Is the Fourth Estate actually a Kangaroo Court?

June 11, 2013

What these three names, Ellsberg, Manning and Snowden, have in common is that they were, are, or will be tried in the press well before they were, are, or will be tried in a court of law. In each case it is about secrets. Reflecting back across the years the trial that never occurred, but […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt

We are not amused

June 9, 2013

Say Michael Brodkorb and Greg Walsh

by Steve Timmer

The Weekly Wrap 6-8

June 8, 2013

Candidates get into the Sixth district race, and a statewide seat opens up

by Tony Petrangelo

A Brief History of Ideology in the Minnesota Legislature

June 6, 2013

Last week I took a look at a new metric that attempts to measure the relative Ideology of state Legislatures and Legislators. Called “np_score” and developed by Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty (their website is at Measuring American Legislatures) the metric ranges from roughly -2 (very liberal) to +2 (very conservative). This metric is derived […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Under the spreading chestnut tree

June 5, 2013

For all too long now the false allegory of government expense as a family budget has held sway. It crops up all the time, the couching of government balancing its budget like a family at the kitchen table. There is a better metaphor for government. It is much more like a black smith’s shop. A […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt