Maybe a photograph will steal your soul

July 5, 2013

Or your identity anyway

by Steve Timmer

Scalia, um, explained

July 3, 2013

There were two op-eds in the Star Tribune on July 3rd, purporting to unpack Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s thinking. One is by Cass Sunstein, and the other is by Noah Feldman. They’re both professors at the Harvard Law School. I am sure the professors are much more familiar with the oeuvre of the longest […]

by Steve Timmer
Dave Thompson

The Weekly Wrap 6-29

June 29, 2013

♣ In news neither shocking or new at this point, Kurt Zellers last Sunday announced that he will in fact be running for Governor of Minnesota. This brings the total number of white male Republican candidates for Governor to three. ♣ Also not shocking but a little bit more new: Senator Dave Thompson also announced he […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Repealing the Civil War

June 27, 2013

One Supreme Court decision at a time

by Steve Timmer
Sample Ranked-Choice Voting Ballot

Gary Schiff learns about Ranked-Choice Voting

June 27, 2013

Gary Schiff was the first DFLer to drop out of the Minneapolis Mayoral race, citing the lack of a path to victory in the aftermath of the Minneapolis DFL convention. He gave an interview to MinnPost after withdrawing from the race and shared some thoughts on his now defunct campaign for Mayor. In the course […]

by Tony Petrangelo
Al Franken

Al Franken maintains strong approvals

June 24, 2013

While they are not quite Klobacharian, Al Franken continues to sport enviable approval numbers with Minnesota voters. Mason-Dixon (6/18, 9/23/12 in parenthesis): Do you approve or disapprove of Al Franken’s job performance as U.S. Senator? Approve 55 (52) Disapprove 29 (40) Undecided 16 (8) (MoE: ±3.5%) The numbers in the parenthesis above, the numbers from September, are not the numbers cited […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Perhaps now we can get to the bottom of this

June 24, 2013

Did Dave work hard for the money?

by Steve Timmer

“I think there has been an incredible double standard here”

June 23, 2013

Sings the Paynesville Warbler

by Steve Timmer
Zellers as Deer in headlights

The Weekly Wrap 6-22

June 22, 2013

Zellers to announce, Abeler, Benson, Hilstrom get in and Schiff gets out

by Tony Petrangelo
Soldiers carrying coffin

What the Chaplain said at Dover

June 20, 2013

You do not want to go to Dover, at least not as a civilian. To be more specific you don’t want to go there to receive the remains of military death. Of course under the Bush administration you could not go there. No way did they want the public riled up about these deaths. But […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt

The dithering Prince of Maple Grove wants a new job!

June 20, 2013

He just doesn’t know which one, yet

by Steve Timmer
Crusing Bears

The Mad World of Climate Change Denial

June 19, 2013

Book review: The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism; Mankind and Climate Change Mania (by Steve Goreham, New Lenox Books, 2012) (Note from Tony and Steve: Lois is a DLer and told us one evening recently about this absurd book that had been sent to her as an environmental chemistry instructor. We said, why don’t […]

by Lois Schadewald