That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
AL FRANKENI grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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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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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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