Tag: A-Klo
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I Seem To Have Recovered A Memory
This is difficult for me, so please bear with me. It was in 1988. I was at a party at a duplex at, I think, Franklin and Pleasant in Minneapolis. I was there with a woman, a friend of mine. We’d been drinking. A lot. Suddenly, and without warning, Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Dick Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, Chris…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Jim Newberger is running for US Senate. He’s running against Amy Klobuchar. and he needs you to help out with time and money. Want to laugh and throw up in your mouth a little? Here’s Erin Murphy’s “Vision” page.
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Where Credit Is Due!
As the world wonders what’s going to happen with Al Franken – after 33 Senators call for his stepping down – one must give credit where it’s due. So a big, unreserved salute to two Minnesota profiles in courage – two women who stepped out against the wind in their own party to stand up…
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Pointlessly Enigmatic
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Senator Amy Klobuchar is withholding a blue slip to block the Senate from taking up consideration of President Trump’s nomination of Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Why? Yes, yes, Class Clown Al Franken is withholding his too, but we all know…
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Speaking Justice To Power
On March 4, a group of thugs, concealed in an un-permitted counterprotest, attacked a pro-Trump rally in the Rotunda at the State Capitol; a 17 year old girl was punched, at least one man was maced by someone who was trying to crash through a group of Trump supporters to disrupt the peaceful pro-Trump rally,…
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I Need To Ask Amy Klobuchar…
…whether roads in America actually collapse. PS: It’s Tim Pawlenty’s fault!
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Breslin
Jimmy Breslin died over the weekend. He was 88. We’ll come back to that. The media today – or at least, people of a certain age (i.e. older than me) who are still in the media – remind me of circus performers telling inside jokes about what the ringmaster did after that one show in…
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Apparently, In The Opinions Of Senators Franken And Klobuchar…
…the problem isn’t terrorists, the violently insane, and criminals. No – it’s you and me.
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Amy Klobuchar: On The Bandwagon
I got an email from Senator Klobuchar the other day. Dear Rudolph, So apparently Senator Klobuchar is buying mailing lists from “MoveOn.org” – “Rudolph” is my sock puppet ID there. Anyway: My parents raised me to know that with hard work and determination, I could become anything I wanted to be. It’s a lesson I’ve…
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Heather Martens: “Lie First. Lie Always”
The good guys have apparently gotten into Heather Martens’ head. GOCRA and MNGOPAC figured prominently in Martens’ “Give to the Max” day fundraising plea: By giving today, you make it possible for the voice of reason to be heard at the Capitol despite the intimidation. Intimidation? The stories we could tell. And will, someday. But…
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Whilst Travelling
What is one thing, besides mountains, that Colorado has that Minnesota doesn’t? Amy Klobuchar giving them the unvarnished facts about her beliefs: Senator Klobuchar was the first woman elected to represent the State of Minnesota in the U.S. Senate when she took office in 2007. She was interviewed by Walter Issacson, CEO of the Aspen…
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Deigning
Kevin Williamson came out with an excellent piece this past week, comparing transit policy to “progressive” policy on education (and, for that matter, firearms, although Williamson doesn’t connect the Second Amendment to his thesis. Which is fine – that’s what I’m here for). Our current school and transit systems are largely designed by the “haves”…
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Mills: Didn’t See That Coming
The Strib endorses… …Stewart Mills in CD8. I must confess, I didn’t see it coming – and reading the Strib ‘s piece, I’m going to guess they didn’t either: Among the district’s immediate challenges is a choice between two imperfect candidates for Congress. On balance, we conclude that this changing district would be best served…
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Access
Ann Coulter is proving my point; liberals don’t know how to debate conservatives However, there is at least one Republican who wants to appear on The Ed Show. You might have heard of her. Her name is Ann Coulter. She wants to be on The Ed Show so badly that she actually called Schultz a…
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Pol Position Deux – Frankensense
We return to look at the nascent Minnesota GOP race for U.S. Senate. We broke down the GOP governor’s battle royale here. ____ While the Minnesota GOP governor’s race has attracted most of the attention from the state’s punditry and conservative activists, the race for U.S. Senate has been at best a political red-headed stepchild…
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Rescued From Pre-Thanksgiving Doc Dump
It’s only the SCSU Poll – a poll we’ve pretty well shredded in the past for its systematic bias toward the DFL. But even that can’t varnish the fact that it’s a whole new campaign for the DFL in Minnesota. Approval ratings of everyone but Amy Klobuchar are in the toilet. How in the toilet?:…
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The Lightning Rod
Rod Grams has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Son of a dairy farmer from Princeton, MN, Grams came up through broadcasting, working his way from small radio stations into the anchorman’s seat at Channel 9 by the mid-eighties. From there, he went into politics – defeating Gerry Sikorski, who was hobbled by…
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Pol Position – Frankensense
Back in March, we broke down the various Republican contenders and pretenders looking to make a statewide bid in 2014. Since then, there’s been a bevy of candidates and plenty of armchair analysis that’s been backlogged. We start by breaking down the emerging GOP race for US Senate. We take a similar look at the…
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Correlation
So what did all of that money from DFL plutocrats buy in the 2012 elections? Maybe a seat in the legislature, on the relative cheap? Guest writer Bill Walsh found a correlation – not a link, mind you, but a correlation – that might bear some looking into. ———- DFL Receives Tremendous Return on Investment from Election…
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Go Time For Real Americans
This just in from the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance: Senator Diane Feinstein has released her “Assault Weapon” ban proposal, and it is as bad as we expected, including a magazine limit of nine rounds, banning of rifles with even one incorrect cosmetic feature, and hundreds of specific guns banned by name. TODAY is the…
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Open Letter To Senator Klobuchar
To: Senator Amy Klobuchar From: Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: Powers Sen. Klobuchar, I have a couple of questions for you. Do you join President Obama in the belief that the law-abiding, legal gun owner is a public health risk and manifesting a mental illness? I’ll ask you not to equivocate; yes, or no? Could you…
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Today’s Palate-Cleanser
As tireless a defender of the Second Amendment as I am, I do much prefer the times when the lefty politicians waste their crises once and for all, and just leave us alone. But we’re not there. Not yet. So as a bit of a weekend mental apertif, I though I’d run the two Second Amendment…
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Klobuchar And Franken Have Always Opposed The Medical Device Tax, Winston!
Right in the nick of time as even non-political Americans start to get concerned about tax hikes and the “fiscal cliff”, some good news from the Strib! Yes, Senators Klobuchar and Franken both oppose the Medical Device Tax! Minnesota’s two senators sought Monday to delay a tax on medical devices that was expected to add $28…
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100 Reasons I’m Voting For Lipp, Karschnia, Hernandez, Bills And Romney, And Not Their Opponents
Here’s my biennial tradition – 100 reasons I’m voting for the Republicans, not the Democrats. But this year, I’m not focusing just on the President. Dan Lipp, HD65A 100. Because Dan’s a regular working guy from the neighborhood. 99. Dan is a Liberty guy. He realizes, as all the smart ones do, that it’s not…