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Pawlenty calls on Attorney General Holder to resign

By Andy Birkey | 11.19.10 | 4:00 pm

In an interview with Hugh Hewitt at the Republican Governor’s Association convention in San Diego on Friday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that Attorney General Eric Holder should resign because he wasn’t able to prosecute a Guantanamo Bay prisoner effectively in civil court.

Pelosi’s visit links her first Frisco days, recent Republican razzing over Gitmo

By Chris Steller | 06.07.09 | 9:45 am

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to an American Indian jobs center in Minneapolis today carries special (if little-known) resonance with either end of her political career, from the time she arrived in what later became her California…

MnIndy interview: Dick Durbin on Bill Ayers, the bailout and race

By Paul Demko | 10.10.08 | 1:14 pm

Dick Durbin is the senior senator from Illinois and was an early supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Today he was in Minnesota stumping for Obama. I spoke to him by phone.