I really thought we had grown

April 5, 2019

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve found the journalists’ game of Buzkashi over the carcass of Mohamed Noor to be distressing and distasteful. The demand by journalists to see the disturbing and lurid body cam video as it is shown to the jury (and then undoubtedly reported and commented on while […]

by Steve Timmer

Anything but a gas tax

March 19, 2019

One of the best grifter entertainments to occur this session is over Governor Walz’s proposed 20 cent gas tax increase (phased in). We’ll start with this wonderful game of three card monte.  Being as kind as I can be, but remaining direct, Jason Rarick is a clueless twit. I cannot believe that the Senate […]

by Steve Timmer

The giant freakout continues, unabated, part four

March 11, 2019

When South Africa calls you out as an apartheid state, it’ll leave a mark

by Steve Timmer

The giant freakout continues, unabated, part three

March 6, 2019

Taking Ilhan Omar to the woodshed

by Steve Timmer

Sigmund Spot gets another new patient

February 25, 2019

Ah, Mr. Bear, come in and zit on za couch. That’s Representative Bahr. Zat’s what I said, Bear. No, it’s . . .  nevermind. Vut brings you here? The Republican caucus members thought it might do some good. But I doubt it; I don’t believe in this stuff. I zee. I’m really a referral from […]

by Steve Timmer
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On comments

February 16, 2019

The great freakout continues, unabated, parts one and two

by Steve Timmer

The giant freakout continues, unabated, part two

February 14, 2019

Caught in the jaws of AIPAC

by Steve Timmer

The giant freakout continues, unabated

February 12, 2019

Ilhan Omar is beside the point

by Steve Timmer

Oh for the evangelical certainty of an engineer!

January 30, 2019

And who is Dennis Martenson, anyway?

by Steve Timmer
2018 American Community Survey Form

A look at the updated American Community Survey numbers for Minnesota

January 23, 2019

At the beginning of the year the United State Census Bureau released updated results from the American Community Survey, a massive continuous survey project the bureau undertakes between censuses. With redistricting coming up in 2021 it’s perhaps worth checking in on the updated ACS numbers to see what’s been going on in Minnesota and how […]

by Tony Petrangelo

If you pay the gas tax, at least you own a car

January 20, 2019

Bad ideas never die

by Steve Timmer

Minnesota Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk has one priority for 2021: Gerrymandering Minnesota

January 16, 2019

This is a paragraph from a recent J.Patrick Coolican piece in the StarTribune: Indeed, at a Chamber of Commerce dinner last week, Bakk said redistricting is his reason for running for re-election in 2020. This must sound strange to a layman’s ears, who might guess that a lawmaker would want to craft education or health […]

by Tony Petrangelo