Kim Jong-un is really an annoying little s**t

April 15, 2017

Everybody thought he was going to set off another big firecracker on his grandpa’s birthday: The United States, China and other regional powers had feared that North Korea might mark the occasion by conducting its sixth nuclear test or by launching an intercontinental ballistic missile. The United States sent a naval strike group to the coast […]

by Steve Timmer

On comments

April 9, 2017

Transportation and the Supreme Court

by Steve Timmer

DJ has a sad

April 3, 2017

D.J. Tice may be excused for fawning over Supreme Court nominee, the great wooden cigar store Indian, Neil Gorsuch. D.J. criticized (with some justification) the grandstanding Democrats and the blubbering, grandstanding Republicans at the recent hearing on the Gorsuch nomination. To me, the reason that Gorsuch should be rejected is not because of a frozen […]

by Steve Timmer

“People don’t care one iota”

April 2, 2017

The Minnesota House of Representatives passed a transportation bill: The Minnesota House on Friday approved a $2.2 billion transportation plan that would boost state spending on roads and bridges and likely force cuts to public transit. Here’s what the bill’s chief author, Rep. Paul Torkelson, R-Hanska, said about the it; the bill contemplates spending $6 […]

by Steve Timmer

“Fascism is the result of the failure of the left to provide an alternative”

March 27, 2017

Update 4/7/17: Readers here know that I am an admirer of writer Thomas Frank. He just finished a long and international book tour that ended in his home town, Kansas City. I am sure it was kind of a valedictory presentation for him. Here’s a video of his appearance at the Kansas City Public Library; […]

by Steve Timmer

Paul goes fishing with Fredo

March 26, 2017

From The Hill on Saturday evening: Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro, whose show President Trump urged his followers on Twitter to watch earlier in the day, opened her program on Saturday evening by calling on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to step down. “Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House. The reason, […]

by Steve Timmer

Dear rural friends: it’s not our fault: a reprise

March 20, 2017

The politics of grievance and resentment

by Steve Timmer

Erin Murphy explains high risk pools at Drinking Liberally

March 3, 2017

Representative Erin Murphy was Drinking Liberally’s guest on February 23rd. She was the first DFL (or any, I think) candidate to announce that she would run for governor in 2018. And as we know, the road to the governor’s mansion passes right through Drinking Liberally. Rep. Murphy spoke on a range of subjects and took […]

by Steve Timmer

The comedy team of David & Linda

March 2, 2017

When Sen. David Osmek and Rep. Linda Runbeck filed legislative resolutions to divert about a billion federal dollars away from the Southwest Light Rail Transit line, I almost wrote about it then, but I decided to wait for the inevitable denouement. (I like that word; I haven’t had a chance to use it lately.) Said […]

by Steve Timmer

Erin Murphy is our guest at Drinking Liberally

February 19, 2017

Thursday, February 23rd, at 6 PM

by Steve Timmer

What happened to the rule of law?

February 12, 2017

I haven’t written anything for a long time. I will amend that; I haven’t written anything at LeftMN for a long time. I have been busy with lawyering stuff, though, about which you will undoubtedly hear more later. Since last we’ve spoken my friends, Donald Trump has become our president. Opinions about President Trump are […]

by Steve Timmer

A Christmas Day homily

December 25, 2016

St. Thomas University Law School professor Mark Osler is recognized as a national champion in the cause for clemency for low-level non-violent offenders in federal prisons. A former Assistant United States Attorney in Detroit, he had ample opportunity to see the implementation of draconian sentences. He was a speaker at Drinking Liberally some months ago […]

by Steve Timmer