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Why is a plane pulling a ‘Ron Paul Revolution’ banner over Minneapolis?

By Chris Steller | 11.22.08 | 3:27 pm

In the last couple weeks, I’ve tried to extract extra political meaning out of all sorts of stuff — Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s growing back his mullet (for a presidential run in 2012?), Al Franken’s traveling to D.C. (to…

Sign season: Obama sign with red star now ‘socialist’ red meat

By Chris Steller | 10.30.08 | 12:38 pm

Barry Clegg wanted to irritate Republicans who had scheduled an offshoot event from their national convention a couple blocks from his house on Nicollet Island near downtown Minneapolis. So he ordered a large Obama banner to hang in his yard from an Iowa-based vendor he found online. Now the banner’s decidely unofficial red-star design (which the vendor, not Clegg, came up with) has taken on new meaning in the context of Republicans taunts that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama is a “socialist.”