This column was originally published at Townhall.com. Comments welcome there. The Bush Administration has discovered what liberals have known all along: the Constitution is a mighty comprehensive document, giving the federal government powers over the minutest aspects of our lives. Case in point: apparently Bush & Co. have discovered that there is a right to [...]
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Central Corridor LRT: As titans clash, Ole and Lena watch from the not-so-cheap seats
Here’s another fine mess light rail has gotten us into, Ole. While amusing in a slapstick sort of way, the tussle over the train running through the University of Minnesota campus down Washington Avenue or looping north of the U campus through Dinkytown, seriously, ought put to rest the flummery that the Central Corridor project is about transportation and the mobility of the community.
Franken apology: The sorry effect of saying ‘sorry’ for satire
In a speech to the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party convention, Al Franken apologized to convention delegates and Minnesotans for his sometimes sexually explicit humor. “It kills me that things I said and wrote sent a message to some of my friends in this room and people in this state that they can’t count on me to be [...]
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