Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is running for President. As a Pettigrew Democrat, I say thank goodness. Bernie Sanders can lead conversations about the real threats to our…
Category: national
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…
The Republicans have We Democrats have one declared presidential candidate. The Daily Beast‘s Liz Mair finds Hillary Clinton’s new campaign “so dull, so bland, so scripted, so…
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama became the first U.S. President to shake hands and talk substantively with a Cuban leader since President Eisenhower met with…
You have ten days left to file your federal taxes. Thanks to Republican budget cuts and propaganda, that’s probably how long you’ll spend on hold with…
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack took to the press last week to criticize the House Republican plan to turn the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in block grants,…
I dispute the assertion of my blogospheric counterweight Mr. Powers that President Obama and the EPA are waging a “war on coal.” However, even if we ascribed…
John Tsitrian spotlighted former Republican legislator Jerry Apa’s critique of the South Dakota GOP last week. Apa’s declaration that the SDGOP’s arrogant leaders are out of…
Following links from The Atlantic article on South Dakota’s upcoming rate-cap initiative leads me to this report on the results of the Supreme Court’s reversal last year…