Warren can be topped, but it’s a big hill to climb

The three main Republican rivals looking to unseat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren actually believe they have a chance to pull off the seemingly impossible in this impossibly blue state. Several factors give Winchester businessman John Kingston, state Rep. Geoff Diehl of Whitman and Groton's Beth Lindstrom, a longtime Massachusetts Republican Party operative, reason for hope.

Nitrate proposal will take some persuading

Gov. Mark Dayton and Ag Commissioner David Frederickson on Tuesday introduce their new plan to lower the nitrate levels in Minnesota's groundwater. The plan calls for farmers to We can hear the local farmers in the area, who oppose the idea of the state telling them how to farm, getting ready to say, Back in December the Brown County Board of Commissioners let a motion to accept free well testing from the state die without a second.

OPED: Five things Trump could do to stop Russia’s meddling

There's been no call to arms from President Trump, who could galvanize the federal bureaucracy and Congress to counter the threat if he chose. Instead, the president still reacts to warnings about Russian interference as if they were attacks on his legitimacy.

Grace Notes: In La. Legislature, partisanship plus distrust adds up to special session disaster

House members listen as Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks at a press conference after the legislature adjourned sine die to end the special session to address the state's fiscal crisis Monday March 5, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. First the old news out of the collapsed special legislative session: There's still no plan to account for the coming loss of nearly $1 billion in tax revenue once that revenue drops off the books this summer.

Don Polson: Confrontational, organized left

A book, “Confrontational Politics” by H. L. Richardson, a former State Senator and founder of Gun Owners of America, has provided insights into numerous political developments over the years. He wrote it to expose the tactics and strategy of the progressive left so that the conservative right could see how the left's machine movement works to get results and marginalize us, and to help inform us in effectively resisting them and advancing our goals.

Dick Polman: Trump is coming for your guns

The gun lobby has long stoked its constituents with the nightmare scenario of a president who'd swipe their God-given right to own weapons. The NRA frequently warned that Barack Obama was “coming for our guns,” and that Hillary Clinton would “come for your guns.” The group cringed at the prospect of a president saying something like this: “I like taking the guns early ... Take the guns first, go through due process second.” Since we're stuck with a regime that's historically incompetent, malevolent, corrupt, and security-challenged, we've got to get our laughs whenever we can.

Jennifer Rubin: Presidenta s bag of tricks dona t work on Mueller

Trump is arguably the most thin-skinned president in modern times, and the slightest provocation will set him off on a tirade of insults, counterattacks, distractions and self-pity. He has called former FBI Director James Comey a leaker and falsely claimed the FBI was in tatters under his management.

Letter: Trump has qualities wea ve never seen before

Tom van Overbeek made a point that even if Donald Trump is a narcissist, perhaps nearly all our presidents have been narcissists. While perhaps not as knowledgeable about our presidents as van Overbeek, who thinks Gerald Ford and Harry Truman were probably the only exceptions, perhaps James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama and others were also exceptions.