Undercover among America’s secret theocrats

October 6, 2021

Jesus plus nothing

Checking out where the VA is at right now

October 5, 2021

You may have seen this. Former President Donald Trump empowered associates from his private club to pursue a plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs to monetize patient data, according to documents newly released by congressional investigators. As ProPublica first reported in 2018, a trio based at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort weighed in on policy and […]

by Dan Burns

Charles Dean is the latest Spotty ™ winner

October 3, 2021

Anti-vaxxers ought to identify themselves

by Steve Timmer

The Pioneer Press shines a bright, unflattering light on HCPA

September 21, 2021

Who the [blank] is Woodstock Capital LLC?

by Steve Timmer

Trying to figure out MN Senate Party of Trumpers

September 21, 2021

Have they really decided they’d better move away from being so royally deserving of the “Party of Trump” moniker? Hard to say. I’m referring to their having picked Sen. Jeremy Miller (R-Winona) as the new Senate Majority Leader. He’s considered to be about the least extreme, selfish, and deranged member of the GOP caucus, there. […]

by Dan Burns

The power to pardon in Minnesota should be the governor’s – continued – a reprise

September 15, 2021

Judges always think they did it right

by Steve Timmer

Speaking of filthy fossil fuels boondoggles…

September 13, 2021

The Nemadji Trail Energy Center (doesn’t that sound innocuous, even pleasant?) is planned for Superior, Wisconsin. Minnesota has a legal say because many of its customers will be in the northeast part of this state. They deserve better. We all do. The Minnesota Court of Appeals (August 23) upheld Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approval […]

by Dan Burns

Kristen Boldon does not win a Spotty ™

September 6, 2021

The group that is best at telling Black people what to think are white progressives

by Steve Timmer

Why is corporate “news” media behaving so despicably on Afghanistan?

September 2, 2021

My belief is that Afghanistan won’t have a lasting political impact. Some people have been noting that we’ll see how many Republicans campaign on sending U.S. troops back there. But I have, not at all rarely in fact, been wrong, and the last time corporate “news” media behaved this despicably overall, Trump ended up in […]

by Dan Burns

Rangers ride the Bomb – A reprise

September 1, 2021

When Rangers play investment bankers

by Steve Timmer

Mining fun with numbers! – A reprise

August 31, 2021

Do you want to hear about the Doug Fund?

by Steve Timmer

Now it’s flagrantly time to get rid of corn ethanol as fuel

August 23, 2021

Despite the drought, most of the corn and soybeans around here look pretty good. (“Around here” means the parts of Mille Lacs, Isanti, Sherburne, and Benton counties that I drive across now and then.) That’s because the larger farms around here mostly have irrigation systems. (It’s different with the small operations.) Which brings us to […]

by Dan Burns