Saturday, January 26, 2019

What Minnesota Can Teach America About Avoiding Future Government Shutdowns: Don’t do What we did, Adopt an Automatic Continuing Resolution Law

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The US government shutdown is over and now the obviously and entirely predictable boring ping pong match begins.  By that, the entire foc...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Nancy Pelosi is Wrong–Congress is not co-equal to the president, the framers intended it to be superior.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got it wrong in recently declaring Congress as co-equal to the president.  The reality is that the Constitution ...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Presidential Emergency Power: Can Trump Build a Wall?

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The more President Trump changes his mind about declaring a national emergency to build his wall the less likely it is that he has the auth...
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Monday, January 7, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and High Taxes on the Wealthy: Do they matter?

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Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me 'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman. –Bea...
Saturday, January 5, 2019

Taxing Politics in the 2019 Minnesota Legislative Session

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Taxes are always a contentious issue in Minnesota politics.   Who pays, how much, and for what purposes divides the DFL and Republican parti...
Friday, January 4, 2019

Democrats vs. Trump: Why Status Quo Ante and Obamaism are Not Enough

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Today's blog originally appeared in Counterpunch. Beginning January 3, the Democrats have a choice:  Do they act simply as anti-Trump...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Congress, Trump, and U.S. Foreign Policy

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Note:  Today's blog also appears in the International Policy Digest . With Democratic Party control of the US House of Representativ...