We don’t need no stinkin’ plans!

April 13, 2020

Plans are for sissies

by Steve Timmer

A big fat schism in the Minnesota GOP

April 7, 2020

With an update.

by Dan Burns

Kurt Daudt sets a “dog-whistle racist” tone for 2020

January 27, 2020

“Dog-whistle racism” is a weird phrase, when you think about it. I mean, the whole point of a dog whistle is that humans aren’t affected by it, right? But we all in fact know what political dog-whistle racism really entails, and that’s what matters. For example: “People want to be able to visit a Twins […]

by Dan Burns

A Minnesota lad keeps plunging deeper into the swamp

November 24, 2019

Pete Hegseth is from Minnesota. He did high school in Forest Lake. He tried for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012, but lost to Kurt Bills. Bills went on to be obliterated, by something like thirty points as I recall, by Sen. Amy Klobuchar in the general. That Amy stomped Kurt, and Kurt […]

by Dan Burns

Minnesota corporate media’s infuriating Omar/Trump double standard, Part 2

October 12, 2019

Trump actually came to Minnesota to try to prove that he’s not frightened and intimidated by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Which is utter bullshit; nothing terrifies Trump and his ilk more than someone like Rep. Omar. Always has, always will. Do the people who call the shots for corporate media (CM) not know that? Or […]

by Dan Burns

Minnesota corporate media’s infuriating Omar/Trump double standard

August 28, 2019

Let’s review. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was born in Somalia and spent years with her family in a refugee camp. Since coming to the U.S. she has, by dint of intelligence, hard work, and just fundamental excellence as a human being made her way to the U.S. Congress, where she has immediately begun to make […]

by Dan Burns

Trump hireling insults Minnesota farmers

August 14, 2019

But I doubt that he, or his boss, really cares.

by Dan Burns

Wrong again, about Trump this time

June 18, 2019

But I still think at some point he’ll flee

by Dan Burns

The picture becomes clearer . . .

December 13, 2018

The reprint of a story on Professor Mark Osler’s blog – Osler’s Razor

by Steve Timmer

Steve Sack returns as a guest to Drinking Liberally

November 11, 2017

This is early notice but for a reason. [Update: The Strib distribution people say it takes about a week after placing an order for the book to arrive. With the Thanksgiving holiday next week, I suggest you get any order in by say, Saturday the 18th.] On Thursday, November 30th, the Star Tribune cartoonist Steve Sack […]

by Steve Timmer

No Spotty ™ for you!

October 27, 2017

The letter of the day today in the Strib was a doozy, accompanied by a photo of Donald Trump waving as he boards Air Force One. Here it is: There is an old saying: “When you are on a plane, root for the pilot.” Good advice for the members of Congress, the media in general […]

by Steve Timmer

Dead man walking, part three

June 9, 2017

I wonder if he kept the complimentary pad and cheap ballpoint pen

by Steve Timmer