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Jeremy Powers

Fridley, MN
Commenter for
5 years 25 weeks

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Posted on 09/28/09 at 12:53 pm in response to William Safire, 79: Death has the final word

Some hero of the right. He won his Pulitzer for accusing Bert Lance of a host of wrong doings. Lance resigned, but was acquitted at trial. In other words, he won a Pulitzer for wrongly accusing a public official and tying up the administration so it couldn't do anything. The Pulitzer prizes should be ashamed every time Safire is mentioned as a winner.

Posted on 09/28/09 at 12:57 pm in response to Gov. Pawlenty defends national appearances

Pawlenty "has the time" only because he's not doing his job as governor. The state's a mess – mostly because of him – and he's off kissing babies. I mean it's almost crazy. The state is on the edge of collapse, and he "has time."

Posted on 09/23/09 at 12:10 pm in response to Politics and porridge: Constituents make their case to Franken

Do Minnesotans know how lucky they are to have this kind of access to their senator. Free access. No $1,000 a plate dinners. No expensive lobbyist. No proffered junket. No promise of a campaign contribution.

I'm sure other Minnesota representatives offer similar things, but in many states – especially states with primary elections as the only means of selecting candidates – the average, everyday Joe NEVER gets this kind of access to a decision maker.

Posted on 09/22/09 at 11:28 am in response to Irving Kristol: A 'titan' of political thought passes

Paul,

Exactly! The fruit of his loins, William Kristol of the Weekly Standard, is not a genius by even the most generous terms.

Posted on 09/23/09 at 12:14 pm in response to MicroGrants give one-time boost to low-income people reaching for a dream

Imagine if these entrepreneurs had access to affordable health care, small businesses in this state would explode.

I am a small businessperson who was able to start my own business only because my wife had a good salary, my wife provided me with health care and I had good credit and used low-interest credit cards for equipment.

Posted on 09/21/09 at 11:10 am in response to Pawlenty preaches to the choir, but some go away unconverted

Who would have thought that crippling your state, stabbing it in the back and then abandoning it to bleed to death would make you do so well with people who use the word "value" in their name?

I must have different values than people who believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth; that letting people starve and go without health care is a moral conclusion and that invoking Christ's name but ignoring ALL of his teaching somehow makes you righteous.

Posted on 09/18/09 at 01:26 pm in response to The Star Tribune's rosy post-bankruptcy scenario

Unabashedly for-profit corporations have been taking over the media for half a century, but I can't help but think this may be a new all-time low. With more than 95 percent of the corporation owned by foreign interests in the western hemisphere's biggest tax haven, it might as well be owned by communists, or worse yet, Rupert Murdock.

I have virtually no trust in the Star Tribune. As an example, on the day the front page story announces the newspaper is coming out of bankruptcy, the...

Posted on 09/14/09 at 12:40 pm in response to My path crossed with 'The Man Who Fed the World' in wheat fields from Mexico to Kenya

Gregory Stricherz

This depends on what you mean by "genetic engineering." If you include cross-breeding for hybrids as genetic engineering, virtually nothing you eat, touch or drink would be possible. Your life, if it existed, would have been filled with news about famine like you probably can't even imagine. Maybe a half a billion dead and migrations so large as to double the size of the United States with refugees from starvation.

"Genetic engineering," in the simplest way,...

Posted on 09/10/09 at 12:07 pm in response to Obama's health-care speech: Not a game-changer

I think the biggest thing Obama's speech did was to call out the liars in this game – something the press should be doing but is apparently utterly incompetent to do. He called out the whole death squad thing and the illegal immigrant thing.

He also put in historical perspective, which is the other thing the press is utterly incompetent.

Posted on 09/09/09 at 11:51 am in response to Minnesota's dysfunctional politics takes center stage

The Republicans weren't meeting. They were hiding.