Month: November 2015

A Provincial Tale of Politics and Revenge

Let’s start with the fact that Michael Brodkorb is a piece of work.  You may recall that he briefly flitted across the liberal blogosphere when he and the MN Senate Majority Leader resigned in 2011.  Another...

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Who Will Pick Up the Pieces?

Nate Silver gives Donald Trump a 20% chance of winning the Republican nomination and tells the rest of us to stop freaking out. And, as usual, Silver brings some data to the table to support his assessment. Here’s...

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Look What Trump Started

I’m not the only one who made a mental connection between the terrorist attack on the Black Lives Matter protestors in Minneapolis and the tone of the Republican presidential campaign. White supremacists are obviously...

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How Popular Are Your Senators?

Here’s something fun to look at this morning. Morning Consults conducted a massive poll to see how constituents feel about their U.S. Senators. They discovered that Bernie Sanders is more popular among his own constituents...

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Russian SU-24 Fighter Shot Down By Turkey [Update]

Another sign Turkey is part of it’s own coalition fighting Kurds and supporting Salafists/Jihadists/ISIL fighters in Syria. Russian Su-24 fighter jet shot over Syria | RT | A Russian Su-24 fighter has been shot down in...

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