Gin and Tacos: Joni Ernst is just the latest in a long line of dismal SOTU responses.

Disaffected and It Feels so Good: Capitalism drives the poor into crime, but still uses racism to divide them against each other.

Norbrook: Magical thinking has no place in politics.

Noahpinion: So, the right wing won the economic debate? What debate was that exactly?

Blog round-up by Infidel753. Tips to mbru [at] crooksandliars [dot] com.