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DeMint likens Franken’s election to Honduran coup

By Chris Steller | 07.07.09 | 6:21 pm

demintRepublican Sen. Jim DeMint laid out a funny kind of welcome mat for his new colleague from Minnesota today: He likened Al Franken’s win to the way Honduras President Manuel Zelaya was recently removed from office.

An (interesting?) Al Franken-Malcolm X connection

By Chris Steller | 05.22.09 | 8:45 am

malcolm-x-and-al-frankenHere’s a post about something Rep. Michele Bachmann didn’t say. Last year, Bachmann reveled in connecting dots between Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, and last month she pronounced it “interesting” that swine flu outbreaks…

Bachmann ‘not blaming’ flu pandemic on Obama — just saying it’s a Democrat thing

By Chris Steller | 04.28.09 | 4:33 pm

President Obama is not to blame for the flu pandemic, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann told Pajamas TV today:

I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under Democrat [sic]

Thoughts on a Thursday between Christmas and New Year’s

By Leigh Pomeroy | 12.28.06 | 12:06 pm

President Ford’s death is on everyone’s mind today

Commentary: The Accidental President

By Jeff Fecke | 12.27.06 | 12:33 am

Gerald Ford had no business being President, and had John F. Kennedy avoided an assassin’s bullet, he never would have been.  Kennedy’s murder, though, had gotten the country thinking: there was no mechanism for the appointment of a new Vice…