Jack Shafer, on newsbooks: MORE »

We’ve been wondering just how to cover today’s Times piece on Patrick “Oscar” Kennedy and his sponsor, Jim “Felix” Ramstad all day. Because there are a dozen hilarious pull-quotes in that sucker (”If we could turn Congress into one big A.A. meeting…” “Mr. Ramstad’s hand draped over his colleague’s shoulder…” etc. etc.). Instead of snickering about all the declarations of love, though, we’ll just ask for your best guesses on this apparently sensitive subject: MORE »

Radio personality and community activist Wendy Wilde won the near-unanimous endorsement of Minnesota’s 3rd District Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party for her run against Jim Ramstad (R-MN) last Saturday. MORE »