Policy fellow David Strom was asked to explain the “conservative way of thinking” to liberal-leaning Egyptian immigrant Ahmed Tharwat. David and Ahmed have been facebook friends for several months, and after some correspondence and a meeting at a Caribou Coffee, David and Ahmed decided to try an experiment: a half hour conversation on Ahmed Tharwat’s [...]
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PIM Commentary from David Strom: Football and the cultural pork barrel
Published in “PIM” (Politics in Minnesota) here…. There are few arguments for taxpayers kicking in millions of dollars to build a football stadium which will be owned by a billionaire, and in which millionaires play 15 or fewer games a year. But there are a few which, ironically enough, appeal to taxpayers who in most [...]
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