Well boys and girls, we’re at it again. We’re at yet another “white-knuckle” fiscal deadline not unlike the fiscal cliff crisis a few weeks ago; the debt ceiling crisis; the debt ceiling crisis AGAIN, and so it goes. “Sequestration,” as the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it, means “to place (property) in custody especially in sequestration” This word,…
To my fellow Americans who chose to pull the lever for our current President: Will you be able to look your children in the eyes and know that your vote helped further saddle them with a debt they won’t likely pay off in their lifetimes, let alone allow them a shot at unbridled, unabashed success?…
As the election FINALLY draws near (I’m sure most of you out there are breathing a sigh of relief, including the girl in this video), we’re being inundated with poll after poll, prediction after prediction, and between the electoral college and the popular vote, it’s easy to get confused. Polls are such fickle things. When…
In just a few short days, Minnesotans will vote on a highly-contested ballot initiative which would enshrine the definition of marriage–as historically defined–into the state constitution. This, as amendment proponents originally intended, would allow the definition to be protected from activist courts by ensuring that any debate on the topic MUST go through all citizens. Though this…
If anyone was in need of a home-stretch energy boost during the final days of this election season, Saturday night’s Rally the Right in Andover, Minnesota was it. From rousing between-speech quips from nationally syndicated radio host Jason Lewis, to a fiery discourse by Father Frank Pavone, the North Metro Tea Party Patriots –led by…
With everything going on in the world today– Libya and otherwise– I expected a fierce back and forth tonight- and instead I saw what equated to a dinner table discussion on foreign policy. . .sometimes not even on that. Or so I thought. I was thoroughly confused for nearly the whole thing. Each chance to…
With the election just weeks away and the candidates with just points between them, every vote counts. Especially, it would seem, those of the thousands of men and women defending those votes by serving in the military. Reassuringly, Pamela Mitchell, Director of Federal Voter Assistance, recently said that in terms of the military vote effort, they’ve “never…
I set out to watch this debate with the understanding that the last time, Barack Obama set the bar SO LOW that ANY progression would be viewed as a slam dunk by our friends in media, and on the left. I love it when I’m right. Let me be clear, however- Obama was no comeback…
If tonight’s debate outcome were to be measured in the context of maturity, Paul Ryan wins hands down. I find nothing more revoltingly unprofessional than seeing the second most powerful man in the free world smirking, giggling, laughing, interrupting (which he did 82 times, by the way), and whining about how much time he’s getting…
I turned to my husband this morning as we awaited the September unemployment number to be released, and I said, “Mark my words- we are only weeks out from the election; and since no president has EVER been reelected with unemployment over 8%. . . that number WILL be under 8% come heck or high…
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