Evolution or Devolution of Political Discourse?

- Loveland

Democrats on Deficit: Proclaim, Don’t Blame

Republicans have a potent issue to win over Independents and other swing voters in the 2010 congressional elections – the deficit. The Democrats’ defense against deficit spending charges so far has been “Bush did it first.”
That “Bush did it first” blaming is certainly true. Bush’s Democratic predecessor eliminated the deficit, and Bush built [...]

Zygi’s PR Hail Mary Puts Vikings In The Game

In the political world, there is something much worse than being opposed. It’s called being ignored.
And until Vikings owner Zygi Wilf and his team showed their teeth this week, they were being roundly ignored by the Legislature. The billionaire not only couldn’t get half a billion bucks from the Legislature, he couldn’t get [...]

Media Misses Health Trend Story Behind Rating

We’re number six! We’re number six!
It’s not exactly the cheer proud Minnesotans are accustomed to when it comes to health. After all, for four years in a row we were the number one healthiest state in the nation, according to the United Health Foundation. Health has always been one of [...]

Siding With Sarah

Pigs must be aloft and they must be playing hockey in Hell today because I find myself in agreement with Sarah Palin regarding Newsweek’s cover photo choice.  It’s a cheap shot and one the magazine should have resisted taking.
It’d be one thing if she posed for Newsweek in this get-up, but the backstory is that [...]

The End of Unallot?

Five months ago, we ruminated about “Unallot,” the magical fiscal fiefdom created by Governor Tim Pawlenty.

“Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot,
For one brief, shining moment
That was known as Unallot.”
In the magical kingdom of Unallot, a Governor who feigns surprise about huge deficits that have been forecasted and publicly discussed for [...]

“Dithering” Doublespeak

One of the things that uncredentialed fake journalist Jon Stewart does on Comedy Channel that many credentialed real journalists don’t do is connect the dots of recent events. Stewart and his writers don’t just regurgitate the news of the day and look at events in isolation. They dig until they uncover the larger [...]

Why newspapers need copyeditors

Hell hath no fury like an AP stylist scorned.
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“No Faith Justifies These Murderous and Craven Acts”

Yesterday’s service at Fort Hood for the soldiers murdered last week was a haunting introduction to Veterans Day. These are trying times for our country, President Obama said in Texas. He’s trying to bring the Iraq war to an end, and trying to understand what path is best in the desperate mountains of Afghanistan.
At a [...]

Pawlenty’s Secret Weapon in Iowa

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has been busy preening Presidential in Iowa, which raises an interesting question: Where will his breakthrough political moment come in the Hawkeye State?
Will Governor Pawlenty’s breakthrough come during a spellbinding address to the Muscatine County Republican Women’s Club meeting? Will it come with a well-timed anti-evolution zinger at the [...]