George Soros

It was tear-filled room at the Health, Housing and Family Security as Senators heard testimony about how medical marijuana had helped loved ones live in less pain during the last few days of their lives. But after those tears, the hearing devolved into a strange round of testimony as opponents pulled out all the stops to blame marijuana for higher crime and the downfall of the family, and one opponent testified that medical marijuana is a scheme by billionaire George Soros to make drugs legal.

U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign staff ejected a Minnesota Independent reporter from a press conference at campaign headquarters Wednesday afternoon. The MnIndy reporter made it as far as the inside of a small press conference room at a drab office park in St. Paul when a staffer asked who he represented and on that basis said the reporter would have to leave. In response to protests that MnIndy is a news outlet like others in the room, the staffer replied, “Right, and it’s funded by George Soros,” and escorted the reporter out. It’s the fourth time the senator’s campaign has denied access to local independent media at a media availability. Video (think “Blair Witch Project,” set in a boring office interior) after the jump. Spoiler alert: Norm’s door is extremely squeaky.

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was July  2006.  I was sitting at my desk, blogging about something tremendously important — I think it was the arm-wrestling match-up between Michael Brodkorb and Soren from Impeccable Liberal Credentials — when suddenly I began to feel woozy. I wondered if perhaps the microwave burrito I [...]