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Dave Frenkel seems closer to the truth than Dave Broden.
Lots of people grow up, live and die without ever leaving the area they were born in. Others travel the globe, living in a variety of circumstances, climates and social environments, and in part at least, depending upon where they happen to be in life. I've lived in three metro areas in three different states, and spent substantial amounts of time in other parts of the U.S. as well. None of them has been perfect, either socially...
Hiram Foster makes an excellent point.
I wouldn't cross the street to see the Vikings play for free, much less schlep downtown to a Vegas-like monument to excess to pay ridiculous prices to watch millionaires bump into each other for money. That, however, may well be irrelevant, and Foster is on to something, I think.
Most people in Minnesota, not to mention the rest of the nation, will never see the inside of this boondoggle in person. Even avid Vikings fans are more likely to...
…not least of which is that the societies that have adopted some form of universal care (i.e., virtually all the industrialized world except the U.S.) like it. The Brits are simply one of several examples that could be used. Nowhere outside the U.S. is there any significant public sentiment in favor of adopting our corporate model.
If the Dems need to pick up 17 seats to control the House, and the best-case scenario for Dems that Trende can come up with is a 5-seat pickup, I’ll personally look forward to the remainder of Obama’s 2nd term being more of the same sort of drowning-in-quicksand while shouting-at-each-other that’s characterized Congress throughout the Obama tenure. Should his best-case-for-Democrats blow up and there be a 15-seat gain for the Repubs, it will only matter if Repubs also gain control of the...
As others have suggested, what I read here is rhetoric straight out of an ALEC brochure. Mr. Johnson represents, or would like to represent, the “Party of ‘No’” in the Governor’s mansion. While less of a plutocrat than Mr. Honour, he’s equally unappealing.
Raising the gasoline tax ought to be a no-brainer. I’m obviously not in the Governor’s inner circle, and have no idea what rationale currently explains Dayton’s timidity in this regard, but if there are any legislators left under the capitol dome who still understand the notion that “there ain’t no free lunch,” the justifications for a significant rise in gas and diesel fuel taxes seems self-evident. It comes closer to the typical “conservative” model of a “user fee” than most other funding...
……of the “free market” that has taxpayers subsidizing “free enterprise” to the tune of $250 million.
There's no "almost" about it. If someone's life weren't involved, this would be straight out of Monty Python. The Senser defense argument is more than a little reminiscent of the shopkeeper (old age keeps me from remembering which member of the troupe is behind the counter) responding to John Cleese's escalating ravings about his dead parakeet.
…we're increasingly finding ourselves immersed in a political culture where policy is based on lies. Some of them inadvertent and the result of sincere, if misguided, concern, but more and more, lies told with malice aforethought and with malevolent – that is to say, partisan and self-serving – intent. In that particular political culture, I don't think any of the multiple sides involved are entirely innocent, but it seems patently obvious to me that one side, one group, one political party...
Like Todd Hintz, I'm a gun owner and gun control supporter, and as he said, the two are not mutually exclusive. Since legislators purportedly represent everyone in their respective districts, perhaps it would be more relevant or informative if they found out what percentage of their actual constituents feel about a specific issue or proposal rather than simply counting emails from one viewpoint versus another. Vested interests have been known, even in Minnesota, to flood legislative in-boxes...