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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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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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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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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