Trumpist Education “Choice” Really Privatization and Segregation
The Trumpist Party is waging war on public schools. The Republican nominee’s son, a graduate of an elite private school that no government subsidy will or should ever make affordable to everyone, says...
View Article7th Circuit Rebukes Pence Overreach and Anti-Refugee Hysteria
Hmm… looks as if the Aberdeen High School Democrats are right, and Ron Branstner, Al Novstrup, and Amanda Hubbs and Jessica Carroll are wrong. Not only did the United States Seventh Circuit Court of...
View ArticlePence, Legitimacy, and the GOP’s Legal and Moral Choices
So let me see if I have this straight. Senator John Thune, Governor Dennis Daugaard, and Lt. Gov. Matt Michels have all called for the man they nominated for President, Donald Trump, to drop out of the...
View ArticleClinton Rises as Trump Further Disqualifies Self with Jail Threat, San...
I wondered for a moment if Hillary Clinton had made an error in stagecraft in declining to approach Donald Trump and shake his hand at the beginning of last night’s Presidential debate. After all, as a...
View ArticleDaugaard Cans Medicaid Expansion After Pence Chat
Governor Mike Pence expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in Indiana. But now as Donald Trump’s Vice-President-Elect, Pence has convinced our Governor Dennis Daugaard to drop his effort to...
View ArticleHamilton Cast Exhort VPE Pence to American Ideals; Trump Trashes Free Speech
Vice-President-Elect Mike Pence went to Broadway last night to see Hamilton. The cast ended the show with a message for him and for all of our Trumpist leaders: Tonight, VP-Elect Mike Pence attended...
View ArticleTop Ten Reasons South Dakota Electors Should Dump Trump
Members of the Electoral College are feeling besieged by partisans lobbying them to vote for one candidate or another on December 19. A dramatic surge of electors, largely consisting of mainstream...
View ArticlePence to Promote Corporate Christian Theocracy
Al Novstrup still hasn’t recanted or apologized for his wild lie about Sharia law in America (there isn’t). But his men in the White House may bring us the Sharia for Jesus that Al sneakily craves:...
View ArticlePence Says Affordable Care Act Kills Jobs; Data Disagree
Vice-President Mike Pence repeats the GOP propaganda line that the Affordable Care Act is a “job killer”: ObamaCare is a job killer. We’ll repeal ObamaCare once and for all & eliminate its...
View ArticleNoem Meets Pence for Photo Op, Ignores Trump’s Dismissal of House Health Care...
In Tuesday’s empty political theater, South Dakota’s lone Congressman Kristi Noem met with Vice-President Mike Pence to chat about nothing in particular: Rep. Kristi Noem today met with Vice President...
View ArticleHowie Brands All Leftists as Anti-God
Gordon Howie drops by late to our Christmas stockings to falsely accuse us leftists of being at war with Gordon, his groupies, and his God. As a leftist, I consider myself somewhat more qualified to...
View ArticleWhite House Sends Pence to Save Noem’s Bacon
Kristi Noem’s Facebook banner promises to protect South Dakota from “federal intrusion.” Kristi Noem for Governor, Facebook banner, screen cap 2018.11.02. But her 6.6-million-dollar campaign is...
View ArticlePence Expanded Medicaid, So Trump Puts Him in Charge of Coronavirus Response
I’m listening to Donald Trump, the man who has tried at every turn to cut Americans’ access to affordable health care, tell us that he’s directing Mike Pence, the guy who can’t explain his boss’s plan...
View ArticleNYT: Noem Flew to DC July 22 Because Pence Fears She’s Seeking His Job
Governor Kristi Noem’s surprise overnight flight to Washington on Air Force One after her Trump-Rushmore hate rally on July 3 was weird. Governor Noem’s unannounced day trip to Washington on July 22...
View ArticleHello, Brain Damage; Goodbye, Insurance: Covid-19 Patients Show High Rates of...
Scientists at the Northwestern University School of Medicine studied the first 509 patients admitted to Northwestern Medicine Healthcare’s hospitals in Chicago with coronavirus last spring and found...
View ArticlePence Staff Catch Coronavirus; VP Ignores CDC Quarantine Guidance for Close...
CDC guidelines tell us to quarantine for fourteen days after close contact with someone who tests positive for coronavirus. In the past few days, at least five of Vice-President Mike Pence’s staff,...
View ArticleTop Ten Reasons South Dakota Electors Should Dump Trump
Members of the Electoral College are feeling besieged by partisans lobbying them to vote for one candidate or another on December 19. A dramatic surge of electors, largely consisting of mainstream...
View ArticlePence to Promote Corporate Christian Theocracy
Al Novstrup still hasn’t recanted or apologized for his wild lie about Sharia law in America (there isn’t). But his men in the White House may bring us the Sharia for Jesus that Al sneakily craves:...
View ArticlePence Says Affordable Care Act Kills Jobs; Data Disagree
Vice-President Mike Pence repeats the GOP propaganda line that the Affordable Care Act is a “job killer”: ObamaCare is a job killer. We’ll repeal ObamaCare once and for all & eliminate its...
View ArticleNoem Meets Pence for Photo Op, Ignores Trump’s Dismissal of House Health Care...
In Tuesday’s empty political theater, South Dakota’s lone Congressman Kristi Noem met with Vice-President Mike Pence to chat about nothing in particular: Rep. Kristi Noem today met with Vice President...
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