Four years ago at the Minnesota State Fair during debate between Norm Coleman and Paul Wellstone, the Wellstone crowd booo'd Norm Coleman, and the same during a debate in Rochester. When Wellstone appeared the Coleman fans had too much class to behave that way.

Item by Patricia Lopez of Startribune sez Klobuchar arrived amid a noisy entourage of dozens of cheering campaign volunteers, all wearing blue-and-white Klobuchar T-shirts, waving placards and chanting "Amy!Amy!".Typically, when Mark Kennedy got up to speak the Klobuchar crowd jeered. This, despite an agreement requiring civil behavior and rules that prohibited noisy displays, applause and attempts by one campaign to "dominate: the crowd.

The Kennedy fans have to much class to engage in this type of behavior. alanrph@comcast.net

Editorial titled End of an Affair. "It turns out that the person who exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame was not out to punish her husband," nor was it anyone from the Bush administration. There was a lot of talk about impeachment of President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and about half of the administration, by Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Howard Dean and etc.

Now that it has been revealed that the primary leaker was not Rove at all, but Richard Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state, we no longer hear from those on the left.

Unaware that Ms. Plame's identity was classified information, Mr. Armitage reportedly passed it along to columnist Robert D. Novak, who carried it from there.

Besides the Washington Post editorial, there was a column written by David Brooks of New York Times with virtually the same content. Both write from a very liberal point of view which proves it is not a conservative writer trying to make a point.

Column on Friday editorial page by Bill Clinton sez... "Ten years ago this week I signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Recociliation Act also known as welfare reform." Another bill passed during his administration was the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 which has been given credit for balancing the budget.Both bills were sponsored by John Kasich Republican of Ohio.

The only thing omitted by Mr. Clinton is that the November 1994 election gave the Republican Party a strong majority in both houses of congress. Without the Republican majority neither of these bills would have passed. Who do we credit?

"Your attitude is perverted by fact." Compliment? Please reply, YES or NO.

The 10th ammendment specifically states that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or the people." The federal government gets around this by offering grants with strings attached. Some of many examples: No Child Lefr Behind Act, highway funds contingent on seat-belt laws and .08 legal alcohol limit and authorize the president to take control of state national guard units. This is written from a libertarian point of view.