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Military-style rifles selling fast in Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin

...of assault rifles late last week. The Dec. 14 deadly school shooting in Connecticut has revived talk among some political leaders of a new push for an assault weapons ban. Congress banned the rifles in 1994 but that lapsed in 2004 due to a sunset...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-12-24/military-style-rifles-selling-fast-n
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A Kinship mentor

...carry out the message voters delivered to us to end political games and partisan bickering. Constituents expect political leaders to work together in a serious and focused manner to find common ground and make responsible decisions. That is why...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-01-17/kinship-mentor
Open Forum
The downside of orthodoxy

It's a safe bet that most conservative Republicans would rush to support a political leader with the following record, especially in a traditionally Democratic state:? Reversed a $2.2 billion deficit and brought it...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-03-06/downside-orthodoxy
Guest Columns
The economy

...must make sure credit goes where it belongs. That kudos go to the people who won't give up, even when their own political leaders tried to block them at every corner with their own selfish, self-serving agendas. May God bless the American...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-03-14/economy
Open Forum
Defends DFL ag

...carry out the message voters delivered to us to end political games and partisan bickering. Constituents expect political leaders to work together in a serious and focused manner to find common ground and make responsible decisions. That is why...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-01-17/defends-dfl-ag
Open Forum
The American Dream: On hold or gone forever?

...and the same goes for your children.This is not the country we like to think we are and it is not the country our political leaders are willing to admit they have helped create. Thirty years of catering to Wall Street, big business and the U...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-03-17/american-dream-hold
Guest Columns
Some perspective on where we're heading as nation

...founding dictator of the USSR. In schools across the Soviet, they were taught that God-based religion was bad and political leaders were to be idolized.The former Soviet resident saw things differently. This was Svetlana's most impressive observation...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2012-08-06/some-perspective-where-were-headi
Opinion
Explaining evil

...experiment. The U.N. has been equally unsuccessful in preventing the slaughter of innocents and other evil acts.Political leaders not usually identified with spiritual concepts are making use of the word "evil' in accurately describing what...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-12-18/explaining-evil
Guest Columns
Deal would put new Vikings stadium near Metrodome

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Gov. Mark Dayton, political leaders and the Minnesota Vikings unveiled a proposal Thursday...their future in the state is not assured. Dayton and political leaders have touted the project as a "people's stadium...

http://brainerddispatch.com/sports/2012-03-01/deal-would-put-new-vikings-stadium
Sports
Minnesota shutdown stirs debate over who gets paid

...by the shutdown. "If you don't do your job, you don't get paid. That's how it is for most people."The political leaders whose budget dispute caused the shutdown are still entitled to collect their pay, and more than half of them are...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-07-11/minnesota-shutdown-stirs-debate-over
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