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Gov. Pawlenty got off an international flight from Iraq and Afghanistan and immediately took to the domestic airwaves. The health care reform plan is a “joke” he told Fox News, and President Obama is ”scamming the American people” — with “false advertising,” he added on Minnesota Public Radio. On his WCCO-AM show this morning, Pawlenty interviewed Colin [...]

The Obama Administration held up St. Cloud as a measure of the federal stimulus’ promise when Vice President Biden held a town hall meeting at a bus factory there in March. Two investigative journalism enterprises, The Takeaway and ProPublica, check on how St. Cloud is faring and find that the stimulus hasn’t meant any new [...]

Today’s record-setting chill still won’t be as cold as the water thrown on Republican Steve Sviggum’s plans to run for governor. The former Speaker of the Minnesota House had planned to announce his candidacy any day now, but the U.S. Office of Solicitor General says Sviggum’s oversight of OSHA matters in his current job as state [...]

The bells atop the Minneapolis City Hall tower rang out Michael Jackson tunes on Friday in memory of the pop star who died on Thursday. Dan Wascoe performed five Jackson songs: “We Are the World,” “Ben,” “You Are Not Alone,” “I’ll Be There,” and “Gone Too Soon.” Audio and video after the jump.

Minnesotan Coleen Rowley has emerged in the last few days as a potential “off-the-grid” nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Rowley’s addition to unofficial SCOTUS “long lists” (as opposed to shortlists) comes as U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar downplays chatter that she might be tapped to replace retiring Justice David Souter.

President Obama is “bowing before the king of Saudi Arabia …. and then lying about it,” said U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann. ”It was shameful,” she told KSFO-AM in San Francisco on Thursday. “He was apologetic about our country.” Bachmann also warned that “we’re still finding out what happened during that G20 summit. I think that there [...]

In the Republican response to President Obama’s weekly address today, Gov. Tim Pawlenty regurgitates the right-wing Tax Foundation’s discredited “Tax Freedom Day” calculation to claim that ”the average American has to work from January 1st until this Monday, April 13th, just to earn enough money to pay all their taxes for the year.” It’s as deep a nod [...]

As part of Michele Bachmann’s recent warning that “re-education camps” could be established with expansion of the AmeriCorps program, the Minnesota Republican congresswoman said she feared America’s young people may soon find themselves laboring in mandatory service to a political doctrine. But assigning youth to work for an ideological cause shouldn’t be a completely foreign [...]

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she fears the Obama administration will create “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.” Audio after the jump.

On Fox News Radio today, Norm Coleman vowed, “We’re going to push to the Minnesota Supreme Court.” He clarified his timetable after next week’s expected election-contest trial court ruling: “We’ll file [a petition to the state's high court] quicker than 10 days.”

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