Judge Bueltel: I just read an AP story that reported you sentenced Lisa Hanson to a $1,000 fine and 90 days in jail because she dared to defy Governor Walz’s executive orders to close her business in “the interest of public safety.” The Associated Press quoted you saying you “wanted to send a message to […]
I Got Lucky! I was born privileged. It’s a condition I cannot erase, but still, it’s something for which I’m told I must apologize and make amends. Fingers point and voices demand I be shamed. Just by existing, I oppress others, disadvantage others and deny justice to others. My privilege? I’m white. I drew life’s […]
Some nagging questions that don’t get asked! About one third of Americans have refused to get the Covid-19 “vaccination.” Are they all looney tunes wrapped in a conspiracy bubble, or have they—just perhaps, you know—thought about the virus and concluded its safer to get natural immunity from the virus instead of temporary (forever requiring “booster) […]
Hurray and Hallelujah! This photograph was taken of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his Warm Springs, Georgia home by Nicholas Robbins. The next day, April 12, 1945, Roosevelt did the world a favor by dying. Clearly, for over a year and a half Roosevelt was a dying man who had no business continuing to function as […]
Few people defined the horror of the 20th century more than Joseph Stalin. We can’t do anything to change the mass graveyards he created, but what we can do is celebrate his death on March 5, 1953. So, huzzah, the monster is dead, though it took him far too long to do us that courtesy. […]
What can one say about Biden’s inaugural address? Nothing I have seen analyzed it better than what was written 100 years ago about Warren Harding’s inaugural speech: It was “an army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea.” Pat Buchanan graciously excused it as “the most confusing, contradictory and incoherent […]
Don’t you just love the platitudes spewing from so many? One that galls me is the mantra: “We’re all in this together.” It follows closely on the heels of: Wear your mask and social distance–as though there is anything social about distancing! You meet an old friend and then stand six feet apart to share […]
Over the years I have been exposed to politicians who don’t know when to shut up–windbags who are so full of themselves that they think everyone wants to be entertained by them. I recall an interview I conducted as a young reporter in Crookston, Minnesota. Word leaked out that Hubert Humphrey was visiting the fair […]
Sick of the government mandate that we hide in our houses and hankering for a road trip, my wife and I recently took a trip to Montana and Idaho via North Dakota. It was marvelous to get away and to see some magnificent scenery and meet fine people. Early in our trip as we approached […]
Why is it impossible to avoid holier than thou apostles wearing halos and continually pointing to their saintliness as symbols of “wokeness?” The crowd has become a scourge to life. As George Orwell wrote they’re “like idiots staring over an asylum wall.” Examples bombard us daily from all manner of sources. One that arrived in […]