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Richard Schulze

Walker, MN
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4 years 18 weeks

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Posted on 12/04/12 at 07:49 am in response to Troubling questions about Obama’s drone warfare

It may take longer than the visionaries think, but the pilot in the cockpit is already an endangered species.

Posted on 12/04/12 at 07:51 am in response to Troubling questions about Obama’s drone warfare

The Predator drone is the closest thing to a silver bullet in the War on Terrorism.

It has decimated Al Qaeda leadership. And more importantly it is a psychological tool which keeps them paranoid, sleepless, uncertain, off balance, in hiding, fearful in daylight and dreading the night.

If Terrorism is asymmetrical warfare to confound and defeat an army. Drone attacks are asymmetrical weapons to confound and eliminate leadership.

Posted on 11/29/12 at 08:09 pm in response to Pundits think Franken is in good shape for Senate re-election

I think Lambert had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek while writing that piece..

Posted on 11/30/12 at 07:55 am in response to Minnesota’s progressive groups, fresh from victory, ready to push their agenda at Capitol

This is a defining moment for the DFL. I would recommend the so-called "Kiss' model.

Enact a budget that closes the $1 billion structural gap without school payment shifts.

Tax reform: Start with the 21stCentury Tax Reform Commission report as a beginning. Expanding the base and broadening the sales tax is a good start. Bakk has previously supported a variation of this plan.

Learn the consequences of overreach from the GOP during this past election.

There is no...

Posted on 11/19/12 at 08:21 am in response to Why Gallup hates Nate Silver

Did Nate Silver's numbers really surprise anyone? His system is primarily an extension of baseball stats. Note, however, that the Gallup chief said polls are a "snapshot in time" rather than a prediction of the actual result; this is a wonderful get-out since there is no way of proving Gallup wrong on that basis.

Posted on 11/15/12 at 09:13 pm in response to Q&A: Chip Cravaack reflects on defeat, outlines fiscal cliff 'basics'

Republicans claim we can close the deficit without raising taxes which is actually possible and obviously not going to happen. Democrats claim we can close the deficit without raising taxes on the middle class or reforming entitlements which is not even technically possible. The last four years nothing happened to make either party admit they've been lying. I hope this election was the thing that will make it safer to tell the truth than to keep lying on enough people's part to get...

Posted on 11/15/12 at 07:52 am in response to With Petraeus and Broadwell, we have a different sort of sex scandal

"They all seem to be sleeping with each other, sir" - Burn After Reading

Paula Broadwell was not a victim of anything. She was a female embedded journalist in Afghanistan. She graduated West Point and been promoted to Lt Col in the reserves. Doesn't look to me that she has been held back by gender. She actively was a participant in this affair. If it prevents women from receiving mentoring in the future, then women have their own sister to blame as much as they do a sexist...

Posted on 11/14/12 at 10:24 pm in response to What you need to know about the 'fiscal cliff'

I have a theory about what happens next. Obama is now a one-term president who will never run for public office again. He gets to choose whether he becomes a footnote, or a chapter in history. He may well abandon his supporters on the left to strike a deal with Republicans over the fiscal cliff and entitlements reform. If he pulls that off, stock markets will rocket, and he will go down in history as the president who saved the United States. This is a much more likely scenario than you...

Posted on 11/15/12 at 09:03 pm in response to What you need to know about the 'fiscal cliff'

Capping deductions would be the right place for Obama to begin from.

A $50,000 cap would raise some $750 billion over ten years. The cap would barely touch the bottom 60% of taxpayers while only slightly hurting the upper-middle class. Most of the money would come from the top 1%.

According to Bloomberg, a $25,000 cap would generate $1.3 trillion in higher revenues, and still be highly progressive.

Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:05 am in response to 11 ex-legislators successfully fight their way back to the Capitol

My hope for the new DFL majority would be to lean centrist and learn from the GOP's political over-reach. The DFL should partner with the GOP and craft broad bi-partisan budget and tax reform proposals. Reach out and share some of the credit. This will be a defining moment for the DFL and voters will not be shy when it comes to grading them in two years.