#12. I agree with every word except the last sentence. I think Limbaugh is very intelligent and gets paid huge amounts of money to say anything the folks who pay him the "big bucks" want him to say. Thus, they can continue to go their merry and destructive ways, urging us to use more oil, coal, combustion engines, you name it, without the populace realizing the real results of those activities, even as we're choking on fumes and paying enormously to keep the insanity going. George W put...

Re: good news about Minneapolis! Though I'm a suburbanite, my husband, friends, and family visit the City often for our cultural and athletic "fixes." I'm proud to show off both of our Twin Cities to out-of-state visitors, enjoying the complimentary remarks--well-earned by both cities.

Several years ago, driving to Washington state and delighting in the scenery, we were especially impressed by the small cities and towns along the way and their well-maintained look: prosperous, clean...

Yay! Looking forward to the luncheon even more.

I am so proud of our governor--holding the line on that most Minnesota of values: "We all do better when we all do better."

Obama is president of all the people, and sadly for Dems, this is a right-leaning electorate on the whole. If Bush hadn't left such a total mess in his wake, Obama would have had a much harder time getting elected.

Listening to Governor Rick Perry on MSNBC this morning was worrisome. He has that ability to "cloud men's minds" (as The Shadow used to do on the old radio program--oldsters like me know the phrase) with his heated delivery--so un-Pawlenty-like. Perry's "solutions" are as...