The Washington Post features research that indicates Sesame Street may have done more to improve education than any elected official in South Dakota in the last five…
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A roving Dakota Free Press correspondent caught the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event in Minneapolis yesterday. The Sanders campaign advertised coffee and bagels at 9:30 a.m. with a…
An eager reader helps me bounce not too far from Bartlett and Howie’s fact-free Christian exceptionalism to this Slate article about the willful ignorance of creationists. Columnist…
Senator Rand Paul kept Senator Mike Rounds from making his maiden floor speech yesterday afternoon. That might be enough reason to nominate Paul for President. Senator…
In a battle between Baptists and bankers, I should just run for cover. But the Southern Baptists get me to cheer them on by joining a right–left nationwide…
The Hill columnist Brent Budowsky declares “Karl Rove Surrenders to Obamacare“: …now comes Rove, on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal and the…
P&R Miscellany and I have a fundamental disagreement about what to do about the poor. We both agree that citizens can and should work together…
An eager reader sends me this Fresh Air interview with Kevin Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Kruse says…
If Barack Obama and McDonald’s are working together, then the plan must be evil, right? The Tri-State Neighbor reports that McDonald’s is fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria by getting…