Bachmann said that Pres. Barack Obama and the Occupy Wall Street movement need to stop blaming job creators. Instead, she proposed that corporate tax rates need to be cut and regulatory “burdens” lifted.
The letter argues against Hennepin County’s new rules on Occupy MN, saying they run “afoul” of the First Amendment.
Prisoner advocates say there is a disturbing lack of oversight of private prisons across the country. Abuse by guards revealed through lawsuits has led states like Hawaii to withdraw prisoners from Corrections Corporation of America facilities.
“[W]henever natural causes disturb otherwise typical biological development, leading to the personally unchosen beginnings of same-sex attraction, the ultimate responsibility, on a theological level, is and should be imputed to the evil one, not God.”
The pollster said Walker could benefit if the recall effort became a referendum on the wisdom of recalls rather than his performance in office.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, while on a recent tour of flooded areas near the Missouri River in Iowa, characterized the government settlement with black farmers as fraud
The Minnesota Independent covered issues ranging from American Crystal Sugar’s negotiations with a locked out union to an anti-abortion activist planning to use campaign laws in a run against Rep. Keith Ellison to force Twin Cities media to run graphic anti-abortion ads.
Scott Olsen, who was originally from Wisconsin according to the Guardian newspaper, is currently in critical but stable condition in Highland Hospital in Oakland.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 10,000 residents of the island of Bougainville who revolted against conditions in a Papua New Guinea mine in 1988, leading to a government crackdown and many deaths.
An Occupy Minnesota organizer said the group has been expressly non-violent since the beginning of protests almost three weeks ago.
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