Marriage amendment forum Tuesday night in Maplewood
A forum on the marriage amendment will be held Tuesday night in Maplewood, with both sides of the issue represented.The event, sponsored by the Maplewood Human Rights Commission, will include a...
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Duluth paper & Strib: 'No' on Voter ID
The never-to-be-confused-with-wild-eyed-liberals Duluth News Tribune editorial board has also come out against both of the GOP’s amendment issues: “Minnesota voters on Nov. 6 can be just as careful...
View ArticleChina-bashing rhetoric like Romney's is counterproductive
“This is a great example of what we can do to not only save lives, but add jobs.” — Sen. Amy Klobuchar, speaking about medical devices on Oct. 10 at the Hormel Institute.In presidential debates, former...
View ArticleBehind the Minnesota reference in Monday's debate
Minnesota is, by most counts, not an especially competitive state in November’s presidential election, so it stands to reason that, when pandering to voters in their nationally-televised debates,...
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Paul Wellstone: a leader who respected people — and was inspired by them
The phone on my desk was ringing. I had just left a tense meeting about a crisis surrounding our last event for Sen. Paul Wellstone’s 2002 U.S. Senate race. The crisis, which had been upsetting me for...
View ArticleTV station drops DFL ad attacking Cravaack's residency
WDIO-TV in Duluth, part of the Hubbard empire, has dropped the latest DFL Party ad supporting Rick Nolan, the one accusing Chip Cravaack of “not even living in the district.” Megan Boldt of the PiPress...
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How to work around the Electoral College — without amending the Constitution
One in a series of articles. You can read the whole series here.I’m almost done beating up on the great and glorious Electoral College system. A couple of final thoughts:Notwithstanding the worshipful...
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Luke Sullivan's Rochester memoir tells it like it really was
“Rochester, Minnesota, is a privileged white enclave of conservative Republicans nestled in the southeastern corner of a Democratic state,” begins Luke Longstreet Sullivan in his memoir, "Thirty Rooms...
View ArticleCan a gang truce in El Salvador open the door to lasting peace?
The streets of this city's toughest barrios are quieter than they have been in years — a disquieting tranquility, residents say, because it has come from a truce no one believed possible between two of...
View ArticleChinese find some unexpected moments in US presidential debate
Exercises in democracy such as Monday night’s US presidential debate are not the sort of event the Chinese authorities choose to broadcast on television, so few Chinese citizens witnessed it. But the...
View ArticleLab that made tainted steroid shots to get 'CSI' treatment
Investigators are sifting through records and testing a Massachusetts lab to determine how a fungus associated with a form of meningitis worked its way into products that should have been sterile."It's...
View ArticleOn border with Syria and Lebanon, Israel prepares for the worst
ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER — Outside of residents of Beirut and Damascus, who suffered massive bombings last weekend, few people are more attentive to unrest in Lebanon and in Syria than intelligence...
View ArticleSyrian shell hits Turkish health center as hopes for Eid truce dim
An anti-aircraft shell fired from Syria hit a health center in Turkey on Tuesday, though there were no immediate reports of injuries.Reuters reported that the shell struck in the Reyhanli district of...
View ArticleDuluth TV station drops DFL's anti-Cravaack ad
For the second time this cycle, a TV station has pulled an anti-Chip Cravaack ad because of false content.WDIO in Duluth dropped an ad from the DFL Party on Tuesday because it incorrectly claimed...
View ArticleWith 60,000 dead, Mexicans wonder why drug war doesn't rate in presidential...
Mitt Romney’s single mention of Latin America last night, calling it a “huge opportunity" for the United States, generated immediate glee from Latin Americanists across Twitter – but the hemisphere got...
View ArticleVoter fraud warning on billboards: meant to inform or intimidate?
Nearly 200 politically themed billboards in the Nov. 6 battleground states of Ohio and Wisconsin are on their way down this week following a public outcry that they promote voter suppression.The...
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Catholic guilt by association: how Minnesota marriage amendment politics hurt...
The Catholic Church has poured millions into promoting Minnesota’s marriage amendment. Add to that the $48,000 they yanked from the Land Stewardship Project.LSP is an unlikely candidate for marriage...
View Article‘American exceptionalism’: What is it and is it true?
We hear the phrase “American exceptionalism” so often that we forget to ask ourselves what it’s supposed to mean, what facts support the notion and whether those facts are real or exist mostly in the...
View ArticleFormer Gov. Arne Carlson endorses Graves in 6th District
Former Gov. Arne Carlson, who won two terms as a Republican, has endorsed DFL challenger Jim Graves over incumbent Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in the 6th District congressional...
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N.D. archbishop indirectly urges candidate support
And in the vast annals of separation of church and state/religion and politics we have this, via Marino Eccher of the Forum papers: “North Dakota Sen. Tim Mathern is taking the state’s top Catholic...
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