Since Sarah Palin was in Missoula today, it is a fitting time for a quick analysis of the latest Vanity Fair article on Palin that everyone is talking about, and how it relates to us. The 10,000 word article has some salacious details and attempts to…
With Jason Priest on youtube, we’ll have to call this one the second worst. This Ohio Republican’s delivery of his speech for county-level office is totally amazing. It starts out with a lot of aggressive pacing around, but the energy level only goes…up…from there. Courtesy…
Solid catch today from reporter Sepp Jannotta of the Ravalli Republic, who reports on Rehberg’s joke about…wait for it…shooting the President of the United States: “If Obama is president, maybe you need to spend more time developing a gun lock, a trigger lock,” Rehberg said with…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what does this picture say about Obama’s education priorities. Now that Labor Day weekend is behind us, it’s back to school for Montanans. Too bad that the vast majority of the Obama Administration billions for called Race to…
Thanks to some stellar reporting by John Adams in the Great Falls Tribune this weekend, the Montana Tea Party has felt the heat and started implementing some damage control. Tim Ravndal been forced to step down from the position of Big Sky Tea Party President,…
1-Make sure you are registered to vote. Jay is right. If we don’t vote, these people are going to be making our state laws. 2-Give to the Montana Democratic Party. The party has a legislative campaign committee that is working to elect some really great…
With so many feminist issues emerging as hot topics these days, it seems like a good time to take a moment on this feminist blog to remind ourselves of some of our basic beliefs. Gender neutrality is important to feminists: we like to treat others…
Let’s play “fact or fiction” with the Helena IR. If you read the IR’s coverage of Dr. Miriam Grossman’s anti-sex education events this week, you probably found yourself wondering what was fact…and what was the IR doing its part to spread misinformation on behalf of…
Then you haven’t met Tim Ravndal, the leader of the Big Sky Tea Party. Here is a horrific exchange between Ravndal and a few of his colleagues, which took place on Ravndal’s Facebook page. Transcript courtesy of D Gregory Smith at the excellent blog From…
It’s hard to get information about judicial races, especially on the district judge level, but folks around the state will be interested in the race for Judicial District one, which covers Lewis and Clark and Broadwater counties, because this is the first court in Montana…
This week’s bad idea comes from Jerry O’Neil, who wants to repeal Montanans’ constitutional right to elect our U.S. Senators, and give that choice to the Montana legislature. He’s tried this twice before, most recently when he served in the legislature in 2005, and it…
In case you haven’t been following the doings of the Sanders County Republican Central Committee, folks there have been in a flurry after it came to light on this blog that, the minutes revealed party infighting, scripture reading and, according to their minutes, the committee…
I don’t know what Helena IR ‘policy’ might be out there this time, but today’s paper came and went without a single mention of the one-year anniversary of the Rehberg boat wreck. No update on the legal and criminal trials and nothing on the workers’…
According to the dictionary of idioms, the phrase “rattle the cage” means: to make someone angry on purpose I rattled his cage by telling him I hated his art. Etymology: based on the idea of rattling (making a noise by repeatedly hitting) the cage to…
