As Congress prepares for a new raft of votes on funding for Iraq, an unnamed White House official tells the Associated Press that President Bush will have to acknowledge shortly that progress in…
Minnesota Monitor asked terrorism expert Tom Maertens to respond to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s statements on the possible partitioning of Iraq. Maertens served as National Security Council director for nonproliferation and homeland defense under Presidents Clinton and George W.…
Considering its population
If the woodchuck sees its shadow, are there six more weeks of campaigning?
People in the rest of the country, maybe even in the rest of the world, must think Minnesotans are truly schizophrenic. That’s…
Rep. Tim Walz may not have office furniture or computers yet, but that doesn’t hold back the national press. Wednesday he was featured on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. The clip is here. Also, a new political website…
This POTUS is no Pétrus
So all the rage this week is POTUS‘s (the President of the United States’) SOTU (State of the Union) speech. Yawn. I had opened a nice petit Bordeaux
It’s been two months since the November elections. The new Congress has been at work for almost two weeks, and after many long years has finally passed a bill authorizing the federal government to negotiate with drug companies on behalf…
“Drop Bachmann on Baghdad,” he says
From Nick Coleman’s January 11 column in the Strib:
All that nonsense about the Iraq Study Group was a waste of time, as was the 2006 election, in which Americans thought
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And should we worry about a glut of luxury yachts on the market?
“Great accumulations of wealth cannot be justified on the basis of personal and family security … Such inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the
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It was really pleasant to observe some political discussion this past week without having to take notes. After the election ends there is one giant sigh of relief. Yet there is still one group that doesn’t get to slow down,…
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