Governor Pawlenty is in.

As many expected Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is running for President of the United States. Pawlenty has been touring the country for month making speeches addressing issues and talking about the lack of leadership President Obama has shown.


Tomorrow he makes it official that he will seek the republican nomination for President in Iowa. Tonight he has a youtube video up promoting his speech tomorrow. You can view it at youtube.com and search Tim Pawlenty.

Life.....

Sorry for the lack of post, i love that my numbers are not down. Thank you all for reading and sending emails of concern. Yes i am ok,however life has just been rough as of late. I am dealing with things that need it, this cutting in to things i would be wanting to do like blog.


A huge thanks again to you readers, there will be post coming soon, maybe evan tonight possible today.

Commisioner Fink in his own words on the Fish lake issue.

I want to thank Commissioner Fink for this email. He is very willing to answer questions and talk about issues. Here is what he said when Duluth Politics asked him about the fish lake issue.


It is interesting how political figures can be sucked in when someone starts pointing fingers. This is a case of guilty of nothing by association. The DNR hosted a meeting in late March that they described as a result from some pressure by a Metro area legislator. They discussed the results of a shock test on a portion of Fish Lake. The issue was, should the DNR impose special regulation (maybe slot limits) on Fish Lake. Thirty people attended the meeting. The DNR presented data collected and projected future outcomes based on that data. They said it would take approximately 5 years before they would be ready to impose special regulations under the current process and presented a time line.

Several weeks later, while discussing my recent purchase of a property on Fish Lake, I was informed of the meeting. I was told that the majority of the people at the meeting agreed that special regulations seemed like a good idea. Maybe as many as 28 out of 30. I was also asked why it would take 5 years to complete the public process. So on April 1, I wrote a letter to Senator Chaudhary asking him that question and suggesting that he use his influence to shorten the time frame or recommend stocking the lake during the study period.

The Senator called me about 10 days later and ask if I had personally talked to the DNR. When I replied 'NO' he gave me the name and telephone of a DNR contact. For the next few weeks, I researched the issue. I found that 75% of the people attending the meeting voted at the beginning of the meeting in favor of special regulations. The same poll was taken at the end of the meeting. This time 60% were in favor. But the final poll was somewhat miss leading because some people had left and the blanks were considered a "NO" vote. Still more that half were still in favor. My research also showed that when the meeting was over the attendees believed that the DNR was about to begin the long process. The DNR said they clearly told the group that they would be taking no further action on this subject.

It took until May 7th to complete my research and analysis. The late on May 11th I wrote a second letter to the Senator describing what I found. It was mailed the next day. I went to the cities for a different meeting on that Wednesday taking a copy of my letter with me. The senator called me late in the day although I did not speak to him but I did meet up with him. He encouraged me to go to the house meeting with him and I did but I had not seen his bill. I showed him my letter. It was at that time he went to Dill on the House floor asking for a short amendment to be added to the house bill while the bill was being debated and he used my first letter as supporting evidence to move forward.

No one but the Senator knows why he did not introduce the amendment into his own bill or why he waited so long or why he believed that a law was need. It is this lateness that has caused all the trouble. But since I sent the original letter which I have always confirmed, I became a contributor. And to my political enemies they have been presenting my efforts as self-serving. Yet, I was just doing my job.

I have a reputation of getting things done. You can come to me for results. And Environmental and Natural Resources is my speciality. I did not act on impulse. The information was not bad as proof by the DNR's own data shows. And since I am not a fisherman, I will not benefit by catching more fish since I already do not catch any (although I do buy a Fishing License and have since I bought my boat in 2005). The lake also has a reputation as well as of have no fish (walleye) which the DNR again confirmed as being somewhat true. While this was never about me that is an easy sell for my opponent. In Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts said "the bad stuff is easier to believe" whether it's true or not.

Ann Coulter: Good Bye America.

I found this to be very interesting your thoughts please. Is she right, wrong, and why?

Goodbye, America! It Was Fun While It Lasted

by  Ann Coulter

02/11/2009

It's bad enough when illiterate jurors issue damages awards in the billions of dollars because they don't grasp the difference between a million and a billion. Now it turns out the Democrats don't know the difference between a million and a trillion.

Why not make the "stimulus bill" a kazillion dollars?

All Americans who work for a living, or who plan to work for a living sometime in the next century, are about to be stuck with a trillion-dollar bill to fund yet more oppressive government bureaucracies. Or as I call it, a trillion dollars and change.

The stimulus bill isn't as bad as we had expected -- it's much worse. Instead of merely creating useless, make-work jobs digging ditches -- or "shovel-ready," in the Democrats' felicitous phrase -- the "stimulus" bill will create an endless army of government bureaucrats aggressively intervening in our lives. Instead of digging ditches, American taxpayers will be digging our own graves.

There are hundreds of examples in the 800-page "stimulus" bill, but here are just two.

First, the welfare bureaucrats are coming back.

For half a century, the welfare establishment had the bright idea to pay women to have children out of wedlock. Following the iron laws of economics -- subsidize something, you get more of it; tax it, you get less of it -- the number of children being born out of wedlock skyrocketed.

The 1996 Welfare Reform bill marked the first time any government entitlement had ever been rolled back. Despite liberal howling and foot-stomping, not subsidizing illegitimacy led, like night into day, to less illegitimacy.

Welfare recipients got jobs, as the hard-core unemployables were coaxed away from their TV sets and into the workforce. For the first time in decades, the ever-increasing illegitimacy rate stopped spiraling upward.

As proof that that welfare reform was a smashing success, a few years later, Bill Clinton started claiming full credit for the bill.

Well, that's over. The stimulus bill goes a long way toward repealing the work requirement of the 1996 Republican Welfare Reform bill and rewards states that increase their welfare caseloads by paying unwed mothers to sit home doing nothing.

Second, bureaucrats at Health and Human Services will electronically collect every citizen's complete medical records and determine appropriate medical care.

Judging by the care that the State Department took with private visa records last year, that the Ohio government took with Joe the Plumber's government records, that the Pentagon took with Linda Tripp's employment records in 1998, and that the FBI took with thousands of top secret "raw" background files in President Clinton's first term, the bright side is: We'll finally be able to find out if Bill Clinton has syphilis -- all thanks to the stimulus bill!

HHS bureaucrats will soon be empowered to overrule your doctor. Doctors who don't comply with the government's treatment protocols will be fined. That's right: Instead of your treatment being determined by your doctor, it will be settled on by some narcoleptic half-wit in Washington who couldn't get a job in the private sector.

And a brand-new set of bureaucrats in the newly created office of "National Coordinator of Health Information Technology" will be empowered to cut off treatments that merely prolong life. Sorry, Mom and Pop, Big Brother said it's time to go.

At every other workplace in the nation -- even Wal-Mart! -- workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.

With the stimulus bill, liberals plan to move unfirable government workers into every activity in America, where they will superintend all aspects of our lives.

Also, thanks to the stimulus bill, the private sector will gradually shrivel and die. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost of servicing the bill's nearly trillion-dollar debt will shrink the economy within a decade.

Robert Kennedy famously said: "There are those who look at things the way they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'"

The new liberal version is: There are those who look at things and ask, "Why on earth should the government be paying for that?" I dream of things that never were funded by the government and ask, "Why not?"

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Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Slander," ""How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)," "Godless," "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" and most recently, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and their Assault on America.

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Lessons Laura Ingram learned/

This was an email blast from Laura Ingram I thought it was interesting. Your thoughts?
November 5, 2008


Laura's E-Blast http://www.LauraIngraham.com November 5, 2008

First, let no one tell you that this election was a failure of conservatism--it was the product of failed Republican leadership. Conservatism gave way to "compassionate" big-government Republicanism, which failed big time. Too many on Capitol Hill abandoned first principles like fiscal discipline, and failed to connect with middle class economic anxiety that has been brewing for two years, not two months.

When one loses one's sense of purpose, so too goes moral clarity and credibility. Despite all this, and despite Obama's huge money and media advantage, 56 million Americans still pulled the lever for the Republican ticket. That is not nothing. It certainly is a base we can build on. Second, we are moving into a new era that demands new leadership. You who were not lulled into complacency and stood for conservatism are going to have more influence over the GOP going forward than you've had during the Bush years. So take heart. Third, after Inauguration Day, President Obama will have to finally start making some hard choices that no liberal has had to make. Is he really willing to trash the economy in an effort to stop global warming? Is he really willing to let terrorists reign in the Middle East? Is he really willing to go along with the casual anti-Americanism of most Europeans? If he does, his popularity will erode quickly.

Conservatives, in the meantime, will be rebuilding, and refreshing their message and messengers. Fourth, communications skills matter. Laugh all you want about Obama's soaring rhetoric (and we do), there is no doubt that we got beaten in the PR department. We must cultivate a new generation of leaders who are both proud of their conservative beliefs and comfortable articulating them with vision, clarify and optimism. Fifth, too many Americans -- younger people especially -- don't understand conservatism. Obama advertised everything under the sun (health care, tax cuts, expanded government services, compassionate judges, peace in our time). Those who've never learned the basics of American history or conservative philosophy have a hard time grasping how anyone could oppose this bill of goods. Part of the answer is taking back our schools and universities.

We also need to stop relying on ineffective slogans ("legislating from the bench," "class warfare," "socialism!") and start conveying broader principles and truths through direct, pithy language. Let the rebuilding begin!

Ralp Doty in the Budeteer

I put this on the interview and colum page. I think it is interesting to know what I and others think about go to the main page. duluthpolitics.blogspot.com


Subject: Budgeteer News Article: Ralph Doty: Claiming the flag as their ownThis could prove beneficial in the race this fall.Ralph Doty: Claiming the flag as their ownRalph DotyBudgeteer

News - 09/18/2008The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "patriot" as one who loves hiscountry. Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus says synonyms for patriot include"flag-waver," "loyalist" and "partisan."Until the war in Iraq was launched by President Bush, we didn't often hearthat word - except in school history lessons when textbooks describedcolonists who wanted out of the British empire as "patriots."

The word got new life a few years ago when Vice President Cheney used it todescribe folks who supported the war in Iraq. People who didn't support thatmisadventure were traitors.So now, in the Twin Ports, a local news/talk radio station, WDSM-AM (710),calls itself "The Patriot."Just who are the "patriots"on WDSM? Well, there's Rush Limbaugh, thetalk-show reactionary who said that Michael J. Fox was faking hisParkinson's disease - at the same time my late mother was dying of thedisease. And who can forget Limbaugh's protests about giving women rightsand privileges men have always taken for granted: "Feminism was establishedso as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society."Then there's one of the most hateful talk show hosts in the nation, MichaelSavage. Personally, I think Savage is a pitbull, but WDSM says he's a"patriot."Even Limbaugh doesn't think much of Savage, recently telling the New YorkTimes, "He's not even in my rearview mirror."Sean Hannity, also seen nightly on Fox News Channel, has been on WDSM for afew years. Limbaugh told the Times Hannity "isn't even close" to him as acompetitor. WDSM thinks Hannity is a "patriot." I think he's a comedian, atbest.

Locally, WDSM has aired Lew Latto's program for many years. Last week,KDAL's Brad Bennett show was moved to WDSM, although word is he didn'tespecially want to return to the station where his show started years ago.I know both men, and although I seldom agree with their political views, Ipersonally like them. (Even though this summer, while I was responding onthe phone to his incorrect assertion about how debate is shut down in theU.S. Senate, Lew cut me off the air in mid-sentence. No contrary viewswelcomed on his show - that's for sure.) Latto and Bennett are now on thesame radio station with all those other so-called true-blue Americans.

"Patriots."So, what about folks in the middle or left-of-center on the politicalspectrum? Why are none of them on WDSM and, as it's turning out, also not onthe only other AM news/talk station, KDAL-AM (610), one of six Duluth radiostations owned by Midwest?Clearly, Midwest Communications' top man in Duluth has a political agenda.Ron Stone is extreme right on the political spectrum, as he was when heserved as general manager of Clear Channel's four Duluth stations beforethey were sold last year. Stone was an active political campaigner forright-wing former senator Rod Grams. These days, Stone never misses anopportunity as a "true believer" - the title of a fascinating book writtenyears ago by Eric Hofer - to tell people what he thinks about politicianswho don't agree with him.Is it unethically questionable for the manager of six radio stations servingone market to impose his personal political views on the radio stations heoperates?

You betcha. And where does the Federal Communications Commission -the toothless agency that at one time policed radio and TV fairness - standon unfair and unbalanced programming? Answer: In a swamp.But give Stone credit for completing the neo-con transformation of his twonews/talk stations so quickly. At KDAL, for example, some folks working atMidwest were led to believe that Carinda Horton, Brad Bennett's replacement,would be politically in the middle of the road.But, alas, on Tuesday a caller to her show blurted out, "How nice to hearanother Republican voice on the radio." Horton did not disagree. Afterlistening to her for a few minutes, one begins to believe that Brad Bennettis a liberal.And then there's Russ Stewart, the former Duluth city councilor heard onKDAL from 3 to 5 p.m., hours previously occupied by Joe Soucheray. When hewas elected to the Duluth city council eight years ago, Stewart had someprogressive views. By the end of his second term, I sensed that he was atthe center of the political spectrum. Fair enough.Stewart calls his new radio show "A Reasonable Man," a title presumablyselected to hide the fact that, unless you're a conservative, he doesn'tsound very reasonable at all. All of a sudden he sounds like a politicalconservative.

What happened, Russ?So, that leaves syndicated host Lou Dobbs as the only political moderateremaining on KDAL. But neo-cons can take solace: Stone is looking for alocal ultraconservative to replace Dobbs. Then the transformation to allconservative talk show hosts on both his news/talk stations will becomplete.And then KDAL-AM, at one time a great radio station sensitive to allpolitical viewpoints, will have evolved into a shameless apologist for theright wing.

Ralph Doty resigned from Midwest Communications - by letter - several weeksago. He was a part-time newsman and host of "Radio Memories." This columnexplains his reason for leaving. He can be reached at rdoty71963@aol.com.

Have not posted here for a while/

I have not posted here for a while. I have not had an interview set for a while. I wanted to post columns and will again start this again. I will also have interviews set up in the near future.