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David DeCoux

Saint Paul, MN
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Posted on 10/11/10 at 04:38 pm in response to Local media: Why we didn't report Deadspin's sexting allegations against Favre

I'd like to note, and possibly amend your timeline, this story caught wind first in the local sails on the radio at 93.x. as they interviewed A.J. Daulerio on April 14, 2010.

You should give a listen to interview.

Posted on 09/30/10 at 07:42 pm in response to Why don't politicians apologize when caught telling a whopper?

The difference between a child and a politician telling a lie is that most children are not lawyers while most politicians are lawyers.

While a child is likely to see a lie as a binary action a lawyer is trained to see it as anything but binary. I don't want to be too hard on the profession of lawyers, I know some damn ethical lawyers, but they're no politicians.

To those that think this is a problem with journalism I'd say that is a cop-out or at the very least a distortion....

Posted on 09/09/10 at 09:56 am in response to Note to Tom Emmer: No taxes for sidewalk poetry

"But can we agree that offending politicians don’t care one whit about whether what they’re saying is true?"

I was thinking about this last night and I had a bit of a political epiphany. Is this why so many lawyers go into politics? The court room has rules and decorum and a lawyer can be called out for objectionable statements. Not only that, but the Jury is then instructed that they cannot consider the information.

In the real world the sound byte is out and perhaps a million...

Posted on 09/01/10 at 02:49 pm in response to Small-business association honors Emmer; on budget plan, GOPer says 'wait till next week'

As a little Twitter birdie mentioned, Would that be the same France that has incredibly high taxes and is a Socialist State.

So is Emmer's arguement that Minnesota is not Socialist enough or that Minnesota doesn't have high enough taxes?

Or maybe it's the Universal Healthcare that is drawing them to France?

On taxes in France:
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Posted on 08/20/10 at 02:30 pm in response to Disturbing suicide tale: U of M professor reexamines ethics questions of drug trial

This is a tragedy and I can't help but wonder how many times this sort of conflict goes undetected with other drugs/studies across the country.

Don't these doctors take an oath?

Posted on 06/17/10 at 09:37 am in response to Oberstar points to road problem: a shortage of federal gas-tax revenue

Here is an idea, take some money from the war machine and use it for roads and infrastructure. The largest single item of discretionary spending in the federal budget is in the defense budget. Estimates vary on what is and what is not defense budget, as do shady gov't accounting practices, but the amount we spend on defense is likely about one trillion dollars a year.

Cut Defense spending in half and use that money.

What does the fuel tax raise in revenue every year? I've...

Posted on 06/14/10 at 11:14 am in response to Why are the liberal arts so subject to budget cuts?

Specialization. I have read that liberal arts colleges are shifting from traditional roles to the role of a "Professional" college where the focus is placed on an industry.
This was written about in 1990 by David Breneman and the trend seems to continue.

Here's the original story "Are we losing our liberal arts colleges?"
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Posted on 06/09/10 at 03:14 pm in response to Eating their own: After a restaurant scandal, recriminations among local food writers

Nice summary. I think many people outside the blogging and/or food community didn't really see the big deal and dismissed the original story as too insider.

Posted on 05/24/10 at 02:33 pm in response to 'Sports Armageddon?' Supreme Court issues landmark ruling favoring Vikings and individual teams over NFL

I hate to ask it, but could this affect the Williams' ruling?

Posted on 05/03/10 at 11:07 am in response to Are liberals unconstitutional?

"[i]t is true that, in the United States, at least, we have a constitution that imposes strict limits on some powers of government. But, as we have discovered in the past century, no constitution can interpret or enforce itself; it must be interpreted by men. And if the ultimate power to interpret a constitution is given to the government’s own Supreme Court, then the inevitable tendency is for the Court to continue to place its imprimatur on ever-broader powers for its own government....