As Minnesota candidates for governor and senator ducked debates earlier in this campaign season, their partisans echoed the party line: Nothing new ever comes from debates.
Which is news in Florida where viewers in the gubernatorial debate got a great chance to size up the character and quality of their would-be leaders last night. Read more →
Let he (or she) who has never danced with a turnip cast the first stone! Read more →
When the campaign season mercifully ends in a few weeks, history will record that this was the year that hair was an issue in the race for Congress in Minnesota’s 8th District. Hair! Read more →
In one of the few moves that could make political TV ads bearable, Madison comedian Brandon Jensen has doctored up a campaign ad for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
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Whatever it is, it’s certainly not reflected in the political campaign ads, which apparently work. Read more →
Maybe people who have the day off today should be conscientious objectors and show up for work. Read more →
Why would a couple of national organizations care about a school board race in Minneapolis? Read more →
The New York Times’ Michael Powell makes Minnesotans look like suckers in his I-had-to-see-for-myself column in his newspaper today. Powell visited Minneapolis to see the taxpayer-funded palace being built for Zygi Wilf and his Minnesota Vikings. There’s not a lot of “new” in the column — the Vikings put one over on Gov. Dayton by Read more →
Political campaigns make otherwise reasonable people go over the edge.
The latest example surrounds Michelle Obama’s campaign visit to Milwaukee this week in support of Mary Burke, who is trying to unseat incumbent Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
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The Boston Herald, a Murdoch outfit, didn’t even come close to trying to avoid a racist image in its editorial cartoon today. Read more →
How on earth did Omar Gonzalez jump a White House fence, dash across the lawn, run through the front door and into the East Room without being stopped? Where were the guards? And why did the Secret Service lie to us? And, while we’re on the subject, why was the Secret Service asleep at the switch in a 2011 shooting attack on the White House? Read more →
Here we go, again: Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s name is being mentioned as a possible attorney general now that Eric Holder is calling it quits.
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Barb Goodwin tried to blow the whistle on Community Action of Minneapolis. Other politicians ignored her, for 17 years. Read more →
As he jumped off Marine One in New York yesterday, Obama saluted his military escort. But he had a coffee cup in his hand at the time.
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State officials announced changes to the child abuse system to prevent a repeat of the tragedy of a 4-year-old boy. Here are a few others. Read more →
Bob Collins