Huffington Post

The Huffington Post is reporting that the FBI conducted an interview with a person in Minnesota as part of an investigation of so-called “Suitgate” charges leveled against Norm Coleman last summer. HuffPo doesn’t name the person and the FBI won’t confirm or deny. 

FBI whistleblower-turned-activist Coleen Rowley is on a roll. She rips into the City of St. Paul’s report on Republican National Convention law enforcement in a new commentary column, and Tuesday she will join others from Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) in filing formal complaints with Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher over RNC policing tactics. And Rowley’s inquiries into what she suspects was overbroad surveillance during the RNC are starting to bear fruit — of a sort.

If you accept taxpayer money, you have to accept that you’re going to receive public scrutiny. That simple point seems to be eluding Minnesota Teen Challenge (MNTC), the faith-based drug treatment program which secured a federal earmark in early 2008 arranged by Rep. Jim Ramstad, for its “Know the Truth” program which aims to prevent drug use.

Last week, the program sent two nearly identical letters to both the Minnesota Independent and the Huffington Post responding to articles critical of their programming.

Sunday was so quiet. After four days of sometimes frenetic, more often attention-taxing activity, Minnesota’s U.S. Senate recount teams took a deserved day of rest. A thrilling Minnesota Independent traffic spike from a Huffington Post pickup of story I wrote about U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s Friday press conference was over. With nothing better to do, I decided to read the [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s moment of infamy on Hardball has now been immortalized in song. Huffington Post’s Paul Hipp created this infectious ditty. “Let’s do all we can for the man whose name sounds like peeing in the snow!!!” Hipp writes. Everybody sing along:

HuffPost has assembled a short video of the passage from Friday night’s debate when Barack Obama ran down a laundry list of John McCain’s errors in judgments about the Iraq War, inserting clips of McCain’s own contemporaneous words on the subject. And all in less than two minutes. Recommended.

Minnesota Monitor’s parent organization, the Center for Independent Media, has teamed up with a bipartisan array of blogs, traditional media and online news networks for a first-ever national survey of political polls.

“Our aim is simple: to get a better understanding of how polling is being used across the country, said Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief [...]