(16 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 9, 2011
How Wisconsin GOP and Kathy Nickolaus Could Have Stolen the Supreme Court Election if They had Wanted to A spring statewide election in Wisconsin for a state supreme court justice postion pits incumbent David Prosser, sympathetic to Governor Walker, against challenger Joanne Kloppenburg who is sympathetic to worker's rights and unions. After first appearing to have been won by Kloppenburg a late breaking error throws the election back to Prosser .... or does it?

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Probable Case of Swine Flu in Minnesota Occurs in District Represented by Michele Bachmann First possible case of Swine Flu in the state of Minnesota occurs ironically in the district represented by Republican Michele Bachmann.

(10 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 10, 2008
Evidence of Republican Election Fraud in the Al Franken, Norm Coleman Senate Race? In the closest Senate race in Minnesota history between Norm Colemand and Al Franken accusations of election fraud are flying. In light of testimony by Republican IT operative Mike Connell on the eve of the election a number of strange irregularities have been discovered in the recent Minnesota election.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Flax Seed: A Natural Alternative to Statins? As the Pharmaceutical industry funds new studies supporting the expanded use of their blockbuster drugs such as statins, safe and effective natural alternatives such as flaxseed fight for a fraction of the media coverage and a sliver of the research funding.

(10 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Whats Wrong with Waukesha Wisconsin? More Anomalies in Prosser and Kloppenburg Race More possible anomalies discovered in Waukesha county in the Prosser and Kloppenburg election.

(15 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Alan Greenspan calls the McCain Economic Plan a Disaster for the Country Republican John McCain's plan called a disaster by Alan Greenspan and McCain continues to say the economy is fundamentally strong as it collapses around him and $700 billion in shareholder wealth and retirement accounts evaporate in one day.

(6 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 24, 2008
Attack on McCain Staffer Ashley Todd Called into Question by Pittsburgh Police Was attack on McCain volunteer politically motivated? Pittsburgh Police are beginning to have their doubts.

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 8, 2013
GTAC Mine and Scott Walker Finally Produce Some Jobs ... for Out of State Mercenaries Over the 4th of July weekend, private military contractors begin patrolling the Penokee Hills of Northern Wisconsin. Gogebic Taconite and Scott Walker's economic development is taking off. First new jobs since Scott Walker's budget deal passed go to out of state military mercenaries.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 15, 2008
Electronic Voting Tallies in the Ted Stevens and Mark Begich Senate Race Were Surprisingly Non-random. In a very tight Senate race in Alaska between Ted Stevens and Mark Begich the existence of voter fraud, election fraud, and strange irregularities continue to be hotly debated across the blogosphere.

(7 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Mike Connell, Paul Wellstone, and Beverly Eckert Buffalo Plane Crashes and Futuristic Directed Energy Weapons Systems It is very doubtful that the NTSB is adequately trained to look for evidence of the use of new weapons systems and directed energy weapons in suspect and unexplained domestic plane crashes.

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 6, 2008
Coleman Leads Franken by 76 Votes; Thousands Remain Uncounted The hand-recount of the Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman is over according to the mainstream media. Or is it? The race has become even tighter and there are still 5000 - 6000 challenged ballots to be hand-counted. The hand-recount is far from over.

(24 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Did Rupert Murdoch Knowingly Run a Racist Cartoon in the New York Post? A cartoon of chimpanzee shot to death by police in todays New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch, appears to parody Obama and the passage of his stimulus bill. Is the cartoon over the top racism as many are starting to claim?

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 1, 2008
Could Republican Norm Coleman be the Next Indicted U.S. Senator? The scandal now dubbed Donorgate is another potential explosive scandal involving Iranian-born businessman Nasser Kazeminy and indirectly his friend and political benefactor Norm Coleman.

(6 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 12, 2009
The PBS FRONTLINE Documentary 'Sick Around America' was modified for the Health Insurance Lobby Even PBS is no longer safe from the lobbying efforts of the health insurance companies. Investigative reporter T.R. Reid's conclusion that was never aired was that we are the only developed country on the planet that allows health insurance companies to make a profit.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 6, 2011
Michael Moore Comes to Madison Wisconsin and Punches Back at the GOP Led War on the Middle Class The protesters of Madison Wisconsin are winning the battle of public opinion and the hidden ugly political agendas of the GOP and FOX news are being revealed through the window of an embattled Republican Governor named Scott Walker.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 22, 2009
Greed is Not Good: The Ronald Reagan Mantra is Dead Public outrage over multi-million dollar bonuses going to failing AIG executives from taxpayer funded bailout money should be the final dagger in the heart of 20 years of Ronald Reganism and the Republican mantra that "Greed is Good".

SHARE        Monday, November 3, 2008
Al Franken is up 49.3% to Norm Coleman's 24.6% according to new Poll Analyzing Comment Sentiment in Minnesota Papers Analysis of comment sentiment on articles related to Minnesota Senatorial Race in Minnesota between Al Franken, Norm Coleman, and Dean Barkley.

(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 25, 2009
Why Small Business Owners Should Demand the Public Option Plan Like no other time in the history of our country the small business owner is faced with a dire future because of rising health care premiums. Significant health care reform leading to more competition, and more affordable premiums like what would be achieved with the Public Option Plan is no longer a matter of debate and discussion. It is a matter of necessity for the survival of the American small business owner.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 12, 2008
Sarah Palin: Caribou Barbie or Porky Pig? Sarah Palin is being touted as an anti-pork barrel spending reformer. But the facts seem to indicate a completely different story.

(12 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 18, 2010
Republicans say Hell with the Tea Party and Side with Wall Street Banksters Republican kick the Tea Partiers to the curb and side with Wall Street. Same game new name, in the past it was death-spiral financing and naked short selling and now it is packaging toxic CDOs and then betting against their success

(40 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Howard Dean for HHS: Change We Can Believe In Howard Dean is the right person for the job of fixing our broken "healthcare for profit" system. Our country and the economic engine of our country, the small business, have already spoken in November that this is the change we want.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 10, 2013
Wisconsin Inc., for sale to Top Donors like GTAC, Koch and Cline Industries Republican Governor Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republican legislators recently passed and signed into law a corporate written mining bill for Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) to begin mountaintop removal iron ore mining in the Penokee Hills of Northern Wisconsin. The Penokee Hills rise up at the headwaters of a watershed and environmentally sensitive wetlands that drain into Lake Superior and pass through a Native American reservation

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 12, 2011
The 14 Wisconsin Democratic Senators Return to Madison for Heros Welcome Wisconsinites came out in historic numbers to thank the 14 Wisconsin Democratic Sentors that returned to Wisconsin from the land of Lincoln and who stood up to the Republicans Union-busting legislative efforts.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Teaparty Uses Dirty Tricks to Reverse Public Narrative in Wisconsin Over Scott Walker Assault on Workers Rights Grassroots protests in Wisconsin gain steam and outside groups like the Tea Party look to use dirty tactics in an attempt to change the public narrative.

SHARE        Friday, November 21, 2008
The Al Franken, Norm Coleman Minnesota Recount: And the Winner Is ... With only 136 votes separating Al Franken and Norm Coleman out of 2.9 million votes cast, the Great Minnesota Recount continues and the prognosticators suggest the undervotes will be important.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 7, 2008
Al Franken: Minnesota's hardest working soon to be next U.S. Senator Al Franken's comeback trail has been dependent on his "roll-up the sleeves" hard work and his grass-roots organizing skills. He has recently pulled ahead of Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and has put the much needed Minnesota senatorial seat, formerly held by Paul Wellstone, back into play for the Democrats.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 27, 2010
Republican Michele Bachmann Calls Ron Schara a Liar and Continues to Prove She Is Totally Clueless Michele Bachmann calls Minnesota sportsman legend, Ron Schara a liar and then refuses to apologize once she is called out on her lie. Male voters and hunters in her district are not happy with her.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 16, 2010
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Announce Joint Rally at the National Mall in Washington DC Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Announce a Joint Rally at the National Mall in Washington DC to counter Glenn Beck and the Teabaggers

(7 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Prominent Minnesota Columnist Calls Al Franken Anti-Christian From McCarthyism to the the Salem Witch Trials, Democrat Al Franken, who is in a tight battle with Republican incubment Norm Coleman, is now being targeted as anti-Christian.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 18, 2008
McCain Is No Friend to Florida Voters and Senior Citizens Senior citizens are among our most vulnerable and they will vote for a president that they think can reverse the course of our economy and fix our broken healthcare system. McCain has brought into serious doubt whether he has the ability or will to tackle either of these problems

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Frivolous Ballot Challenges by Norm Coleman in Recount Don't Obscure Projected Victory for Al Franken Closest Senatorial race in Minnesota history between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken continues in the recount phase and despite attempts to camouflage the true vote spread the ultimate winner will likely win by only a few dozen votes.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 20, 2011
Super Committee Failure Not a Bad Thing: Why Doing Nothing May Prove Beneficial Super Committee failure may prove to be the first event in decades to force a slow down in runaway spending on behalf of the military industrial complex. The United States defense budget already exceeds that of all other military budgets in the world combined. Americans would see after the forced cuts in military spending that the world would not end, we would not be invaded, and life would go on.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 30, 2013
Iron County Residents Urged to Protect Themselves from Possible GTAC Mining Abuses by Former Wisconsin DNR Head George Meyer, a former Wisconsin secretary of the DNR, recently spoke to Iron County citizens on effective metallic mining zoning. He urged local residents to make sure they protect themselves with appropriate mining ordinances from potential mining abuses and accidents. Gogebic Taconite (GTAC), owned by Florida based Cline Group, has proposed to create one of the world's largest open-pit iron ore mines in Northern Wisconsin.

SHARE        Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Michele Bachmann and the New Media: A Timeline The Michele Bachmann story highlights the power and influence that the New Media has achieved.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Belize: A Tropical Adventure Right in Our Backyard With unprecedented increases in airline expenses, a contentious upcoming election, and a falling dollar, Americans are looking for tropical vacations in their own backyard. Belize fits that ticket.

SHARE        Friday, March 13, 2009
Norm Coleman and Identity Theft Gate: Is Your Online Donation to Norm Coleman Safe? Republican Norm Coleman's woes continue. Massive security breaches in his website that could have been prevented have lead to the possible exposure of 51,000 donors and their credit card information.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 2, 2010
Is the Minnesota and National GOP Overplaying their Tea Party Hand? The Minnesota Democratic DFL convention recently made history by nominating its first female gubernatorial candidate to replace outgoing GOP governor Tim Pawlenty. Minnesota's Republican party is placing their bet on Tea Party favored candidate Tom Emmer who was also recently endorsed by Sarah Palin. Do the extreme politics of Tom Emmer, similar to that of Michele Bachmann, have a chance of resonating statewide in Minnesota?

SHARE        Monday, October 13, 2008
Al Franken Wins Second Debate over Republican Incumbent Norm Coleman and Dean Barkley Democrat Al Franken squares off with Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Indpendence candidate Dean Barkley in the second debate for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Myth of the Bradley Effect and Anti-Bradley Effect New polling research is showing that the Bradley Effect hasn't been a factor in politics since 1995 and it is unlikely to play a significant role in this year's Presidential election.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 8, 2009
Max Baucus, Listen to Ed Schultz and Give Doctor Marcia Angell a Seat at the Table Ed Schultz and Doctor Margaret Flowers from 'Physicians for a National Health Program' call on Democratic Senator Max Baucus to give Doctor Marcia Angell a seat at the table along with the 'for profit' health insurance CEOs at an upcoming Senate Finance Committee hearing on May 12th for finding solutions to our current health care crisis.

SHARE        Friday, September 25, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee Will Vote on Public Option Amendments Today The legislative battle in the Senate for quality, affordable and comprehensive health care reform starts today with two votes on amendments reinserting the public option into the Max Baucus Health Reform bill.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 31, 2008
Could Republican John McCain Lose His Home State of Arizona? Polls are tightening in Arizona and rumors are swirling that Obama could make a play for John McCain's home state of Arizona.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 19, 2008
FBI Admits to Bungling the Anthrax Case Against Dr. Bruce Ivins FBI can still not place Dr. Bruce Ivins at the scene of the crime or explain why the anthrax found in the victims was coated with silica and appears to be weaponized.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 13, 2009
Al Franken Declared the Winner over Norm Coleman in the Election Contest Three judge panel rules unanimously that Al Franken is the winner of the Minnesota Senatorial race, effectively ending Norm Coleman's election contest and making Al Franken Minnesota's newest freshman Senator.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 9, 2009
Norm Coleman Hopes to do Better Than the Detroit Lions Norm Coleman, two months after calling on Al Franken to do the right thing and concede, files a lawsuit to contest the Minnesota recount showing that Al Franken has won. Norm Coleman's legal team has so far lost all 6 legal challenges against Al Franken's legal team and should maybe choose to challenge the Detroit Lions instead.

(34 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 16, 2010
Why are Progressives mad at themselves and not rightly at the Republicans? It is time as progressives to start aiming our energy and anger in the right direction.

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Democrats Baucus and Conrad Alone Prevent Passage of Public Option Amendment in the Senate Public option amendments offered by Senators Jay Rockefeller and Charles Schumer to the Senate Finance committee are defeated in votes closer than expected. The debate provides public option proponents new insights into what form a public option might ultimately need to pass in a final health insurance reform bill.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 25, 2009
Opposition to the Public Option by Republican Chuck Grassley May End His Political Career Politicians will pay a price in the coming elections for siding against the American people in favor of their big corporate donors and lobbyists.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 10, 2008
Is Republican Norm Coleman Just an Empty Suit? Republican incumbent Norm Coleman finds himself in the midst of another ethics scandal and is sinking in the polls against Democratic challenger Al Franken for the Senate seat in Minnesota.

(24 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 31, 2009
Letter to Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and the Republican Leadership: Stop Being anti-American Obstructionists After a massive American mandate against their failed ideologies, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner and the rest of the top Republican leadership continue to show that they are mere puppets beholden to a drug-addicted Rush Limbaugh. The economy is in shambles and their solution is the same tried and true failed solution of tax cuts for the top 1% and more wars.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 11, 2009
Why Internet Voting is a Terrible Idea The further streamlining and centralization of our elections brought about by internet voting would be a disaster and would increase not decrease the potential for "election fraud".

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The AFL-CIO and the Public Option Plan: A Big Line in the Sand The AFL-CIO has taken a page out of history when FDR so famously said, I argee with, I want to do it, now make me do it. The AFL-CIO and its 11 million members are sending a strong and clear message to President Obama, pass the public option plan.

SHARE        Thursday, October 30, 2008
Besieged Al Franken Stays Close Despite Continued Attacks by Republican Norm Coleman Republican backed special interests groups continue to besiege Al Franken with false accusations, character assassinations, and negative ads. Despite Norm Coleman's pledge to condemn negative advertising on October 10th he remains silent.

SHARE        Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Has the Reverend Wright Story Run its Course Thanks to the Gas Tax Controversy? Barack Obama's denunciation of Reverend Wright on April 29th along with increased national discussions of the gas tax holiday has helped Barack Obama politically by shifting the public's discussions away from Reverend Wright and back to the economy and rising gas prices.

SHARE        Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Minnesota Representative Betty McCollum Continues to Voice Support for the Public Option Plan at Health Care Town Hall On Monday night Minnesota Representative Betty McCollum voiced continued support for the public option plan at a health care town hall on the campus of Macalester College to an overflow crowd. It was democracy in action with a respectful crowd that was overwhelmingly supportive of health care reform.

(18 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 19, 2008
When is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Going to Start Using Gas Chambers? Largest Immigration raid in US history tears a small Iowa community apart. Is this idyllic American community's economic and personal security really better off now that more than 10% of its population has been incarcerated?

SHARE        Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Renegade Republicans Gamble on the Bailout and it Blows up Like the Economy Failure to pass the Wall Street bailout bill hands Republican John McCain and the Bush Administration a Stunning Defeat

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Republicans Cross Party Lines to Vote for Democrat Scott Murphy Obama's popularity is still yielding big gains for regional and local democratic candidates. Democrat Scott Murphy is witnessing Obama's popularity first hand with is slim lead over heavily favored Republican Jim Tedisco.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 2, 2008
What, No Manufactured Outrage Over Norm Coleman's Sweetheart Deal? Norm Coleman appears to get sweetheart deal from Republican operative with ties to Karl Rove, and yet mainstream media chooses it not worthy of further investigation.

SHARE        Monday, December 21, 2009
Some Rational Perspective on the Charts of the Health Care Stocks The short term swings of the health insurance stocks like WLP and UNH are not telling the whole story.

SHARE        Wednesday, May 6, 2009
New "Survivor" Ad Encapsulates the Plight of the GOP New parody ad by the DNC highlights the current plight of the GOP and the remaining 21% of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans.

SHARE        Monday, September 22, 2008
Norm Coleman tries to Polish a Turd The new Republican talking points appear to be that this bailout could be a great investment for the taxpayers.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 10, 2009
Axelrod to Maddow, Obama will Fight for the Public Option Obama's speech to the joint session of congress laid the groundwork for passing comprehensive health care reform in 2009, including in it a public option plan.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 12, 2008
Why voting for a winner will trump bigotry in West Virginia and prove the pundits wrong. West Virginians go to the polls tomorrow and these "hard working white Americans" will prove the political pundits wrong.