Rep. Michele Bachmann on Wednesday appeared to back off her criticisms of the Obama administration’s plans to have BP pay for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as other Republicans weighed in the plan: Rep. Joe Barton…
Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., says that the Minnesota Independent has “twisted” and “falsified” his statement on his AM 1280 radio show that suggested that Muslim countries that call for the execution…
A local chapter of AFSCME, the national public workers’ union, says it received three expletive-laced phone messages from a person claiming to be a Tea Party member in response to the union’s new ad urging support for fair taxation in Minnesota.
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 “
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…
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…
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,”…
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…
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…
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