Bob CollinsThe NRA’s Grant Stinchfield, a conservative talk show host, said the Washington Post does ‘more damage to our country with a keyboard than every NRA member combined has ever done with a firearm.’
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In a New York Times op-ed today, a black member of the Southern Baptist Convention says he’s done with the largest Protestant body in the nation. Read more →
NPR has been reluctant to use the word ‘lie’ when describing misstatements from the Trump administration. So it didn’t escape notice this week when an NPR reporter used it. Read more →
History has not been kind to the Carter administration but it has been kind to Carter, a recognition that maybe in the here and now, we’re never as smart as we think we are.
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Baseball has been pushing hard for years to elevate ‘God Bless America’ to National Anthem status, specifically in a salute to veterans and soldiers. It’s a nice sentiment and good business. Read more →
David Brooks, a product of private schools and two affluent parents, faced the problem that bedevils many a newspaper columnist today: He had a deadline and nothing to say.
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The lesson from last weekend’s protest on Lake Mille Lacs may be that protest works. Or maybe it doesn’t.
A flotilla of fisherpeople and area business owners encircled Gov. Mark Dayton’s bought, protesting restrictions on the taking of walleye.
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A new poll from Pew Research shows the assault on the idea of higher education has finally connected with Republicans, who viewed it favorably just two years ago. Read more →
Times should be good again soon for restaurants in St. Louis. Missouri is cutting the minium wage back to $7.70 again after St. Louis had hiked it to $10 two months ago and it was to go up another $1 in January. Read more →
Oskaloosa, Iowa, like many government institutions, begins its City Council meetings with an invocation.
It’s usually given by a member of the clergy but when the Eastern Iowa Atheists group asked to give last night’s opening message, the city said “sure”, the Oskaloosa Herald says. Read more →
If data collected by Minnesota’s state and local government is public, why do we have to pay so much to get it?
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West St. Paul and South St. Paul have passed ordinances limiting the housing options for people who are low-income and disabled. One politician insists it’s not discrimination. Read more →
Wisconsin Public Radio reported that farmers in western Wisconsin have been visited by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and warned they’ll be back, suggesting the possibility of sweeping raids that farmers say could weaken the local economy.
Dairy workers around Durand, Wis., decided to leave after rumors swept the community that ICE was in town.
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The National Rifle Association’s latest ad — burning up the internet today — is a bit of a jaw dropper.
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