That Was Fast...

Via Dean Barnett over at Hewitt's site, this pullquote from Patty Wetterling's latest ad:“It shocks the conscience. Congressional leaders have admitted to covering up the predatory behavior of a congressman who used the internet to molest children.”Really? Foley "molested" children?...
Posted by Mitch on October 04, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (94) | TrackBack

The Last Refuge of Flaks

Doug Grow isn't a bad guy. What he is, though, is a columnist whose output has been as consistently pro-DFL as that of any party communications director. Jim Klobuchar was a long-time sports and news columnist at the Strib. He...
Posted by Mitch on October 03, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (27) | TrackBack

What Do You Suppose The Odds Were?

The Humphrey Institute Poll, says the Strib, shows A-Klo up by 14 points. This is the same Humphrey Institute that turned one of their events into a Klobuchar media love-fest, and used its' staff to physically coerce Mark Kennedy's campaign...
Posted by Mitch on September 22, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (33) | TrackBack

The Empirical Record Must Be Wrong!

Swiftee points us to a series of comments at MDE from someone purporting to be a former college associate of Keith Ellison's, who is apprently trying to "cow the voters" with actual facts:I was the editor who published Keith’s articles...
Posted by Mitch on September 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

It's Bad Enough...

...when calling someone a "bigot" is the last refuge of a weak argument against dissent from your position. It's worse when it's the first....
Posted by Mitch on September 15, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (20) | TrackBack

Ellison Akbar!

Keith Ellison - supporter of cop-killers, unapologetic Kathleen Soliah fan, and a person whose past includes episodes that, if mirrored to a candidate on the right, would have provoked a media frenzy - wins the MN CD5 primary:"Let's be honest,...
Posted by Mitch on September 13, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (34) | TrackBack

It's All Our Fault

Saint Paul held a 9/11 observance yesterday. Here are Mayor Chris Coleman's remarks, as prepared for delivery:Five years ago, on the evening of September 11th, I thought back to Robert Kennedy's comments following the death of Martin Luther King and...
Posted by Mitch on September 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

What If A War Began, and Nobody Remembered The Attack?

There's going to be a 9/11 memorial ceremony in Saint Paul:FEATURING A PERFORMANCE BY SPCO MUSICIANS On September 11, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the City of St. Paul will present a 30-minute lunch-hour event at Landmark Center commemorating...
Posted by Mitch on September 08, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Agents Provocateurs

Captain Ed notes an apparent DFL scam to foist an illegal contribution on John Kline:According to [Kline volunteer Diana] Bratlie, Bailey was initially rebuffed when he showed up at Kline's district office in Burnsville asking to make a cash contribution....
Posted by Mitch on August 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Oops...

Now it's the sixth ballot, and Rew has unofficial results. It's going to stay ugly....
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Trench Warfare

With Lourey out, Attorney General Mike "I Can Regulate Your Entire Life" Hatch and Steve "Happy To Pay Your Money for a Better Minnesota" Kelley are in a near dead-heat. Flash has the goodies; some of his permalinks are hosed,...
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

A New Giant...

...in local cartooning debuts. Hey, he's better than Avidor....
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

DFL Convention Notes

While at the State GOP convention there was a brief flash of an idea that we might be able to broadcast from the State DFL convention. It fell through, alas - I would have loved to have made the trip...
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

They Eat Their Own

Via MDE, Rew from PowerLiberal shows this Hatch hit piece against Steve Kelley....
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Saved By The Bell

So I went and did a little vanity-Technorati last night to see who was linking to me, and why. I notice the familiar Norwegian flag glyph of Mark Gisleson's "Norwegianity" blog. (Congratulations, by the way, Mr. Gisleson; you've gotten two...
Posted by Mitch on June 07, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Remember - They're the Smart Ones...

Via MDE, I caught this bit in a note on Democrat Underground - emphasis mine:Bring a sign to education these people they are just giving their money to another Corporate PuppetOddly, it seems fully plausible that after a couple of...
Posted by Mitch on June 06, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Conservatives For Idusogie

Comes word via KvM that Peter Idusogie is going to contest the Senate race against Amy Klobuchar. Idusogie - noted for his association with groups that are known for elevating the level of this state's political discourse - should make...
Posted by Mitch on June 06, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

A-Klo's Minneapolis

Suspected shooter of two at a Wendy's in Minneapolis had been in custody - but Amy Klobuchar's County Attorney's office declined to prosecute. We're going to keep count, here......
Posted by Mitch on June 06, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Exercise in Imagination

Remember when Saint Paul's only Republican mayor in recent memory, now-Senator Norm Coleman, ordered a clampdown on criticism of his administration's officials via any city-chartered media (such as the city's Cable Access network)? And then do you remember what happened...
Posted by Mitch on June 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Crushing of Dissent - Minneapolis-Style

Via "Minneapolis Upside Down", we see that Minneapolis City Councilman Don Samuels and mayor R.T. Rybak favor free speech. Well, the right kind of free speech, anyway...:Samuels in particular emerged as an unapologetic opponent of unsupervised free speech . Rybak...
Posted by Mitch on May 31, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

What Made Minnesota?

What made Minnesota what it is? I have to ask. Oh, I have my opinion. It'd be an interesting debate to have with people who are qualified to hold it. I ask because it became an issue: Minnesota Politics, a...
Posted by Mitch on May 23, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (24) | TrackBack

Bachmann Opponents Favor Censorship

Even though bloggers won some of the same protections from speech-rationing laws that the dead tree media enjoys (and, hello John McCain and Russ Feingold, that the First Amendment supposedly grants all of us), some local agendabloggers apparently are pining...
Posted by Mitch on May 19, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Hamsters Run Wild

You are someone who's widely regarded as obsessive to the point of nonsensical. You run a single-issue blog on a "divisive" political "issue". You've surrounded yourself with puerile intellectual also-rans who are deeply - and misguidedly - in love with...
Posted by Mitch on May 16, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

The Choice

Kennedy: "Cut taxes, defend the nation, get government out of peoples' lives". Kennedy's opponents: "Look! A Photoshopped fish!" Bring on November!...
Posted by Mitch on May 15, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Sedation Needed?

Rew from PowerLiberal is one of those leftybloggers - and we have a good supply of them in the area - with whom you can have a semi-rational debate (although if you get two glasses of wine in you and...
Posted by Mitch on May 13, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

DFL CD6 Delegates: Cancel Those Movie Plans

Second Ballot: Elwin "The Tink" Tinklenberg picks up four votes. Let the blood and the patchoulie flow through the Monticello Community Center!...
Posted by Mitch on May 13, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Tink: Stinking Thinking On Brink of Sinking

Gary at KvM on the 6th CD race: and El Tinklenberg - Patty Wetterling's main challenge for the DFL nod:Any serious analysis that had CD-6 “in play” was contingent on Elwyn Tinklenberg gaining his party’s endorsement and brandishing his centrist...
Posted by Mitch on May 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15) | TrackBack

Buzzard, Meet Hawk

Wendy Wilde - semi-coherent lefty talk show host and mold refugee - is thnking about running for [fellow Jamestownb, ND native] Jim Ramstad's seat in Congress:Wilde, a DFLer, planned to announce her candidacy in the 3rd Congressional District on Saturday....
Posted by Mitch on May 01, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

The Empty Skirt

Andy Aplikowski clobbers A-Klo over at KVM....
Posted by Mitch on April 27, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

The Peasants Are Revolting. And Sexist.

Gary Miller at KvM on A-Klo's graceless playing of the gender card:Ms. Klobuchar — in an appearance on MPR this morning – said “if those [southern] states can do it [elect a woman senator], we can.” The obvious implication is...
Posted by Mitch on February 24, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (25) | TrackBack

"And Stop Socializing Everything, Too, You Conservative Bastards!"

Do conservatives hate liberals? Unquestionably, some conservatives hate some liberals. Does either side have the market cornered? I dunno. For purposes of argument, let's leave out the fringe, Democratic Underground and Free Republic. Then, compare the leading conservative sites -...
Posted by Mitch on September 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (23) | TrackBack

Missing The Signal

Nancy emails me this thread from Democrat Underground. It seems that people are upset about the lousy reception for the Amateur Radio station. The topic:Anyone else having trouble tuning in to AAR? I'm in a Saint Paul burb and we...
Posted by Mitch on August 30, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (33) | TrackBack

Melting Down

We had a great time talking with Saint Paul Mayor Randy Kelly on the NARN show at the fair yesterday. I think we'll be talking to Mayor Kelly for another four years. For starters, the Saint Paul DFL is...er, melting...
Posted by Mitch on August 28, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Exposed

The flapdoodle over the identity - or purported identity - of Minnesota Democrat Exposer prompted me to try to go to the source. That's right - the first-ever, exlusive interview with the elusive MDE....
Posted by Mitch on August 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (22) | TrackBack

Dump Bachmann Blog Abdicates Any Claim To Legitimacy

If you've read this blog at all, you know that I don't have a lot of regard for the Dump Bachmann blog, a project of a group of local anti-Bachmann activists who are in a case of perpetual vapors over...
Posted by Mitch on August 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (64) | TrackBack

Sorry, Chief - It Was The Old "Republican Who Loathes Republicans" Trick!

Earlier today, I fisked a letter to the Strib. I made a broad joke about how the easiest way to get printed in the Strib is to say "...as a Republican...", and then issue a litany of hard-left talking points....
Posted by Mitch on June 23, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (24) | TrackBack

Inconsistent

The Sluggin' Hatch Sisters are not, of course, the first children of a prominent Minnesota politician to get into trouble. Tyrell Ventura served briefly as Minnesota's Billy Carter. But much more troubling was the media's - and the DFL establishment's...
Posted by Mitch on June 11, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

From The "When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife" School of Slander

Over on the "Dumpbachmann" blog, in a piece on an upcoming appearance by loathsome human and all-purpose gay-bashing caricature Fred Phelps at Eden Prairie High School (warning - PDF flyer, definitely objectionable), Eva Young asks:Will Michele Bachmann be in attendance...
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (22) | TrackBack

Some Of The News That's Convenient To Print

Dump Michele Bachmann is a local blog that's dedicated to delivering breathless condemnations of Senator Michele Bachmann, all the time. They've been resorting to stunts to gain publicity - like a few weeks ago, when a group of anti-Bachmann activists...
Posted by Mitch on June 06, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (18) | TrackBack

Um, Preparing for, Um, a Thenate Run

Um, comedian and failed, er...um....talk show hotht Al...Franken purchathed a townhouthe in Minneapolith. The Thtrib thayth:By year's end, comedian Al Franken will be a Minnesotan again, taking a big step toward possibly running for the U. S. Senate seat held...
Posted by Mitch on May 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Speaking Of Strict Mistresses

Doug Grow has a hilarious piece on the DFL's Minneapolis City Convention, which was apparently organized like a Sicilian lutefisk dinner:By 11:18, Higgins had Fifth Warders and Seventh Warders on the move. By this time, she also had shortened her...
Posted by Mitch on May 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Failure To Communicate

I listened, as is my occasional masochistic wont, to about a minute of the Nick Coleman "program" today on the local Air American affiliate. Actually, it was 45 seconds in one installment, and 15 in another. They were talking about...
Posted by Mitch on April 18, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

So Let Me Get This Straight, Again...

This morning on Nick Coleman's "program", they were tittering about a a series of out-of-context photos of Michelle Bachman supposedly (they imagine) "hiding in the bushes" at a gay rally. This of course being the same Nick Coleman show that...
Posted by Mitch on April 11, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (85) | TrackBack

Hatch Job

"Trillin" at MN Lefty Liberal is taking its shots at Mike Hatch:Ok, let me preface this; I don't like Mike Hatch. Well I do, but I like him as the Attorney General. He is harsh, he is abrasive, and he...
Posted by Mitch on April 11, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Whitewash

Over at the City Pages - our local freebie lifestyle handout - they seem to start young writers out on the "Facile Stereotype" beat. Molly Priesmeyer is the CP writer perhaps best known to us in the NARN. She appeared...
Posted by Mitch on March 13, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Rotenberg

U of M chief counsel Mark Rotenberg has thrown his hat into the ring for the '06 Senate race:He is the third Democrat to file papers, although none have said they are running for sure for the seat being vacated...
Posted by Mitch on March 09, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Blah, District Four Style

Betty McCollum, my "representative" in Congress, bowed out of the Senate race. Unfortunately, it wasn't accompanied by a retirement from politics. Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., said Monday that she will not run for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat in 2006...
Posted by Mitch on March 08, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Good News for Bachmann and Yecke

Jeff Fecke has good news for GOP District Six candidates Michele Bachmann and Cheri Pierson Yecke:Per Flash. My recommendation to Patty Wetterling: don't. Run again in the 6th, where you'll be facing either archconservative Cheri Pierson Yecke or arch-archconservative Michele...
Posted by Mitch on March 01, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15) | TrackBack

Announthement

Um...the Dayton verthuth, er, Kennedy blog thayth that, um, um, Al Franken ith going to have...um...have an announthement about...um.... ...um... ...um... ...whether Franken ith going to run for Mark Daytonth Thenate...um...theat in Two Thouthand...er...Two Thouthand Thix. No word on whether...
Posted by Mitch on February 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Nascent?

Luke Francl at New Patriot says in re the inauguration:But 2004 was the first time you ever had to face the nascent Organized Left. You've been working on your organization for 30 years, and we've only just begun.Perhaps. And a...
Posted by Mitch on January 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Cry Jackboot

Minnesota Senate District 42 DFL has a bit of a hyperbole problem: The illustration (click to enlarge) was screen-captured from their site Monday night. Nice to see them bringing civility back to politics. And I almost laughed pop up my...
Posted by Mitch on January 04, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Presented Without Much Comment

Minnesota's ten Democrat electoral college representatives met yesterday, and...Defeated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry likely is going to get one less electoral vote nationally than he should have -- 251 instead of 252 -- because of an apparent mistake Monday...
Posted by Mitch on December 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Cry Satire!

Is it satire, or is it not? Only the Strib's ever-more-bizarre editorial board knows for sure, as I critique an op ed by...er, you'll have to read the story.

Posted by Mitch on October 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Whither MPR?

According to Smart Genes, the MPR newsroom is "on full alert" after the Keillor rants of the last few weeks. [longtime DFL road-warrior] Blois Olson, "a Democrat forever" and Janecek's associate publisher at the Politics in Minnesota newsletter, characterized the...
Posted by Mitch on November 19, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)