Gallup has a new poll showing that the ground is eroding under the feet of anthropogenic global-warming advocated. Skepticism in the US has rapidly increased over the last four years, climbing from 30% in 2006 to almost half of all respondents in their latest survey:
Gallup’s annual update on Americans’ [...]
Hey candidates, if you send me your media releases and I think they are newsworthy, I’ll post them!
Here’s good news from the Jim Meffert campaign. Jim is running for Representative in Minnesota’s CD3.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 11, 2010
Contact: Ted Thompson, 651.983.5607
Meffert announces endorsements from a dozen Third District [...]
For many California areas, unemployment rates moved persistently higher in January, indicating that the national economic recovery hasn't yet translated into jobs for the Golden State.
New county-by-county figures released by the state Wednesday showed that in eight counties, more than' [...]
Cynicism is that there’s one, two press people in this gallery. [...]
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and has introduced a Bill that would amend the 2005 Energy Policy Act to give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) more authority to site transmission lines in transmission corridors of national [...]
Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Magnuson stepping down
Eric Magnuson
By Beth Hawkins | Thursday, March 11, 2010
Chief Justice Eric Magnuson announced plans today to leave the bench on June 30. Once Pawlenty’s law partner, Magnuson has been a vocal critic of budget [...]
In the left sidebar you’ll find a Paul Thissen for Minnesota Governor advertisement.
Democrat Paul Thissen started his campaign early, hitting the road long before others declared they wanted to run. Here’s June 28th, 2009, Thissen Audio (courtesy of AM950 KTNF).
Today (3/11/2010) sparks flew [...]
Our 21 year old daughter is currently in her Junior year at one of our taxpayer funded State of MN Universities and she has frequently complained about how much liberal indoctrination she is forced to endure in the course of her daily studies. I think they finally pushed her over the [...]
Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric J. Magnuson today announced that he will leave the state’s highest court, effective June 30, 2010, according to the Minnesota Courts.
“It has been my privilege to serve as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court for the past two years,” Magnuson said in a [...]
"I guess former conservative / former Republican / former Independence" [...]
I don't know what Steve Landsburg is drinking, but someone get me a case, and then get cases to Washington and St. Paul. Here are a few choice tidbits:
There is this notion abroad that an extra billion in government spending can be converted from "irresponsible" to "responsible" as long as' [...]I keep finding fresh evidence to suggest that the balance of power is changing, between the teachers unions and the Legislature, School Boards, and taxpayers they used to dominate. District 112, the Eastern Carver County Schools ("Chaska") is going toe to toe with Education Minnesota on a new [...]
Gov. Tim Pawlenty will join another likely Republican presidential contender, Sarah Palin, at a campaign event for Rep. Michele Bachmann on April 7. The appearance by Palin and Pawlenty, along with former Sen. Norm Coleman, and Reps. John Kline and Erik Paulsen, will not actually [...]
Rep. Michele Bachmann told Tea Party activists on Wednesday to “take the town halls to Washington, DC” to defeat the health care bill. Bachmann suggested that passing the health reform bill would be a slam against freedom — and the troops in Afghanistan.
In a video [...]
Here's an easy way to cut through the clutter of news today, anyone that labels themselves an "Environmentalist' is most likely a lying Piece of Shit. From MMGW to renewable energy, environmentalist have to use lies and deception to get at our money. Here is an example of how federal'" [...]
In the last two weeks the Star Tribune has run two very different health care stories that leave the reader with the same message: Comprehensive and preventive care cut costs and improve quality of life.
The University of Minnesota, University of St. Thomas and Minnesota State University [...]
A top priority of the Obama presidency has been to restore the image of the United States in the world; in image allegedly left in tatters by the Bush administration. Unfortunately for the president, however, Americans by a wide margin now believe that that the [...]
Email messages obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the climate dataset of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was considered — by the top climate scientists within NASA itself — to be [...]
The debate on the bonding bill crossed political and personal boundaries. Democrat from Willmar Rep. Al Juhnke was first to go against his party, joining Republicans in wanting to reject the bill saying "there's a smelly underbelly" and that was the process that left [...]
Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin will hold a fundraiser for 6th District Congresswoman Michele Bachmann next month. Here's a copy of the press release from Bachmann's campaign:
U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (MN-06) announced today that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will host a fundraiser for Bachmann's re-election campaign [...]
In the pre-Google era, Al Franken had a stint for the Duluth Convention and Visitors Bureau as the “Duluth Answer Man,” a font of knowledge about Minnesota’s fourth-largest city. In a new video, via Perfect Duluth Day, Sen. Franken enlists the character to help [...]
MnIndy file photo
Sen. Al Franken will be headlining Netroots Nation, the annual progressive bloggers conference. This year’s event runs July 22–25 in Las Vegas, CNN is reporting.
In its Thursday announcement, Netroots Nation compared Franken to the man who once held the [...]
Shortly after receiving the nod to be the GOP’s 2008 vice presidential candidate in St. Paul, Sarah Palin traveled to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to campaign. In her book “Going Rogue,” she described the town as a “slice of Americana” — with patriotic bunting and a “quaint town square with [...]
Comissioner Mike Opat
As hearings begin on GAMC pact, providers and advocates for the poor analyze its implications
By Casey Selix
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Hennepin County officials and HCMC assess potential effects and get used to a new set of acronyms. To name [...]
PLUS: Racino put out to pasture, Jesse pops up again, and lockdown story goes international.
[...]I’ve had it up to here with the White House’s spinning about Chief Justice John Roberts. The tipping point was reached when Propaganda Minister Robert Gibbs said this:
In a statement sent to reporters, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the only troubling thing was the 5-4 ruling [...]
WASHINGTON — In the five weeks since being sworn in as the Senate’s 41st Republican, Sen. Scott Brown (R) of Massachusetts has often sided with Democrats — and seen some reach across the aisle in return.
[...]Virginia Postrel’s life has put her in position to experience the issues of the American health-care system in a very personal manner. She donated a kidney to a friend, only to discover a year later that she had a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer. In a lengthy but worthwhile [...]
I've had it up to here with the White House's spinning about Chief Justice John Roberts. I reached my tipping point when Propaganda Minister Robert Gibbs said this:
In a statement sent to reporters, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the only troubling thing was the 5-4 ruling' [...]
Rep. Jim Oberstar joined a call by President Obama and Haitian President René Préval for long-term American assistance to the island nation still recovering from a massive and devastating earthquake, including ongoing financial [...]
What does the exit of 2 young DFL members of the House's key 'Class of 2006' portend for control?
Reps. Jeremy Kalin and Karla Bigham
In 2006, the DFL took control [...]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Photo: WDCpix
WASHINGTON — Lindsey Graham is on the verge of winning an argument. Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, has pledged for weeks to deliver the votes from his fellow Republicans to finally close the detention [...]
And now he'll be the' [...]
I guess former conservative / former Republican / former Independence party Governor candidate Joe Repya was on a bankrupt radio station that used to siphon money away from Boys and Girls Clubs or something with a liberal stalkerazzi hack last night and said that his campaign for Governor is just [...]
