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Friendly Neighborhood Republican
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One opinionated woman comments on the politics of the day. Local, state, and federal.
Recent Posts
What is News?
I spent some time this morning perusing the day's headlines from several different news organizations. I was particularly struck by what each different organization considers newsworthy enough to be on their "front page" feeds.From Fox News (okay, al...
What Do You Think of This?
There was a very enlightening and frightening opinion piece in the StarTribune this Sunday. In this piece, authored by Katherine Kersten, we learn about the University of Minnesota's way of "teaching teachers to teach."Please read it, and read the l...
So Talk of Government Healthcare Rationing is Just Right-Wing Misinformation, Huh?
One of the biggest buzzes out there today is about the new "guidelines" for mammograms. Something called the "U.S. Preventive Services Task Force" has put out very controversial new guidelines for mammograms and breast self exams. It's left women a...
Pondering Consequences of Obamacare
I found this article linked on the SD42 website, and I just had to take a page from their book and link it here as well. It's an article by Dick Morris about healthcare. Here's the link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/07/rationing_...
President Obama as Seen Through the Eyes of the World
Here is a link to a very interesting Wall Street Journal article about Obama's trip through Asia. It provides a unique look at our president through different eyes than we're used to looking through: the eyes of the world vs. the eyes of the American...
Shout Back
I entitled this piece "Shout Back" for two reasons. First, I want to give a "shout back" to The Activist Next Door for giving me a "shout out" on her blog. (I feel a hundred years old having to put these in quotes. Maybe I could lose the quotes now t...

