Tag: A-Klo
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Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Media, Part IV
Last week, I noted that of the six big DFL pols or organizations that I’d contacted – Franken, Klobuchar, Ellison, McCollum, Rybak, and Growth and Justice – none had responded to my request for an interview. This, of course, in response to Andy Birkey’s piece in the Minnesoros Monitor, who sniffed that Michele Bachmann seemed…
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Media? Democrats Are!
It’s now been two solid weeks since Andy Birkey, acting in his capacity as a conduit for lefty talking points, gurgitated: Have Michele Bachmann’s media gaffes and extreme conservative views driven her to speak mainly to conservative and Christian-right news outlets? Bachmann’s media appearances since her election create the impression of a member of Congress…
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Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Media, Part III
The other day, I read Andy Birkey’s piece in the MNMon about Rep. Michele Bachmann’s preference for appearing on conservative and Christian media outlets. I responded by inviting a group of liberal politicians – Senator Klobuchar, candidate Franken, Reps. Ellison and McCollum, mayor Rybak and Joel Kramer Dane Smith – to appear either on the…
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Media, Part II?
Andy Birkey at the MinMon notes: Have Michele Bachmann’s media gaffes and extreme conservative views [closed circuit to Birkey; are there any other kind? Or does the MNMon’s software prepend “extreme” to every instance of “conservative” in everyone’s copy? – Ed] driven her to speak mainly to conservative and Christian-right news outlets? Bachmann’s media appearances…
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The Devil You Know
Simple fact: when Republicans run like Republicans – with a conservative vision, with lower taxes, smaller and more honest government, safer streets, less-stupid schools, secure borders, a Higher Power and family and country, we win. We win because there are an awful lot of Democrats who vote for fiscal responsibility, for ethics, and for America,…
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Strib: “You Better Run Like Hell”
If you’ve read this blog before, you’ve read this bit at least once. In Minnesota, if you choose and need to defend yourself or your family with lethal force, you must meet all four of the following criteria: You can’t be a willing participant in the struggle: you can’t dive into a fist-fight and then…
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Perfect and Good Enough
I see politics – at large, and within parties – as a big game of tug of war. In the exact middle of the rope is a ribbon. The difference between this and a real tug of war is that you will never pull the ribbon all the way to your side of the pit…
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Northsoak
I support mass transit options that can be teased into some kind of economic sense. Which means I oppose almost all of them. In almost all cases, mass transit is like big box schools; they serve their main purpose badly, but they are superb monuments to the governments that built them. Now, the Metro’s two…
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Bridges of Ramsey County – The High Bridge
I’m going to skip the 35E River Bridge – officially the “Lexington” Bridge. Who cares? ———- After the 35W River Bridge collapse, Amy Klobuchar famously remarked that bridges just don’t fall down in America. But if you read the history of the Smith Avenue High Bridge, you’d realize she should have added “But barely”. First…
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Unintended Consequences Predicted While You Wait
Roosh body-slams A-Klo’s latest misguided attempt at populism – a bill that would regulate cell contract termination fees and otherwise punish cell carriers for providing an inexpensive solution: Why are there termination fees? Because if you haven’t noticed, Amy, a cellular phone, even a very basic one, has an acquisition cost of a couple hundred…
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It’s Too Early To Say…
…because unlike certain over-the-hill Metro columnists, I’m not going to pretend to be an engineer, but… Engineers think they might have possibly found egg on Nick Coleman, Elwyn Tinklenburg, Alice Hausman, Amy Klobuchar and Wreck Chupke’s faces a possible clue as to what might have brought down the 35W River Bridge: Opening a new window…
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Mash Note
Matt, one of the giggly fratboys at MNPublius and late producer of AM950’s hapless “Minnesota Matters” (I’m not sure if I should congratulate Matt for getting into law school or for escaping the world of freebie PM drive radio), gushes, crushes and blushes over A-Klo’s latest poll numbers: According to the same SurveyUSA poll that shows…
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Pragmatist Blues
I’ve been talking with a lot of regional conservatives – as opposed to Republicans, lately, although most conservatives do vote Republican, with one degree of nose-holding or another. A lot of them. And one of the common themes of our discussions is the sense that too many candidates and influential staffers in the GOP –…
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Reinforcing Failure
One of the great legacies of the Bush Administration is further proof that tax cuts work. They stimulate the economy. They put people to work. They are a just-plain-good thing. Now, the Bush Administration screwed up, and badly, by not cutting domestic spending. Those of us who supported Steve Forbes up until the end of the 2000…
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Bad News/Worse News
The “good” news – Minneapolis misses the “distinction” of adding two more deaths to what is shaping up to be a horrible year. The bad news – the double homicide happened in neighboring Brooklyn Park. The bodies of a man and a woman were found in a car in the parking lot. The victims had…
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Puff
Lori Sturdevant – who alone surpasses Doug Grow as the Twin Cities’ media’s most reliable DFL flak – must have been saving this piece for the Hatch/Dutcher coronation she felt the state so richly deserved. She must have dusted it off, changed a few tenses, and run it anyway. For a not-insignificant share of Mike…
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Didn’t I See This On Family Guy?
Store clerk repels machete-wielding robber with own machete. In Amy Klobuchar’s Minneapolis, she’d have gotten a stiffer charge than the robber.
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However Things Turn Out…
…this evening, Gary Miller’s “Kennedy Vs. The Machine” was one of the most important things to happen in the blogosphere in the past two years. Gary Miller, the Ringer, Doug Williams and Andy Aplikowski showed the world how to outflank a rankly-biased mainstream media, with solid reporting and just-plain-facts that clobbered the “Machine” – the…
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Mitch Votes
I’m not one of those bloggers who goes through the charade of “endorsing” for the election. Duh. I’m a blogger – a schlemiel who works a 9-5 job and raises a couple of kids. Who cares what I think? Indeed, nobody needs to care one iota. But for what it’s worth, on reading the Ramsey…
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It Must Be Hurting Them
The Strib wants you to quit saying things that hurt their feelings: The phrase? “Cut and run.” Anyone advocating immediate or even sometime-soon withdrawal of American troops from Iraq is apt to be accused of wanting to “cut and run,” meaning they advocate a dishonorable, cowardly retreat. OK. Let’s be ruthlessly clear and accurate, here:…
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100 Reasons I’m Voting Republican Tomorrow
I did this two years ago (and on the air two weeks ago); people seemed to like it. Time for a reprise. This bit isn’t aimed so much at the undecideds, or at those of you who are planning to vote DFL/Democrat. No, this is aimed at those of you who are Republicans who are…