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Jesse Ventura makes Yale librarian’s quote-of-the-year list

By Chris Steller | 12.16.09 | 9:15 am

ventura“You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.” With that line, former Gov. Jesse Ventura cemented a place for himself alongside U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, rapper…

2008 Memories: MNGOP’s Carey calls Obama, Franken ‘most radical extremists’ ever

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.19.08 | 5:27 pm

Minnesota Monthly’s Tim Gihring gives GOP chair Ron Carey an “Uncommon Loon” award for his go-get-’em speech to Republicans at the Mayo Civic Center in May. Decrying Democrats’ “left-wing values,” he predicted — incorrectly — that “the…