Tag: common cause
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My Tax Day At The Capitol Mall
So I not only got to attend the Tea Party at the State Capitol yesterday, but it was my immense privilege to be the lead-off speaker; mine was the first in a long stream of excellent speeches, including that of my NARN cohost Ed Morrissey, whose speech I videotaped and is currently up at Hot Air,…
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Victim Culture
To balance the state budget, Governor Pawlenty has “unallotted” – pulled the funding for – hundreds of millions of dollars of state spending… …including the state program that refunded campaign contributions to people. Naturally, Lori Sturdevant is painting campaign donors as victims of unallotment: The Campaign Finance Institute, based at George Washington University in Washington,…
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So What Are You Willing To Do?
Yestrday, I wrote about Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman’s Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman’s budget proposal, which attacks an awful lot of spending that directly impacts the public. As I wrote yesterday, I suspect that’s the goal; to scare people into demanding more taxes at all levels. In the meantime, property taxes are up sharply…
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Partisan
Since pitchers and catchers are working out down south – you know what I’d like to see this baseball season? I’d like to see all of the teams in the major leagues work together, so that all of them win the World Series this season! Absurd? Of course. To most of us. But to those…
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Well, This Should Fix Everything!
Who do you think wrote this? The Reformers are coming! They are many and hungry to redress the steep slide of mostly mainstream media into an abyss of cultural waste infotainment, shallow journalism, ignorance of real issues, celebrity worship and lockstep support for government folly war, corporate power, enriching the rich, and consolidating their own…
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Spenduletta Vs. Son of Doctor No
Lori Sturdevant apparently hopes that none of her readers really paid attention in high school civics class in her Sunday column in the Strib. Six months ago, who’da thunk that Gov. Tim Pawlenty was headed for his most influential legislative session since 2003? “We were the only ones who remembered that he only got 47 percent of…