Protests

Rep. Keith Ellison says the anti-Muslim fervor currently being seen around the country is “religious bigotry, nothing more, nothing less,” and in an interview with the BBC he pointed to Fox News as a contributing factor in the growth of such sentiment. Ellison also issued a statement Wednesday condemning a Quran-burning event scheduled for Sept. [...]

Same-sex marriage supporters plan to protest speakers at the University of St. Thomas on Saturday. The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis have invited two leaders of the fight against same-sex marriage in California’s Proposition 8 battle in 2008, Maggie Gallagher and Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, to speak about bringing the battle against marriage equality [...]

Hundreds gathered at the Minnesota Capitol on Thursday for a Tax Day Tea Party to express their displeasure with President Obama and the economic policies of Democrats. While no politicians were invited to speak, Rep. Michele Bachmann phoned in a message to attendees, calling Democrats “piggies” who look at Tea Partiers as “chumps.”

I’m seeing contradicting stories on Friday’s news that Tim Pawlenty was among some 30 governors to receive letters threatening removal from office if they don’t resign. He was, but there’s some question about whether the group sending the threatening letters is legit. A new report says the group behind the threats, the Guardians of the [...]

“We will fight, fight, fight – and make sure to get conservatives running for office and get the 219 traitors who voted for this thrown out of office. We will never give up,” said Don Blackford, a 49-year-old federal government employee from Logan who protested outside of President Barack Obama’s health care rally in Iowa City Thursday.

Before a crowd holding signs that read “Damn this federal government to hell” and “The citizens must declare war on their immoral, corrupt, Marxist government,” Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann addressed around 1,000 people Saturday at a “Kill the Bill” rally against Democrats’ health care reform measures at the State Capitol.

Rep. Michele Bachmann told controversial radio host Glenn Beck on Friday that she’ll be holding another “House Call” tea party in Washington on Wednesday, the same day as President Obama’s State of the Union address.

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent choice of words suggests she knew what she saying when she invoked the “sadly ludicrous” Crimean War episode from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” at a Capitol Hill anti-health care reform rally.

Michele Bachmann urged supporters to fight health care reform “every day, when you wake up in the morning and comb your hair and take your vitamins.” Democrats, she charged during a Thursday conference call hosted by the Republican National Committee, are exploiting the holiday season: “It’s intentional that they’re doing this at Christmas time and Hannukah.”

The eight people facing felony conspiracy charges from their pre-emptive arrests ahead of last year’s Republican National Convention will go to trial together, not separately.