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	<title>D.J. Leary</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25, Nov 2009 1:57</pubDate>
				
																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																				
				 	
				 	 			
									
						



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			  <title><![CDATA[Ending the bickering and blather]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[I have concluded that my "Your Voices" blogs are one small thing that added to the thousands of other political items available on the Internet is helping to raise the meaningless noise of political debate in this country and drown out the reasoned think that ought to drive that colloquy.  I have decided that I can do my part by withdrawing from an arena where my writing only increases the noise.  To do this, I have decided, painfully, that this is my last post to "Your Voices."  Thanks to everybody who encouraged my work.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 7, Aug 2009 15:47:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Why Sarah Quit the Guv’s Job in Alaska]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[It is virtually impossible to run a campaign for the 2012 Republican nomination when you are the governor of a state as far off the beaten path as Alaska.  That and the fight that has been stirred up again about Gov. Sarah Palin's fitness to be the GOP standard bearer in the next presidential election made it unavoidable for Palin to continue being both governor and potential presidential candidate. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 3, Jul 2009 20:9:30 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Billy Bye:  His loss is indescribable]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Billy Bye was so much more than a University of Minnesota football star athlete from 60 years ago.  He changed the lives of virtually everybody who knew him.  The private Billy Bye and the public Bye were never at odds.  He was a successful business entrepreneur who loved the University of Minnesota and supported it with his participation, private counsel and public contributions.  He was also a patriot who numbered Democrats and Republicans among his longest and dearest friends.  But most of all, he was a son of Minnesota who, regardless of wealth and personal standing, always wanted everyone to know that he loved this state.  Most important:  He was the author's friend for more than half a century. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sun, 14, Jun 2009 15:21:45 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Not Running for Governor]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Based on his personal survey of Minnesotans and their political ambitions, D. J. Leary has discovered that it appears there are only three people in the state who are NOT running for Governor. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sun, 7, Jun 2009 16:42:29 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Conservatives:  They’ve already decided]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Young girls and women of Hispanic surnames finally have a hero they can use as a universal role model.  After President Obama's nomination of the very distinguished Judge Sonia Sotomayor to a vacant seat on the United States Supreme Court.  The hearings will start this Senate, but many, many members of the conservative Republican caucus in the Senate have already said "on the record" that the are going to vote against Sonia Sotomayor.  And they said it before she was nominated.  She will never have a chance with the haters, but she'll emerge as one of the most popular examples of the Amirican-Latin Immigrant experience in this country's yet young history. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 26, May 2009 23:9:57 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Another first for Minnesota!!!]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[With Governor Tim Pawlenty blaming the DFL-dominated Legislature for the failure to pass a budget bill he could sign, and the Democrats coming right back and hurling accusations at Pawlenty for cutting government services to the needy, to working families and struggling farmers, Minnesota may have created a first in this democracy:  A No Fault Government ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 19, May 2009 13:15:49 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Tuition hikes earn lawmakers an “F”]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The cuts in aid to education now under consideration at the State Capitol have a direct causal effect leading to increased college tuition and the growing mountain of personal debt a student must embrace to get a college education in this state.  Lawmakers need to be reminded that it is called "public education" because it is for the public and the cost of it was meant to be shared by all of the public through taxation.  An educated public is an essential ingredient of a functioning democracy. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 28, Apr 2009 13:53:58 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Archbishop abused his office]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Archbishop John C. Nienstedt misused his power, position and office with his abusive efforts attempting to force the University of Notre Dame to rescind its invitation to President Barak Obama to be the featured speaker at this year's commencement, May 17, 2009.  Not in recent memory has a church leader of similar power and standing done anything like this because of his opposition to a sitting president's political policies.  Notre Dame apparently also regarded Nienstedt's actions as inappropriate because it turned a deaf ear to his Excellency's demands and it will back its invitation by awarding Obama an honorary Notre Dame degree, as it has to 9 previous presidents. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 10, Apr 2009 18:57:48 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Auto bankruptcy could cripple your Main Street]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Forcing the auto industry in Detroit to declare bankruptcy could have devastating effects that would ripple through the entire economy.  It would be particularly painful on the Main Streets of the cities, towns and villages of states like Minnesota, where the only big business left in the central business corridor is often the new car dealership. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 31, Mar 2009 18:7:59 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[We have dishonored a principle of our democracy]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[This nation's founders believed strongly in the Town Hall Meeting as the place for public discussion, debate, disagreement and decision.  Today the Town Hall has been replaced by the anonymous readers' responses to online newspapers and internet blogs.  The sad display of how willingly people use that anonymity to hide their indiscriminate attack on people who are not in politics or the public arena was seen at its worst this past week.  It came as reader comments in startribune.com and other newspapers around the country on the break-off of the engagement between Bristol Palin, the Alaska Governor's daughter, and Levi Johnston, her boyfriend and father of her child.   ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 13, Mar 2009 22:24:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Stem Cell research chain swept aside]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[President Obama has swept aside eight years of inaction on embryonic stem cell research ordered by President George W. Bush by signing an executive order designed to reinvigorate the pursuit of possibilities available through stem cell use. Obama noted that the study of embryonic stem cells is very controversial but concluded that scientific research should be allowed to go forward with strong guidelines and close oversight. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 9, Mar 2009 16:47:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Expanding gambling contrary to Minnesota values, interests, traditions]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[State lawmakers should concentrate on fixing $4.6 billion deficit and not on measure to expand gambling in Minnesota.  Casino gaming restricted to reservations has served Minnesotans well for almost 20 years.  Building a new billion dollar stadium for professional football's big-moneyed interests is not in our values, interests or traditions. With unemployment at near record highs, we need to focus on taking care of our people, businesses and jobs first. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 6, Mar 2009 13:11:31 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Mark Dayton Running Hard Left]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[While other candidates and potential candidates for Governor of Minnesota in the 2010 General Election, one candidate stands out because he is doing much more than "testing the waters."  Former U.S. Senator Mark Dayton appears to have a fairly fixed plan of how to get to the front of the front-runners and become elected Minnesota's first elected DFLer in almost a quarter of a century. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 20, Feb 2009 15:32:30 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Perhaps politics is just an echo]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The idea of full and fresh political debate may be a thing of the past in American politics.  The Austin (Tex) American-Stateman published a special study in 2004 that appears to be similarly at work in 2008-2009.  As a society, we have a growing tendency to live, work, worship, educate and socialize with people whose economic circumstances and political allegiances mirror our own. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 16, Feb 2009 0:9:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Talking tough:  If you can do it, it's not braggin']]></title>
			  <link>http://www.startribune.com/yourvoices/39245997.html</link>
			  <description><![CDATA[Since becoming President, Barak Obama has spent his time trying to win over opponents in the GOP and in the nation's financial industry.  The charm offensive didn't work.  Now, Obama has changed tactics and started using his "Bully Pulpit" to get the Congress to pass his Fiscal Stimulus Package.  Already the "get tough" approach is showing results and after it comes out of a House-Senate Conference Committee, Obama will sign the measure before sunset the same day. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 6, Feb 2009 22:50:48 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Uptake.Org delivers what cable didn't]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Theuptake.org is doing what others only talk about doing.  It's what cable television companies promised to do in return for being granted the highly lucrative and exclusive license to wire the metro area cities.  It is, quite simply, local coverage of tomorrow's news today, now, live and, best of all, free. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 5, Feb 2009 21:43:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[People won't forget GOP House vote]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Republicans have long been remembered, somewhat inaccurately, for their ferocious opposition to the Social Security Act of 1935.  The unanimous "no" vote by the House GOP last week against the Obama stimulus proposal will be a lasting memory for American voters. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sun, 1, Feb 2009 13:50:41 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Budget doesn't solve deficit, just prolongs it]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Governor's failure to deal with state's structural fiscal defects assures ongoing future deficits.  Pawlenty continues his "no new taxes" pledge to enhance his national stature vs. Sarah Palin.   ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 27, Jan 2009 20:12:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Inaugural: Making dour Washington a happy city]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Washington is normally not a happy city.  Most people are coming to ask for things, most having to do with increased funding.  They are frequently unsuccessful and their unhappiness creates a negative mood.  During a presidential inaugural people are happy full of the beliefs in a hopeful future of change.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 17, Jan 2009 23:11:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Obama a Fountain of Hope]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Two things I want to see from Obama and one thing I don't want to see ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 12, Jan 2009 10:49:28 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Be a Regent, get beating]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[People with uncommon resumes of accomplishment continue to volunteer for Regent posts that virtually guarantee future public wrath. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 9, Jan 2009 16:44:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[More about D. J. Leary]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[<nbsp> ]]></description>
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