Bob Collins
Nothing says ‘let’s have an intelligent discussion about the science of climate change’ like a series of billboards supporting your view featuring mass murderers and tyrants.
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Derby weekend, is this still about a stadium, reverse racism and a beaten reporter, the world still cares about a man who needs shoes, and a tank destroys a house.
The Minnesota Timberwolves have injected themselves into the debate over taxpayer money for a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings.
A video he posted today shows him shooting baskets in a wheelchair, while he recovers from surgery for his torn ACL.
‘It’s not enough to say ‘you have rights,’ former Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines once said of Seeger. ‘You have to use them.’
We have reached — early this year — the portion of the severe weather season where I wonder if there’s a better way to indicate where a severe storm is than by listing the warning based on a county.
A death in Kasson-Mantorville, the limits of religious freedom, stop and smell the suburbs, a $100 baggage fee, and you’re probably below average.
Kevin Burkart of Prior Lake, jumped out of an airplane 100 times in one day back in 2008, to call attention to the need for Parkinson’s disease research, honoring his father, who was diagnosed with the disease in 1999. Two years later — 2008 — he jumped out 200 times for the cause.
Bummed by the high cost of education? Perhaps the answer is a college education, that doesn’t require you to go through nonsense of being ‘accepted’ by a higher institution.
It’s always great to hear how others see us, especially when they find out we’re not as boring as we sometimes appear to be.
A return to flyover country, the private parts of the U.S. economy, the decline and fall of the mainline Protestant, a polka dot protest, and surfing Superior.