Mumbling Republican Blog

In Dostoevsky’s classic, novel The Brother’s Karamozov, Jesus returns to Seville, performs a miracle and is immediately arrested.  While he is in his prison cell, the grand inquisitor in essence tells Jesus to go away and return no more telling him that they have had a good thing going since left. This section of the [...]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is against Health Care Reform on principles of government interference with small businesses and free enterprise generally. As the voice of business, the Chamber’s core purpose is to fight for free enterprise before Congress, the White House, regulatory agencies, the courts, the court of public opinion, and governments around the [...]

There is a massive fraud that is being committed by both the Minnesota State Government Department of Employment and Economic Development and the U.S. Department of Labor. Weekly online registration or registration at an unemployment office is requred for a person to be counted and given benefits and other assistance to find a job while being [...]

Perot’s famous warning of a “giant sucking sound” characterized the expected loss of manufacturing jobs with the Bush I and Clinton support of the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). After a cursory Clinton effort to get Health Care Reform, he gave that gamble up and pushed Hilary and Health Care off the table. This resulted in the [...]

So in the New Testament there is frequent reference to a group called the Publicans. In old Rome they were essentially tax collectors for the Republic, bidding on contracts from the Senate in Rome for the collection of various types of taxes. At the height of the Republic’s era of provincial expansion (roughly the first [...]

I fired my doctor today.  During a visit to get a flu shot today, my former doctor asked me what else he could do for me. I asked him about the problems I’d had with getting a State handicapped sticker application from him properly filled out. In one place, a specific diagnosis is required. He [...]

In the real world, the Pissburgh Steelers will beat the Vikings, lighting them up like an all night liquor store.    Just what the Pissburgh steeler know all about. Tight end, Matt Spaeth, was being accosted by disrespectful police for urinating outside a Pissburgh bar. Apparently, just because he is a tight end does not mean [...]

Due to being tired of having to mess around with deleting the mass of mainly Russian blog spam, I have initiated the policy of requiring anyone posting a comment to be a registered user and logged in to the system. So I would encourage visitors to register and contribute to the dialog.  The limited information [...]

Well, I have come to find out the field at the Hubert H. Humphrey metro dome is now called Mall of America field.  Heard it riding home from Duluth today, listening to the Vikings Game on the radio.  Obviously they must have know that I was not aware of this new nomenclature, because the game [...]

This is a response to a Democratic fund raising letter purportedly from James Carville.  The Carville letter is below my response which follows.  I suppose I screwed my chances of having dinner with the President… Dear Mr. Carville: Are you serious about Glenn Beck sending a cold chill up your spine…??  This seems to me [...]