Laser focus on jobs
The good news as Wall Street gives a thumbs-down to the “No taxes, No jobs” deficit-ceiling-deal (with its built-in automatic spending cuts virtually certain to…
Articles by Tom Hayes The Synergist
Might Romney or Bachmann unseat President Obama?
Not in 2012. The debate last night showed there’s still room for national-caliber candidates, which is probably why Ambassador Huntsman is set to jump in….
MN GOP back-pedalling from anti-gay preacher
The GOP majority in the MN state legislature invited controversial “Reverend” Bradlee Dean, who advocates the killing and or incarceration of gays, to make the…
Dr. Cornel West moved the conversation
The activist Professor Cornel West has goals and agendas that are, at best, only partially apparent to the rest of us despite his academic prominence…
Boehner under fire
Editor, journalist, political consultant, and former Congressional Campaign Manager Thomas Hayes According to Reuters, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Behner, is…
Don’t Tread On Me
Did you know Dick Armey makes $500,000 per year to lead the allegedly leaderless, so-called grassroots Tea Party? Add this to the Koch Brothers insinuating…
My thoughts on Trump versus Romney
I think it’s safe to assume that there will remain a certain non-trivial segment of the electorate that isn’t so much “for” anything as they…
What to see at Tribeca Film Fest
Following wildly enthusiastic reviews for the World Premiere at the Full Frame Film Fest last weekend, “The Loving Story” has made the Daily Beast’s list…
Clean coal? Really?
The extraction, transport, processing, and combustion of coal, the predominant fuel on the planet for electricity generation including roughly 50% of the electricity in the…
World Premiere: THE LOVING STORY @ Full Frame Film Festival
April 15th marks the world premiere of a moving documentary of the famous case of Mildred and Richard Loving a landmark civil rights struggle resolved…
Obama’s stand
The President made a compelling case for his vision of the future of the United States, putting the GOP on notice that he is committed…
One week later – NOT a post-mortem for Democrats
Democrats took a shellacking, and it’s partly my fault — not because I took time away from journalism to help manage a Congressional Campaign against…
Incumbent too timid to debate in MN District 2
According to the campaign spokesman of former MN State Representative Shelley Madore, currently running for Congress in Minnesota’s Second District, they received a formal response…
Beck admits he lied to the rally August 28th: it was easier than telling the truth.
As Steve Krakauer of Mediaite explains, Keith Olberman caught Glenn Beck’s “white lie” told to the crowd at the August 28th rally: …he didn’t actually…
GOP Congressman Kline dodges veterans
Congressman John Kline (R-MN) was conspicuously absent from the Goodhue County United Veterans Organizations “Candidate’s Forum” in his district last night. The forum was not…
MN voters going Blue
Republican incumbent John Kline’s getting worried in Minnesota’s Second District, because with all eyes on the Bachmann race, a pro-business Democrat, former MN State Representative…
茶分心 – Tea Party Distraction
Many of the pundits and commentators have been speculating, uttering for public consumption variations on a disingenuous theme: the Tea Party threatens to undermine the…
Spinning Surveys — keep thinking
You’ve probably seen recent stories that over 40% of Republicans — or an even higher fraction of Tea Partiers — think the current President wasn’t…
Ronald Reagan must be rolling in his grave
Former U.S. Representative David Stockman (R-MI), who served as Ronald Reagan’s first director of the Office of Management and Budget, used the forum of the…
Pawlenty’s "red hot smoking wife" a calculated tittilation
A topless First Lady? While it’s arguably inappropriate, sexist objectification of his spouse to bolster his career when lame-duck MN Governor Pawlenty describes her as…
Consumer Watchdog Running for Congress in MN
Sunday’s Saint Paul Pioneer Press gave a black eye to the Minnesota Virtual High School by revealing they recently terminated Shelley Madore, a candidate for…
Move over Andrew Breitbart, here comes Hipskind!
Darlene Heslop “sighed and rolled her eyes” according to a story in the Chicago Tribune. For that she got ejected from the June 14 meeting…
2 can play @ Breitbart’s editing game!
By now you’ve learned what great lengths Andrew Breitbart will go to editing video to make people, such as Shirley Sherrod, look as though they’re…
BP’s Deepwater Horizon warning system was disabled
An article in today’s Washington Post highlights disgusting, disgraceful business practices at BP. The profit-motive places pressure to pivot risk-analysis decisions on the short term…
Will the RNC replace Michael Steele with a hockey-mom?
GOP strategists are surely already considering who can best replace their controversy-laden RNC Chair – their principle questions are the timing and who will be…
Glassman tops list to face McCain
Tuscon Vice-Mayor Rodney Glassman Former Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman, U.S. Senate candidate from Arizona, freshly bouyed by his SEIU endorsement, took command of the…
No Senator Left Behind
The GOP claims they’re really serious about deficit reduction, but Sentator McConnell (R-KY) says it’s the “uniform view in his caucus that tax cuts needn’t…
Does the FEC have any teeth?
Attorney Burton Odelson, a veteran at helping political candidates get their paperwork in order, said it’s significant that Republican Joe Walsh failed to file the…
The 12-step BP Deepwater Disaster-inspired Program
We can’t change overnight, but if the 20th century U.S. reliance on gas-guzzling automobiles remains the pattern for economic growth then money just keeps flowing…
Can Democrats swing a district in MN?
The FEC Quarterly reports reveal that lots of money on both sides of the Bachmann-Clark race in Minnesota’s 6th District came from outside the state….
Katie Couric: 4 out of 5? Not bad, Katie, not bad. But where’s the love?
What does YouTube bring to journalism? Katie Couric offered an overview in a video celebrating 5 years of YouTube without referring to us here at…
A swinging sack of moral authority
I suppose many have seen this already, even if you’re not regular Colbert Report viewers, but as a long-time fan of SNL’s Father Guido Sarducci…
Democrat Dodging Debates?
Probably only in Minnesota, home of the late, great Senator Paul Wellstone, could you find a story of an inexperienced candidate relying on money and…
Barton, Bachmann, and BP, oh my!
It’s ironic that when voters think the President isn’t getting enough done, they often use the off years to make it harder for him. Logic…
Primaries promote participation
There are primaries in a dozen states today; many will prove pivotal in shaping the political landscape at the state and local level for the…
What’s the most amazing thing about Rand Paul?
Is it Rand Paul’s sudden rise to political prominence despite a total lack of experience? No, it’s not that people vote often don’t make voting…
BP: Big Profits & Big Pollution
According to Reuters, BP has just announced they haven’t been sure how much oil they were siphoning off from the leaking well in the Gulf…
It’s not just Arizona, my friends.
What if I told you there are elected officials in Tennessee who react to hearing people speaking Spanish by thinking they’re probably an illegal immigrant?…
Palin proves TIMING is EVERYTHING – again.
Sarah Palin burst into the national consciousness almost two years ago, and for a short while news services could talk of nothing else, and following…
Slavery and the U.S. Civil War (or War between the states)
Lest you fall for sanitized revisions of the history leading up to the U.S. Civil War, I suggest you read this brief article by Carl…
What’s Bart Stupak’s real agenda?
The Committee on Energy and Commerce of the U.S. House of Represenatives has prepared, for all 435 congressional districts, a district-level analysis of the impact…
If government-run health care is an evil, socialist plot, why do 55 Republican Congress members participate?
As of October, 151 Congressmen had “government-controlled” health care insurance plans. That’s close to 30% of our elected officials. 55 Republicans on that list have…