The Minnesota primaries were yesterday. The Republicans had one gubernatorial candidate, the Independence party had one or maybe two, and the DFL (MN Democrats) had a bunch. The endorsed candidate was beat out by the moneyed candidate (who it was found had friends & family donating to "grassroots" organizations through a couple levels of ( Read more... )

The recent goings on regarding what has been presented as "Health Care Reform" have trigged some strong feelings. What I've seen is not quite what is being portrayed. For one, I don't see "the right" crying or whining, I see them preparing. Before the election in 2008, there was group that called itself "Recreate '68" and that might be happening ( Read more... )

President Obama has gotten some flack for not merely using, but seeming to over-rely on a TelePrompter. A few days ago Sarah Palin gave talk and apparently had a few highlights written on her hand and some folks who seemed to have no problem with a TelePrompter with entire speeches suddenly jumped with fauxtrage at a hand with a few key ( Read more... )

I know that Obama was sworn in as President a year ago yesterday, but I suspect that like most jobs not much gets done on that first day unless there is some sudden emergency. So today it's been a year on the job.

Poll A year of that one.

Brown (R) won in MA today, and by a big enough margin that it won't change by "discovering" a "lost" box of votes in some old car, unlike the Minnesota mess of last November.

I will now predict that Republicans will gain some seats this November. It's not that Republicans will be truly popular. It's that the Democrats will have continued to make ( Read more... )

When the Berlin fell (was torn down!) and the USSR tossed itself onto the ash heap of history, Francis Fukuyama suggested that it might be "the end of history ( Read more... )

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." -- Abraham Lincoln ( Read more... )

Poll They jennies spared.

Gad, how tired was I when I made this? "...ought to apologies to donkeys" rather than apologize and the poll name... well that at least makes some sense though not as much as intended. And I suppose I did leave out the option for "Huh?" or "Who?"

Garrison Keillor has, finally, gotten into a hospital for treatment of a stroke. He's been on a waiting list for some time, clearly having had the attack November 2000.

State of the Union, 16 Feb 2009