It is perhaps easier for former Republican Senator Larry Pressler to show moral clarity and courage than our sitting (multiple meanings) Congressional delegation. Out of office for twenty years, Pressler…
Tag: Hillary Clinton
USA Today has dueling features on supporters of the two major-party Presidential nominees in every state. Who speaks up from South Dakota? Lincoln County Democratic chairman…
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump announces his economic plan today. Well, maybe not his plan, but the plan cooked up by twelve rich men and…
Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton gave the least impressive speech of those delivered by the Democratic headliners at this week’s Democratic National Convention. As Clinton herself said from…
South Dakota gets some extra Google juice, as alphabetical luck meant our delegation to the Democratic National Convention took the mic at just the right moment for our…
In picking Virginia Senator and former DNC chair Tim Kaine as her running mate, Hillary Clinton makes no splash. (Has she ever?) She plays it safe, matches…
Far more common than “Vote your conscience” as a refrain at the Republican National Convention is “Hillary Clinton doesn’t believe in borders” (see Scott, Ingraham,…
Indiana Governor Mike Pence as Donald Trump’s running mate? Go ahead, make Hillary Clinton’s day: “Building a great, big, beautiful wall between America and progress”—make my…
Senator Bernie Sanders brought the last two months of his bridge-building and platform-wrangling to their expected, logical conclusion: he said, in so many words, “I am endorsing…
My man Bernie Sanders may be about to endorse Hillary Clinton, and Sanders may be securing Clinton’s and the party’s support on key policy issues (public option and…