Packers-Vikings Border Battle: Wanna Bet?
In case you haven’t heard, there is a Vikings-Packers game happening this Sunday that has playoff implications. A couple people seem to be interested in it. It’s reportedly an even bigger deal than...
View ArticleThe Daytonomics-Walkernomics Border Battle, MNsure and Our Addiction To...
Because journalists believe their audiences won’t tolerate nuance and ambiguity, they recruit political analysts who are certain, clear and decisive over those who are unsure, equivocal and astraddle....
View ArticleDear DFLers: This is Minnesota, Not MinneSweden
These are very heady times for Minnesota DFLers. Governor Mark Dayton and DFL legislators had the courage to raise taxes, increase long-term investments, and raise the minimum wage. In the process,...
View ArticleWhere Do I Get a Ticket to Kepler 452-b?
There’s nothing like an American political campaign, especially one dominated by the rolling freak show of our “new conservative movement” to make you wonder if intelligent life exists anywhere in the...
View ArticleFoxNews Debate: God Help Me, That Was Some Sick Fun
Ok, I admit it. I was rooting for Donald Trump last night. Not because I think he has a clue about anything relevant to you and me. But simply, purely, because as long as he holds center stage he...
View ArticleQuestions We Should Be Asking About the Health Care Reform Plan Scott Walker...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is reportedly coming to Brooklyn Center to explain his new health care reform plan to a state that now has a record high 95 percent of its citizens with health care...
View ArticleGOP Debate #2: Sobriety is Your Enemy
I watched the whole thing. Do I get an award? A ribbon? Another half dozen stiff drinks? Actually, anyone who played the buzzword bingo drinking game during last night’s three-hour Chicken Little...
View ArticlePope Francis and Scott Walker: Contrasts in Leadership
We have quite the contrast in leadership theories and styles going this week what with the Pope landing one day and Scott Walker quitting the race for President the day before. i remember well the...
View ArticleIs It Too Much to Ask for Real Competition for United and Every Other Airline?
If United Airlines doesn’t pay out a fat chunk of change to the guy dragged off that plane in Chicago and roughed up by O’Hare airport cops we’ll know America has reached a point of apocalyptic...
View ArticleFarewell Mark Dayton, The Un-Politician
As we count down Mark Dayton’s final days as Governor of Minnesota, it’s worth reflecting on one of the more peculiar figures in recent Minnesota political history. If mad political scientists had set...
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