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A protester at Saturday’s healtlh care rally with President Obama says she wants the administration out, calling them “thugs.” She elaborated: “They bring in communists. They lie. They bring in terrorists, Bill Ayers. … And the media covers for him. The media are down on their knees in front of Obama sucking as hard as they can.”

Who needs high school football or rock festivals when congressional constituents can get rowdy together at a town hall meeting? People in the First District gave a clinic in civic (and by all accounts civil) boisterousness at U.S. Rep. Tim Walz’s health care forum Thursday night. Passion was in fashion, with one speaker telling Walz [...]

One-time University of Minnesota football coach Lou Holtz now says he’s not mulling a run for Congress in Florida, as reported. If so, he’d be keeping a promise made in 1983 to the late Rudy Perpich, then governor of Minnesota, on WCCO-AM: “I assure you, I will have nothing to do with politics.”

In an interview with the Scandinavian-American cultural magazine Nordic Reach, former Vice President and U.S. Sen. Walter Mondale sounds fed up with social media and crowdsourcing. He was unaware he has a MySpace page until the interviewer tells him about it:
“I won’t take responsibility … Somebody told me about Wikipedia, where people can put in [...]

Doing online journalism on a shoestring budget means borrowing, buying and shooting our own photographs. With high-profile events in the Twin Cities this year, from the September Rage Against the Machine Concert in Minneapolis and RNC events in St. Paul to a particularly exciting election day, we hired some freelancers and fired up our own cameras, capturing some memorable and — dare we say — historic images.

President-elect Barack Obama is making good on his promise to include the opposition in his cabinet: He’ll be nominating Republican Rep. Ray LaHood as the next Secretary of Transportation. While some in the liberal blogosphere are outraged that Obama is naming a moderate Republican to the post, I’m not. I cast the first vote of my life for LaHood, a native of my hometown, Peoria, Illinois. And many others, from Central Illinois Democrats to my conservative mom, a self-described “dittohead,” are calling LaHood a solid, pragmatic choice.

In the last few weeks, irritated progressive critics have looked at Obama’s Cabinet picks and wondered why the left has been left out. An examination of the president-elect’s White House staff reveals where liberals will be in the next administration — closest to the president.

At a 9:40 a.m. press conference in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama will name his National Security team and, most notably, Sen. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. According to The Swamp, other nominees will likely include:

Sen. Hillary Clinton joined 2,200 supporters of Al Franken at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday evening to support his bid for U.S. Senate. A slew of DFL politicians rallied the crowd, all with a singular message — Franken is the key to a 60-seat, filibuster-proof Senate.

Minnesota’s top 100 political donors have pitched in a collective $4.1 million to federal candidates since the start of 2007. That’s around $40,000 per family. In this week’s installment of The Crunch, we look at donors ranked 21st through 30th — a field that includes Vance Opperman, dubbed in 1998 “the most powerful man you’ve never heard of,” who, with his wife, comes in at number 27; gay marriage foe Robert Cummins (#21); and, Minnesota’s 24th most generous giver, Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor and his wife, who’ve contributed nearly $50,000 to state and federal GOP candidates and causes this cycle.