Wellstone Mental Health Parity Moves Foward

It is about damn time! The House passed the Wellstone parity legislation 376 to 47. A Bluestem Prairie has nice coverage of the story. As Ollie Ox pointed out, the only member of the Minnesota delegation to vote against this important piece of legislation was Rep. Michelle Bachman. Maybe if there was an amendment allowing drilling [...]

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New Impeachment Activity-Act Now!

It was back in April that Representative Dennis Kucinich introduced H. Res. 333 , the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.Although hearings have been blocked in the Judiciary Committee by Speaker Pelosi, Rep. Kucinich has announced that on Tuesday, November 6 he will use his right of personal privilege to force a floor vote.  [...]

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BIG DOOKER-It’s back!

After a lengthy hiatus the Big Dooker of the Week feature is back this week. It is often times difficult to choose because there are so many deserving candidates for the title. Rush Limbaugh was a serious contender with his ‘phony soldiers’ remarks. Over at mnblue you can read reaction to his comments from Brandon Day, [...]

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Big Dooker(s) of the Week

See previous post Oh man, these people definitely fit the description of Dooker! Peace & solidarity, CHC

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It’s to late for us…

“It’s to late for us, but it isn’t to late for our children and grandchildren to have a better life”. Those are the emotional words of Mary Stodola of Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota as she testified before legislators at a public hearing on June 28 in Mountain Iron regarding the Minnesota Department of Health’s  withholding of information about asbestos [...]

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Big Dooker of the Week-07/01/2007

This is getting hard! McCain is going to Iraq again on Monday for another campaign photo-op, placing the troops who must protect him in harms way. Joe Lieberman is, well he’s just Joe, and the ‘commander guy’ thinks Iraq should look to Israel as a mentor on democracy. Someone usually stands out and that person this [...]

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Big Dooker of the week-June 22, 2007

OK, so I missed last week. I make the rules at CornerHouse so this week we will have two Dooker’s. Actually, a tie. We expect our government agencies and officials to serve us-the public. Many of those people claim to be ‘public servants’,  or like to say they are ‘serving the public’. Two of Minnesota’s government [...]

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BIG DOOKER OF THE WEEK-JUNE 08 2007

This week I happened to catch a little bit of the GOP presidential debate not because I intended to watch it but because the television was on as I walked by on my way outside to work on the yard. I was stopped in my tracks when I heard the comments of Rep. Duncan Hunter (GOP) [...]

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BIG DOOKER OF THE WEEK-05/30/07

There are so many worthy candidates to consider for this honor but Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut came out of nowhere with his John McCain imitation in Iraq today. As I’ve said before, these campaign photo-ops should be paid for out of the candidates re-election funds, not taxpayer funds. This weeks BIG DOOKER honoree is Senator [...]

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DOOKER OF THE WEEK

I am introducing a new feature that is called: Big Dooker of the Week This feature will feature a person in the news who is deserving of the title of Big Dooker . The winner of this title will be decided by the impartial staff of Corner House Comments. Suggestions are always welcome. The name Big Dooker comes [...]

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