Getting rid of student debt would be great, but…

July 9, 2019

There has to be something for those that don’t have any.

Natural law is in the eye of the beholder: his name is Mike Ebnet

July 2, 2019

Fellow Edinan Mike Ebnet got some ink in the letters section of the Strib: Here’s how I interpret that book excerpt and natural law A couple of things surprised me about a June 23 letter about the June 16 excerpt from “The Conservative Sensibility,” a new book by Washington Post columnist George F. Will. One, […]

by Steve Timmer

The Twin Metals/Trump family relationship is all over the news

June 27, 2019

But why now?

by Dan Burns

PolyMet scores a hat trick!

June 26, 2019

O, what a tangled web we weave . . .

by Steve Timmer

William Beyer wins the coveted Spotty ™

June 23, 2019

For understanding the difference between natural and positive law

by Steve Timmer

Skipping down Memory Lane with PolyMet

June 22, 2019

If you get the right pollution regulators, they are your defenders, not your regulators

by Steve Timmer

A Minnesota Congressman is in over his head

June 21, 2019

Big surprise: The National Republican Congressional Committee, which is the official campaign arm of the House GOP, has gotten lacerated in recent weeks over its chaotic PR efforts and shabby fundraising—so much so that a nasty dispute burst into the open between committee chair Tom Emmer and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in […]

by Dan Burns

Wrong again, about Trump this time

June 18, 2019

But I still think at some point he’ll flee

by Dan Burns

Wishing those behind Minnesota’s pro-choice lawsuit very, very well

June 11, 2019

From late May: Abortion rights supporters say they’re launching a legal strike on abortion restrictions in Minnesota, as laws governing the procedure expand across the country. A coalition of women’s and abortion rights groups, along with the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, announced a lawsuit in St. Paul on (May 22). They said a 1995 […]

by Dan Burns

A pathological hatred of school funding

June 6, 2019

This is from January. Gov. Tim Walz is aiming to overhaul the way Minnesota funds its schools, putting more responsibility on the state and making local referendums “either rare or extinct.” As he finalizes his first budget, the DFL governor said he’s focused on reversing what he sees as a disturbing trend: a leveling off […]

by Dan Burns

It’s about gun violence, idiots

June 3, 2019

There’s some hyperbole in the title. They’re not really idiots. The people who make the calls for corporate media honestly believe that their #1 priority has to be not offending the no longer so very young, largely conservative-leaning people who make up the bulk of their subscriber/viewer/listener base. I get that, though I personally don’t […]

by Dan Burns

“Keith Ellison, I’m watching you,” says Kurt Daudt

June 1, 2019

Kurt, sometimes it isn’t about you, nor is it up to you

by Steve Timmer