Fighting back, with gloves on and off

Minnesota is the home of two utterly opposed attitudes toward authority. There is the contrarian, straight-shooting strain best represented by Garrison Keillor in his peerless ''Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts From the Heart of America" (Viking, $19.95). His drubbing of the present incarnation of the Republican Party still makes me laugh every time I read it, which is often. ... (Full article: 1116 words)

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