For McCain it is all nails, everywhere

May 13, 2014

The US Military is not a hammer Sen. McCain.

Stewart Mills: choose him for the experience

May 9, 2014

The US Chamber of Commerce has an independent expenditure teevee ad touting Stewart Mills for Congress. If you watch the metro television stations from, say, Northfield, you might conclude Mills is running against John Kline. But you would be mistaken, of course, since Mills lives in the Brainerd area and is running against Rick Nolan […]

by Steve Timmer

McFadden: I am not Mittens!

May 8, 2014

But you know, Mike, now that you mention it

by Steve Timmer

Remind yourself daily where the Roberts court is headed

May 8, 2014

Lewis never actually said that but he should have

by Jeff Wilfahrt

WMD lie < Benghazi question

May 2, 2014

Benghazi 4 more significant than WMD lie 4,802 in Iraq

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Daudt says push kids – ooh, that’s a bully’s word, ‘push’

May 1, 2014

Rep. Daudt says the kids are the problem

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Who is Dario Anselmo?

April 30, 2014

See the correction at the foot of the story. Well first of all, he’s apparently a pal of the Dark Sith Lord named Money. He’s also a garden-variety Republican who wants better municipal services, but doesn’t want to pay for them. He used to own the Fine Line Music Cafe; here’s a little from the […]

by Steve Timmer

Well, isn’t that sweet II

April 29, 2014

[H]e laughed again and said, “The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they brought it to my house.” That’s a quote from a recent Truthout article about the Iraq Commission conference in Brussels convened to begin an international investigation of war crimes committed by US and coalition forces in Iraq. The Iraq Commission heard […]

by Steve Timmer

A Spotty for pointing out a feat of legerdemain

April 28, 2014

Alex Hindin’s letter discussing the Strib’s Lee Schafer’s recent feat of legerdemain earns him the coveted Spotty™. Lee Schafer (“They vote Republican in the land of equality,” April 20) achieved what should be impossible — an extended discussion of voting patterns and income equality that ignores the prime determiner of both in America: race. The […]

by Steve Timmer