Ellison responded that efforts to ban Sharia aren’t based in reality—there are no Sharia-run communities in the United States—but are a “thin-disguised effort at religious persecution.”
Rep. Keith Ellison weighed in late last week on the controversy surrounding the firing of National Public Radio’s Juan Williams after he told Fox’s Bill O’Reilly that he gets “worried” and “nervous” when he sees people in Muslim garb get on an airplane. Williams dishonored his own legacy, especially his work on the “Eyes on the Prize” documentary on the civil rights era, Ellison said, calling Williams’ remarks “ugly” and “bigoted.”
Corrected (see end of post): Last time independent congressional candidate Lynne Torgerson had problems with photography, it was for using a stock image of the U.S. Supreme Court building — instead of the House wing of the Capitol…
A report by Politico on Monday examined the Republican party’s problem with “birthers,” people who don’t think President Obama is a United States citizen. For balance, Politico asked…
“You’re going to wake up some morning and find out that 65 percent of what you make goes to the federal government,” warns U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in a decidedly odd video from this month’s Minnesota GOP Central committee meeting.…
While former Gov. Jesse Ventura’s appearance on “Larry King Live” this week (and his comments about toying with a run for president or Senate) is getting a lot of attention, his comments on “The…
The controversy about ABC’s semi-fictionalized account of the 9/11 attacks, the two-part docudrama The Path to 9/11 (airing Sunday and Monday nights on KSTP Channel 5), hasn’t gotten much coverage locally. The lone locally written piece in the Star Tribune…
I’m not one for conspiracy theories. I don’t think that there was a cover-up at Roswell; I believe that the Warren report generally tells the truth; I don’t think that 9/11 was the joint product of the US government…
A new Zogby telephone poll focusing on national security issues was done over the weekend was done and I was startled by this result:
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