Rudy Boschwitz

In the main atrium of the downtown Minneapolis library, Norm Coleman beams at passersby — from the cover of ”Shared Vision: Norm Coleman and the Remarkable Revitalization of St. Paul.” The 2001 hagiography currently has pride of place in the Friends of the Library shop window. Price? Two dollars. Coleman quotes on miracles, persistence and good karma? [...]

Writing at TNR’s The Plank, Jason Zengerle picks up on an interesting fact of recent senate elections in Minnesota:

Here’s a weird bit of trivia. If Al Franken winds up beating Norm Coleman (and he’s now got a small lead in most polls), he’ll be the fourth consecutive Jewish person elected to that Senate seat, after [...]

The American political scene is truly remarkable.  As we all know, we’re at war, in the midst of a conflict in Iraq that has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives.  While one can debate whether the Iraq war was a legitimate response to attacks by al Qaeda in September of [...]