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 “
“Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election,” pronounced the Wall Street Journal’s editorialists today. Election-law expert Edward Foley was quick to respond: “[T]his election was about as far from ‘stolen’…
Fox News reported yesterday that although taking Minnesota’s U.S. Senate election to federal courts “could take years, election law experts say it may be the only way to satisfy everyone.” But Fox’s one expert (not “experts”) is Hans…
“Minnesota Representative and free-range cougar” Michele Bachmann got prominent play on The Daily Show last night as a key example of conservatives “speaking crazy to power.” At 2:50 into the clip (below), host Jon Stewart plays…
In England, police are warning about a “Summer of Rage” to be ushered in by riots during an April meeting of the G20 group of nations in London. Economic conditions might inspire even the middle class to take…
Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, appearing on Fox News’ Hannity’s America program Tuesday, described Minnesota’s election process as having favored rival Al Franken since the recount started. Coleman did not directly dispute host Sean Hannity’s assertion that the State Canvassing Board “was conflicted” and “only allowed the recount for … precincts that would tend to favor Al Franken.”
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What is the reason for the season? For some it’s to squabble over when and where people celebrate the birth of the Christian messiah Jesus Christ, and it’s part of the holiday tradition known as the “War on Christmas.” This year the war features a child-molesting Santa Claus, Nazis, gay marriage, Frank Costanza’s Festivus pole and a look back at the most anti-Christian Christmas-bashers in American history: the Puritans.
As David Brauer and Emily Kaiser both point out, Michele Bachmann’s Tuesday appearance on Hannity & Colmes also included another “retread”: the now-disproven story about 32 ballots being left in Minneapolis election director…
What would it look like if the media took up U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s call to hunt down anti-American members of Congress? Look no farther than this headline from Friday, the day Bachmann made her plea to the press for…
He’s no Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers, but Palestinian academic and Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi (pictured) may be next in the parade of radical ghosts from Obama’s past.
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