Our friend Senator Al Franken of Minnesota is cheering for the same federal funding his South Dakota counterpart John Thune loves, the dollars for the Lewis and Clark water project. But Senator Thune is getting a little torqued at our…
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NPR reports that researchers have quantified the decline of rhetoric in Congress. The Sunlight Foundation analyzed the Congressional Record from the last two decades and found that since 2005, the Flesch-Kincaid grade-level equivalent of the language our Congresspeople use has…
If I weren't a teetotaller, I'd think I was drinking. Kristi Noem sounds just like Al Franken. Yesterday in Tea (irony abounds!), the junior senator from Minnesota said that it's just wrong, wrong, wrong that the federal government hasn't lived…
Don't try to fool Senator Al Franken. Christian theocracy group Focus on the Family tried that, and it didn't work. Before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family's political wing tried to persuade senators that…