On climate science, Chip Cravaack has demonstrated himself to be out of touch and willfully ignorant.

Allen Quist may characterize his struggle as the moral equivalent of 1776, but in fact, he’s not protecting our children’s freedom. He’s just protecting the profits of insurance companies.

Collin Peterson might do well to consider whether it’s time for him to retire, and allow a more progressive and energetic Democrat to take his place.

In the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Richard Durbin just offered an amendment to S. 1692, a bill reauthorizing Patriot Act surveillance powers. It would have only required that when national security letters (NSLs) are issued without constitutional warrants, they have to be limited to surveillance of those who are suspected terrorists, suspected spies, or people [...]

As a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota, Al Franken refused to make any comment about the FISA Amendments Act, a bill which became law while Franken was running for election. The FISA Amendments Act(read text of the law here) legalized a massive electronic operation to spy on the personal communications of millions people [...]

There haven’t been any Socialist plots in Congress to nationalize the auto industry. General Motors and Chrysler have been strengthened through governm

Dan Maffei, running for the House of Representatives in the 25th congressional district in upstate New York, doesn’t have the big money connections Al Franken has. Yet, Dan Maffei has had the courage Al Franken hasn’t had. Dan Maffei has spoken out against the unjust and unconstitutional FISA Amendments Act.

If Michelle Bachmann is so strongly against taxes, how come she is using taxes to pay for her complaints about how bad taxes are? It seems that Michelle Bachmann likes taxes a lot – just so long as she’ll get to use them for her own personal benefit, to help her get re-elected.

This collection of backwards-thinking members of Congress, numbering 25 including Michelle Bachmann herself, have all signed on as sponsors of the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act. I hereby name them the Dim Bulb Caucus, both on account of their stubborn dedication to wasteful technology and for their dazzling dim-wittedness in ignoring the economic and environmental threats that arise from their efforts to thwart energy efficiency.