Even Democrats use $ to get what they want

July 6, 2015

Another in the money gets what money wants series

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Strib letter writer wins a Spotty!

July 5, 2015

Last Sunday, Katherine Kersen — after a layoff that obviously allowed her to build up a head of steam — had a commentary in the Strib decrying sustainability as a heretical plot. Well, a lot of Strib readers parked that hanging curveball in the seats. Today, the Strib published six (6) of them; not one supported the […]

by Steve Timmer

Rx of Doctor Bernie Sanders

July 3, 2015

Will voters turn their back on PAC money and support a groundswell campaign?

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Getting ready for the 4th of July, 1863

July 2, 2015

The heroism of the 1st Minnesota Volunteers

by Steve Timmer

Aw, he was just snoring

June 30, 2015

Please see the update(s) below. Just before donning their flip flops and sunglasses and heading out the door for the summer, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court gave Sammy Alito — who frankly has been waiting in the wings a lot in the waning days of the session — his spot in the sunshine, […]

by Steve Timmer

Hilton Hillary, a limousine liberal?

June 29, 2015

Why does Hillary make a lefty sympathize with Bernie’s askance expression?

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Stamping out pockets of resistance

June 27, 2015

Please see the recent update 10/4. From the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, the gay marriage decision: The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom […]

by Steve Timmer

Marriage – 1895, when wives were still chattel

June 26, 2015

Musings on the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Scalia the Papist isn’t happy

June 25, 2015

Boat anchor to the past, Justice Scalia

by Jeff Wilfahrt

What’s in a name?

June 25, 2015

When Lake Calhoun was being renamed

by Steve Timmer

America’s Midden Class – No Malapropism

June 22, 2015

America’s middle class properly named the midden class.

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Aaron Brown is at the end of his rope

June 20, 2015

Aaron Brown, the Range Raconteur, has been required reading for anybody who is interested in an insider’s view of the Iron Range, one that differs from the fried tripe you get from, say, Bill Hanna. Reading Aaron’s reactions to the increasingly grisly political news emanating from the Iron Range has been especially interesting. His discomfort […]

by Steve Timmer