Remember the warm and fuzzy TV ad from Sen. John McCain on the evening Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for president at the party’s convention in Denver? The Minnesota Republican Party is not reading the John McCain playbook. It unveiled its first ad against Mark Dayton today. It has a certain familiarity to it…
Like some of the pictures we saw from the Gulf of Mexico during the BP oil disaster, good photography can make bad news beautiful.
Editorial cartoonists generally get a higher degree of leniency than other commentators on the nation’s editorial pages. But Mike Lester of the Rome (Georgia) News Tribune pushes the envelope on the issue of the mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.
Everything that’s wrong with the ‘get it first’ attitude of news organizations is on display in the Ted Stevens plane crash.
Who hasn’t wanted to be Steve Slater, the Ground Zero sacred ground nobody cares about, voting the Dark Ages way, Winona’s 12-year-old drunk driver, and reconsidering horseshoes.
While a planned mosque near the World Trade Center site is getting all of the attention, the people who paid a big price for their heroism on 9/11 are quietly getting stiffed, some of them say.
Twenty-five years after the Hormel strike, mosque wars, escaping the heat, summer camp bullies, and who’s got storm chasers in the ‘death pool’?
Bob Collins
Lessons from primary day (Five by 8: 8/11/10)
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