The Dubuque TH has a feature called Double Take

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Every month they have an issue that's discussed from a liberal and conservative perspective.

The liberal perspective is by Ralph Scharnau - he was a professor at UD and now he's out at NICC. Pretty good guy in my book.

The conservative perspective used to be by Rod Blum. And while he'd get into the talking points mode sometimes, he'd at times actually make salient points. But I get the feeling Blum wasn't teabagger enough for the Teabagger Herald, because they've brought in a hard core right winger by the name of Jim Geise. Check out this :sarcasm: charming :sarcasm: screed that he wrote for this month's Double Take;

Despite these setbacks and potential threats, there are some hopeful signs that ordinary, hard-working citizens are beginning to see beyond the self-congratulatory moralizing and politics of envy that underlie every liberal attempt to promote what they believe to be "social progress."

Citizens are speaking their minds at town hall meetings, and the Tea Party movement is an awakening of the grassroots to the reality that the more our government taxes earnings the more they confiscate our freedom.

The zealous urgency with which ultra-liberal policymakers are pressing to impose a health industry takeover is an indication they understand people are starting to pay attention. They know the country is at a "tipping point" between individual freedom and a socialist-corporatist state and that their chance to gain more control and maintain it into the future might end in the next election.

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Jesus Christ, it's like he just goes out to Free Republic or Sean Hannity's site, just copies a bunch of crap off there, and pastes it into his screeds.

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1. I guess Giese is a chickenhawk too

I wend to school with Rod Blum and his arguments were straight from the Limbaugh/Hannity playbook and easily debunked.. Giese is not the sharpest pencil in the box.

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2. Blum wasn't anywhere near as toolie as this guy is