Michael Venske

When you live in China you’re more grateful for the right to vote…

Minnesota’s very own sixth-district Republican Representative Michele Bachmann receives a lovely write-up in this article from The Daily Beast. …just makes me proud to be from the same state that houses this clearly mentally unstable woman. I’d like to meet her some day and ask her random questions. Her answers would no doubt be fascinating. [...]

From CNN… First Lady Laura Bush appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and had this to say about what she’ll miss after she leaves the White House: “I’ll miss all the people that are around us all the time. From the ushers and the butlers, to our own staff, of course, that we love to [...]

President-elect Barack Obama will set foot inside the Oval Office for the first time Monday. Obama was supposed to meet with President Bush to talk about the problems his incoming administration will face, but instead requested a meeting with Vice-President Dick Cheney. “If there’s one man that knows about hope it’s Dick Cheney,” Obama said [...]

On Sunday morning the phone rang. It was my brother. He was calling from Camp Ripley where he was training with the Minnesota National Guard. He told me that over the weekend he completed a packet of information which outlines what the Army is to do with his remains should he be killed in combat. [...]