Minnesota Conservatives

I was in Athens reminding myself of civilization when the lewd sexual comments of Trump were released on a Friday. The next day a number o...

The influential Blois Olson asked me on Twitter why I wasn't at the Trump fundraiser in downtown Minneapolis last Friday. I responded ...

One debate does not an election make. Yet having just watched the first debate between incumbent republican Erik Paulsen and DFL state sen...

I hadn't planned on launching this series of blog posts quite yet but recent events left me no choice. Indeed, they define the very re...

One of the most interesting developments in Minnesota republican politics in the Age of Trump has been Congressman Tom Emmer's shrewd,...

Donald Trump delivered what was required of him last Thursday night: the speech of a lifetime in which he accepted the Republican Party...

Three days ago Great Britain voted to withdraw from the European Union of which it had been a member state for 43 years. The results wer...

In January I wrote a piece called "The Coming of Governor Tina Flint Smith." The title of the piece was, essentially, its substa...

On the night of the Indiana primary, which effectively sealed Donald Trump's victory as the republican nominee for president, progres...

I've been in Istanbul for approximately the last week but committed to my Canadian readers to write something about the pivotal New Yo...