Surely you jest
“You can’t make this stuff up,” Johnny Carson used to say when truth trumped fiction in one of his monologues. The line is perfect for the current GOP presidential campaign, where the candidates’ seemingly serious pronouncements leave joke writers with little to add.
GOP howling to overturn mercury regs
Why do the Republicans in Congress hate unborn babies?
‘Do-nothing Senate’ is more like it
President Obama enjoys referring to the 112th Congress as a “do-nothing Congress.” The Republican-dominated House of Representatives has passed 30 bills that would help get our economy moving again. Twenty-seven of these have been languishing in the Senate.
Running as a businessman could be Romney’s curse
Mitt Romney has based nearly his entire presidential campaign on his experience as a businessman. “I spent my career in the private sector,” Romney told Fox News in late November. “I think that’s what the country needs right now.”
Pioneer Editorial: New trap rules should be adopted
The Minnesota Legislature should adopt new regulations governing the use of body-gripping traps that are designed to kill raccoons, beavers, bobcats and other species. Under current regulations, a number of dogs have been killed in the past year by such traps. The heartbreaking stories that have been shared on television news broadcasts have brought the issue to light.
Our differences are good, especially on Valentine’s Day
Get this: men and women are different.
Banks: From activist to business owner
In 1973, Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, led the occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota. Now a Leech Lake small businessman, Banks on Sunday visited with a Republican presidential contender about overburdening government regulations.
Front page photo doesn’t tell real story
It came to my attention that an instance from Sunday’s Rick Santorum rally, where my classmate Katie Procopio and myself were photographed with the former senator, was likewise captured for use on the front page of the Pioneer.
Whistle blowing takes some guts
As activist Medea Benjamin has said, “You are better off committing a war crime than exposing one” in the United States.
Why is information so readily available?
Well, well, well. We’ve got the Data Practices Act and we’ve got the Freedom of Information Act — and who knows how many other “Acts” are out there. But guess which one was obviously being enacted during the last couple of weeks of the Pioneer’s reporting on the saga of the 107 dogs. Seems to me that much of that info was of a very personal matter and yet it kept coming.
Supreme Court fumbles return of personal privacy
I was thrilled to see this headline on the American Civil Liberties Union’s website after the Supreme Court’s unanimous Jan. 23 ruling on United States v. Jones: “Supreme Court GPS Ruling: Bringing the 4th Amendment Into the 21st Century” (aclu.org, Jan. 26). Wow!
Pioneer Editorial: Cheers and Jeers
Something must give to settle contract
What would George Washington think?
While talking with a friend of mine, we happened upon an interesting topic that I considered worthy of mention. We asked, “What would George Washington think about the America of today?”
Obama’s Catholic problem
“Religious liberty in our country is in jeopardy.” Catholics in the Washington, D.C., area heard those ominous words from their archbishop read during Masses last Sunday. With similar statements echoing through churches around the country, the Republican candidates for president have taken up the cry.
Komen backlash is wrongheaded
To hear much of the American media tell it, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the breast-cancer charity that recently cut its ties with Planned Parenthood before (sort of) backing down, should simply be no more: It has gone from being a women’s health charity to becoming anti-woman, as the National Organization for Women’s president, Terry O’Neill, explained. She predicted to MSNBC host Ed Schultz that within five years or so it will cease to exist, and good riddance.
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