Quote of the day:
“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
- Ronald Reagan

March 2009

• March 31, 2009 - Financial Rescue Approaches GDP as U.S. Pledges $12.8 Trillion : Bloomberg News
• March 27, 2009 - Michele Bachmann - Outspoken But Not Outmaneuvered, Rep. Bachmann Manages Her Candor / Fox News - Comments are welcome there.
• March 27, 2009 - Important dates coming up;
  • April 2 - Budget Hawks Jam and Bash at Trocadero's Nightclub from 5 to 8 PM
  • April 9 - Michele Bachmann to Host Public Forum on Climate Change and Cap and Trade with Special Guest Chris Horner - Senior Fellow and author, Competitive Enterprise Institute at Woodbury's Central Park Rm B, 4:30-5:45 PM
  • April 15 - Twincities Tea Party 5:00-8:00 PM at the State Capitol
  • May 2 - Jason Lewis - Tax Cut Rally 11:00 - 4:00 PM at the State Capitol
• March 25, 2009 - How is the Federal Debt doing these days?
• March 24, 2009 - An essay; Obama's Revenge by Joan Swirsky
• Don't forget the monthly BPOU meeting is March 26, 7:00 PM at the Machine Shed.
• March 23, 2009 - A great collection of pictures from the Orlando Tea Party on 3/21/09
• March 19, 2009 - A thought on Obama's tax increases on the rich.
• March 16, 2009 - The second Budget Hawks Jam and Bash is taking place on April 2nd at Trocadero's Nightclub from 5 to 8 pm. There are free snacks as long as they last and happy hour is 5 to 6 which means 1/2 price drinks. -- Also VP Joe Biden will be in St. Cloud MN on Thursday to tout gov't spending. More info here
• March 14, 2009 - Remembering Tara McGuinness and the White House smear campaigns, from LookTrueNorth.com
• March 12, 2009 - We've just learned that the Minnesota Senate is expected to hear the Baby DNA Warehouse bill on Monday, March 16, 2009. It may be an evening hearing (5:30 p.m.). This has yet to be confirmed. The formal Senate email announcement about Monday's committee hearings may not be made until tomorrow (Friday) evening...when the public is in the weekend mode! Read more about it here. < See the update 3/13
• March 12, 2009 - Article on PowerlineBlog on the hack in to Senator Colemans Campaign site where donors credit card info may have been compromised.
• March 9, 2009 - The new officers of SD56.
• March 9, 2009 - A form to express your ideas for SD56.
• March 7, 2009 - Obama bails Out Rich, Irresponsible People With LOW Mortgage Payments
• March 7, 2009 - Congratulations to our new officers of SD56. photos
• March 6, 2009 - This is an older article (9/28/08) but a refresh is due: "Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis", on the American Thinker by James Simpson.
• March 5, 2009 - The 2^nd Amendment needs attention at the MN House on HF953.
• March 5, 2009 - Real Housewives of Washington County - by By Annette Meeks, Star-Tribune :
  "Last Thursday evening, in an upscale cul-de-sac, I witnessed the beginning of a revolution. The basic training is being waged with intellectual ammunition and its soldiers are the unlikiest warriors - they are a group of determined Woodbury women who won't be silent about their disagreements with their government any longer." Read More...
     link to Star-Tribune Article
• March 5, 2009 - Widgets to allow tracking of bills through Congress. Here Send an email if you have some favorites to track.
• March 1, 2009 - Tomorrow night (Monday) at 7 PM at Woodbury High the League of Women Voters is holding a panel discussion on redistricting. All are welcome to attend.
• March 1, 2009 - 13 yr old Jonathan Krohn Addresses CPAC; "Define Conservatism"