We don’t need another senator who hangs out on the lecture circuit with these guys. Fix the Debt isn’t the only dubious group South Dakota Senate candidate Larry Kessler has associated with. While Fix the Debt is a bunch of deficit frauds, Kessler’s sat on the board of a company that was actually defrauding investors […]

Check out Larry Pressler, running for the U.S. Senate as an independent in South Dakota, debating Larry Pressler: October 2, 2014: ARGUS LEADER: If it was an up or no vote on repeal of Roe v. Wade, somehow, what would you, would you like to repeal Roe v. Wade, or do you think that the […]

Leading Off: • SD-Sen: Republican Mike Rounds has been roundly criticized (sorry) for taking this contest for granted and not going negative against either Democrat Rick Weiland or independent Larry Pressler. Rounds is trying to rectify that and he has two new spots (here and here). Both spots lump Weiland and Pressler together, portraying them […]

WHO health worker training in Sierra Leone. Training that we’re not paying for here. The National Institutes of Health funding has been cut. The Centers for Disease Control’s funding has been cut. Without those cuts, the Director of the NIH says, “we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone […]

The only thing we have to fear is fireproof zombie Ebola I would shake my head at this but then I remember a sizable fraction of our nation’s leaders and would-be leaders still believe in demon possession so believing that the incinerated ashes of an Ebola victim’s worldly belongings might rise up and something-something zombie […]

Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is The counter-intuitivist: This is what you missed on Sunday Kos: Follow your passion, and don’t forget to​ dream, by Mark E Andersen The argle bargle blowing through the windmills of Justice Scalia’s mind, by Steven Payne Book review: ‘Latino America’ by Matt Barreto and Gary M. Segura, by Susan […]

Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown has lived by the frat-boy image, and now we can only hope he’ll die (in a campaign sense) by the frat-boy image. Because wow, Brown’s visit to College Republicans at a University of New Hampshire homecoming tailgate party is appalling. In the video, Brown never stops smiling as several men […]

Rick Weiland singing his way through South Dakota There’s a populist fire sweeping the Midwestern prairie. Not only can it save Democratic control of the Senate, but it can elect a “better Democrat” in the fine Paul Wellstone tradition. The latest poll in South Dakota shows Democrat Rick Weiland within four points of beating Republican […]

Operation Steadfast Backflip Sen. John McCain was on the Sunday news programs this weekend because OF COURSE HE WAS; this time it was to talk about Ebola and to engage that most time-honored of Republican talking point gymnastics, the backwards 180-degree flip with righthand trunk spin. Stick the landing, fella. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on […]

The Republican fetish with starving government has helped land West Africa in an Ebola crisis. The director of the National Institutes of Health made that clear when he told Huffington Post that steep budget cuts by Congress has set back the institute’s work on both prevention and treatment for the disease and that if it […]