Political Prairie Fire

Happy Trails my friend

A remarkable fellow

26 November 2009
In his recent newspaper article my friend Clay wrote about the documentary he was working on about former Governor William Guy. I was intrigued. His tone struck me as overly respectful, even up looking. The article intrigued me because I had considerable interaction with Bill Guy back in the days when I was [...]

August 26, 2009
There will never be another senator statesman like Ted Kennedy. No social thing that I felt was good happened in the past 40 years without Ted’s hand. A lot of people smarter than I am will say much over the next week. But what I liked most about him was that he always [...]

The 1969 “summer of love” in North Dakota

Osama where are you?

George McGovern , Phil Jackson, Frank Mankiewicz , Governor Guy

Where Have You Gone

End of the “new deal” era boondoggle

Goodbye

stuff I didn’t put in the book

“Thunderheart”

Yada yada yada

Richard (Dickie) Poor Bear, Russell Means, Leonard Peltier, the only good trade the Indian ever made with the White Man

Institutional Power

Senator Burdick—1 friend and 10 enemies

Too much Iraq, too little Health Care

Harold Schafer Citizen’s Arrest

When people weren’t brazen and arrogant in their opinion.

Henry Linden

“clean coal.” There is no such thing. Spin. A clever phrase coined by a coal industry minion.

Kristin Hedger

Schiavo case was an example of political science triumphing over medical science

the Nonpartisan League. William Langer .