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The Standard | Standard So now we have it.  DNC Deputy chair and Minnesota Attorney General candidate Keith Ellison has two 'believa...

It was just over a year ago in this very forum that we discussed the unique national mood we faced this election cycle and how we were in...

Most of you probably have not been spending a lot of time this week watching the slickly produced three-ring circus complete with side sho...

This was going to be a March blog post, then my belated April blog post, and now it is the first day of July.  Essentially, this post has no...

Am I the only one who feels like he has been transported to an alternate universe?  Transported to a universe where the rules of logic have ...

Ever since the Haley Barbour days of the Republican Party of the 90’s, the conservative voters within the party have been told we needed to ...

On the eve of the New Hampshire Primaries, how do we analyze the field of Republican candidates?  Except for the fact that Christie doesn...

We live in a world that seems to be dominated by bad news – terrorism, violence, disease, crime, oppression, injustice, perversion, crue...

The following is a list, albeit politically-incorrect, of common-sense guiding principles that I believe to be true.   If one was to state ...