There’s a reason the left cannot reason with the right

July 8, 2015

Left, right, we just can’t help our genetic selves

Nullification is in the air

July 7, 2015

During the 2010 gubernatorial campaign in Minnesota, one of the issues aired was the authority of the state to nullify federal law. Tom Emmer, a state representative who was leaving the House to run for governor, was a proponent of nullification. He authored, among others, the Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act, which he believed necessary […]

CNN takes the Clinton damage control bait

July 6, 2015

Why are the Clintons always in damage control?

Even Democrats use $ to get what they want

July 6, 2015

Another in the money gets what money wants series

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 […]

Rx of Doctor Bernie Sanders

July 3, 2015

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

Getting ready for the 4th of July, 1863

July 2, 2015

The heroism of the 1st Minnesota Volunteers

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, […]

Hilton Hillary, a limousine liberal?

June 29, 2015

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

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 […]

Marriage – 1895, when wives were still chattel

June 26, 2015

Musings on the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage

Scalia the Papist isn’t happy

June 25, 2015

Boat anchor to the past, Justice Scalia