Central Minnesota Political

Earlier this month the Department of Justice charged Daniel Everette Hale with the crime of exposing the atrocities committed by Barak Obama and his murderous crew. Hale allegedly leaked Secret and Top Secret documents regarding Obama's use of drones to assassinate people to Jeremy Scahill, a reporter for The Intercept.  "From his first days as commander in chief, the drone has been President Barack Obama’s weapon of choice, used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill the people his administration has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. There has been intense focus on the technology of remote killing, but that often serves as a surrogate for what should be a broader examination of the state’s power over life and death," wrote  Scahill.  You can read Scahill's 2014 reporting on Obama's  assassination program here  https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ The premise of Scahill and his s...

The Immigrants and The Potato Goddess A Story By Tim King I first saw Lyle when his photo was in the newspaper. It was a full color photo, headlined Bizarre Spuds, but the only colors were blue, brown, and white. Lyle had dug his spuds, put his baby blue cardigan over a white shirt, found his specs, and headed over to the newspaper office in his recently restored 1931 coupe that he calls Betty. Betty is his wife too. Of course all eyes turned as Lyle motored sedately over to the newspaper because Betty is a glistening ebony beauty with sleek lines and polished interior woodwork. But for once Lyle wasn’t thinking about Betty. Well, actually, he told me later, it was Betty’s idea about the Bizarre Spuds. She said, “Lyle, those spuds you dug Saturday are really bizarre. You should show the newspaper.” It was now 9 a.m. Monday morning and the potatoes – they were Kenebecs and the crop had been pretty bad again this year – were nicely washed and ready for their journali...