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

Well, isn’t that sweet

April 17, 2014

Never you mind the protest, Condi

by Steve Timmer

The Archbishop and the boyz are leery of the Girl Scouts

April 11, 2014

Afraid that girls want to be more than empty vessels for some guy’s seed

by Steve Timmer

Let the little children suffer

April 9, 2014

By bringing them to me

by Steve Timmer

Consider Roger Chamberlain

April 4, 2014

Lightly armed in the battle of wits

by Steve Timmer

Bullshit and bellow: Deformers aim to destroy traditional schools of education

April 4, 2014

It’s pretty clear from a recent broadside published over at the website MinnPost that, like teachers’ unions, the education deformers also want to destroy Minnesota schools of education. Written in classic conservative movement* bullshit and bellow form, the MinnPost story breathlessly reports the pass/fail rate in professional tests for graduated education students for schools across […]

by Rob Levine

In an apparent economy move

March 31, 2014

“I know, let’s get Doug!”

by Steve Timmer