Civics and Social Studies sample question - possibly worth inclusion in K-12 standardized testing.

Simple question. Name the 2014 Minnesota GOP candidate [without peeking at the link], who, after having the highest statewide vote percentage among GOP general election statewide candidates, now seeks an executive appointment to an upcoming vacancy - with the office now being sought being little different from the one for which this candidate ran.

Hint 1. Female gender.

Hint 2. This link.

If you are a reader getting the name right short of any hinting, a bonus essay question in order to earn a gold star is: Leave a comment comparing and contrasting the individual, Michelle MacDonald, and the term, chutzpah. [open book query - you can websearch in preparing commentary].

With Marco Rubio now officially a GOP presidential wannabe, and Jeb too, in Florida, are we facing a dilemma only our Supreme Court can resolve?

Does the Bush v. Gore right to steal votes and rig elections in Florida attach to the state's GOP, or to the Bush family alone, and if to the GOP what are relative rights to that right, per a sitting Senator vs a former Governor?

Perhaps the right to steal votes in Florida attaches to whoever can get away with it; but that simply puts us back into the post's opening paragraph. Ditto the right to impede likely Dem voters; an ancillary right -- and might the election rigging rights package actually be the jurisdiction solely of the Florida Secretary of State, and whichever GOP candidate he/she favors?

CLEARLY: We need a Supreme Court declaratory judgment - on beneficiary status per Bush v. Gore. A clarification of election theft rights, be they absolute or relative.

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Dangling Chads -
reentering the vocabulary

And where is Rhenquist these days, when needed by his party? Will Roberts be up to Chief-Justicing a replay? In a proper GOP fashion? He does have the votes he'd need; and in disputes over counting votes, having votes lined up helps.

So what did the sign say?

Mainstream media reports.

"Worse ever" is hard to exceed. Something has to be really special, to grade out as "worse ever." Perhaps Pawlenty, W, at the presidential level, but worse ever for a state energy bill, that's showing ALEC-assissted talent.

"The worst energy bill ever sabotages solar. And that’s not all," a web post by Jean Wagenius.

And that's Garofalo's handiwork that Wagenius critiques. Wow, Worse Ever. That's like the Chicago Cubs, pick a year. Or David Kahn as an NBA basketball team administrator. Pat Garofalo as the David Kahn of the legislature. Awsome. Hackbarth has a way to go to make "worse ever." That puts a scale to things.

The Bernie Buzz. Always worth an intermittent reminder.

The latest, here. I am unaware of any direct link from the Sanders official Senate website, to a Bernie Buzz page; and I believe you get onto a mailing list by that name, from here. Getting the email for some time, I cannot recall how I initiated receiving it. Almost every emailing seems to have a "if you have difficulty reading the email the content is online ..." linkage, but that's only after you are on the list.

I could give the link from the latest email, for the online content, as I did in opening the post.

How to navigate to online archived "Buzz" items is what is presently unclear.

UPDATE: This link, for Buzz archived items:

http://sanders.enews.senate.gov/common/mailings/index.cfm

“When it comes to this, I’m sorry sir, but I firmly disagree that a biologist who is un-elected, no matter how great an expert he or she is, gets to make the rules,” Emmer said. “That’s not the way this constitutional republic was created and by abdicating that responsibility, Congress has literally given away that authority and looks what happens. There has to be a balance and I don’t think there is a balance at all. That’s what the elected officials are there for.”

And clergy should pronounce dogma on heliocentrism, in an Emmer-perfect world?

Sorensen on who Emmer the gentleman is, here; send her money to keep Bluestem Prairie publishing; here.

Sorensen links to this reporting by Eric Hagen about Emmer. It is the source of this post's headline.

While it is arguably easy to posterize each of the several GOP Presidential possibles for 2016, what policy should you expect from Hillary?

Posterization, this link.

Hillary? The Economist asks.