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10 January, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘Garrison Keillor’

Dude(tte), Give Me Back My Country and My God

By Denis Campbell • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features
For fourteen years we’ve sat on our hands in abject fear, allowing one party to dictate a far whacked-out right wing agenda watching a corrupt Administration lie its way into war, destroy the economy, tear up our treaties and relationships abroad, allow torture and hide behind so-called Patriotic fundamentalist Christian values.
The Republican Party refuses to [...]


Placid Lake Woebegon Begets A Nasty Police State

By Charley James • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Features
By Charley James
I grew up in the Twin Cities, a prosperous and bucolic community hard on the banks of the Mississippi, the last major metropolitan area until you Lewis-and-Clark yourself over the Rockies.
Minneapolis and St. Paul are filled with wide, tree-lined streets, good schools, close-knit families, a welcoming spirit, pride in a deep civic commitment, home [...]