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Klobuchar Bloggers Sabotage KvM

30 November 2005

We checked our email this afternoon to find several notes from friends informing us that a blog called MN Publius — which champions the Amy Klobuchar for Senate campaign — has seemingly deleted the archives and manipulated content at our previous blog domain Dayton v. Kennedy (you may click on the link in our side […]

Bush Boom Continues; Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

30 November 2005

This morning’s New York Times makes it’s best attempt to make sure people are thoroughly discouraged about the economic prospects of the nation. This despite a booming GDP, a continuing strong housing market, much lower oil prices, a Dow approaching an all-time high and soaring consumer sentiment.
Congressman Kennedy lays out the stakes this morning […]

1 Cheer for Ms. Rodham

30 November 2005

While nowhere near as commendable as Senator Lieberman’s robust defense of U.S. Iraq policy that was the toast of the blogosphere yesterday (and which largely mirrored Congressman Kennedy’s report of last week), Senator Clinton deserves some credit for standing by her vote in favor of the Iraq war.
Looking over her left shoulder at a likely […]

Loose Lips

29 November 2005

Democratic Senator Harry Reid, it would seem, has trouble keeping national security secrets. It should be noted that electing Ms. Klobuchar and enough like-minded leftists would serve to help put this man at the helm of the U.S. Senate. John Fund of OpinionJournal.com has the following account:
From Opinion Journal’s Political Diary
By John Fund
November […]

Feather Boa Diplomacy

29 November 2005

In a rare absence (unpaid, no doubt) from her responsibilities at Hennepin County crime fighting, Amy Klobuchar met yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and instructed the Likud renegade on how to successfully navigate Israeli politics. The PM, we can be certain, was edified by Ms. Klobuchar’s insights.
Eric Black has the […]

Minneapolis Crime Wave Spreads

29 November 2005

Rambix writes on the increasing crime wave sweeping the University of Minnesota area:
Red Star reports more Minneapolis robberies
Sorry, it’s only a joke; the Red Star didn’t report anything of the sort. The Red Star apparently doesn’t have the resources to employ reporters who can dig up stories on a massive crime wave sweeping Minnesota’s […]

Dirty Pretty Things

29 November 2005

An OCD version of the ”dirty thirty.”
From the “if you haven’t heard of it already, it’s news to you” department of KvM, famed play-it-safe pundit Larry Sabato’s election-year list of competitive U.S. House races has been completed, dubbed by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics professor as his ”Dirty Thirty.” But given the […]

Supply and Demand for Dummies

29 November 2005

Ben Liebermann of the Heritage Foundation helps Amy Klobuchar and others understand the “invisible hand” guiding gas prices:
November 27, 2005
Falling Pump Prices Prove the Market Works After All
By Ben Lieberman
Few vacationers paying $3 per gallon on their way to the beach last Labor Day could have imagined gas prices dropping 80 cents by the […]

Kondracke: Dittos

29 November 2005

Morton Kondracke of Roll Call says much the same thing as Jay Cost, below.

‘06: More of the Same

29 November 2005

Jay Cost of The Horse Race Blog renders some of the finest and most thorough analyses on the 2006 election cycle here. Conclusion? Try the following on for size:
But we can dig a little deeper than this. Compare the political landscape of 1994 to the landscape of 2006. In the former year, there […]

Dem. Governors Support Bill Passed with Kennedy’s Vote

28 November 2005

With the DSCC screaming bloody murder over Mark Kennedy’s tie-breaking vote on this month’s deficit reduction bill which merely slowed the growth of federal spending, many Democratic governors — including a tier-one 2008 contender — are supporting the provisions that passed with Kennedy’s “Aye”:
Medicaid Cutbacks Divide Democrats
House Condemns Provisions Crafted By Governors
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post […]

Another Klobuchar Field Trip

28 November 2005

It looks like the Hennepin County Attorney was out in the hustings again last week while crime in her “neck of the woods” goes through the roof.
Who knew that last Monday was “skip day” for Hennepin County employees?
Senate hopeful visits Grand Rapids
Willow Loney
She road through the area on a bicycle last summer, but […]

Dayton: Klobuchar Would be 90% Ineffective in Senate

28 November 2005

In this candid assessment of life in the Senate with the St. Cloud Times, Senator Dayton warns that the effectiveness of would-be senator Klobuchar would, in fact, be non-existent. Dayton calls himself “zero for two” in the two benchmarks for Senate success: being in the majority and seniority. The same would be […]

Amy Fiddles While Minneapolis Burns

28 November 2005

While murders and robberies reach levels not seen in nearly a decade in “Murderapolis”, the Hennepin County Attorney stops by the mall for a sparsely attended event to tell shoppers to “never leave a wallet or purse unattended” to avoid ID theft.
How could we manage without her?

Damn, It Feels Good Ta Be a Gansta

28 November 2005

I think he means it as a compliment.

Steele Embraces Fundraiser-in-Chief

28 November 2005

Michael Steele welcomes the greatest politcal fundraiser in history to Maryland.

…With a Blue Moon in Your Eye

28 November 2005

New Jersey Governor-elect John Corzine has many choices to make regarding his successor. Democratic internecine warfare is fun to watch.

Pearlstein, Bell Critique AG’s Politicized Prosecution

27 November 2005

As we all know, the recent indictment of former state GOP chair Ron Eibensteiner imploded in it’s own vacuousness. Mitch Pearlstein (who gave me my first job out of college at Center of the American Experiment) joins fellow American Experiment founder — and current MAC chair Peter Bell — in making mincemeat out of […]

Robberies Skyrocket in Amy’s Minneapolis

25 November 2005

Those of us in Minneapolis didn’t have to pick up the newspaper this morning to know that murders — and now robberies — are jumping off the charts in 2005. Chao Xiong of the Star Tribune has the grim numbers:
Robberies in Minneapolis are on pace to reach their highest peak since 1997, according to […]

Kennedy & Kline: Troop Reductions in the Works

25 November 2005

Kevin Diaz writes on Congressmen Kline & Kennedy’s trip to Iraq last weekend. Prognosis? Improved conditions on the ground, coupled with increased readiness of Iraqi security forces, make a near-term draw down of U.S. forces in Iraq a strong likelihood:
WASHINGTON - As debate rages in Congress about an exit strategy for Iraq, U.S. […]


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