The GOP’s 80 billion, oops – 2 trillion, oops – 6 trillion war March 29, 2013 Back in 2002 Newsweek’s economist Robert Samuelson shrugged at the estimated $80 billion cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ve never forgotten… Continue Reading
Scotty Walker’s jobs program has put Wisconsin…. March 29, 2013 in 44th place for job development. Meanwhile the new Republican hero Walker is following exMinnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s lead by preparing for a run… Continue Reading
How the GOP’s private enterprise health care costs stack up against the world’s socialist models. March 29, 2013 There are 20 more graphs here that compare other medical costs. They are all just as bad or worse. Continue Reading
Where are the Duluth News Tribune Editors? March 28, 2013 They are at a public shaming of Duluth school board members. I’m far and away the City of Duluth’s top shamer of the Duluth… Continue Reading
Tonight I will take my grandchildren to the public library March 27, 2013 A note from the film maker: Three days after we filmed 11-year-old Yussef Mohamed treating an injured soldier he was killed by a government… Continue Reading
North Dakota’s blankety blank Republicans March 26, 2013 North Dakota’s GOP has taken the lead on fighting abortion having made it illegal from six weeks after conception. That’s one part of their… Continue Reading
Indiana School Vouchers March 26, 2013 I don’t know if this USA Today story on voucher payments in Indiana has all the details in the story I first read but… Continue Reading
The evidence shows that ISD 709 has been wounded by special education… March 26, 2013 …notwithstanding my pooh poohing the idea in the last post. A reader sent me a well reported story from Minnesota Public Radio about the… Continue Reading
The litany grows longer March 26, 2013 The Trib has run a series of stories on the costs of special education for the Duluth School District. This is an old story…. Continue Reading
Where’s Walker on Kestrel? March 26, 2013 Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker wasn’t mentioned in this story yesterday on the failure of Wisconsin to make good on its financial pledges to the… Continue Reading
Congdon Hockey vs. Education March 26, 2013 That seems to pretty much be the issue at one of the last two Red Plan schools. A few days ago in a story… Continue Reading
Bronze Star March 26, 2013 I just remembered one more thing about that fellow in the nursing home with my Mother. He won a Bronze Star. I gathered that… Continue Reading
That guy in my Mom’s care facility March 25, 2013 For the past year there has been a harmless old guy with a yen to dance with the ladies at my Mother’s care facility…. Continue Reading
Semper Fi March 25, 2013 This post was prompted by the event last week at my Mother’s care facility. That will be the brief subject of the succeeding post… Continue Reading
Death in the modern world March 25, 2013 I spent a long time looking at this graph. Its seems to suggest that war has become a less likely cause of death in… Continue Reading
Tenth anniversary of tragic stupidity March 25, 2013 I let the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq go unremarked upon. Finally a brutal photograph has nudged me out of my silence…. Continue Reading
Isn’t this another example of the federal government interferring with local control? March 12, 2013 Taking Illinois to task for its not funding $100 million worth of pension plans and failing to tell investors about it./ Continue Reading
Local Control March 12, 2013 Every third person in Mississippi is obese. Drinking super-sized sodas with 51 sugar cubes worth of sweetness in them is one reason why. But… Continue Reading
What’s another half million for the Red Plan? March 12, 2013 In addition to spending another $250,000 to $350,000 for a third hockey rink, oops “retaining wall,” at Congdon Elementary the Duluth School District is… Continue Reading
What Republicans are missing in the eye blink called global warming March 11, 2013 They burn whole West Virgina mountaintops in ten minutes and can’t imagine how all that carbon is getting in the air. The eye blink… Continue Reading
