
  2 weeks ago

• Minnesotas "pending political crisis"

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 683
  A U of M political scientist assesses the states budgetary and political landscape. Unless something changes fast, the future is "not bright."
  2 weeks ago

• Make That 59

  
  Residual Forces — Authority: 538
  Sen. Lieberman is going to oppose Obamacare.Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill ...
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• BridgeFail’s Supremes: turning bong water into time

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 565
  Your moment of Obama. Your Faux News moment of Obama. Meanwhile, I’ve got more links than a Viennese sausage maker during cocktail party season, so on with the show. WAR: 90 dead, 265 injured in twin rush hour Baghdad car bomb attacks Reassessing history’s greatest battles impacts Pentagon’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saturday morning toons

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 565
  The Huffington Post has the Top Ten Outrageous Sarah Palin Stories Oprah Will Have To Address . Not to start a flame war in the comments or anything, but since when has Oprah been a tough interviewer? From what little I’ve seen of these kinds of shows, The View is Nightline compared to Oprah’s Good Morning ...
  2 weeks ago

• Margaret Anderson Kelliher is a Woman

  
  Blog of the Moderate Left — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• If it’s Friday, it must mean leftovers . . .

  
  Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles — Authority: 121
  Another political aside: Darth Dick Cheney received the Center for Security Policys Keeper of the Flame Award. Looking on and listening to Cheney were convicted felon Scooter Libby and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Great company. Essentially, the speech was filled with more of Cheneys nonsensical ...
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• Does A Party Toady Dither In The Media?

  
  No Runny Eggs — Authority: 556
  That should be answer that replaces “does a bear shit in the woods” as the response to all obvious answers. In case you haven’t been watching, there is an interesting race shaping up in NY-23.  Dede Scozzafava is the Republican backed candidate, Bill Owens is backed by the Democrats.  Doug Hoffman is running ...
  2 weeks ago

• This is Why Im Thrilled That Al Franken Won in Minnesota

  
  The Stonecipher Report — Authority: 118
  Posted by: Tyler Rippeteau Oct. 23, 2009 Some of you may have already seen this clip, it was originally posted over at Fire Dog Lake, but in case you missed it, here is Al Franken taking on the for-profit health...
  2 weeks ago

• AM.MN: Sex offenders spared sight of ‘President’ Pawlenty on TV

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 680
  Gov. Pawlenty did Moose Lake’s captive sex offenders a favor by taking away their big TVs Tuesday before his 12-minute appearance on CNBC’s “ The Kudlow Report .” They were spared captions dubbing him “‘President’ Pawlenty” and claiming he holds a 56-percent approval rating in Minnesota. ( Try 45 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rot in heaven

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 565
  Thai pop followed by The Books, some Russian dub and Bernie Worrell going Praxis on the keyboards. I love when the music ramps up as the caffeine hits. No, the news hasn’t been measuring up to the soundtrack this morning but some “mushroom” jazz is playing right now, a bar so low that even Cargill Meat ...
  3 weeks ago

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