Down with security theater! We have no evidence that TSA screenings at the airport stop any terrorists. Undercover Homeland Security agents have been able to sneak guns and…
Category: national
Pat Powers mumbled something this morning about needing the Dakota Access pipeline to free up rail cars for agriculture products. But the decreased railroad volumes…
Pat Powers thinks his beer is more interesting than Donald Trump’s “boring” hostile takeover of his party. Yet the Trumpist triumph is so clearly a watershed moment that…
The Cook Political Report yesterday re-rated thirteen states in its assessment of the two major parties’ chances in the Presidential election. Twelve of those states shifted in Democrats’…
We’ve discussed in previous blogging how the inordinate amount of time our members of Congress spend in Washington at their parties’ call centers raising campaign cash keeps them from studying the…
Calling Donald Trump a fascist isn’t just a liberal fantasy. It’s historical accuracy that even billionaire conservative corporatist Charles Koch supports: [Reporter Jonathan] KARL: What did…
Nothing should surprise us any more when a reality-TV show host is about to win the Republican nomination for President. But try this sentence on as another sign that we have…
The McClatchy-Marist poll released last week finds some instructive results in among voters’ preferences for the remaining Presidential candidates. 25% of Bernie Sanders voters say they will not…
Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton by double digits in the Wisconsin primary last night. Whoo-hoo! The media will continue to remind us of the daunting delegate…