Remember when the History Channel focused on History?
I know, it's been a blurry ride, but there was time before the UFO obsession. Before Nostradamus, before the Mayan predictions, before ghost hunters, loggers, truckers, fishermen, and ganglords. But they still are among my favorite channels where I hold out hope to [...]
12 dead including the shooter, 31 wounded. Please keep the families in your thoughts and prayers.
Also remember that initial reports are often wrong.
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Golden Hydrant goes to Lowry Avenue Bridge
We’re in the midst of budget hearings and property tax discussions on the Hennepin County Board, so it’s been awhile since I last awarded a Golden Fire Hydrant, but I can’t pass this one up. The newest Hydrant goes to the [...]
Non-farm productivity grew an astounding 9.5% in the third quarter, the largest since 2003. How did we get there? It wasn't just by increasing output -- that grew by 4%. The rest came by a 5% cut in the number of hours worked. This meant that unit labor costs' [...]
The credibility of the Obama administration on stimulus accountability continues to crash today, this time in Wisconsin. The state’s largest newspaper calls the numbers of jobs “saved or created” not just inaccurate, but “wildly inflated.” The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel picks up the trail blazed by the Associated Press and discovers [...]
Speaker Pelosi and her top lieutenants have told everyone that would listen that the Pelosicare bill didn't fund abortions. Thanks to Leader Boehner's statement today, we know that that's a bald-faced lie:
Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective' [...]
I read a galvanizing Wall Street Journal article Wednesday on my morning flight to Chicago. The article focused on a new trend in India: companies that are designing and selling new products geared toward improving the quality of life for India’s poorest populations, and giving individual entrepreneurs the opportunity [...]
"As government expands, liberty contracts." —Ronald Reagan
The nearly 2000-page Democrat party's "health care" bill creates no less than 111 new bureaucracies. Just reading the list alone should be enough to give all Americans pause over this unprecedented attempt to give American society an extreme makeover. Let your member [...]
FOX News.com is streaming the rally at the US Capital today. Go to Fox's website. At the top it says "Watch Live", you want to click on the "GOP Rally" to open up a stream of the event.
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In case you didn't realize yet that Democrats were way out of the mainstream of American culture and society, I see your "change" and raise you a Federal Taxpayer Backed Abortion Trust Fund.
There is a Federal Trust fund for abortions in the Pelosi Health Bill.
What is even' [...]
Speaker Pelosi walked Blue Dogs off a cliff with the Cap and Tax bill earlier. It was a tough vote for many of them. Then Harry Reid said that Cap and Tax wasn't a priority and that they likely wouldn't debate it until 2010. now she's trying to ram another [...]
If there's a theme in Daniel Henninger's WSJ article, it's that voters' anxieties run deeper than just picking a good candidate to vote for:
The GOP is now spinning the results in Virginia and New Jersey as proof that voters are fed up with the liberal ideologues in the White' [...]
Yesterday at Powerline Paul Meringoff's friend Bill Otis wrote a summary of the 2009 Elections titled: The top five lessons from yesterday. I agree with his points, but number 5 was the most important one for me, and I think he captured it well.
5. Goldwater 2.0 is underway. That [...]
SOTH Pelosi has scheduled the vote for her Constitution shredding Obamacare for this Saturday.
But we can still stop this. Congresswoman Bachmann is leading the charge to defeat this Trillion Dollar government takeover of the Health care industry. She is holding a rally on the steps of the US Capital [...]
Dear Dane,
Wow. Thanks for your explanation of your position on why you think Minnesota has tried the less government approach. I had no idea my short note would generate such leverage of your lengthy response! I was not aware of your support for reducing revenue cyclicality, [...]
Michele Bachmann spake and TEA Party activists, townhall protesters and people frightened at the prospect of losing control of the best health care system in the world are running, flying and driving to Capitol Hill to pay a House Call to Speaker Pelosi and the other wayward souls who [...]
One of the Democrats’ most irritating memes is the idea that there’s some “Moderate Republican” out there that, if the GOP would just send ‘em to office, would unite with Democrats and, well, fix everything!
There’s a complementary meme, of course; that conservatism – government that favors the utterly Jeffersonian ideals [...]
Wednesday night's gubernatorial debate in the St. Cloud City Council room offered a stark contrast between the DFL and the GOP candidates. DFL candidates attending were Susan Gaertner, who arrived late, John Marty and Steve Kelley. GOP candidates Bill Jungbauer, Tom Emmer, Pat Anderson and Leslie Davis also attended. Frank [...]
Thursday November 5, 2009 - Noon to 1 PM - South Steps of the MN State Capitol
On Thursday, November 5th, voters from across the nation will be rallying in Washington DC and at local Congressional offices to oppose the health care 'reform' bill that is expected to come-up for a [...]
