Steve Klingaman
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota,
- Birthday
- January 01
- Title
- Consultant/Writer
- Bio
- Steve Klingaman is a nonprofit development consultant and nonfiction writer specializing in personal finance and public policy. His music reviews can be found at minor7th.com.
MY RECENT POSTS
- So Long, It’s Been a Good
Run
November 30, 2012 11:07AM - It’s a Thumpin’
November 07, 2012 09:52AM - Campaign Redux: The Lesser of
the Lesser of Two Evils?
October 31, 2012 02:46PM - Four Years on Open
Salon—Already?
October 24, 2012 04:49PM - Who is Mitt Romney? RomneyCare
Reveals Much
October 10, 2012 01:00PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “More Murks
here!
http://www.flickr.com/ph
otos/jimedblanchard/4628132557
/”
April 15, 2013 10:35AM - “And the Murk family is
standing in front of the house
they
mortgaged to make
the…”
April 14, 2013 06:28PM - “My thoughts are with
you, Steven, you are going to
beat this
thing.”
April 11, 2013 01:25PM - “I think we all think of
him as "our" Roger
Ebert.”
April 05, 2013 02:59PM - “Or platinum.”
April 05, 2013 02:56PM
Steve Klingaman's Links
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- Ten Reasons to Repeal Stand Your Ground Laws
- Is Facebook Evil? Yes!
- Rick Santorum and the Politicization of Religion
- Veto the Minnesota "Shoot First" Law
- Islam is Not the Problem. Try Hopelessness, Fundamentalism
- The End of Mountaintop Removal Mining? It’s Complicated.
- David Brooks Fakes It in Center
- “Raising the Floor” Study: U.S. Lags in Workplace Conditions
- Hated Roosevelt, Hate Obama: Paleoconservative Persuasions
- The Message and Murder of a Pistol-Packing Soccer Mom
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So Long, It’s Been a Good Run
I took a couple weeks off from Open Salon, just to make sure. Despite a rapidly deteriorating platform that seemed to portend a death spiral, I wasn’t sure I could stay away. Four years of a weekly blog is a habit that’s hard to break. But break it, I/… Read full post »
It’s a Thumpin’
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Why?
1. 332 – 206 electoral votes [update]
2. Ohio!
3. The ground game
4. 71% of the Hispanic vote
5. Swing state sweep
6. Romnesia
7. An insane Republican primary campaign
8.Wisconsin repudiates Ryan
9. Ryan loses his hometown, Janesville,… Read full post »
Campaign Redux: The Lesser of the Lesser of Two Evils?
thedailybeast.com
Bill Clinton said it best in summing up the Republican campaign strategy: we left you a horrendous mess, you didn’t fix it all in four years, so we’ll take back that office and pick up where we left off. He said it again just yesterday in Minnes/… Read full post »
Four Years on Open Salon—Already?
5 Stages of a Blogger’s Life, onlinejournalismblog.com, September 28, 2008, Alex Hughes
From the eve of one national election to the eve of another, what a long, strange—and fun—trip it’s been. From a national moment of feverish anticipation to a mome/… Read full post »
Who is Mitt Romney? RomneyCare Reveals Much
Jonathan Gruber, architect of RomneyCare and ObamaCare, knows where the bodies are buried.
Photo: National Journal
One of the most substantive revelations of last night’s PBS documentary Frontline: The Choice 2012 was how Mitt Romney constructed RomneyCare with/… Read full post »
Who Will Cut the Deficit, and How?
He’s not saying, but the smart money is betting Mitt Romney favors a Maggie Thatcher approach to cutting the deficit.
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Christina Romer, former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, and an economics professor at the Un… Read full post »
An Astonishingly Weak Candidate
Who would have guessed it? You could write a headline like this and not even need to mention a name? Mitt Romney has found more ways to shoot himself in the foot than he has feet. And the latest gaffe reveals far more than the average loose mic gotcha moment ever/… Read full post »
Little Known Student Debt Relief Program Has Issues
Student loan expert Heather Jarvis offers insights into the issues surrounding the federal Income Based Repayment plan.
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At its inception, Income Based Repayment, or IBR, was described as real relief for federal student loan borrowers. It pro/… Read full post »
Michelle Obama Hits One Out of the Park
“He’s my guy.”
Photo: csmonitor.com
Shortly after Michelle Obama’s marquee speech at the Democratic convention last night, somewhere in conservative America Karl Rove must have picked up the phone, dialed David Koch, and said, “Dave, we&r… Read full post »
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott vows to fight on against Hispanic voters.
Photo: statesman.com
Even as the Republican convention coverage makes a big show of big names in the way of Hispanic leadership, a federal appeals court in Washington struck down the new Texas leg… Read full post »
Mitt & Paul: Really reaching
Photo: Eric Thayer, New York Times / SF, sfgate.com
Mitt Romney must be using a palmful of Vitriol as his hair cream this week because he has been pomade-deep in attack mode. The headline: The Obama campaign is one of “division and at/… Read full post »
End Unreported Online Ammo Sales Now
1,000 rounds of ammo
Image: ammoland.com
It didn’t take a fortune teller to guess that Congress would leave town without acting on Senator Frank Lautenberg’s (D—N.J.) Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2012. The bill would have required reporting of on/… Read full post »
Mitt’s IRA Reminds Us Ours is Toast
Retirement dreams bite the dust: it’s all Greek to us.
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Mitt Romney’s likely abuse of the tax code to build a $100 million IRA has been drawing growing interest on the part of experts who want to figure out exactly how he did it. Without m/… Read full post »
Mitt Romney will pimp your portfolio. Well, not yours but...
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I might have titled this piece “How to Build a $100 Million Dollar IRA, Just Like Mitt Romney” but it would have been an unfair tease. The problem is, even if you know how to do/… Read full post »
WE are the Job Creators
Twenty-two year old job creator Meredith Perry, founder of uBeam, speaking the at the 2012 TED conference.
Republican sound bites are irritating. We should stipulate that up front. "Death panels." "Government takeov/… Read full post »
Russell Wasendorf Sr. before the fall.
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Russell Wasendorf Sr., 64, founder and chairman of Peregrine Financial Group, slumps forward in his car in the parking lot of his firm, a tube running from the exhaust pipe to his slightly cracked window, a suicide not… Read full post »
John Boehner’s Big Lie about Health Care Reform
Speaker John Boehner tells a big one on Face the Nation.
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The Republican anti-health care disinformation campaign is in full swing this holiday week. House Speaker John Boehner trotted out a new line in the Republican war on health care on Face the Nation Sunda/… Read full post »
SCOTUS Upholds ACA: Roberts Crosses Over
The Mandate: Roberts says it's a tax.
Image: examiner.com
It’s official, it’s historic, it’s amazing: the Supreme Court upholds the core of the Affordable Care Act 5 – 4. Chief Justice John G. Roberts crosses a historic line and side/… Read full post »
Don McLeroy: the Howard Jarvis of Young Earth Creationism?
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The new documentary “The Revisionaries” highlights the Texas textbook wars of 2009 and their “hero,” protagonist/antagonist Don McLeroy, former chair of the State Board of Edu… Read full post »
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz: we oughta listen to this guy.
A new Fed survey and a new Joseph Stiglitz book remind us that we have yet to assess the long-term damage of the economic meltdown much less come to terms with it. Middle class families saw 40 percent/… Read full post »
Walker Wins, Why? And What Now?
Scott Walker, a grin for the ages.
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So Scott Walker wins the Wisconsin recall with an eight-point margin. What is the takeaway from that? I have heard some surprising spin spun in the 24 hours since Walker claimed victory saying, “Tomorrow we are one/… Read full post »
ALEC: Dismantling Public Education “Drip by Drip”
Wisconsin Representative Mark Pocan fights the good fight for public education.
Image: wisconsinwatch.org
Mark Pocan is an unlikely firebrand. The state representative from Wisconsin’s 78th Assembly District is slightly on the nebbish side. He speaks with rhetorical flourishes/… Read full post »
Image: blog.timesunion.com,
The May 13 New York Times feature “Sunday Dialogue: Making Taxation Fairer” included some intelligent suggestions on the topic, but what struck me was a deeper current of pessimism that girded the entire discussion. The pessimism perco/… Read full post »
Monetizing Misery: Startling Abuses in Debt Collections
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson stands up for patients at their most vulnerable.
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Benjamin Braddock, the clueless graduate of The Graduate, had it better than kids today. When the smarmy Mr. McGuire leaned to say, “Just one word&h/… Read full post »
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Facebook, it seems, has a privacy issue. Enfant-CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently instructed the investment banks handling its IPO to shut their faces when it comes to news leaks about the company. Turns out juicy details leaked all over the web/… Read full post »
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