Much ado has been made recently about the demise of the Republican Party and the growing sense in the New York/Washington bubble that Obama will be re-elected. It’s certainly possible the ?improving? jobs’ numbers and economic data could give Obama enough momentum to slide into a second term. Certainly his media advantage, his wars on conservatives, women, and the productive sector have ginned-up his base, | Read More »
We are lectured ad nauseum about how conservatives are anti-science, moralizing crusaders who are unable to use pragmatism to solve social problems. Then, when a socio-economic problem is addressed applying solid, accepted scientific principles, progressives lose their heads. Jon Tevlin, an accomplice of the progressive/socialist wing of the Minnesota Democratic Party, is a shining example of this soft-headed, anti-scientific approach. He posits human beings are | Read More »
This whole kerfuffle over Obama’s dictates about abortion, contraception, and reproductive rights has the left arguing their usual nonsense about keeping church and state separate. Rooted in their argument is a basic ignorance of the Constitution and its purpose. Professor Obama is first among these ignoramuses. The reason the First Amendment of the Constitution is worded in such a way is to prevent “the Church” | Read More »
The virulent Left and Democratic Party have their talking points all in a row. They have decided to take a bunch of quotes from Rick Santorum and create a false narrative about Republicans and contraception. We’ve been figuring out their game these past few days starting from the ABC News debate moderated by George Snuffalupagus. The Democratic operative, pretending to be a journalist, had an | Read More »
The lying has taken on a new level. There is a sick smear of CPAC going on within the left wing media apparatus. A prog.soc shadow group called “Right Wing Watch” has initiated a desperate campaign against the entire conservative movement. They are alleging a so-called leader of a “white supremicist” movement was part of a conference at the meeting. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-santorum-just-had-dinner-white-nationalist-bob-vandervoort They are arguing the | Read More »
Attending my first GOP caucus as a participant was an exciting experience. I had some butterflies going in because I wouldn’t know anyone there and it was something new. The experience was quite different from what I had expected. I’d like to flesh out my overall impressions a little more fully. For those who are old hands at caucuses, this may seem to be a | Read More »
This past weekend, there were several articles addressing the marriage amendment up for a vote this coming fall. Instead of dealing with it rationally, the Star Tribune printed two articles that merely defame conservatives without addressing the actual issue. The Democratic Party is creating a narrative that suggests if you are for the amendment, which merely memorializes the law as it stands, you are engaging | Read More »
You know it’s gotten bad when the Democratic spokesmodels at the reliably liberal Star Tribune are chiding President Obama. In a commentary entitled, ‘Recess appointment flap — a sign of the rule-bending times,’ Strib editor D.J. Tice has some cautionary words for his friends on the left. Using a comparison that is more akin to that of the Tea Party, Tice warns that if we let | Read More »
Fox Lake Power Plant has been listed as an electrical generating plant to be closed down by the EPA ostensibly due to it being ‘dirty’ and not complying with new rules generated by the EPA administrator uber-radical Lisa Jackson. In my last post I questioned why this small rural Minnesota power plant being placed on the list because it doesn’t even burn coal and hasn’t | Read More »
The Obama administration’s EPA has declared a war on coal-fired power plants. The president famously remarked he didn’t care if coal power plants operated, but he would make sure they were cost-prohibitive. His EPA rolled out rules that would make coal-burning power plants a target in his war on mercury and other pollutants. His radical EPA chief said, “This has been 20 years in the | Read More »
The StarTribune did the right thing this past weekend. They condemned Hamline’s aborted offer to have Tom Emmer, the Republican nominee for Minnesota governor in 2010, teach business law classes. They attacked it on ethical grounds, arguing Hamline promised diverse viewpoints and ideas as part of their mission and denying a conservative a teaching position was wrong. They also stated it wasn’t fair to Emmer | Read More »
The eruption of alleged malfeasance by the Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder should not be a surprise to anyone. This man was a deeply flawed candidate for the post and was cheered on by Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar. This is not a tale of guilt by association or partisan sniping. This is a post about the questionable judgment exhibited by Klobuchar during | Read More »
Nothing exemplifies the history and accomplishments of the Obama administration like the Chevy Volt. The Chevy Volt was an experimental electric car that was supposed to bring our nation into the future. The Obama administration was an experiment that would change our economy from a capitalist, free market economy, into a centralized command and control economy planned by the brightest and the best. The Chevy | Read More »
We have been promised by Democrats like Minnesota’s U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar that if we just passed a bunch of well-intentioned laws, we would never be robbed by those greedy Wall Street overlords. It was the mean, vile bankers and investment gurus that were putting our democracy and economy at risk. If only we passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, all our | Read More »
The current bugaboo invented by the progressive/socialist Left, is on the subject of economic class in this country. They are ginning up a kind of class envy that is supposed to divide us by income and/or wealth. Several problems arise with this tactic. There is no economic class in this country because there is just too much socio-economic mobility. This subject divides people into distinctions | Read More »
When Jimmy Fallon’s little band played the beginning of the song, “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” from Fishbone as an overture to Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann’s entry on the stage, it was an intentional act to shame her. The Roots, Fallon’s show band, has routinely played songs as a kind of commentary on the guest’s perceived moral or personal fitness. It was all in good fun to | Read More »
“There are few things more precious in a democracy than the public’s trust in our government and our leaders,” Klobuchar said. “The people of Minnesota have put their trust in me. In everything I do as Senator, I will be guided by that trust. I’m coming to do the people’s work.” Sen Amy Klobuchar at her swearing in ceremony upon becoming a Senator representing Minnesota | Read More »
Well, we are seeing the fruit from the poisonous tree of progressive/socialism and it isn’t pretty. Coming out of Portland’s KMTR.com, ‘I-5 traffic stop yields incendiary devices and gas masks,’ a story about three Occupy Portland protestors shows these people are growing more incendiary. In a routine traffic stop for speeding, three young men were found with fireworks, glass jars, and masks and goggles. This | Read More »
Washing across the country is a maelstrom of progressive/socialist voter identification outrage. Mean old Republicans are trying to disenfranchise little old ladies in Tennessee. Dorothy Cooper, who is described as a 96 year-old woman who has voted for decades, was recently denied a voter identification card. Lori Sturdevant of the StarTribune highlighted this tragic tale of voter disenfranchisement in an article entitled, ‘A good target | Read More »
This past week provided both challenges and successes electorally. No ballot failure was quite as stinging as the passage of a referendum repealing the Republican union restriction law in Ohio. Gov. John Kasich, and the Republicans controlling the legislature, passed a law this past spring that would have saved taxpayers billions of dollars. It limited public union collective bargaining to wages and working conditions and | Read More »
Politics are just the weighing of differing means to an end. Two elements are necessary when making a political case. First, you must have a moral argument that justifies taking the action. Second, that argument must have a moral standard that proves its means are acceptable. We are watching, in rather stunned disbelief, as the Democratic Party abandons all pretenses of morality to justify the | Read More »
gos·sip 1. Rumor or talk of a personal, sensational, or intimate nature. 2. A person who habitually spreads intimate or private rumors or facts. 3. Trivial, chatty talk or writing. The Herman Cain harassment story in the news this week sheds more light on the purveyors of the story than Cain himself. After the story of his alleged harassment of women at the National Restaurant | Read More »
Sometimes the most rabid protestors are the guiltiest of the sin they hate. Ulli Ryder in the New York Daily News has decided that Herman Cain is a racist. Ryder believes Cain is guilty of pandering to rich white conservatives and therefore he is furthering old racist stereotypes to the detriment of the African-American community. She thinks there are specific criteria that can determine a | Read More »
Its Halloween season a year before a presidential election, and so now’s the time for progressives, socialists, and Democrats to pull out their handy masks and start pretending they’re not whack-a-doodles. We are entering into that special season when up is down and down is up, and far leftists who have engaged in smear campaigns and outright lying start playacting as responsible, reasonable members of | Read More »
We are being seriously mislead by politicians who promise one thing and deliver quite another. Sen. Amy Klobuchar D-MN is one such leader. We have laws that are supposed to make things work better. If the laws they pass don’t do that, we are being gravely miss-served by those representatives and they should be thrown out. This is an object lesson of one tiny, infinitesimal | Read More »
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