Gil Gutknecht

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Gil Gutknecht
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Who’s Minding the Minnesota Store?
By Gil Gutknecht
Apparently the vault at the Bank of Minnesota was left unguarded and wide open. Word got out among some of our newer citizens that Minnesota was handing out ...
September 25, 2022
It’s the Spending, Stupid.
By Gil Gutknecht
Bill Clinton’s political braintrust famously wrote on the blackboard in their campaign headquarters,“It’s the economy, stupid.” In reality the economy ...
September 18, 2022
Without An Agenda Republicans Will Wander
By Gil Gutknecht
Zig Ziglar said, If you don’t have a destination, any road will get you there. Yogi Berra said. “We’re lost, ...
August 28, 2022
The Good, the Woke and the Water’s Edge
By Gil Gutknecht
It must be so reassuring to always know who the good guys are. Remember the old western movies? The good ...
August 14, 2022
Calling the PGA’s Bluff
By Gil Gutknecht
You don’t have to be a golf fan to be intrigued by the daily headlines in the battle between the ...
July 31, 2022
The Great Green Conspiracy
By Gil Gutknecht
A big attaboy to Senator Tom Cotton. He is among the first in Washington to begin sounding the alarms about ...
July 25, 2022
Give America an Agenda Worth Fighting For
By Gil Gutknecht
Barring something unforeseen (something of Biblical dimensions) Republicans are on the cusp of a landslide election. It wouldn’t be surprising ...
July 10, 2022
Lies and Euphemisms vs. the Truth
By Gil Gutknecht
Mark Twain once observed that Congress was made up largely of “America’s native criminal class.” It wasn’t just that they ...
June 25, 2022
This is CNN
By Gil Gutknecht
Repeating something that he had apparently learned from his father, President John Kennedy said, “Always forgive your political enemies. But ...
June 19, 2022
Clueless in Kamalaland
By Gil Gutknecht
Famed Green Bay Packer coach Vince Lombardi told his players that there are three kinds of people in this world: Those that make it ...
June 12, 2022
Let’s Roll, Real Heroes are Rare
By Gil Gutknecht
In almost every action movie we eventually arrive at the critical point where the bad guys hold all of the ...
May 29, 2022
The Day of Reckoning for Woke CEO's Is At Hand
By Gil Gutknecht
As one analyst put it, “Target didn’t just miss their quarterly numbers by a little, they missed them by A ...
May 22, 2022
Wasting Away in Spendingville
By Gil Gutknecht
As Ronald Reagan famously said, “Well, there you go again.”Team Brandon has just promised another $33 Billion in military and ...
May 08, 2022
A History of Conflict and Conquests
By Gil Gutknecht
He was one of the most consequential public figures of the last century. Winston Churchill was a man of many ...
April 26, 2022
An Off-Ramp to a Better Future
By Gil Gutknecht
How a war ends is far more important than vain attempts to explain how and why it started. World War ...
March 06, 2022
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