The Minnesota Independent is hiring one half-time reporter/blogger.
The reporter will help in coverage of the Minnesota Legislature, Minnesota aspects of the 2012 presidential race, local and statewide politics and policy, and a range of other issues important to Minnesotans.
The successful candidate will be a prolific, versatile, tenacious writer More…
Is pleading ignorance the new spin of the coal industry? A leading spokesman for the coal lobby told CNN today that he “didn’t know” if burning coal causes global warming, reports DeSmog blogger Kevin Grandia. When CNN’s Joe Acosta asked Joe Lucas, the vice president of the More…
IF you read the blog of Glenn Reynolds, the libertarian-leaning Instapundit who reigns over the right-ish blogosphere with a carpal-tunnelled fist, you see mention after mention of a “new American tea party.” There’s more in an ad by Pajamas Media, a new media network of which Mr Reynolds was More…
Eve Fairbanks and Matthew Yglesias both dump cluster bombs of snark on Republicans who are opposing President Obama much the way that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) did yesterday at the fiscal responsibility summit: by fussing about pork and trying to win news cycles. Yglesias, mocking Rep. John More…
The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein gets three or four scoops before you put in your contacts in the morning, so I wasn’t surprised that he got to ask a question at President Obama’s Monday press conference. Apparently, this was a pretty controversial move by the president. The Heritage Foundation More…
I turned down a (very polite) request to appear on one of Pajamas Media’s online shows last week. Why?
This is why.
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