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  • ACORN / Franken

    There is ZERO chance that 1% of 43000 voters committed voter fraud. The reason is that ACORN has been accused of Voter Registration Fraud, not Voter Fraud. They are not the same thing, whatever Michelle Malkin may want you to think. Voter Registration Fraud, the only thing for which ACORN has been legitimately criticized in the 2008 Election, ...
    Posted to Kausfiles by JSFisher on September 30, 2009

  • Re: Franken - It's like 1979, only 30 years later.

    Back in 1979, Franken did this Weekend Update commentary where he said that the 70's were the Me Decade where everyone thought, ''How does this affect ME?'' He said the 80's were going to when, ''everyone wonders how this will affect me - Al Franken.'' I've thought about that skit for 30 years. Every now and then he publishes a book or ...
    Posted to Dialogues by ArchieLeech on July 16, 2009

  • Both Sides of Franken Showed Up: He Didn't Die Up There!

    I've been excited to see Franken's debut in the Senate -- perhaps because it took so for him to arrive. But I admit I have also worried about what it would be like to experience him as a Senator. I've been a fan since my college days when Franken & Davis used to tour the country's universities drawing about a thousand kids per hilarious ...
    Posted to Dialogues by john adkisson on July 16, 2009

  • My view is not as dim

    Of the senators I chose to listen to I thought Feingold, Whitehouse and Franken did a pretty good job. Sure, they hit on CJSCOTUS Roberts but the definition of the role of the court as a last resort for the individual against the powerful, the executive and the legislature in my reading of your constitution is very close to its core meaning. In a ...
    Posted to Dialogues by AugoKnoke on July 13, 2009

  • Minnesota Lawyers In Robes-- Holding Up The 60th Senate Vote

    Look no farther than Minnesota to support the notion that law administered by lawyers has become a farce. A simple election for U.S. Senator, held three months ago is now bogged down in court after an earlier set of legal hearings and an excrutiatingly careful recount. Every election has its errors, and close elections sometimes demand time ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by john adkisson on January 31, 2009

  • Franken on the Hill

    Before we rebuild another country we need to clean our own house. By that I mean send career politicians packing, rather they be republican, democrat or an independent. Sorry this means Ted Kennedy needs to go home and fight his cancer and Oklahoma's Istook needs to return to mopping floors at the radio station. There could be worse things to ...
    Posted to Readme by elkc on July 8, 2008

  • Michael Kinsley's Logic

    Kinsley's legendary mastery of logic has failed him. About Al Franken's problem explaining away bad jokes, he writes If comedy writers are thinking, ''I'd better not say that because it may not be funny and in 13 years I may decide to run for the Senate,'' we will end up with fewer good jokes on TV and fewer interesting people in the ...
    Posted to Readme by mathpol on July 8, 2008

  • Re: Franken a big deal?

    True. He wants to parlay his political authorship into a gig as a Senator. Yawn.
    Posted to Readme by Puller58 on July 8, 2008

  • First Casualty of Politics -- Sense of Humor

    The first casualty of prudish political perceptions, is the freewheeling creativity of the comic and his or her jokes. You have proven the point quite well for me, as regards your priggish proletarian pole axing of Al Franken's politics as candidate for U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota, based on his previous life as a comic writer and ...
    Posted to Readme by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008

  • Useful idiots

    As with the upcoming Presidential elections, the useful idiots of this country will put guys like Al Franken in as their representative and Barack HUSSEIN Obama in as their President. For who is more foolish? The fool or the ones who follow him?? Or in this case, cast a vote for him...
    Posted to Readme by gungirl61 on July 7, 2008