Sylvia Schwartz wins a Spotty ™

February 20, 2022

Pointing our 1st Amendment muzzling in Minnesota law

by Steve Timmer

Gaza: The Final Solution – a reprise

May 16, 2021

The next installment

by Steve Timmer

MN-04: Rep. McCollum keeps trying, on Palestinian rights, vs. a cowardly Congress

April 20, 2021

While I very much enjoy and admire how Rep. Ilhan Omar tells it like it is and pisses people off, in my estimation Rep. Betty McCollum is the best of Minnesota’s current delegation to the U.S. Congress (including the senators). I could certainly nitpick with her record and agenda here and there, but that’s far […]

by Dan Burns

Muslim-bashers aren’t getting it done, in Minnesota politics – Part 2

August 13, 2020

(Part 1 here.) As noted in Part 1, the haters failed to keep Keith Ellison out of the Minnesota Attorney General’s office, in 2018. Against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), they tried a different approach, this time. There wasn’t the same kind of out-loud bigotry. Instead, they tried a “less divisive,” even supposedly “progressive,” campaign. And […]

by Dan Burns

The giant freakout continues, unabated, part five

April 17, 2019

Some of you may recall the flap that ensued when it was reported that Washington governor Jay Inslee had signed on to a proclamation in support of Israel; objection was raised in some quarters that it meant that Inslee, who is running for president, was already close-minded on Israel and Palestine. He wouldn’t be the […]

by Steve Timmer

On comments

February 16, 2019

The great freakout continues, unabated, parts one and two

by Steve Timmer

The giant freakout continues, unabated, part two

February 14, 2019

Update, February 22nd: The Prime Minister of France, Emmanuel Marcron, wants to criminalize anti-Zionism at hate speech. That’s what Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand tried to do in 2017. But not only them (they are the senators from New York, which is why they were referred to specifically in the linked article from New York) […]

by Steve Timmer

Mary Christine Bader wins the coveted Spotty ™

December 1, 2018

Regular readers here know that a Spotty™ is awarded to the writer of a letter to the editor, an op-ed piece, or a blog post or comment that I wish I had written myself. I started to write a piece with the sentiments expressed by Mary Christine Bader, but even if I had finished it […]

by Steve Timmer

Gaza: The Final Solution IV

August 2, 2014

You can read the prior installments in the series here. For an uncropped version of the image above, which you should really see, go and read the UK Mirror’s site. Here’s an email I sent to the White House Friday evening: Dear President Obama, I am sorry that you are sad because of all the dead […]

by Steve Timmer

Gaza: The Final Solution III

July 24, 2014

What’s up with the red cow, anyway?

by Steve Timmer

Gaza: The Final Solution II

July 21, 2014

In the last story, I concluded this way: This is all part of a plan by the Israeli government and the settlers and the squatters to clear all the Palestinians from Gaza, and ultimately the West Bank. I call it genocide on the installment plan. There is one other group at the sacrifice of the Red […]

by Steve Timmer

Gaza: The Final Solution

July 19, 2014

I write very little about international, or even national, matters. A lot of other people do, and do it better than I could. But the present of invasion of Gaza by the Israeli “Defense Forces” cries out for comment, even if it is merely cathartic for me. I hope it is more than that, of course. A […]

by Steve Timmer