Posted By Cernig Some disturbing news from Afghanistan, via the BBC. US and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote village in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine US soldiers and wounded a dozen more on Sunday. A statement said the outpost had been temporary and that "regular patrols" in t...

So I just cruised on over to Room Eight, which I very rarely do, and found this bit of piffle. My apologies if this isn't, shall we say, timely. The subject is the state blog credential to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, which for this state, to everyone's astonishment, went to that bl...

One of Dr. Davis's standard talking points about offshore drilling is that the government of Cuba is working with China to develop offshore oil fields. In his Rochester Post Bulletin op-ed column, Davis wrote: While our federal government sits on its hands just 45 miles off the coast of Florida, the...

...in the immigration debate. Early last September, Dick Day said in a campaign press release: “There is absolutely no reason VISA and Mastercard should do a better job than the US government at keeping track of people. Last night on KTTC, Davis said: "I don't understand when you go to an ATM...

Since newspapers that are published in towns near the First's borders sometimes carry news relevant to our mission, we read venues like the Faribault Daily News, the Marshall Independent (a favorite) and the Redwood Falls Gazette. We spotted an approving publication of an urban legend in the latter ...

Reading the district newspapers this morning, we come across this lead from publisher Larry Dobson's column in the Byron Review: I kicked around the idea of doing a special April Fools edition of the newspapers this week, since the Byron Review actually comes out on April 1 and the Dodge Center Star...

We paused at this reportage from KTTC in the case of the anti-Demmer smear: "Could it mean that Demmer is a serious threat to Congressman Walz's campaign?   Demmer responds, "When your opponents work very very hard to try to find a way to get you out, I suppose you cold take that as a...