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…
Tag: politics
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…
Three public officials face criminal charges for falsifying documents to certify Flint, Michigan’s water for public consumption and thus poison its residents for well over a year. But last…
Republican candidate for District 30 House Richard Mounce is complaining about a “small and vocal group” that sends “outrageous, and anonymous, post cards at election time”…
If it is at all advisable to take any of Trump’s plaything words as vows of real policy, we can count on his threats of…
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…
Lieutenant Governor Matt Michels is thinking about running for Governor. The Yankton Republican tells his local paper he’s setting himself a two-month deadline to decide: “I need…
Senator Mike Rounds spent a lot of time at a Yankton meeting last month shouting Donald Trump’s campaign slogan and blaming the media for the negative…
We won’t have Fred Deutsch to kick around next year. The Florence chiropractor has changed his mind about seeking reëlection to his District 4 House seat: Rep. Fred Deutsch…
Facts and good sense managed to beat back the one ugly outburst of anti-refugee paranoia that cropped up in this year’s Legislative Session. Now I’m proud…