Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., personalized his response to Monday’s State of the Union speech by comparing George W. Bush’s $150 billion economic stimulus package with the cost of the war in Iraq. Taxpayers in Minnesota alone forked over $11…
Barb Davis White of Greenfield, Minn., announced her candidacy for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District seat at the 5th’s Republican committee meeting last week. White, a theologian and conservative civil rights activist, is the first Republican to announce a…
In what Minnesota Public Radio’s Bob Collins called “one of the most bizarre floor speeches we’ve seen,” Rep. Keith Ellison gave a stirring tribute to Paul Wellstone yesterday in advance of today’s five-year anniversary of the Minnesota senator’s death.…
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison of Minneapolis and House Judiciary Chair John Conyers have moments ago sent a letter to the acting U.S. attorney general demanding all communications from the staff of the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office to the…
In an attempt to stay above the fray over the Arab-Israeli conflict, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, who just wrapped up a weeklong congressional trip in the Middle East, said it would be inappropriate for him to make policy decisions until…
Guild vote no circus act: Upon news of the Strib Guild’s 110-to-2 vote calling for Par Ridder’s resignation, newspaper chairman Chris Harte said, “This vote is merely union posturing, and it changes nothing.” Reached last night, Guild chair…
With all the fuss about Keith Ellison’s Muslim faith during and after his successful campaign, the freshman congressman is now being tapped to show the Muslim world that America isn’t so anti-Islam.
The State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs…
In a meeting with leaders of the World Jewish Congress, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison lambasted Holocaust deniers, the Jerusalem Post reports.
“Where you do not denounce bigotry, it has a tendency to spread,
Rep. Tim Walz may not have office furniture or computers yet, but that doesn’t hold back the national press. Wednesday he was featured on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. The clip is here. Also, a new political website…
Rep. Virgil Goode’s (R-VA) comments to fatuous followers demeaning incoming Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) because of his religious beliefs has elicited quite a response in the media. What made Goode’s grumping particularly galling was his lumping of Ellison’s Muslim faith…
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