Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Why the DFL will lose the Minnesota House

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The DFL are going to lose the Minnesota House.  There are many reasons for this but the main one is arrogance–both a refusal to recognize a ...
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Sunday, October 19, 2014

The Fox 9 Hamline Gubernatorial Debate: Cautious, Controlled, and Scripted.

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    Cautious, controlled, and scripted.  This is how I would describe the Sunday morning Minnesota gubernatorial debate between Jeff Johnso...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

The 2014 Elections and the Second Great Disenfranchisement

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Elections are supposed to be the way people select their leaders. Increasingly that is no longer the case.  The courts now occupy an enormou...
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Friday, October 3, 2014

Constitutional Personhood: a tale of women, fetuses, corporations, animals, robots, and Martians

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Note:  This was my Constitution Day talk at Hamline. “We the people” are the first three words of the Constitution. Legally it should be si...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

The Lessons of Vietnam: Why Obama’s, McCain’s, and All the Other ISIS Plans will Fail

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Listening to Obama’s speech Wednesday outlining his ISIS strategy was deja vu’ all over again.    It regurgitated the same failed strategy t...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Political lies and the First Amendment: What role should deception have in politics?

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My blog today appears in Minnpost.   Please visit it.    The title is "Political lies and the First Amendment: What role should decept...
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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Amend the Constitution to restore the democracy the Roberts court killed

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Please note:   This essay originally appeared in The Hill on August 29, 2013. Money is not speech. Corporations are not persons. Most of us...