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This post originally appeared Sunday, May 13, in the 14th edition of First Nations News & Views , one element in the "Invisible Indians" project created by navajo and me. Here is where you can view All Previous Editions . ••• For a dozen years, Carter Meland has taught American Indian literature in the University of Minnesota's American Indian Studies program. This term 60 students...
DailyKos (Minnesota) - Tue 10:22 p.m. - 13 clicks 
April 30, 2012 posting to the CravaackForCongress, entitled While Gas Prices Soar, Minnesotans Feel the Squeeze sets a populist tone … a strong-willed Congressman fighting against the Power of the President (highlights below): Under President Obama’s watch, the price of gasoline has shot up 95 percent. Washington politicians continue to put up artificial obstacles, and Follow this link to r...
MN Political Roundtable - Tue 5:53 p.m. - 16 clicks
I finished reading Leith Anderson 's Jesus: An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land, and His People today. Anderson is the single highest-status public intellectual residing in Eden Prairie; his 368-page 'biography' of the Good Shepherd is truly execrable. Eden Prairie's two community newspapers both encourage credulity and superstition, especially when ad...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - Mon 8:09 p.m. - 13 clicks
Science tells us for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This weekend, 8th district Rep. Chip Cravaack reminded us the same is frequently true in the world of campaign politics. On the eve of the eagerly anticipated Minnesota Fishing Opener, Michele Bachmann clone Cravaack had politicos from around the state on pins and needles over a so-called "major announcement" to b...
DailyKos (Minnesota) - Mon 7:25 a.m. - 20 clicks
Aaron Blake of the Washington Post asks which seats might be surprisingly competitive this year? Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.): Kline’s redistricting fate [the state legislature deadlocked and left the issue to the courts] – the courts drew a surprising map, and he drew the short straw. His district now would have given Obama 50 percent Follow this link to read more of: MN-02: Kline -v- Obermueller ...
MN Political Roundtable - Sat 8:29 p.m. - 20 clicks
Monday will be a day for Minnesota voters to see Congress in action. Monday, the House is not in session but two Members of Congress will be working in Minnesota. Working will be Jon Runyon (R-NJ-03) and Tim Walz (D-MN-01). The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs (DAMA) will hold a Follow this link to read more of: Kline Holds Assistance Organization...
MN Political Roundtable - Sat 7:01 p.m. - 13 clicks
It's the opening of fishing in northeastern Minnesota. Do you know where your congressman is? Unfortunately, if you live in the 8th congressional district, the answer is likely to be New Hampshire. Unlike former Congressman Rick Nolan (the Democratic-Farmer-Labor endorsed candidate for congress) who will be joining thousands of fellow residents on one of the many beautiful lakes in northern Mi...
DailyKos (Minnesota) - Fri 3:31 p.m. - 14 clicks
The need is immediate : Work from home 15-40 hours per week, at an hourly pay rate, to help one of Minnesota’s leading public interest groups update our membership database. Hours are flexible, but applicants must be organized, have a computer and internet access at home, able to commit to a minimum of 15 hours per week, and ready to start. read more ...
FairVote Minnesota - Fri 9:06 a.m. - 20 clicks
Cross-posted at MN Progressive Project . Minnesota has a marriage ban on the November ballot like the one that just passed in North Carolina. Tuesday was probably the most momentous day of primary season, which may seem odd for a day that had no presidential implications, but nonetheless has implications for the rest of the country, and specifically for Minnesota. There was the recalls p...
DailyKos (Minnesota) - Thu 1:44 p.m. - 31 clicks
Canton, OH Breaking news: Self-ordained man of God and feared by opposing players, little children and women alike and now we know why. The former Minnesota Viking wide receiver's over sized ego and narcissism has finally got the best of him just about sealing any chance he ever had of getting into the Hall of Fame. Yesterday the big bully to small children and women candidly admitte...
The Great Roll Call: a journal of American political thought - May 9 - 18 clicks
Taking a brief siesta from baby-kissing, I took in another several chapters of Leith Anderson's 'biography' of the Lamb of God . Anderson , Eden Prairie's highest-ranking magic specialist, orchestrates fawning media coverage for himself--posing as public intellectual, CEO and historian. He does not respond to critics, however, and his fancily-dressed, frighteningly submissive congreg...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 8 - 11 clicks
Politico links to a Swiss website . Here's the Google translatio n: Your name suggests it: The Bachmann family has roots in Switzerland. Marcus Bachmann, husband of the famous members from Minnesota, is a son of Swiss immigrants. His parents made their 1950 honeymoon in the U.S. and decided to stay the same. They established a dairy farm in Wisconsin, and moved to the U.S. three sons. Like ...
Dump Michele Bachmann - May 8 - 14 clicks
On my PRT Boondoggle blog, I posted a link to a memo from a San Jose city official that stated the conclusion of a $1.8 million study that Automated Transit Network (AKA podcars, PRT) was infeasible. A while back, the University of Minnesota's Center For Transportation Studies which hosted a hilarious couple of PRT seminars including one in which convicted felon Dean Zimmermann showed up ...
Dump Michele Bachmann - May 8 - 11 clicks
This is my first diary ever so please bear with me...I could not for the life of me figure out how to embed the images in the diary directly without linking them. Anyway... This is a purely hypothetical scenario. While we just finished 2010 redistricting, it’s never too early to think ahead based on current trends to how things might look in 2020. This diary makes guesses about population tren...
DailyKos (Minnesota) - May 8 - 7 clicks
In this article in the Minneapolis StarTribune, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson reveals that Rahm Emanuel sent her a letter requesting she hold off her pursuit of Accretive Health. Accretive Health has been under fire for their collection practices at Fairview Hospitals in the Twin Cities and is being investigated for possible violations of federal law. Accretive Health was hir...
DailyKos (Minnesota) - May 8 - 5 clicks
At the library today, I picked up Jesus: An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land, and His People by Leith Anderson --and have just read the first fifty pages. Anderson is the recently retired, millionaire superstition expert behind High Prod Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie; he remains president of the National Association of Evangelicals . The book came out in 2006. ...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 7 - 4 clicks
I am publishing this diary as a place for the Daily Kos community to collect their thoughts and feelings about the MN-8 race and the endorsement at the convention this past weekend in Duluth. Here is a clip of the speech given by Former Congressman Jim Oberstar about the Eighth District and its DFL party unit's chair, Don Bye: I would love your recollections, thoughts, and posts of the a...
DailyKos (Minnesota) - May 7
This weekend, a truly astounding anti-feminist letter was published by the newspaper of record in glamorous Fargo, North Dakota. Its author, one Michael A. Ross of Hawley, Minnesota, believes he not only knows the root of our societal suffering, but he also has the cure for what ails us all. It’s cheerleaders. No, really! Sit down, [...]...
The Radical Housewife - May 7 - 3 clicks
Former Minnesota Congressman Rick Nolan of Crosby added to his long list of endorsements for his campaign for US Congress Sunday, winning endorsements from three high ranking Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party legislators in northeastern Minnesota. Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk of Cook, State Representative David Dill of Crane Lake and State Representative Mary Murphy of Hermantown all announce...
DailyKos (Minnesota) - May 6 - 2 clicks
Right here at home, in Minnesota there's an alien threat that could destroy our state's treasured fish habitat - Asian carp: After months of being warned that Asian carp eDNA test results portend an all-out invasion into Minnesota’s waters, a big-head and silver carp — two of the four Asian carp species — were caught in the Mississippi River near Winona on March 1st. Within days, bipartisan le...
Dump Michele Bachmann - May 6 - 5 clicks
The Star Tribune often attributes respectability and wisdom to 'the local food movement.' The LFM posits that the local economy could be easily improved were citizens to start trying to purchase Minnesota-made products. Yesterday the Strib offered SUPERIOR TRADITION CATCHES NEW LIFE (the headline indeed in all-caps): The once mighty North Shore commercial fishing industry, decimated ...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5 - 7 clicks
At the 394/169 intersection , you can now see this billboard advertising Providence Academy --the disneyfied, ersatz back-to-yesteryear Catholic K12 in Plymouth. School employees know they have places that need to be filled--and traffic heading towards Wayzata is the happy hunting ground. A somewhat odd advertisement, no? Americans are free to choose any religion or no re...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5 - 4 clicks
The Star Tribune published a business fluff piece featuring, supposedly, a hip young Minneapolis marketing partnership that researches 'what women want.' In a classic exchange between 1960s advertising executives Don Draper and Roger Sterling on "Mad Men," Draper muses, "What do women want?" Sterling replies, "Who cares?" An improved America would have the marketing and advertising indus...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5 - 2 clicks
Lots of people would like to be congressional representatives. Getting elected to the House would represent a dramatic increase in most people's social status--and if you've got ideas about how to make the country function better, it's a naturally attractive workplace. If you're left-of-center, penniless, reside in Minnesota's Third Congressional District and want the job, you've got ...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5 - 2 clicks
The other day the Strib published Census shows newer churches are flourishing in Minnesota . Did you know?: While the Catholic Church remains the largest denomination nationally and in Minnesota, its membership has dropped sharply since 2000. Minnesota had 1.15 million Catholics in 2010, down 8.7 percent from 1.26 million in 2000. During a decade in which Minnesota's Hispani...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5 - 2 clicks
On this cold, rainy morning an 'Edina Health & Wellness Expo' was held at St. Patrick's --the romish church I attend (and where I served as an altar boy in the early '70s). Numerous healthy aging businesses and organizations were represented. Walking through, I chatted with the friendly representative from Compassion and Choices . The rep wants people to giv...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5 - 3 clicks
Attending my son's orchestra concert this evening in Minnetonka, I noticed the POW/MIA flag on display, a bit smaller and alongside the Stars and Stripes: It's displayed as a political sop to Vietnam veterans and the families of dead and missing soldiers. We concocted a fable--these get generated in every war--of our enemy's 'unique psychiatric pathology' a...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5 - 2 clicks
Eden Prairie's St. Andrew Lutheran Church has more than 10,000 members--and has just installed a new pastor, the Rev. David Lillejord . Lillejord is a minister's son who grew up promising himself not to go into his old man 's line. If one seriously believed oneself to be in possession of the universe's ultimate truth, you'd be willing to serve anywhere, seeking out the most cha...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5 - 2 clicks
Up until a week ago, Sharon Sund and Brian Barnes were fighting it out for the preliminary DFL endorsement for US House. It was a dispiriting, boring contest--and Barnes won the nod on the first ballot . I'm challenging Barnes in the primary--and have already delineated a number of areas in which our ideas differ. Barnes is a strong supporter of unions (an enthusiastic Education...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5
The 4/19/12 Eden Prairie News leads with a happy family coming together to fight ALS --the disease ravaging the family's father, Michael Brandt. They've rigged a bicycle trailer which will allow pop to sit in a chair while hauled forward the 11 miles of ALS Bike Trek Minnesota . The ever-chipper, boostering newspaper informs us that during his ongoing degeneration, 'Brandt has...
Gavin Sullivan's blog - May 5 - 4 clicks
Karl Bremer reports at Ripple in Stillwater: The same week the fugitive and big-spending Republican Party contributor-on-the-lam known as “Bobby Thompson” was captured in Portland, OR, by federal marshals after a nationwide manhunt, one of the recipients of “Thompson’s” largesse, Michele Bachmann, endorsed another—Mitt Romney—for president. Coincidence—or an attempt by the now-amorous poli...
Dump Michele Bachmann - May 4 - 2 clicks
Days after U.S. Navy Veterans charity fraudster "Bobby Thompson" was apprehended , the Minnesota mainstream media continues to ignore the story. Instead, they chose to cover Bachmann's too-predictable endorsement of Mitt Romney. It's puzzling that the MN MSM would not be interested in this story given Bobby Thompson's ties to Bachmann and other Minnesota politicos . But there's another reason w...
Dump Michele Bachmann - May 4
David We All Do Better Tuesday evening, May 1st, I was again endorsed by my local DFL endorsing convention. DFLHD 20B, to run for the Minnesota House. My challenger was Mick McGuire who ran against Glen Grunhagen in 2010, but was redistricted into the same district. Mick was a good challenger and made me work harder. As is usually the [...] ...
MN Representative David Bly, District 25B - May 3 - 2 clicks
Women love ...er...fear Rep. John Kline. Wonder why ? 4/27/2012: Another great moment from Congressman John Kline was so vehemently defending the Republicans' excellent treatment of women, by... well, you watch this video that shows how his words don't match his not so Minnesota nice behavior... REP. JOHN KLINE, R-MN: What we're talking about is using a slus...
Dump John Kline - May 3
Minnesota State Patrol and Department of Public Safety, plus rural Sheriffs' Departments target OccupyMinneapolis at Peavey Plaza with illicit drug use offers: This is an outrage: MK Occupy Minnesota: Drugs & the DRE Program at Peavey Plaza Law enforcement spent days leading up to MayDay picking up and dropping off intoxicated persons at the Occupy Minneapolis encampment at Peavey Pla...
DailyKos (Minnesota) - May 2
