A few things popped into mind as I was listening to the news.<\/p>\n
Immigration Is The New War On Women<\/strong>: \u00a0I was a captive audience while some CNN show with Soledad O’Brien last night. \u00a0She was playing – and re-playing – a series of questions to Romney advisors failing to cough up details of Romney’s immigration plan on demand. \u00a0And demand. \u00a0And demand.<\/p>\n And demand.<\/p>\n It beats talking about the economy (with its 11% Latino unemployment), I suppose.<\/p>\n He Was A Republican, You Know!: <\/strong>Arne Carlson spoke out, from the midst of spooning with Walter Mondale, against the Voter ID amendment.<\/p>\n Expect to see the media and DFL (ptr) portray this as “an argument within the GOP” on the amendment.<\/p>\n As a Norwegian-American, Tony Sutton’s terming Carlson a “Quisling” was a bit loaded for my taste – but Carlson was a worthless spendthrift of a governor and an even more worthless former governor, and the GOP’s big mistake was in not booting him out of the GOP in 1990.<\/p>\n That’s it for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few things popped into mind as I was listening to the news. Immigration Is The New War On Women: \u00a0I was a captive audience while some CNN show with Soledad O’Brien last night. \u00a0She was playing – and re-playing – a series of questions to Romney advisors failing to cough up details of Romney’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28669,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667\/revisions\/28669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}