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David Galitz

St. Anthony, MN
Commenter for
5 years 10 weeks

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Posted on 02/21/12 at 09:56 pm in response to UMD hockey fans admonished for racist chants

Actually, that first statement is not true.

Minnesota has as much or more annual solar energy potential as Houston and Miami.

http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/files/CERTsManualCh9.pdf

Posted on 02/23/12 at 11:23 am in response to Minnesota legislators’ political future can hang on tiny boundary changes

Rachel,

check the Legislature's GIS site. it has an interactive map you can search by address that shows the district boundaries to the street level.

Posted on 02/21/12 at 09:51 pm in response to Bipartisan plan would encourage ‘social good’ by companies

There's no coercion being proposed here. No one is pointing a gun, or threat of government action at anyone to incorporate in this manner.

If you want to solely concentrate on profit, and tossing a few crumbs here and there, continue at it. But this would give others the opportunity to do more.

That you have a problem with that is quite telling.

Posted on 01/23/12 at 05:33 pm in response to Appeals Court decision on Defense of Marriage Act expected

"The point is that all the legal structure is available without formal marriage. "

uhm, no. Some can be approximated, if the couple has the time and resources to hire an attorney to draw up a contract spelling those out, but that's a step and expense not required of a heterosexual couple that gets those rights merely with their signatures on a marriage license.

That also assumes that third parties honor the terms spelled out in the contracts, which is not always the case (...

Posted on 01/19/12 at 05:29 pm in response to All heck breaking loose in Republican race

"Occupant-in-Chief", PMSNBC, "Democrat politicians" I guess the Minnpost monitors really have given up.

Posted on 01/19/12 at 10:18 pm in response to All heck breaking loose in Republican race

Paul, That's not what Don Effenberger said in this end of the year column:

http://www.minnpost.com/insideminnpost/2011/12/20/33961/minnpost_reaches...

Posted on 01/16/12 at 09:11 pm in response to Snapshot of GOP horserace over the weekend

"many Catholics switched to the republican party, including our own Norm Coleman, because a politician has to be pro-abortion to be endorsed by that other party "

Not true at all: Colin Peterson, Harry Reid, Bart Stupak, those are three anti-abortion Democrats just off the top of my head. I know that there are many more in the MN state Legislature.

I'd wager there are far more anti-abortion Democratic officeholders than there are pro-choice Republican office holders.

Posted on 01/04/12 at 05:42 pm in response to Bachmann: 'I have decided to stand aside'

Actually, Dennis, Bachmann started attacking her opponents in the debate because she was fading in the polls. It was the only way she had to draw any attention to herself at that point.

And certainly, I'm more than happy to let the GOP keep telling themselves that Bachmann would be a formidable opponent against Klobuchar. It will be Mark Kennedy all over again.

Posted on 01/03/12 at 11:48 am in response to Bachmann: 'This isn't over'

"On the other side is a group representing the best interests of the kids (the raison d'être for the public schools), that's the school district."

No, that's not an irrefutable fact. There are plenty of school board members around that come from the Grover Norquist wing of politics.

Nor is it true that the teachers' interests necessarily conflict with the students' interests.

Posted on 12/21/11 at 05:04 pm in response to Was the Iraq war worth it?

#4 "Given that the "war" was pretty much confined to one city, Baghdad, after the initial invasion,... "

Uhm, Dennis, I'm not sure where you've been the last decade that you never heard of Fallujah, Mosul, Basra, Ramadi,...

The war was far from confined to Baghdad.