Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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